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How To Of The Day: Fart In Public And Get Away With It
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Flatulence is perfectly natural, but when it happens in public, you’d do anything to avoid the embarrassment. Whether they’re silent and deadly or loud and proud, here are the most dastardly ways to pass gas around others and slip away like a fart ninja.
Perfect Your Crop Dusting Technique
Crop dusting is the act of farting on the move. It might seem rude to fart and run, but it’s every man for himself in this world, and if you can get out of where you are quickly, you won’t have to deal with any of the aftermath. If you’re not stuck in a room with people, Erin Gloria Ryan at Jezebel suggests you release once you get walking:
If you must fart and there’s no hope for private relief in sight, do so when you’re on the move. Don’t linger in the cloud or return to the scene of the crime. If you pass gas in your cubicle, immediately get up and leave your cubicle, lest your chattiest coworker decide that now’s a great time to have a talk and what is that smell? Is that Ukranian food? If you’re on the train, fart and then make your way to the other end of the car. Leave the gas, take the canoli. Farting is kind of like murder or organized crime in that way.
While you’re on the move, Ryan also recommends you use whatever you can to cover up the smell so it doesn’t follow you:
You can try to mitigate the smell — for example, if you carry scented lotion in your purse, take it out right after you fart and start nonchalantly applying some to your hands. Nothing to see here. Just a lady passing gas and moisturizing…
Perfume, cologne, deodorant, chapstick, gum, and even cigarettes (if you’re desperate) can help cover the smell up. It’s better to smell overwhelmingly like perfume than fart, right?
Smelling Farts Prevents Cancer
Find out why smelling your own farts can be beneficial.
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Before we start, you should know that this is not a joke. According to the scientists from the University of Exeter, smelling farts in fact prevents cancer, among other diseases.
When the bacteria break down food, they produce a gas, known as hydrogen sulfide. Even though this gas is known to be pungent, foul-smelling gas in rotten eggs and flatulence, it is naturally produced in the body and it even might be considered to be a healthcare hero with considerable implications for future therapies for a variety of diseases, says Dr. Mark Wood in a university release.
Even though harmful in large doses, a whiff here and there of this stinky gas can reduce risks of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, dementia, and arthritis. As the scientists explain, this is due to the preserving of mitochondria.
The researchers are even rising with their own compound to imitate the health benefits of the smell.
According to Professor Matt Whiteman of the University of Exeter Medical School, they have made use of this natural process by making a compound, called AP39, which slowly delivers very small amounts of this gas specifically to the mitochondria. Their results have shown that if stressed cells are treated with AP30, mitochondria are protected and the cells stay alive.
So, next time you catch a whiff do not get distressed or mad, but be thankful instead.
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