Bodily Etiquette - Tumblr Posts
OK, so my partner, himself from another country than me, comes from an intercultural marriage. This leads to many fascinating conversations, and sometimes incredulous stares when I do something that seems self-evidently rude.
One of the places this intercultural thing pops up is: his mom's side of the family thinks burping is extremely rude, but doesn’t care about farting. Meanwhile, his dad's side of the family thinks farting is terribly rude, but will let out a belch right there at the table. The number of times they’ve offended each other!
I think about this all the time when somebody says ‘oh my god how rude so-and-so was!’ Like, buddy, in whose mental schema?
(Though I think both sides would probably blink at an Officer Toot Toot! during a wedding.)
Bruce seems like the type of person who'd never be comfortable farting around his partner. Hal probably wouldn't care I bet. My friend and I were discussing silly relationship things like farting and I thought of this lol, what do you think?
Okay so this is probably irrelevant to your question, but I have a friend whose boyfriend WILL NOT stop farting unashamedly. Not like it's constant or anything, he's not like Walter the Farting Dog or something. It's just. . . there. And he will fart ANYWHERE. In a movie. In a store. While at dinner with his boyfriend's parents. In front of ANYONE. When asked about this (as my friend has), he protests, "But I have IBS!" Like, he is not getting that no one is asking his intestines to stop producing excess gas, he is just being asked to expel said gas more discreetly, like a normal adult human being. The hypothesis being challenged here is that IBS causes loss of all gross motor control in the anal sphincter, is what I'm saying. So now whenever his boyfriend farts, my friend has taken to announcing cheerfully, "Officer Toot Toot, reporting for doody!" in a booming voice that makes it impossible to IGNORE the fart and also (if you're me) to stop laughing.
Anyway, they're getting married next year. Odds that he will fart during the wedding? Moderate to high. Odds that my friend will scream out OFFICER TOOT TOOT while the priest is trying to pronounce the blessing? Even higher. Would not miss this wedding for the world.
(Kind anon who told me they always look forward to my insightful rambles I hope this does not disappoint)