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[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe it should be called a fubble?

[–] Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm. Lava comes from Magma. M is just after L.

Using that logic, a Fart comes from Gagma, which some people truly can eject.

[–] OwlYaYeet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's fitting cause I'm gagging right now

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 year ago

Like a vulcano, it's either dormant, active or erupting. So dormant is no gas, active is gas, erupting is letting the gas out, ie. farting

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Deepus@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Only if its wet ...

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 33 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

[–] Hobart_the_GoKart@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quality. Thank you for posting.

[–] Pissnpink@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

These are mysteries of life that need investigation.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 27 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.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really a debate there, geologists pretty universally agree that magma becomes lava once exposed to air

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[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 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@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And how is a fart different than gas?

[–] pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Glytch@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

And you can't kill an idea

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[–] oillut@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Schrödinger’s fart until proven otherwise

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 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.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do you set up the seismometer? 🤔

[–] lando55@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 18 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.

[–] Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works 13 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@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Schrödingers Fart

[–] correcthorsedickbatterystaple@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

It's a fart from the moment of conception.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Contemplating this, they achieved enlightenment.

[–] Loce@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

No, its magma

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 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@lemmy.world 6 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

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

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 6 points 1 year ago

It could end up being a shart.

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Nope, could be a turd.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 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.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 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

[–] beneeney@lemm.ee 3 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

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] TonyHawksPoTater@kbin.social 3 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.

my gastrointestinal atmosphere is none of your business.

[–] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I've always said it's better to burp it and taste it than to fart it and waste it. YMMV

[–] subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world 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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