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Farts.(a.k.a. Longest post on the planet 2)
Sorry everyone, this was supposed to be really informative post but then I went back and reviewed the penis farts one and it turned into this ……

They’re both the bayne of our existence the source of most of our humor (Particularly in the case of 3 of my near and dear friends who use them as weapons of war whenever they are around me … even in public …..wait …..whew …sorry ….. I’ll have to take a shower after the last one).
They’re also one of the main things people ask me about ….. they love asking about them almost as much as they like asking me about they’re blood pressure, diabetes and what to do if they break the hymen by mistake (the answer is nothing ……. just live with it and never bring it up again ……)
So here is an FAQ on our second favorite bodily function (right after sneezing …. orgasms are overrated …there’s all that mess to clean up …..):
What are farts made of? How do we make them?
It’s a combination of air we swallowing air, gas produced by chemical reactions in our gut and gas produced by bacteria in our bowel. The composition of said farts varies heavily but is generally regarded as a combination of Nitrogen, oxygen and in 33% of adults methane (farts that can burn your ass of if you hold a match to them). The nitrogen levels rise as you hold the fart in and since the odour is largely nitrogen based it makes sense that the ones we hold in are the nastiest.
Interestingly the family that lives together produces the exact same type of fart in terms of composition.
Why do they stink?
Two compounds are thought to be responsible for the odor, Nitrogen based ones give you the rotten egg smell, where as the burny smell comes from hydrogen sulfide.
Why do they make noise and what effects the tone, pitch and wave length?
The sounds are produced by vibrations of the anal opening. Sounds depend on the velocity of expulsion of the gas and the tightness of the sphincter muscles of the anus. Contrary to a popular misconception, fart noise is not generated by the flapping of the butt cheeks.
Not the but cheeks?
No, not the but cheeks. That flapping as your anal canal, your but cheeks flap when they’re slapped. Get somebody to slap your ass and note the difference.
What about silent but deadlies?
These are farts from small amounts of gas that have almost no injested air and are very concentrated.
How much is normal?
About a liter. If you hit 14 per day then your are a fucking blimp or should learn to swallow without inhaling air.
How do I do that?
Eat with your mouth closed.
How long does it take people in the room to smell it? and how long does it linger?
Fart travel time depends on atmospheric conditions such as humidity, temperature and wind speed and direction, the molecular weight of the fart particles, and the distance between the fart transmitter and the fart receiver. Farts also disperse (spread out) as they leave the source, and their potency diminishes with dilution. Generally, if the fart is not detected within a few seconds, it will be too dilute for perception and will be lost into the atmosphere forever.
Exceptional conditions exist when the fart is released into a small enclosed area such as an elevator, a small room, or a car. These conditions limit the amount of dilution possible, and the fart may remain in a smellable concentration for a long period of time, until it condenses on the walls.
Why is there a delay between the thunder and the lightening as it were?
You hear it before you smell it because the speed of sound is faster than the speed of air convection. So the fart travels to your ear faster than it travels to your nose.
Are there people who never fart?
Fuck no! I’ve seen dead bodies let one rip shortly after their demise. We fart even when we’re dead!
Do men fart more than women?
Based on my limited experience no. This answer is largely subjective and I couldn’t find any research to support it.
Are men stinkier than women?
Fuck no, had a girl friend ….. hot body ….. worst dutch oven ever ……. smelt like dead rats left in the lab over the weekend …. I know ’cause I’ve smelt both …… sorry ladies, like vaginal regeneration cream, it’s an urban myth ……you’re just as bad as we are. (and yes, I’m sure she wasn’t a man)
Whens the best time to let one rip?
Morning thunder is my personal favorite ….. but to each his own.
What about beans?
You think beans are bad? try corn, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage, milk, bread, eggs, beer, and raisins (separately or all at once). Basically anything that you weren’t originally designed to eat or will increase fermentation (ti’7imir) in the gut.
Do people fart in their sleep?
Yes.
Can holding it in kill you?
Nope but it can perforate your bowel from over distention and that can kill you.
But if you hold it in long enough it will turn into a burp, right?
Fuck no. Burping is from gas still in the stomach. Farting is from gas that has traveled down further. It’s a one way system …. this isn’t the London Underground.
