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Everybody farts. But here are 9 surprising facts about flatulence you may not know.
vox.com ^ | 12/4/14 | Joseph Stromberg

Posted on 12/05/2014 11:40:20 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant

Whether you try to hide it or not, you fart. Everybody does.

But even though it's such a routine activity — the average person farts between 10 and 20 times per day — there's a lot about farting that you might not know.

As part of research into the microbiome — the rich community of bacteria that live throughout your body — scientists have learned all sorts of interesting things about the bacteria that produce gas inside your intestines. Here are 9 crucial things to know about flatulence.

(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: farts; napl; pullmyfinger
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To: shibumi

Add broccoli and asparagus, and a masterwork of evil it would be.


21 posted on 12/06/2014 12:37:23 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

I have some of each in the freezer.

Hmmmmmm.........


22 posted on 12/06/2014 12:42:30 AM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: Usagi_yo

It happened in my home town in Church
On a sunday mornin

It was so loud and stunk so bad,we got outta church a half hour early

I was 17 and watchin the older folk suppress laughter

Was classic


23 posted on 12/06/2014 12:43:17 AM PST by advertising guy ( Muslims, another white meat)
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To: tumblindice
10. Is it possible to ‘kick-start’ a fart by pulling someone’s finger?

Yes. Ask my uncle. Then, RUN!

24 posted on 12/06/2014 12:44:00 AM PST by Wingy
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To: tumblindice

The girl was a Johnson from Johnson’s in Summerville GA

We had a male who was a standard or Scott ABD from Konfedrate Kennels in NE Georgia.....we had to return him after two years...he bit all the kids including one badly

He’s now their head sire...Bedford....

But yes...she...the Johnson... could rip


25 posted on 12/06/2014 1:18:45 AM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: tumblindice

The girl was a Johnson from Johnson’s in Summerville GA

We had a male who was a standard or Scott ABD from Konfedrate Kennels in NE Georgia.....we had to return him after two years...he bit all the kids including one badly

He’s now their head sire...Bedford....

But yes...she...the Johnson... could rip


26 posted on 12/06/2014 1:21:44 AM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: wardaddy

>> My old girl American Bulldog could burn your eyes farting

I dunno, my 80 lb GSD might be ready for a challenge... but she’s the prettiest thing that will melt one’s heart.


27 posted on 12/06/2014 1:21:58 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: tumblindice

Yes....richer food....worse dog farts

Origen....great but pricey bagged food will make them fart like maniacs


28 posted on 12/06/2014 1:25:19 AM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Marking, for someone else to read.


29 posted on 12/06/2014 1:32:57 AM PST by logos (Only an educated intellectual will consistently misread plain language.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
How much did THIS stupid study cost us taxpayers ... ?

/8^)

30 posted on 12/06/2014 1:39:53 AM PST by knarf
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To: knarf

When your boss is bothering you...lookin over your shoulder....say,........”Im reasonably certain you are breathing air I recently expelled from my anus”.

Ive tryed this....I I consider it a useful and reliable tool.

P.S...... Bacon is Good,Dogs are Nice,Women are People.


31 posted on 12/06/2014 1:50:37 AM PST by therapsida (t)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Great Crepitation Contest of 1946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FyD95Hv7CU


32 posted on 12/06/2014 3:23:52 AM PST by gasport (Immigration reform means arriving in air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Little known fact outside of medicine:

Don’t try to sneak one past a general surgeon while he is doing abdominal surgery. Doung so will cause all manner of consternation.

Why? He will think he accidentally nicked the patient’s bowel.


33 posted on 12/06/2014 4:07:45 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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To: tumblindice

>> Women rarely seem bust noisy dorsal explosions like us guys—you know, a real detonation that makes the dog start.

That’s because we men know that to get to Carnegie Hall, we have to PRACTICE.


34 posted on 12/06/2014 4:22:29 AM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed is his demon)
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To: gasport
Here is Gene Tracy's version of the farting contest.

The Great Crepitation Contest

35 posted on 12/06/2014 4:27:18 AM PST by mc5cents ("Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: tumblindice

10. Anytime two or more people are in the presence of a fart someone starts laughing.


36 posted on 12/06/2014 4:30:55 AM PST by billhilly (First eligible to vote in 1958)
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To: Nervous Tick

I would like to get some coffee IN me this morning, instead of ON me, and the desk, and the computer, ...

Thanks for the laugh to start my Saturday.


37 posted on 12/06/2014 4:45:19 AM PST by AF_Blue ("America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass speed." - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

This should pretty much be the last word on the subject...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSKQ3ZNQ_O8


38 posted on 12/06/2014 4:46:15 AM PST by BRK
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To: tumblindice

Only if you are a grandfather.


39 posted on 12/06/2014 4:49:16 AM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: UnwashedPeasant

I once bent over to pick up a book in class and expelled a vast amount of gas, and very loud it was, my friend in direct line flew out of his chair, rolling across the aisles...

He helped alleviat the embarassment.


40 posted on 12/06/2014 4:51:40 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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