Dry, roaring farts versus the more silent ones.

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Why do the latter stink more? Is it because the more loud ones contain more air and less... well, whatever it is that makes farts stinky?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

In Soviet Russia, stupid worthless threads post Tuomas!

― Yakov Smirnoff, Sunday, 15 January 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I thought this was going to be a rumpie thread

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 15 January 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

she has the w/ends off

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 15 January 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Haha, the moment I posted this I thought, "People are probably gonna think this is a Rumpie thread". Anyway, it's a serious question, would anyone happen to know the answer?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

I read this as "dry roasted farts", ugh.

Double ugh, that is.

― Merryweather (scarlet), Sunday, 15 January 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulence is surprisingly informative on the gas we pass, but doesn't answer your question.

"The average human releases 0.5 to 1.5 litres (1 to 3 U.S. pints) of flatus in 12 to 25 episodes throughout the day." Ha!

― Herr Professor Anus, Sunday, 15 January 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

You guys are fucked

― sunny successor (katharine), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

And by 'you guys' I mean Tuomas.

― sunny successor (katharine), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Huh? What's fucked about being interested in an everyday phenomenon everyone shares?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Why are stinky farts generally warmer and quieter than regular farts?

Most fart gas comes from swallowed air and consists largely of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, the oxygen having been absorbed by the time it reaches the anal opening. These gases are odorless, although they often pick up other (and more odiferous) components on the way through the bowel. They emerge from the anus in fairly large bubbles at body temperature. A person can often achieve a good sound with these voluminous farts, but they are commonly (but not always!) mundane with respect to odor, and don't feel particularly warm.
Another major source of fart gas is bacterial action. Bacterial fermentation and digestion processes produce heat as a byproduct as well as various pungent gases. The resulting bubbles of gas tend to be small, hot, and concentrated with stinky bacterial metabolic products. These emerge as the notorious, warm, SBD (Silent-But-Deadly), often in amounts too small to produce a good sound, but excelling in stench.

(source)

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and after farting, you probably weigh more.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Ah, so I was right.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Déjà deux heures que j'fais l'pet d'vant sa porte comme un groom
Elle manque pas d'air celle-là !
Je devais l'emmener souper dans un grill-room
En l'attendant je fais des vents des pets des poums
Non mais pour qui elle s'prend celle-là pour la Bégum
Après on devait aller danser au Voom-Voom
En l'attendant je fais des vents des pets des poums
Saint-Tropez c'est râpé pour toi pauvre clown
Elle t'a pété dans la main cette fille-là, badaboum
En l'attendant je fais des vents des pets des poums

Tiens celui-là était pas mal du tout, il a fait boum
Et celui-ci il est parti comme une balle doom-doom
En l'attendant tu fais des vents des pets des poums
Et celui-là dis donc pschtt, un vrai simoun
Celui-ci pardon, il a fait aussi chaud qu'au Cameroun
En l'attendant tu fais des vents des pets des poums
Tiens ç'lui-ci était bien envoyé, il a fait voom
Et celui-là vlan, il a fait vroom
En l'attendant je fais des vents des pets des poums

― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

That page I just linked to is pretty interesting, by the way. ("Do turtles fart?")

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

My favorite euphemism used by my late father-in-law: "A high wind off of Dumpling Island."

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 15 January 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

The stinky gas in question is methane, and is produced whenever bacteria go to work on organic substances. See also: swamp gas. Swamp gas is particularly interesting because since the smell of swampy land was so bad, and swamps and marshes were also places you tended to get malaria, it was long assumed that "bad air" was responsible for the disease. This "bad air" is also explosive, and this discovery led to all sorts of inventions, like cars and rockets.

Learn all about it from James Burke!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 15 January 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

even your own SBD's can smell pretty good/interesting to yourself while other people's are obvs. vile.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 15 January 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I wonder what *that* is? Maybe "interesting" is the key word. Maybe being conscious of where the smells came from lights up some investigative instinct, instead of the usual and more appropriate revulsion.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 15 January 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

You may be on to something. I am thinking that the butt-flapping dynamics are contributing as well, where all the really stinky atomized solids are more likely to be smelled in a quieter fart.

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Sunday, 15 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

I wish everyone dumping on (er pardon the pun) Tuomas and Rumpie lately would shut the fuck up and stop being such bastards.

thank you that is all.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 15 January 2006 22:49 (twenty years ago)

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― hoodoo, Sunday, 15 January 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

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