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[kg2095]

My boss and his wife have a very nasty habit of farting right next to me. They aren't little discreet farts either. He will be standing right next to me talking and all of a sudden he just lets one rip. And he keeps talking as if it never happened. It is so disgusting.

Is this a cultural difference between Korea and western countries? I suspect not as I haven't noticed other Koreans doing this.

[bassexpander]

What was it Jongroguru says... "Farmers in Suits?"

My wife's boss (Korean) does the same thing in front of the employees (also Korean). They all talk about it, and think it's disgusting. It's not cultural... just gross people lacking manners.

[Shiktang]

Someone wrote a book about the senses. I can't remmember the author of it right now, but on the smell sense she gives quite discourse about The "Fart" She describes the various kinds of farts. Apparently there is one called "the slider". Anyone know what that means. I heard of one called the SBD "The Silent But Deadly".

Interesting thing in the same book is that many people have no sense of smell, and a corresponding low sex drive. Apparently astronaughts loose their sense of smell in outer space as well.

[Sleepy in Seoul]

It's a poor bum that never rejoices.

[Cheonmunka]

Better an empty house than a bad tenant.

[Chambertin]

[Bloopity Bloop]

[halfmanhalfbiscuit]

In church or chattel, let it rattle.

[MollyBloom]

I have experienced the same thing. Ajosshis walk down the street and let it rip. Ajummas loosen their sphincters on the buses. I think I wrote a thread about this a while ago.

Also, I have noticed bathroom etiquette for women here is different, too. I have been in public restrooms where the women just fart and have bowel movements like it's nothing. Maybe Westerners are a little bit more self-conscious/shameful about that, because all the Western women I know won't poop in public, they run the faucet in public bathrooms to cover the noise, or wait until people leave the bathroom.

I went to the bathroom at school with a co-worker and she just took a dump while complaining about the Principal! Then she offered to buy me a coffee

[Chambertin]

[DorkothyParker]

Another OT response. There was an article in Bust (or was it Bitch Magazine?) about women having bowel movements in public restrooms.
Personally, I am all for it (though I wouldn't speak to another person while I'm using the restroom.) I think it's absurd that it would be frowned upon seeing as how that's exactly what a bathroom is for!

The dudes I work with (at a bank) here in the US make fart jokes all the time. One dude who was recently promoted to another branch was known for his "crop dusting." I think it's cultural insomuch that I think we Westerners are more apt to point it out and laugh at ourselves whereas our Eastern brethren may be more discrete but equally offensive.

[kg2095]

[Bloopity Bloop]

[MollyBloom]

[MollyBloom]