On Saturday 12 Sep 2009 1:01:21 pm J. Alfred Prufrock wrote: > > I wonder if farting quietly in public - or even melodiously - is good > > etiquette. > > It's da nose dat knows! (with apologies to Jimmy Durante)
Not sure if this came up on Silk before but there is a Sanskrit poem about farting Dharram-bharram bhayam naasti Kuya-puya cha madhyamam thussakaaram maha ghoram nisshabdam praana sankatam Which means The loud (farts) are not to be feared the squeaks are in between the hisses are terrible but it's the silent ones that are deadly Hearing my grandfather fart decades ago and finding myself taking after my grandfather I find that this poem is sort of pointing in the right direction - even it it isn't 100% accurate, and I have tried to find a scientific explanation which I believe I have done. The smell of your fart is derived from compounds like 3-methyl indole, hydrogen sulphide and other delicious odors. However fart gas can be odorless with methane and hydrogen and nitrogen from swallowed air. When the rectum is full of shit any gas in the rectum is loaded with these scents. The anus itself is able to distinguish between solid and gas. When you fart with your rectum full of shit you are letting out odor laden gas. It is silent, or less noisy because of two reasons which will become apparent after I write of farting from a rectum full of gas but no shit. A rectum full of gas but no shit often (but not invariably) has nearly odorless gas. When you ler het rip the walls of the rectum act as a resonating chamber and the anus itself is a ring that vibrates unrestircted by damping from any solid resting against it. The large volume of gas escaping causes the anus to vibrate in much the same way as your lip vibrates when you imitate the sound of a fart. The empty rectum walls act as resonating chamber. Try and imitate the sound of a fart alternately with your cheeks blown out and without allowing your cheeks to blow out and you will hear and feel a difference. Depending on the amount of shit in your rectum the vibration of your anus is restricted both by damping from shit and low volumes of odor filled gas restricting the onset and continuation of vibration of your anus. The totaly silent fart is one that is let off when you are nearing the time to go for a crap. The retcum is full, the anus does not vibrate and the odor is indeed deadly. Now how's that for a bottom post? shiv
