# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/21 "2026-01-01T01:22:05Z")
Trapped wind is extremely painful, especially when you don’t know what it is and it stresses you out. Until you drink something fizzy and it all finally gets released, what a great relief. If it sounds like I am speaking from experience, trust that thought. ---
**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, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/22 "2026-01-01T01:36:00Z")
It don’t take much to “command” him. He’s all too accommodating. I’ll ask him if he feels put upon. Ehh… Maybe not. 💨 ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/23 "2026-01-01T02:14:22Z")
I’ve always let loose and I still had to have my appendix removed. I had a girlfriend whose mom claimed she had never farted in front of her husband even once in 30 years of marriage. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2026, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/24 "2026-01-01T04:48:25Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > I had a girlfriend whose mom claimed she had never farted in front of her husband even once in 30 years of marriage. So, carpet bombing SBDs behind his back? ☠ ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/25 "2026-01-01T05:21:06Z")
After about a year of dating the lady that would become my wife, I realized I’d never heard her fart. That was amazing. We had been eating tex-mex about 1/3 of the time we went out. So I asked her “Do you just hold it all in and then just blow yourself around the house like a balloon after you close the door?” She answered “Yes”. I admonished her that holding it in like that couldn’t be healthy, and it was far less comical. Stop doing that, please. She’ll now happily rip one and joke about it. I love her. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/26 "2026-01-01T05:35:53Z")
Big Piper Mutt managed to snag half of a left over pizza tonight, off the kitchen counter. He is blissfully snoozing by the Christmas tree, and has no inhibitions about letting the half-digested pizza fumes come out his derrierre. My god, he stinks! ---
**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, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/27 "2026-01-01T05:53:14Z")
Yes. Our Xmas doggy bone treats have caused gaseous anomalies that curl the hair. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2026, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/28 "2026-01-01T09:10:24Z")
A dog fart is one thing. But having owned (worked for?) many cats in my life, I can assure you that a cat fart is like getting hit in the face with a brick. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/29 "2026-01-01T10:07:31Z")
Too true. My junior cat, Kasya, is probably about 4-5 months old (based on her teeth, I’d have taken her for older going on her size) and she produces odors bigger than she is. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/30 "2026-01-01T10:30:13Z")
Our GSD when I was a kid would get up and leave the room if she had to fart. That dog had class, I tell you. Weirdly though, if she needed to burp she always wanted to do it right in your face. Some missing cultural context there, I always thought. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/31 "2026-01-01T10:53:18Z")
Then there’s the current Celt-Dog. Once Celtling fed him her broccoli under the table, right before a long car trip. There was an extreme rain storm, so all the windows were closed. Leading to the much re-quoted lament: “Mom, it’s burning my eyes!!” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/32 "2026-01-01T11:18:26Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Trapped wind is extremely painful, especially when you don’t know what it is and it stresses you out. Until you drink something fizzy and it all finally gets released, what a great relief. > > If it sounds like I am speaking from experience, trust that thought. I can trust the thought but not the fart. I would trust that old jingle more. Especially the “plop plop” part before getting to the “oh what a relief it is” part. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2026, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/33 "2026-01-01T11:34:38Z")
We were at my Grandmother’s place up north, for the summer. I had spent the day with a local friend, who had shared the joke, “Why do farts smell?” Well, Grandmother had a hearing problem, though she wouldn’t admit it. Anyway, I came home one day, and asked the joke I had learned from my friend, “Why do farts smell?” My parents and my aunt and my sister had no idea. So I proudly announced the punchline: “So deaf people can enjoy them too!” Laughter from everybody except my Grandmother. Who, with her hearing deficiency, asked, “I beg your pardon? What? I didn’t get that,” and suchlike. Which made us only laugh harder. Somebody explained it to her, loud enough that she could understand, and she took it in good humour. But migosh, even the most mediocre comedian couldn’t miss that her remark provided the perfect conclusion to the joke! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/34 "2026-01-01T12:58:27Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Weirdly though, if she needed to burp she always wanted to do it right in your face. Some Hey that just reminded me : @burpo_the_wonder_mutt hasn’t posted since July. Hope he’s doing okay. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/35 "2026-01-01T13:18:10Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Unfortunately for you, this is a species that considers farting to be a competitive sport. Wait, what? It is not? 😲 > [@Spoons](#): > > 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.” Plus ça change: > The oldest identified joke is an ancient Sumerian proverb from 1900 BC containing toilet humour: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.” Its records were dated to the Old Babylonian period and the joke may go as far back as 2300 BC. Cite: **[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke#History_in_print)** and several other sites. Whatever. Considering how this thread has made me laugh, the Old Babylonians must have been onto something ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/36 "2026-01-01T14:11:01Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Too true. My junior cat, Kasya, is probably about 4-5 months old (based on her teeth, I’d have taken her for older going on her size) and she produces odors bigger than she is. Have you had her checked for worms? The uncertainty on age makes me think she is a rescue? Many years (before we knew better) we bought a kitten from a pet store. She could clear a room with her cute little bottom. Fecal tests didn’t sho any worms, but the vet gave us a dewormer anyway and the problem went away. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/37 "2026-01-01T14:12:23Z")
When this thread appeared on my screen I suddenly got gas. That was last night, and it’s mostly gone away now. My wife will say “did you hear that frog?” ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/38 "2026-01-01T14:17:49Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Have you had her checked for worms? The uncertainty on age makes me think she is a rescue? Pretty much. Stray wandering around the complex who found her way to my household. We’ll probably get a more definite age when she goes in for her spay on the 12th. Probably should ask about having her checked for worms at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/39 "2026-01-01T15:25:28Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Too true. My junior cat, Kasya, is probably about 4-5 months old (based on her teeth, I’d have taken her for older going on her size) and she produces odors bigger than she is. I always joke with the kids when our cat passes gas: _ **Now you know how your kiddy smells inside …** _ ---
**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:** [January 1, 2026, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216/40 "2026-01-01T15:41:33Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > @burpo_the_wonder_mutt hasn’t posted since July. Hope he’s doing okay. Oh gosh. I didn’t realize it had been so long. 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-dont-pass-that-gas/1026216.md?page=3)