Ask MetaFilter questions tagged with fart

365 days of not being able to remember

monkey!knife!fight! — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:39:23 -0800

365 days of something...argh. I had this book a few years (4? 5?) back that was a "do something cool and different every day" sort of thing. I can't for the life of me remember the title - and googling for "365 days book" isn't really working. Some of the things were really hard, and some were easy, along the lines of "smile at a stranger". It was nicely illustrated, and the cover was yellow with black type (rosewood? something along those lines).

I'm coming up completely empty, and I know this isn't a whole lot of information, but I'm hoping that one of you brilliant people will have it on the tip of your bookshelf.

A gift for the man who has everything but introspection.

Help, I can't stop talking! — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:42:34 -0800

Help me find an appropriate (guided) journal to give my father as a birthday gift. My father is turning 60. He's got everything (actually, he's remarried so he has two of everything), and I really want to get him something a little more symbolic. I'm thinking of a nice pen and a journal, but I know that if I get him a blank journal, he'll never actually write in it. He's not particularly in touch with his emotions and he's spectacularly concrete in his thinking. I know there are guided journals out there, but so many of them look like the kind of New Age smiley stuff that he wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. Anyone know of a "Self-Insight for Dummies" or "Guided Journaling for People Who Think Like Spreadsheets" or something similar?

Was that you or the dog?

desjardins — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:53:29 -0800

Why don't cats fart? Or do they? Googling has been inconclusive.

Belching, farting and other icky stuff. What the hell just happened to my gastrointestinal system?

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:50:22 -0800

Belching, farting and other icky stuff. What the hell just happened to my gastrointestinal system? Disgusting details inside. Starting about three weeks ago, my gastrointestinal system went haywire.

* In the mornings, I often must belch great huge belches that taste/smell like rotten scrambled eggs. Or perhaps an old malted milk.

* These belches often seem to be composed of unusual gases -- the sound of the belch is strangely higher in pitch than usual. I say "unusual gases" because the effect is similar to speaking after inhaling helium.

* I'm farting like a madman bent on suffocating those around me.

* There is diarrhea. There is bloating. There is abdomninal discomfort and gurgling. 'Nuff said.

* This all doesn't seem (to me, at least) to be related to any specific dietary change. I'm eating normally. I'm no health food nut, but nothing has obviously changed.

Just what the hell happened to me? More importantly, how do I make it stop?

Smell ya later!

bitteroldman — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:04:21 -0800

DigestiveEnzyme filter (or maybe FartFilter): Beano is the best! But is is just a band-aid solution for something more serious? OK, so here is weird behaviour that is my stomach - I seem to be able to handle one carbohydrate-laden meal per day (for example bagels, oatmeal, toast, etc).

After that, every time I have anything with carbohydrates (bread, rice, veggies, fruit), gas starts to build up inside me and I start farting like a cow!

I am making a semi-educated guess that my body is using up whatever digestive enzymes it has for the first carbohydrate-laden meal, but then has nothing left for the other meals, hence the buildup of bacteria and the subsequent gas that they produce.

Beano has been a Godsend (and it works on all kinds of carbs, not just beans!), so I have finally found some relief, but now I am wondering:

- Can too much Beano be bad for me? (FYI its active component is alpha-galactosidase, derived from the fungus Aspergillus niger)
- Should I should be worried about something more serious, like some chronic enzyme deficiency?

"Pull my finger." "Why'd you just cut the cheese?"

Rash — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:33:59 -0800

What's the connection between finger-pulling and farting? I see it occasionally in crude movies, and real life. A man says "Pull my finger" and then farts when his 'victim' does as told. Why? What's the source?

Help! Save us from death by dogfart!

fenriq — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:02:48 -0800

DogFartFilter: My 2 year old Catahoula mix has truly repellant flatulence. Bad enough to make me leave a can of Ozium in each room. How can we turn down the stink volume on her gas? She's fed once a day, a mix of a half can of Kirkland wet and 2 1/2 cups of Kirkland dry with some water and a Fish Oil capsule to help her fur. And she weighs around 95 pounds.

We've tried the supplements that are supposed to help but they are far too expensive for what they do (pretty much nothing) and I'd be giving her six of them a day.

Are there any natural supplements I can add to her diet that might help her stinky farts? I'm thinking of those Breathe Assure things but for the other end and for dogs.

Anyone? Please, we're dying over here!

On a side note, maybe I could rent her out to the CIA to use as a torture device. Five minutes in a small room with her and her gas would make anyone break down.

The need for cheek lifting

XiBe — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:01:35 -0800

Silly question, but hey : why do we feel the need to lift a cheek when ripping one ?

Farty McBumbum

ambrosia — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:12:29 -0800

No, really, it was the dog! Dog-lovers of Metafilter, tell me: do you know any tricks to stop your dog from farting? Our dog doesn't fart a lot, maybe once or twice a week that we notice. But when he does it, it's like a slow moving, slow-to-disperse cloud of toxic gas that is unbelievably stinky. It's most painful in the middle of the night, as he sleeps next to my side of the bed.

He doesn't get fed table scraps, only kibble with a spoonful of wet mixed in. He does get the regular assortment of dog treats: greenies, rawhide chews, dog biscuits, etc. Occasionally, when we are in serious training mode, he'll get little bits of cheese, as that concentrates his attention wonderfully. But there's no connection between the cheese and the farting, so I don't think that's it.

We've tried an acidophilus product which did help, but the good effects wore off a few days after the bottle did, and it seems kind of pricey to be giving to him on a perpetual basis, given that the problem is relatively intermittent. I'd love to hear what, if anything, has worked for others.

Failing memory, what to do?

grahamwell — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:00:41 -0800

Failing memory filter: My memory, never good, is noticeably deteriorating and I'm almost resigned to that. Anything that would slow this process would be welcome but I'm really looking for effective strategies to compensate - in particular, would a PDA help (for to-do lists) or are there other tools I should be using? Things that bother me, I'm letting tasks drop at work, finding that I've been asked to do something and have actually done it, but I have no recollection of it at all. It's becoming embarrasing and co-workers are puzzled. I'm resigned to it being a part of the ageing process (I'm 45) but I need to find work-arounds otherwise I won't be able to hold a job. All suggestions tips and tricks are very welcome. What works for you?

How much do you fart?

PEAK OIL — Wed, 11 May 2005 13:28:38 -0800

A recent thread about farts has me curious. How often do you fart publicly? Do you routinely have to hold them in? I know this question is silly, but I am very serious.