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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm genuinely sorry you had to go through that, it really seemed to be a very unpleasant time for my buddy, to say the least... I mean, I have an apparently milder form of IBS (primarily diet and stress-based) and it's bad enough as-is...

But, truthfully, I don't think there's anything of which to be ashamed. I mean, we're being fed crap, we're stressed out more often than we're not, and we're living in environments fit more for industrial equipment than for biological life. It's no wonder our digestive systems are going haywire.

If anything, I think what my former colleague did was 100% reasonable, it's just a repercussion of the conditions in which we're meant to exist. Pairing that up with this social contract of "Thou shall not fart because it's, like, awkward for the rest of us" is pure hypocrisy. Farting, thus, is an act of justified rebellion!