"A Treatise On Farting"

[jimnbkk]

I think this is a perfectly acceptable subject both because it affects all of us - other than the completely constipated - and involves cultural sensitivities. Guys out for an evening can fart freely and joke about it. Do so on the Skytrain or MRT (and worse still in polite company) and it can be somewhat embarrassing, the more so if it is of considerable length and perhaps also not what we called in my boyhood "the silent suffocator". In such cases, I will always adopt a disapproving frown and start to stare at someone nearby, hopefully giving others the impression that I am not the guilty party.

This might work, except in my case I have found that my farts have a quite acceptable smell, and thus I can adopt a 'smug' look instead of the 'disapproving frown' described above.

{smile}