Is Farting Funny?

CHRISNOIR

Following on from the ‘toilet’ thread - well, is it?

I myself, despite being well out of my teenage years, find a well timed and executed trump can make me laugh like few other things. I thought it may be a gender issue but my sister and some of her mates find a fart extremely amusing. It doesn’t seem to be an 'intellegence' issue either; I’ve known academic lecturers crease double at a bum-burp and mouth-breathers recoil in disgust.

Any thoughts? Let Cake Stop know your views and experiences…

robbie the roadie

The other weekend me and the mrs were staying at my folks in my old room and the little 'un was in the same room as us in his cot. He did this massive fart and me and the mrs nearly wet ourselves laughing.

Farts are always funny :-)

HungryCol

You should have set up a poll. Farts: Funny or Hilarious?

They are very funny generally even when my five month old little boy farts! My wife who find them less amusing has no chance between him and me sometimes in unison. I however think there's a gender divide here, ladies get embarrassed and pretend their little pant-cough never happened whereas men tend to acknowledge it mostly with a "Waahay". At least I do...

heavymental

Depends if it smells or not. If I have to breath in someone elses fumes I'm less than happy. But then, if I've done a real pea souper then oh yeh...thats funny.

whyamihere

Farts are brilliant. Humour that you never grow out of.

bagpusscp

This thread could become a STICKY!!!

Harry B

Not on the Underground :evil: Especially if they stink :evil: :evil:

Anonymous

They were when I was a kid. Now they actually create a door as soon as they enter the room.

rossbarney2003

I find farts very funny, but only in certain situations lol.

My Dad is the worst for farting. He always seems to do it as soon as he gets in the car, in a long line at the super market etc. He has also learned how to keep them quiet, so u don't know it has been done until u can taste it :x

McBain_v1

Hilarious! Good fart can be a real ice-breaker

Shadowduck

Of course they're funny. Oldest joke in the world!

a_n_t

bagpusscp wrote:

This thread could become a STICKY!!!

not funny when a fart becomes sticky.

hammerite

hilarious. You can't top the old lighting of the fart routine either!!

richardast

Depends on timing and location:

First dinner with potential in-laws, funerals, job interviews = not funny

Tense silences in cinemas, being dragged to performances of Royal Ballet = very funny

When we were kids, the skill of the perpetrator was judged by how many paces they took during the function. From memory, the record was an eight stepper.

andyp

There is only one thing funnier than a well timed fart; a badly timed fart!

Captain Fagor

A fart can be funny to the deliverer.

A shart, however, isn't.

Dr Nosh

But as my old dad would always say 'I've only got to smell it, you have got to sit in it'

Anonymous

McBain_v1 wrote:

Hilarious! Good fart can be a real ice-breaker

When I met my wife's mother (posthumous father) I got up on the table and farted in my future m-in-laws face............she told me I was the...................

Well, no to farts.

(Just kidding, but, farts have never gotten me ahead in life. I hope it never leads to that.)

Nuggs

Hilarious.

Just before my wedding, my best man was explaining the concept of the 'Dutch Oven' to me - I had to try so hard to keep myself from laughing during our vows!

OffTheBackAdam

Exceptionally funny, especially when the wife droped one and it did literally make a "Quack" sound.

cbj

What's the saying .. .

' Kids are like farts , you love your own but aren't to fond of anyone elses'

BernieG

But what's not funny is the fact that now the smoking ban is in place pubs smell like really bad farts (and BO).

But generally farts are ace .... :P

pneumatic

Great value portable humour. Excellent for all occasions, especially solemn ones.

but there may be a gender issue.

I've noticed that girls don't seem to have a sense of humour when it comes to the trouser-trumpet.

jpembroke

I went to see Vic Reeves (Jim Moir) talk at the Cheltenham Literature festival. After the highly amusing session during which Mr Reeves read from his hilarious autobiography: Me:Moir (geddit?), there was a Q&A session. "Go on" my wife urged, elbowing me in the side "Go on, ask him?" So, I put up my hand and was handed the microphone; and in front of several hundred people asked the most pertinent question:

"Mr Reeves, is there anything funnier than farting and if so what is it?"

The short answer was basically 'No there isn't'

If Vic Reeves says so, then it must be true. In his words "Farting is bloody funny"

Ieuanllan

I think farts are best when lit. Funny even when sober.

My wife didn't think it was possible to light one, so I demonstrated for her. She still says that she loves me a little bit less now.

howiejmidlands

Farts are definately, 100% not funny. So very not funny.

THEY ARE HILARIOUS!!

I never knew women did it until i got married, honestly. Oh god the 1st Mrs J used to save them for bed time and pull the quilt up and over, enough to makes pour eyes water.

Give me a room full of CS gas anyday rasther than Mark 1 Mrs J's trumping performance, and such a sweet of angel and a botty from HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pjh

Once standing in the office at work I thought I'd squeeze out a wee fart nice and quietly ..... BIG MISTAKE .... out of nowhere came a thunderclap of a trouser splitter!

I didn't know where to put myself .... all the blokes keeled over in absolute stitches and all the women looked at me like I'd crawled out from under a rock :oops:

It was funny afterwards ... and my kids die with laughter every time I describe it as one of my 'most embarassing moments'

Nothing funnier than a fart ... especially at the wrong moment

Crapaud

Farting is the singularly funniest thing in the universe!

Proof, for me, was the first works christmas 'do' at the last place I worked, where they ran one of those secret santa things. I got 2 cans of Beamish stout, but swapped them for, what I can only describe as, a 'fart pot'. The next hour was spent making farting noises and gutting myself. As I didn't know 90% of my collegues (they worked at a different site) I rather soiled *fnarr* my reputation that day!

The fart pot was a plastic cup (about the size and shape of a polystyrene cup from a burger van) half filled with something like 'slime' (if you remember that from the early 80s).
The idea was to trap some air with the slime at the bottom *fnarr* of the cup and push it down with your fingers. It made the most realistic farting sounds I've ever heard - from long high-pitched squeeky ones to large wet bubbley ones, even 'silent' dog farts - it did the full fart spectrum.

The fart pot used to reside on one of my bookshelves.Whenever someone asked about it they'd have a go, usually for about an hour which seemed to be the maximum time you can laugh without asphyxiating or your sides becoming too sore.

Strangely, the line, "Do you want to come back to mine and play with my fart pot?" was a dismal failure. How women ever got a reputation for fancying men with a sense of humour I'll never know.

drewfromrisca

My dog farts a lot and I mean a lot!!! They reek but it's his reaction that makes it funny! He always does them walking up stairs and as he goes up each step they come out, hilarious. He always cracks a few off on the tube which on occasions has given me some pretty dirty looks but also a few sniggers!!!

I'm shocking for farting, I once farted on a date and followed through and all I could do was start laughing uncontrollably! I had to ring my mate and tell him there and then. Needless to say there was no second date!

Nuggs

Ieuanllan wrote:

I think farts are best when lit. Funny even when sober.

My wife didn't think it was possible to light one, so I demonstrated for her. She still says that she loves me a little bit less now.

I once set fire to pair of moleskin trousers while lighting a fart. And let me tell you, moleskin burns. Then melts. Rather than fetch an extinguisher, my 'mates' couldn't move for laughing so hard :x

popette

drewfromrisca - no wonder no second date! That is ridiculous behavour!!!

What about the ones that follow you about? Sometimes they sound like they're asking a question or they might be a bit angry? know what I mean?

So I've heard anyway 8)