# What if you DON'T pass that gas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216 "2025-12-31T20:22:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/1 "2025-12-31T20:22:50Z")
What if the human body doesn’t fart, poot, bubble, puff, or eliminate air? Make a Raspberry. Lay an egg. Step on a frog or loose floorboard. Sit close to the Labrador dog or Grandma.(😉 ) Rev the motor. Blow stank. Lose your good manners. Clear the bench. Or elevator. Make fog. Rip one. Cut the cheese. Rouse the duck. Backfire. (I live with preteen boys, I could go on forever) Any whoo, is it dangerous not to let the air out? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/2 "2025-12-31T20:26:58Z")
You could stick a pin in them and watch them fly around the room. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/3 "2025-12-31T20:31:55Z")
Years ago my crazy sister was having all kinds of intestinal problems and cramping. Long story short, doctor told her to fart more. Ain’t modern medicine somethin’? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/4 "2025-12-31T20:36:17Z")
Just make sure you let it all out before laser intestinal surgery, lest you cause an explosion. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/5 "2025-12-31T20:42:43Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I live with preteen boys Unfortunately for you, this is a species that considers farting to be a competitive sport. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/6 "2025-12-31T20:43:23Z")
You might have to get your appendix removed: > **[Woman Had Organ Removed After Not Farting in Front of Boyfriend for Years](https://www.newsweek.com/woman-had-organ-removed-after-not-farting-front-boyfriend-years-1696522)** > > "At this stage, I'll just have to let it out from now on," said the woman after her appendix was removed. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/7 "2025-12-31T20:52:30Z")
This is true. One of the boys can fart on command. We’ve just recently convinced him he doesn’t get brownie points for this bit of skill. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/8 "2025-12-31T21:00:54Z")
If he farts at the wrong time, he _will_ get brownie points. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/9 "2025-12-31T21:03:07Z")
You don’t get any money. No, wait, that’s GO You collect $200 for passing GO, not for passing gas. 🙃 > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > We’ve just recently convinced him he doesn’t get brownie points for this bit of skill. If he tries too hard, he may get brownie _pants_🫠 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/10 "2025-12-31T21:39:05Z")
After a certain age, _ **Never** Trust A Fart!_ ---
**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:** [December 31, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/11 "2025-12-31T22:27:34Z")
What if _I_ don’t pass that gas? That is a question which may never be answered. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/12 "2025-12-31T22:34:24Z")
Age 9 is too old? I think there’s inconsistency, here. Old yeah, fart=squeeze the catfish. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/13 "2025-12-31T22:35:49Z")
No matter how tightly you try to hold it, the sphincter is still the weak spot of the bowels. It will leak out eventually. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/14 "2025-12-31T23:08:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > No matter how tightly you try to hold it, the sphincter is still the weak spot of the bowels. It will leak out eventually. Most of the time, yes. To answer the title question, some of that gas is reabsorbed in the colon when one refuses to pass it. Most of the rest will inevitably be expelled during a bowel movement, which over time will become more urgent. It is possible that pent up gas could rupture a colonic wall defect, such as a eroded diverticulum or ulceration. But gladly that’s not real common. In those cases it’s the erosions that tend to cause punctures or blockages that then cause a blowout under pressure. [Johns Hopkins Med, it’s a gas gas gas!](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/gas-in-the-digestive-tract) ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/15 "2025-12-31T23:18:16Z")
Ahh, the ol’ childhood adage “why fart and waste it, when you can burp and taste it?” ---
**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:** [December 31, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/16 "2025-12-31T23:44:19Z")
“A fart is the lonesome cry of an imprisoned turd.” So true. 😔 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/17 "2025-12-31T23:44:37Z")
Another name for farts my grandkids use: Butt burps. I laughed at that one. Thx for the info Doc. That’s truly alarming. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/18 "2025-12-31T23:57:09Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Unfortunately for you, this is a species that considers farting to be a competitive sport. Heh. I was in a community theatre production of _12 Angry Men_. At some point before the run, the director—a woman—was interviewed about the production by the local paper. When asked what it was like to be the only woman in the midst of all those men, she replied, “Well, when not rehearsing, their conversation tends to be about sports, women, golf scores, and fart jokes.” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/19 "2026-01-01T00:40:16Z")
@Dung_Beetle say that in Attenboroughs voice. Please 😉 ---
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/20 "2026-01-01T01:13:51Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > fart on command Would such a command be considered an illegal order? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216.md?page=2)