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What Makes Us Fart?

livescience.com — The answer may stink, but eating or drinking anything gives us gas. In fact, it's normal to fart up to half of a gallon (1.9 liters), or about 15 to 20 toots worth of gas, each day.

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  • bightchee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20That jalapeno & garlic pizza I had the other night, for example.
  • SeaMowse, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I'm surprised that this isn't at the 'How things work' website. :P
  • kiwikultist, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2Thanks Digg. An article about how people fart half a gallon a day is just what I needed to see right before I go off to sit in a crowded lecture hall with 300 other people. =/
  • LFAB, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Now I know my TPG (toots-per-gallon): 30-40! I love the internets.
  • LordSkywalker, on 10/10/2007, -5/+715-20 per day? I don't know about you guys, but I don't.
    • monsterenergy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15While you sleep.
    • nedzeve, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Liar. Are you a chick?
      • astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Chicks are funny when they fart, while they are awake, they hold the pressure back and you get a **poof** like sound, now the real fun is when they are asleep, they can not hold it down, then thats when you get the loud rippers. So powerful it will blow the blankets off.

        Now, the worst farts are Queefs.... deadly, and unexpected.
    • TJATL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3so you have a horrible diet?
    • Viremia, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4pffft, I pass the 20 mark within the first hour of being awake. I guess I make up for all those women who we know are incapable of pooting. Damn, I gotta change my diet.
      • airquotes, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2ugh youre a chick, that sucks.. ur pussy is way to close to ur ass to tell us ***** like that
      • tjolson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Damn, I gotta change my diet.

        Or buy a cork
    • tankdilla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Don't forget the toots that come out while you're crapping. You should count next time.
  • DeskFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Drinking lots of cheap beer before you go to bed.
  • radikstad, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1refried beans my friends, refried beans.
  • elbergel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30"Thats pure, concentrated evil coming out of your butt"
  • ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21I once heard a quaint little ditty about beans. Apparently they are both magical, and a fruit.
    • Wonderkind, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Not to mention that they're good for your heart.
  • Madmod, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The real question is which foods make a more potent flaming fart.
  • Bricks, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Receiving oral sex. Its "pull my finger," but for the x-games generation.
    • oxymoron69, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3that's almost a joke from mallrats...
      except this part: "Its "pull my finger," but for the x-games generation."
      and that is just nasty! i don't think i've ever let one slip while that relaxed, and if i were going down on a girl who did that.... i'd think twice about sticking my face south of that equator again :-|
  • redxninja, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0I fart a lot but they dont really smell.
    • vidorian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I bet the people around you would tend to disagree
    • popfrogs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5That's like the old lady that kept ripping farts and saying, "whew, that one was silent but deadly" and her husband says, "change your damn hearing aid battery".
  • bigpeeler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I thought it was the enzyme, Tacosa Bellaphosus.
    • astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1TacoSmell (or fast food for that matter) gives most folk a bad case of the Sharts...
  • Cherubim, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1farting is healthy, although too many people dumb ***** do it in public.

    • astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Fart in an elevator Stinkin' it up when I'm goin' down-n-n-n-nnn
  • vidorian, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0wonder how many gallons someone who is lactose intolerant gives out after say a milkshake.

    Too bad you can't find a way to run a car on that hehe
  • barkingmoonbat, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Just blame it on the dog or your girlfriend.
    • Bricks, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2they're indistinguishable
      check your browser, then protect your bowser.
      FOR THIS IS SPARTA
  • wildsnake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The fart pictures and fart news on the first page
    • jono10, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Digg needs a Fart section, You listening Kev?
  • JFitzpatrick, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0And then... he killed the dog.
  • kutateli, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What makes us fart? Taco Bell.
  • pr1268, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0A bunch of Guinness beer the night before - and pretty much any room I'm in that day becomes certifiably IDLH due to my flatulence. Add some pepperoni pizza to the celebration and then afterwards the wallpaper starts curling off the walls. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDLH
    I don't know why Guinness is so much more potent than other beers in that regards...
  • Wilddigi, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0My cat used to fart
    • barkingmoonbat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Used to? You mean it is dead now.
    • astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2My cats farted....kinda funny to watch them grooming themselves, and they rip one... they pause, and look around as if they are wondering "what the hell was that!?"... then they go back to grooming themselves.
  • chaos7, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2*farts*
  • chaos7, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1when i eat a lot of choclate..it's like i ***** fire..and it looks like chocolate.
  • barkingmoonbat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0"Oh Terrence, what colour is the wind?"

