CAUTION: does not protect against skid marks. (I always love the ridiculously exaggerated facial expressions and overacting that you see in this genre of commercial)

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I'm not going to pretend my farts smell like cupcakes, but generally even the bad ones don't bother me too much. However there was this one time in Reno: we were lying in our ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, Season's Greetings etc. to everyone!

via boingboing: learning from its experiences last year, a UK aquarium has lowered the water level in the turtle tank after feeding the turtles their annual Christmas treat of Brussels sprouts. Because Brussels sprouts make you gassy, and last year bubbles from the farting triggered overflow ( Read more... )

NCBI: Effectiveness of devices purported to reduce flatus odorThe experimental protocol sounds like a gas ( Read more... )

Fart fight gets nasty, via boingboing. "Police said a 35-year-old man allegedly passed gas in the room on Tuesday night. Police said one of the other men became upset, picked up a knife and threw it at the 35-year-old man, who was cut in the leg. The suspect was accused of then stabbing the man in the chest ( Read more... )

Footballer given yellow card 'for breaking wind' during penalty shot. via boingboing.

12-year-old arrested for farting in class (and, ok, shutting off other people's computers while they were trying to work). Or officially, "for disruption of a school function." Don't they just suspend anyone anymore?

Needless to say, this link is totally and utterly NSFW.

http://www.cakefarts.com/

I'm speechless. Sort of an even mixture of hilarious and horrifying.

"Getting out the vote" will never mean the same thing again.


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So says this update from the Smoking Gun.

... when you do it at a police officer.

While being fingerprinted, Cruz allegedly "lifted his leg and passed gas loudly on Ptlm. Parsons. The defendant then fanned the air with his hand in front of his rear onto" the cop. "The gas," the complaint notes, "was very odorous and created contact of an insulting or provoking nature with Ptlm. Parsons." ( Read more... )