What types of farts are there?
Here is a list of a few I stole from teh interweb.
ALCOHOL FUNNY CAR FART : Right after you have a bunch of alcohol, you let one loose.
ASS BLASTER FART : Like an M80 exploding in your ass.
THE ATOM BOMB FART : The atom bomb fart is loud as heck, and it smells bad too. Also results in a big explosion, and everyone falls to the ground.
BALLSY FART / GUTSY FART : Your in a predicament where you would have to be gutsy in order to let it go…I let ‘em rip:)
BANANA FART : A roughly silent fart that squeaks out an odorous gas that smells like a rotten smelly old banana. .
BANANANA FART : As above, but longer…..
BARKING SPIDER FART : A non-smelling fart which occurs in a crowded place. The farter cannot be identified and the sound is therefore blamed on a ‘Barking Spider’.
BARREL OF LAUGHS FART : The kind of fart when you feel it coming a mile away, so you go and sit on your friends lap and let her rip. Sounds like some one’s rolling a barrel down your asshole.
BEAR FART (aka NITEMARE ON SMELL STREET) : The kind of fart that will wake you up at night because it smells so bad! They can be either silent or noisy: But they are the stinkiest farts imaginable! “Only a bear (with a bears’ diet) could produce a smell that rotten”
BEEFY ONE : Sounds loud, and butch e.g.. ‘BRAAAAMMPPP!’. Will smell a bit like the rotting offspring of a B.S.E infected cow and a dogturd.
BLIND DATE FART (a.k.a On the spot Fart) : Happens while you are on a blind date or meeting new people. While getting to know each other, looking your best, and putting your best face forward -BRRAAMP- You pray that it wasn’t heard, and try to play it off while others look uncomfortable.
THE BOWL FART : While squatting on the bowl, anticipating the arrival of a brown trout your gut blazes a trail for it by blowing a massive blast. The deep dish and hollow bowl allow for a nice reverb effect.
BREWER FART : You try to push a brewer fart the last furlong, but it stays firmly lodged deep within your bowels. You come to the conclusion that it is some form of gaseous landmark.
THE BUBBLE FART : You feel at the edge of your ass and you think that it is gone but then it pops and is one of the most smelliest farts possible.
BUBBLE BOBBLE FART: This type of fart occurs while one is sitting. As one sits down, a gaseous bubble fart pokes out just a little bit under ones butt to cause a rocking sensation, as if one is sitting on a beach ball.
BUBBLE GUM FART : A bubbly but wet fart that smells so horribly bad you don’t even enjoy it.
BUBBLE-O-BILL FART : In the shower, cup your hands around your trouser trumpet, fill up with water, and blast away! Kind of sounds like a cappuccino machine.
THE BUDDAH : This fart is the mother of all farts. It starts out like a car’s engine vroom vroom and then it back fires (*BOOM*)and it knocks the family cat a couple of miles
BUN BUSTER FART : ‘BRAAA!’ Sounds like a Beefy one, except much more sudden and much much more powerful. Generally smells egg or beefy. Leaves your asshole smarting. You really feel these babies.
BURBLE FART : Bubbly! BURP ‘N’ FART : It’s when you burp and fart at the same time -but it doesn’t happen often.
BUSINESS CLASS REPRISAL : This fart occurs after lengthy delays at airports situated in tropical climates. After bitter arguments with flight attendants wishing to offer an assortment of Australian Sao biscuits with Albanian cheese spread, you reluctantly choose to scoff four trays of these disgusting looking but sweet smelling foodstuffs and proceed to encounter the Business class reprisal.
BUTT RIPPER FART : The kind that comes out so fast and hard that it rips your cheeks apart and makes you cry for all hell. And it smells horribly too!
BUTT ROCKET FART : This scary but predictable fart is provoked by eating large quantities of fast food at one sitting. It doesn’t make any appreciable noise until it is just about through. It is similar to the worrying fart inasmuch as the necessity to check your shorts for a stain is imminent. The smell is similar to that of a small child you just picked up and discovered that they poo pood in their pants an hour or two earlier.
CAMO-FART : If you’re sitting in class one day, and suddenly a little squeak pops out, and if someone asks you if you had just farted, be sure that your desk is tuned properly so that it may squeak at the same frequency as your fart. Then tell the person that it was your desk.
