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Apparently there's an Icelandic saying that translates as 'everyone loves the smell of their own farts'. Well it seems that my farts are much less pungent nowadays, so if I was Anders Mikkelson from Reykjavik I would have less to enjoy.
Is this a problem I share with others?
Apparently there's an Icelandic saying that translates as 'everyone loves the smell of their own farts'. Well it seems that my farts are much less pungent nowadays, so if I was Anders Mikkelson from Reykjavik I would have less to enjoy.
Is this a problem I share with others?
I think it's a metaphor, a night on 'real ale' and a kebab on the way home... I've disgusted myself in the bathroom once or twice the day after!
Not yet. I'll keep trying though, maybe update this post in a decade or so.
I don't think so but mine are definitely a bit shartier now especially after beer.
Hmm, it's looking like I need to try harder. Maybe Guinness Zero is to blame.
Do farts become less pungent as you get older?
No.
Three things are happening here.
1. Your age and poor diet ravaged colon is protesting with ever more noxious emissions, to the horror of all around you. Old people's farts are the absolute worst. You probably smell like a pile of rotting cabbage left in the hot sun for a month.
2. Your deteriorating sense of smell is deceiving you that this is not the case.
3. You probably think they aren't as loud as they used to be too, for similar reasons. Guess what....
Certainly not in my case.
Are you eating less plant matter? Rotting veg in the gut makes more methane than anything else.
Hell no, mine are as high quality as ever.
@blokeuptheroad has it nailed.
the ancho, mulato, and habanero chilli beans, onion rice, and lentil shepherd’s pie from yesterday created something that could only be described as ‘pungent’.
Met up with friends for a pub meal last night. A surprisingly tangy chilli, with jalapeños on the side, and a pint of real ale means I've had to apologise to MrsMC
No. Get your sense of smell checked out asap. Hth.
I am saving my best ones for when the kids visit me in the care home.
Nurse!
Do farts become less pungent as you get older?
No
Source - personal experience
On a similar thread... Does anyone ever smell there farts and think mmmm.... that smells tasty, and get a bit hungry 🤔
Usually sometime after tasty curries and chillies .
errr - no? Some of them have made me physically sick (though that was linked to a bout of norovirus or similar)
definitely a bit shartier now especially after beer
especially if it's after HSB and ESB (haven't seen either in a while) back in the day they were rechristened Highly and Extra squitty bottom
”Does anyone ever smell there farts and think mmmm”
i once walked into the kitchen and stuck my head in the fridge whilst simultaneously dropping my guts silently.
wife follows me, er, through, the door and asks me what Ive found in the fridge as it smells lovely and meaty.
eventually I had to tell her what it was,
”but you liked it when you didn’t know what it was”
a couple of years later we got divorced.
Do farts become less pungent as you get older?
Not in my MiL's case! Not only do they get more pungent but she is going deaf and doesn't realise how much louder they are as well!
Doubt it, but you do tend to tread more carefully with them as you get older thou 🙂
I've just turned 54 and very nearly choked us all to death in the campervan last night at bedtime. I have genuinely never produced such a voluminous and noxious odour in my life, horrific!
I sometimes warn my children not to come close. I'd also say no they certainly do not become less pungent.
OP here again, starting to wonder if I need a pooh transplant (it's a real thing, honest. Google is your friend usually but in this case... Maybe not at breakfast).
I'm getting fart envy. Oh for those heady halcyon days of sulphureous disgust. Sigh 😔
errr - no? Some of them have made me physically sick (though that was linked to a bout of norovirus or similar)
Giardia. About four times in my life i've thrown up without overindulging in something prior.
This time involved me smelling my own doings, then abruptly needing to vomit. I then passed out falling backwards onto the corner of a tiled bath and spending the night in hospital.
pooh transplant (it's a real thing, honest. Google is your friend usually but in this case... Maybe not at breakfast)
I mean it isn't. The Pooh is just stuffing and fabric 😉
A faecal transplant. That's a whole different thing.
Hooray, I've mended myself. After ever more docile emissions it occurs to me that I've had a stuffy nose for what seems like forever. It's clearer now which is a bit of a mixed blessing TBH. Day before yesterday I managed to offend even the dog, the very same dog that can easily empty the room with his stink. 🐕☁️
- Reeksy what a coincidence having a handle like that on a fart thread
- If someone is reeking in Scotland they I can guarantee are pungent
- I can still remember as a student late '70's getting threatened by the librarian due to us creasing ourselves at the oaps that would spend all day reading every paper /magazine yet walking and farting/sharting yet never got a telling off
- Old saying once you reach retirement age never trust a fart
Just wondering if anyone else's partner has a name for the producer of their frequent loud expulsions? Asking for my buddy Daffy....
From the NHS:
Things you can do to cut down excessive or smelly farts
Don’t
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do not chew gum, smoke, or suck pen tops or hard sweets (to avoid swallowing air)
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do not wear loose-fitting dentures
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do not eat too many foods that are difficult to digest and make you fart
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do not drink too much beer, wine or fruit juice
'Cor blimey o'reilly, you been getting your dentures around those pen tops again?'