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porompopmpom @lemmy.ml

1y ago

Is a fart a fart before you fart it?

Just wondering

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Like a volcano, when it's still inside you, it is magma.
- Maybe it should be called a fubble?
- Like a vulcano, it's either dormant, active or erupting. So dormant is no gas, active is gas, erupting is letting the gas out, ie. farting

No, then it's just referred to as "gas" or "feeling bloated"
- Butt magma vs. butt lava.
  
  Only if its wet ...

When used as a noun a fart refers to "an expulsion of intestinal gas¹" or "An emission of wind from the anus; an instance of breaking wind²". So, I would say no it is not because it is defined as leaving the body. While in the body it is flatus which is gas in or from the stomach or intestines.
¹Merriam-Webster
² OED

Quality. Thank you for posting.
- These are mysteries of life that need investigation.

Is a fart the gas itself, or the passing of the gas? The definition says it is the passing of the gas. Therefore, a fart isn't a fart until it's been farted.
- It's the lava/magma debate all over again.
  
  Not really a debate there, geologists pretty universally agree that magma becomes lava once exposed to air
- Is it a passing of the gas if no one's around to smell it?
  
  No quantum physic questions please

It’s in a superposition of fart and shart until released at which point the wave form collapses into either a gaseous or liquid state.

Schrödinger’s fart until proven otherwise
- As a professional Fartographer, I can confirm this is the correct answer. Sometimes you're feeling confident that you're hanging out with a fart, but then it comes out to you as poop.
  Then you have to tell it, "look, I still appreciate you as something I created, but I can't support your choice of being poop." And then you tell it that it has until the weekend to get out of your pants.
  
  Where do you set up the seismometer? 🤔
- You can't study it directly without bringing it out into the world and measuring it, but by doing so, it immediately collapses into a fart.

A fart is only a fart when it exits your body. Before that, it's gas. Exiting transforms it to a fart.
- And how is a fart different than gas?
  
  A fart is an ephemeral, gaseous configuration of molecules as they pass through a specific orifice in a specific direction. In short, a fart is not the gas itself.
- Thus the term, "passing gas"

It's a quantum superposition of being both a fart and a number 2. You never know until you observe the results.
- Schrödingers Fart
  
  …or poo

It's a fart from the moment of conception.
- Unless it's a burp

"a fart is a turd honking for the right of way"
- I heard it as "a trapped turd's cry for help."

No, its magma

That's like asking if the universe existed before the big bang.

Contemplating this, they achieved enlightenment.

There is a time, a very early time, when it has not found it's way yet. Then it can become either a fart or a belch.
- Or the dreaded, felch

I don't want to stray from OP's question, but as it's already been answered: have you guys read the following paper on pre-fart gas re-entering the blood stream through the colon's wall?
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a35388068/holding-in-farts-what-happens-body/
This is a very important topic
- Here's a link directly to the video transcript from what if: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-you-held-in-all-your-farts/

I think yes. At the very least, it is a fart bubble.
- That’s when it has exited the hanger, but is still on the runway

Nope, could be a turd.

At that stage, it’s still a farteus.

It could end up being a shart.
- The art of fart

Depends on whether you’re in a state where you can abort it. Some farts are farts from the moment of conception while others only when they are independent and actualized
- As a pro-farter, I think if you hold in your farts, you're basically committing murder and should get life in prison

I think that a fart is specifically gas passing out of your intestines. Until it does that, it's just gas.

No.
If farting is the act of pushing gas out your ass, a fart is the act of the escaping wind. So gas has to leave to be a fart.
Kinda like how Magma becomes lava once it leaves the crust of the earth.

Everytime someone kills a fart before it comes out, an angel dies.

If a bear shits in the woods, is the Pope Catholic? (Equally perplexing question...)
- This ain’t rocket surgery!
- Does the Pope shit in the woods?

That's like asking if you're wet when you're underwater.

my gastrointestinal atmosphere is none of your business.

I've always said it's better to burp it and taste it than to fart it and waste it. YMMV

By definition, it is not.

If you hold a fart in long enough, could it become a burp? Or does that only go one way, from potential burp to fart?
- I've heard of a person that can't burp. or rather has an extreme discomfort in burping due to some accident that hit the shoulder neck alignment.
  Said person also is an expert at how to not butt clap farts so yeah.
- Wait, are you implying that if you hold a burp long enough, it becomes a fart?
  
  Yes, the gas has got to go somewhere...
- Possible TMI warning, I'm into stuffing my butt with dildos and will occasionally do a deep clean with a large enema, around 6-8 liters. When I do that much it pushes the gas in my bowels back through to my stomach and it makes me burp. Gross but neat

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