THE CATS MEOW FART (aka Metz’s EGO-TRIP) : This fart is so funky, it can only be laid by Lawrence Duane Metz in Texas. {So we are told}. It sounds like a slowly dying cat, and lasts roughly 7.5 seconds. Also, the wrinkled grin/face of agony has to accompany it!!
CHURCH HYMN FART : The kind where you’re sitting in church, you bend over to pick up a hymn book, and -PBBBBBBT!!!- a giant fart rips out. Fate dictates that you are sitting next to an old lady, who will scoot down the bench, looking disgusted.
SIDE NOTE: Confucius say, Man Who Fart In Church, Sit In Own Pew.
COMPOST FART : You know the compost heap that a gardener keeps at the bottom of the garden? Well if you jump on it you will have some idea of what a compost fart sounds and smells like. Do not attempt this one while you have company.
COMPUTER FART : The kind where you are playing on the computer, and it just slips out.
CRACKER JACK FART : Just like the well known caramel-covered chocolate treat, the cracker jack fart comes with a surprise in it –and off you go to the bathroom walking funny and hoping they are not out of toilet paper.
DELAYED REACTION FART : You have the urge, but it goes away. You go on about your business and a few seconds, or longer, later, ‘BBRRMMPHH’….
DIFFICULT TO LET OUT FART : In company you feel the strong urge to fart, but people are around you, so you squeeze your asshole to stop an explosion -preferring to slowly open and squeeze the hole in quick succession, to let the gas escape silently.
THE DOG FART : You let a fart so big, that you have to blame it on the dog.
EGGY FART : Smells very much like rotten eggs (or Hydrogen Sulphide). A powerful odor which tends to put people off lunch. Often rips out in the fashion of a Bun buster.
ESCAPE POD FART : You think you got away with this one. You forced it out as silently as possible, and nobody heard. You take deep sniffs through your nose, as discreetly as possible. You smell nothing but your deodorant. Then 30 seconds later, as if released from a stasis field, everyone starts to cough and splutter. You point to the person next to you and try to look innocent.
EXPLODING MOUSE FART : While trying to hold it in, some gas gets out making a squeak noise, and since relieving yourself a little bit felt so good, you let the rest out in a huge BRAP! Resulting in the exploding mouse effect…
FAMILY STYLE FART : Sounds homemade (not like mothers cooking) Is a loud ‘pppppuuuuuuufffff’And a explosion like no other.
FLAPPING FLUTTER FART : This one’s an earth shaker, but not too deadly on the odor side. It’s distinguished by its long and loud flutter sound, and its marked vibrations are felt by all who are on the same bed or sofa.
FLORAL FLATULANTS : These olfactic confections are typically generated when on vacation in tropical destinations. They are formed from the vacationer’s new diet of wild fruit drinks, coconut oils, and various local foods. They are very unique, and to the expulsion expert they are among the most pleasant scented. Some have often tried to bottle this scent, but it cannot be captured!
FLUTTER BUSTER FART : Farting whilst seated on a vinyl covered surface.
FOGGY WINDOW FART : You’re sitting in the car at night or early in the morning, and after some time of getting the windows defogged, someone has to fart and fog the windows back up.
GLAD IT WASN’T MINE FART : So nasty in smell, odor, and sound, that you have to thank God it it didn’t come from your behind!
GNL FART : Gambled ‘n’ lost. You take a gamble that it’s going to be a fart and stay where you are, but realize tragically that this is much more than a fart…
GNL II FART : You take a gamble that it’s going to be a small quiet odor free fart, but it’s actually more like an explosion and there is no doubt that you are the stinker.
GOBBLE FART : Sounds like a turkey gobbling…. ”
GREETINGS!” FART : You let one rip as a greeting or a way to say, “Hi!”
GROWLING FART : Happens deep within the rectum (and therefore has no smell). Somehow never meets the light of day. Tends to growl like a dog at the vets.
GUNSHOT FART : Gunshot farts sound just like a gunshot. They are exceedingly rare. In fact they are so rare that most people don’t know they even exist. One report continues: “I have only witnessed one gunshot fart myself, my own, and almost scared the poop out of my girlfriend who was lying asleep beside me at the time. She thought it was a gunshot, and it was so named.”
