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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Like a volcano, when it's still inside you, it is magma.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe it should be called a fubble?

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[–] Gigan 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, then it's just referred to as "gas" or "feeling bloated"

[–] Dasnap 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Only if its wet ...

[–] hactar42 37 points 1 year ago

When used as a noun a fart refers to "an expulsion of intestinal gas^1^" or "An emission of wind from the anus; an instance of breaking wind^2^". 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.

^1^Merriam-Webster

^2^ OED

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quality. Thank you for posting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

These are mysteries of life that need investigation.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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. Before that, it's just gas in the ass.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's the lava/magma debate all over again.

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[–] CrazyLikeGollum 22 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Schrödinger’s fart until proven otherwise

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do you set up the seismometer? 🤔

[–] lando55 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] ohlaph 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A fart is only a fart when it exits your body. Before that, it's gas. Exiting transforms it to a fart.

[–] Asudox 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And how is a fart different than gas?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And you can't kill an idea

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a quantum superposition of being both a fart and a number 2. You never know until you observe the results.

[–] ArtVandelay 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a fart from the moment of conception.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"a fart is a turd honking for the right of way"

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[–] Loce 10 points 1 year ago

No, its magma

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Rolando 9 points 1 year ago

Contemplating this, they achieved enlightenment.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] spacemanspiffy 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think yes. At the very least, it is a fart bubble.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That’s when it has exited the hanger, but is still on the runway

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[–] diegantobass 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here's a link directly to the video transcript from what if: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-you-held-in-all-your-farts/

[–] Eh_I 6 points 1 year ago

Nope, could be a turd.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

At that stage, it’s still a farteus.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It could end up being a shart.

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[–] AA5B 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As a pro-farter, I think if you hold in your farts, you're basically committing murder and should get life in prison

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] subspaceinterferents 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If a bear shits in the woods, is the Pope Catholic? (Equally perplexing question...)

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[–] Crackhappy 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

my gastrointestinal atmosphere is none of your business.

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