    http://www.fortunecity.com/boozers/blueangel/138/thewind.wav
    • jeriqo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That fart sounded like a ringing phone Phil!
      Oh wait, that is the phone...
  • sargentcrackers, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0How did this make it to the Digg home page?
    • astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Because everyone likes fart subjects... its natural... its a Gas Gas Gas...
  • Carburetor, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0Females can't fart.
  • FunkyPits, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Dugg because I just dropped ass on a co-worker right before I pulled up digg.
  • flipcritic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Sooner or later, this just had to come out on Digg.
  • cuoops, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1better - http://www.heptune.com/farts.html
  • sasome, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2i dont fart "I'm a lady!"
    • pr1268, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0From the 1996 Tom Arnold movie "Carpool":
      Franklin: Hey who farted? Did you cut the cheese, Dan?
      Daniel: For God's sake, no I did not.
      Franklin: How about you, Kayla?
      Kayla: Girls don't fart.
      Franklin: Really? Come over to my house sometime and ask my mom why all our cats committed suicide.
      http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115836/
  • Radan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's the magic smoke that makes things work that is trying to escape.
  • daxsymbiont, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i for one welcome non-tabooed attitude towards farts.

    but keep farting outside.
  • JasonCox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"In fact, it's normal to fart up to half of a gallon (1.9 liters)"
    Holy *****!
  • HamHead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It's dead Jim....
  • oriondarkwood, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What is really good is to let a slient but deadly out in your co-workers cube and then blame them ROFLMAO
  • smackafiyah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I feel one day I can bottle up all my farts in a jar, then turn it into a WMD
  • RealHyperX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Hot chicks dont fart or poop. So this 1.9 gallons BS is pure BS.
  • bungoman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0This of course only applies to guys. Everyone knows girls don't fart.
  • tankdilla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I knew a guy in high school who was embarrassed about farting around people, so he would hold it in. Doing that for years ended up messing up his bowels, and he had to go to the doctor to get fixed up. The doctor told him from now on, whenever you have to fart, let it out. And man, that guy would let it rip at any time, and let everyone know it was him. I'd never seen a guy so proud of farting.
  • theodenking, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Holy crap. I was just wondering about this on the way home! Digg is awesome.
  • astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Good recipe for a fart: Beer & Halushki (Butter, Noodles, Onions, and Cabbage)

    Guaranteed to wake the neighbors via sound and smell.

    And for our lactose intolerant fans: Beer & Potato Soup (Milk, Potatoes, Noodles and Cabbage).

    You'll have the effects of above with the added bonus of the Hershey Squirts...
  • CoJest, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0sitting on my arse and reading this stuff
  • BearinG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Dugg for using "toots" in description.
  • jpmulli, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Aha! Now we know what is really causing the greenhouse effect.
  • optimusprime01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It smells in here. I guess someone here just farted....
  • erinzdad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Farts are the most evil of the noxious green house gases. If we all converted to vegetarianism as the greenies suggest it would mean emitting 12 billion liters of methane per day. Methane is 25 times more deadly to mother earth than CO2. Just as I suspected steak is the answer to curbing global warming! As Marie Antionette said:
    "Let them eat Steak!"
  • mathewsjw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"What makes us Fart?"

    digg and the Democrat party that blames farts on America!
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