HAD TO SHIT BUT ONLY FARTED FART : You run to the bathroom with the urge to purge and you let her rip, only to find that you had a huge fart. If other people are in the bathroom (public restroom you sicko’s) you are really embarrassed.
HAY FEVER FART : Basically, you fart at the same time you sneeze.
HERSHEY SQUIRT : Feels like a silent burst of air but surprisingly you have a scrumptiously, gooey, squirty surprise.
HORROR MOVIE SCARE FART : You’re watching your favorite horror movie, or a new one, and by either suspense or fright, you let one rip!
HYDRATED FLUCTUATION (a.k.a WET FART) : The original wet fart, which leaves a mark on your pants, and gives you a cold wet sticky sensation when you walk. You might not like this little bugger, but you feel right at home with it.
THE I-LOVE-YOU FART : The kind of fart that sounds like “I luv u” in Arabic!
INDEPENDENCE DAY FART : Such an explosive whopper that it sends everyone screaming out of the city center.
THE INTERROGATIVE FART : Starts out low, and rises in pitch towards its conclusion. Sounds like your ass is asking a question.
IT’S STUCK!! FART : Usually a timid fart (not much air) and while your sitting down, but when you let it out, it sticks between the cheeks as a tiny air bubble. And no matter how hard you try, you just can’t pop the sucker out, no matter how hard you squeeze.
KWEEEEEF FART : Sitting in band class with perfect posture when you let a fart that sounds like a squeaking clarinet.
LAUGHING FART : When you are laughing so hard at something you fart, and you can’t deny it cause everyone heard it and you might as well admit your guilt!
LIQUID FART : It happens when the fart comes out in such a form that it feels like some sort of diarrhea -even if it isn’t.
LONELY FART : This is the type you do when you’re on your own, so you don’t care about the smell or the noise. Usually provoked.
LOUD AND DEADLY FART : Like the silent but deadly fart -except it is heard by everyone, and it will cause people to faint.
MARIO’S JUMP FART : Named after the famous and acclaimed Mario Jump, which, well, ..you know… sounds like Mario’s Jump -TOUUNG. Rather Quiet.
THE MEXICAN FART : The one that reminds you of the taco you had the night before and it makes you hungry.
MIGRATING FART : This fart sneaks out of your butt and remains there feeling about the size of a walnut or small tomato. It is when you sit up in a more erect posture that you feel it inch it’s way upward between the crack of your ass until the crack stops. The fart then apparently dissipates somewhere behind your back or perhaps inside your shirt.
AK47-FART : Strangely enough, sounds like someone shoved an AK47 up your ass. Let it rip, ‘cos it goes on for a while.
MORNING FART : The first thing out of bed fart. Long, loud, and not too smelly.
MOTHBALL FART : Noted for coming from elderly folks- usually in a casual manner with little to no noise. But when the scent is out- it reeks of mothballs and all once kicking bugs fall limp to the ground…
MOTORCYCLE FART : This kind of goes along with the tandem fart. When someone is riding on the back of your motorcycle and you fart, they can usually smell them if they’re especially potent.
MOUTH FART : Comes out the other end but you couldn’t tell by the smell. MOVIE
THEATER FART : You are sitting in a movie theater and you have to let one go, so you wait for an opening, such as a big explosion, to let it go. (I personally did this one during Star Wars during the Death Star explosion
THE NEVER ENDING FART : This is the fart that doesn’t end… Yes it goes on and on my friends… George S. started it, not knowing what it was And he’ll continue farting it, forever just because.. (repeat as many times as you can)
NONCHALANT FART : This fart is normally associated with the elderly. The fart is very audible yet the farter just continues with whatever activity or conversation he or she happened to be engaged in as if it had never happened. It makes you wonder if they actually realized they did it.
NOT NOW! (a.k.a ANAL CONTROL FART) : You feel the presence of a mighty fart, and are unable to release it due to your situation. Happens on first dates, at important meetings, and on other such inexcusable occasions. You clench your buttocks together so hard that you nearly give yourself a stroke, and wait for the pressure to subside. Success depends on a number of factors, but Sods law tends to win out in the end.
