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10 June 2008

OMG Fart Protection! This is strange and new. I am suitably wondering what kind of person sat down and came up with this invention.

post by: eatdonuts at: 15:59 | 10 comments

Probably some doctor whose patients have chronic digestive problems.

posted by Ardiril 10 June | 17:08

The same kind that thought up our society's current boatload of hardly-necessary products. If everyone else was wearing one, and they actually worked, and there was saturation advertising concerning the ostracism you would suffer should you cut one without 'protection', how long would the average person hold out? Antiseptic counter wipes anyone?

posted by DarkForest 10 June | 17:54

AT $2.00 each, your farting has suddenly become a very expensive hobby.

posted by Meatbomb 10 June | 18:06

Q: Why do farts smell?
A: So deaf people can enjoy them too.

posted by Meatbomb 10 June | 18:07

Farts want to be free. This is gassist.

posted by jonmc 10 June | 19:29

I agree with jonmc & Meatbomb.

Farts are a consistent reminder of our ridiculously precarious position in the universe, and are thus always funny.

posted by BitterOldPunk 10 June | 20:45

thus are?

posted by BitterOldPunk 10 June | 20:59

To be honest, I saw that and thought of a friend with chronic IBS who would love something like that.
I always feel bad when he leaves a social event because his stomach is acting up and he's embarrassed about the gas.

posted by kellydamnit 10 June | 23:46

There goes my reason for getting a dog.

posted by trondant 10 June | 23:52

Ode to a fart

Poor little thing, born without a skin.
It only spoke once, and it hasn't spoken since.

posted by essexjan 11 June | 11:28

← tomatoes || Please explain fully to me the ethics (or lack thereof) of spec work. →

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