# Is passing gas while using a urinal considered acceptable in your neck of the woods? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 6, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983 "2020-03-06T00:02:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/41 "2020-03-06T17:00:23Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > If you’re not supposed to fart in the bathroom, where the hell are you supposed to fart? Under rated comment. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/42 "2020-03-06T17:09:11Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > What is the Tycho Brahe / fart connection? The story goes that Tycho Brahe died because he was at a banquet and needed to urinate. He did not excuse himself due to manners or something and later died when the resulting bladder infection led it to burst. The truth is he probably already had a pre-existing issue before attending the party, but it makes for a good story anyway. Holding it in and drinking to excess almost certainly didn’t help matters, either. Not the same as holding in a fart, but the principle of ‘manners’ over bodily function is much the same. > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I’m all for being discreet and thoughtful when attending to such needs, but basic biology dictates that there will be sounds and odors that will frequently be non-discretionary, and that includes breaking wind during micturition. ^^^ Bonus points for the use of micturition in a sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/43 "2020-03-06T18:29:44Z")
> [@Lucas Jackson](#): > > ``` > You don’t know random people in public bathrooms. Why should I care what they think? > > ``` ``` My daughter actually bought some stuff you spray in the toilet before you go, to protect other folks from the scent of her poo. :confused: ``` You raise your kids the best you can, but in the end they just become their own person… ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/44 "2020-03-06T18:33:32Z")
> [@yo\_han\_go](#): > > Depends. If it is some booze bar. It is ok. If it is in some unisex bathroom at tuxedo reception with Queen of England in next stall, then probably not. **yo han go** for the win! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/45 "2020-03-06T18:33:57Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Bonus points for the use of micturition in a sentence. I recently used the term ‘formication’ in a sentence here also. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Passing\_Through](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Just\_Passing\_Through](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Passing_Through)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/46 "2020-03-06T18:35:37Z")
I try for the “crop duster” before or after I’m in a public restroom. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/47 "2020-03-06T18:43:34Z")
> [@Just\_Passing\_Through](#): > > I try for the “crop duster” before or after I’m in a public restroom. User name /post GOLD ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/48 "2020-03-06T18:44:45Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > It is a bathroom… of course it ok to fart there. I don’t get these types of questions… the Queen farts, the most glamorous man/woman you can imagine farts… Not positive about Jesus, but I bet he did too. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > "And when thou fartest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to fart standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be smelt of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. > > But thou, when thou fartest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, fart to thy Father which is in secret." Brilliant! 🙂 In the men’s room here at work, guys do occasionally fart when at the urinals. There’s no way to know if this is considered acceptable here, because at least on my floor, guys don’t talk much to each other in the restrooms, and we _definitely_ don’t talk to each other about what goes on in the restrooms when we’re not there. It doesn’t bother me if people fart when pissing, regardless of which piece of indoor plumbing they’re using. ---
**Author:** ![sjankis630](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@sjankis630](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjankis630)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/49 "2020-03-06T19:20:40Z")
Yes fart away. Also if you are still too embarrassed to do it then you can hold it in until you go to dry your hands after washing them and let loose when the air dryer can drown it out. And then scoot out of there of course. lol. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/50 "2020-03-06T19:48:50Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > To fully appreciate Thudlow’s, see [Matthew 6:5-6](https://www.biblehub.com/kjv/matthew/6.htm) in the King James Version. Our Lord only forbade us to sound a trumpet _before_ us. He made no mention of anything behind. See also Matthew 10:27b - what you heard expressed quietly, sound it from the housetops. Scripture also holds what seems to be the first recorded instance of lighting farts - > [@Acts 2:1-3](#): > > they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them… Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/51 "2020-03-06T19:52:32Z")
Personally I make an effort to fart as quietly as possible when sharing a public restroom and wish others would do the same. Neither do I flick boogers against the wall while using urinals but I guess, as someone posted earlier, “anything goes“ in public restrooms. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/52 "2020-03-06T20:16:38Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > We can’t all be Tycho Brahe (and yes, I know that story is likely not true). I should think that the more direct example would be Pythagoras, no? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/53 "2020-03-06T20:55:41Z")
> [@Just\_Passing\_Through](#): > > I try for the “crop duster” before or after I’m in a public restroom. > [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > User name /post GOLD I’m dying over here! 😃 Bathroom where I am anonymous: Of course. Bathroom at work with my boss in the next urinal: Try not to. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/54 "2020-03-06T22:07:25Z")
> [@The\_Maple\_Leaf](#): > > We’re not supposed to pass gas in public if we can help it. Bathrooms are there for the relief of bodily functions. I’m not sure what kind of Justin Beiber snowflake taught you otherwise, but if you have a problem with the digestive functions of human beings, you should probably be in the little boys room instead. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/55 "2020-03-06T22:49:12Z")
> [@Joeu](#): > > Berakhot 24 in the Talmud has a lengthy discussion of what one should do when it’s necessary to fart (“sneeze from below”) while praying. I know it’s different from being in a bathroom, but maybe some recommendations can be drawn from the analogy. > > The Rabbis, as usual, have differing opinions. Part of the discussion: I’ve never noticed you before. Who are you? I love you. Will you marry me? ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/56 "2020-03-06T23:20:38Z")
IMHO, nothing wrong with farting while pissing at the urinal. However, just hope there’s no “chunks”.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/57 "2020-03-06T23:36:22Z")
> [@2Bits](#): > > Personally I make an effort to fart as quietly as possible when sharing a public restroom and wish others would do the same. > > Neither do I flick boogers against the wall while using urinals but I guess, as someone posted earlier, “anything goes“ in public restrooms. You had me on your side with your first sentence, but lost me on your second one. Flicking boogers onto a wall has no relation to the semi-involuntary activities for which restrooms are provided and is thus a straw man. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/58 "2020-03-07T00:02:28Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > You had me on your side with your first sentence, but lost me on your second one. Flicking boogers onto a wall has no relation to the semi-involuntary activities for which restrooms are provided and is thus a straw man. :dubious: Eventually this thread will escape the curse of Tycho Brahe. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/59 "2020-03-07T00:05:25Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > You had me on your side with your first sentence, but lost me on your second one. Flicking boogers onto a wall has no relation to the semi-involuntary activities for which restrooms are provided and is thus a straw man. :dubious: Better boogers smeared all over the wall than used tampons lying about. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Passing\_Through](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Just\_Passing\_Through](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Passing_Through)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/60 "2020-03-07T02:01:49Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Bathroom where I am anonymous: Of course. Bathroom at work with my boss in the next urinal: Try not to. Meh, if my boss/coworker and I share a fart we giggle like schoolboys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983.md?page=4)