How come it is deemed more socially acceptable to burp in company and yet to break wind is considered offensive (in most cases).
They are both a natural function & everybody does them!
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Originally Posted by Jenstar:
Originally Posted by slimfern:
My Gran in her later years would go off like a little machine gun as she walked around the shop....it sort of powered her along 
My Mother was horrified!
Is that cos she was walking behind her?
Would explain the grimace wouldn't it..
Was going to say we have it terribly here, the whole place is shaking , we've had to put all the breakable stuff away, and we can't get the ferry home cause of it.. then I realised you didn't mean the gales 
Farts smell rancid enough to cause rooms to be evacuated. Burps generally don't have this issue. Although word on the street is that everyone loves their own brand.
Originally Posted by slimfern:
My Gran in her later years would go off like a little machine gun as she walked around the shop....it sort of powered her along
My Mother was horrified!
My Grandma used to do the same. Unfortunately, in later years, she used to follow through. My mother tells a charming tale about following her round with a shovel
Originally Posted by Growlybear:
Originally Posted by slimfern:
My Gran in her later years would go off like a little machine gun as she walked around the shop....it sort of powered her along
My Mother was horrified!
My Grandma used to do the same. Unfortunately, in later years, she used to follow through. My mother tells a charming tale about following her round with a shovel
Hahahaha! that proper made me chuckle....I can picture it so well!
My mum stopped taking her out shopping after a particularly disturbing incident in what is now House of Fraser.....
Originally Posted by slimfern:
My Gran in her later years would go off like a little machine gun as she walked around the shop....it sort of powered her along
My Mother was horrified!
I was jogging one day and got the same machine gun farts as I ran past a couple. They were doubled over with laughter and so was I!
Originally Posted by slimfern:
How come it is deemed more socially acceptable to burp in company and yet to break wind is considered offensive (in most cases).
They are both a natural function & everybody does them!
I think it's cos of where they both come from...
Originally Posted by slimfern:
How come it is deemed more socially acceptable to burp in company and yet to break wind is considered offensive (in most cases).
They are both a natural function & everybody does them!
I don't think either is particularly acceptable 
But possibly because farts tend to be smelly?
Well seeing as both are natural bodily releases, that we ALL do, no-one has any right to moan or complain about it.
Saz, we may as well not even bother.
They don't have to be loudly released in company though Rawky How uncivilised