ONE CHEEK SNEAK FART : This fart happens when you put your weight on one butt cheek and lift the other up. This is totally silent but often have disastrous results about two minutes later -everyone faints in that room.
ON THE SPOT FART : You didn’t even know it was there, but suddenly ‘Brrmp’. OW OW OW
OW OW FART : OH, MAN!! Does this one BURN!!
PANTY FLUFF : I heard a saying the other day, “Women don’t fart, they ‘panty fluff’.”
THE PHISH FART : When this bad biscuit erupts it has a catch of the day scent. I got a big one!
PIGGYBACK FART : Only occurs in those situations where it would be a ‘personal disaster’ to fart (e.g. crowded room, business meeting). You are holding onto this bad boy for dear life when suddenly someone else drops a LOUD one. Before the noise of this one has finished you let rip a fast a possible so both farts sound as one. This is easy if you are near the other person, if not then start talking loudly about the amazing echos in the room.
POINT BLANK FART : A point blank fart is a prank done on a unsuspecting victim by pointing your anus toward the victim’s face. This is successfully accomplished when the victim is sleeping or watching tv. Likely victims are siblings, spouses, and in-laws.
POLITE FART : You feel the urge and excuse yourself to the other room where you politely let her rip.
POOTERS ANONYMOUS: A program to help people addicted to flatulence.
PREDATOR FART : This fart is a high-velocity number that smells like a bag of duck guts. It seems to actually seek out a victim after leaving it’s maker. Usually an innocent friend in the back seat of the car or a couple of seats away in a theatre. The predator fart will skip over others in the other and wrap itself around it’s victim with a vicious fury.
PRELUDE TO A POOPIE : You feel like you have got a large Beefy one, but out comes a tiny squeaker fart, and the head of something massive. You tense your buttocks fast, lest you give birth to the brown equivalent of a zeppelin.
PRESENT (a.k.a ‘TIME I WASN’T HERE’ FART) : The type of fart which seems harmless, but then brings a small poopie as a housewarming gift. You shuffle off to the toilet, and thank God you weren’t in a business meeting when it happened. If you were in a business meeting of course, you’re screwed.
PRORR-WOOORT FART : That’s the nice, long, modulated sound it makes… Best achieved with pants down!
PULL MY FINGER FART : You ask some one to pull your finger when you feel a big gassy fart come. After they pull your finger, you fart in their face!
PUMPKIN FART : A warm, dry, fart that smells like an old Jack-O-Lantern. An aroma pleasing to the creator, but one which will clear a large room.
REALLY GOOD FAKE FART : Someone make a noise that sounds like a fart and blames it on you or someone else.
THE SHAKING FART : The one you get during class and holding it in makes your body convulse.
SHOW OFF FART : A fart that you purposely give off to show what a loud smelly one you can make.
SHOWER FART : That unwanted fart that occurs right after you walk out of the shower feeling fresh and nice. These usually leave a warm sensation to be cherished.
SILENT BUT DEADLY (SBD) FART : The type that remains totally inaudible, yet somehow causes all the occupants of a room to collapse. Can smell like anything, nasal investigators rarely have time to distinguish an odor.
SILENT….BUT EGG FART : The kind of fart you do when you’re with a crowd. It is silent, but mings like a rotten egg.
SILENT BUT VIOLENT FART : This type of fart is not heard, but will cause facial hair to disintegrate, nasal passages to blister from the burn, eyes to water, and nausea.
THE SMALL FART : It’s the kind of fart where you just hear a ‘beep’.
THE SPANISH CLASS FART : When you are sitting in Spanish and fart really loudly and say you were trying to trell your r.
SPHINCTAL NAPALM : Tends to occur a few hours after a hot curry. Never mind the smell, worry about the burning sensation and the nasty stain you know it must have left.
SQUEAKY FART : Sounds like ‘Wheeek’. Normally smells foul.
THE STAGED FART : This little number comes out is small bursts of the same length. It smells like a sack full of assholes.
STALKER FART : Occurs when you leave the room to politely fart elsewhere, and save people the trouble of breathing your flatulent devils breath. You go back into the room, but LO! The foul nasal bombardment has followed you, and you are duly criticised for poor manners.
THE STAY AWHILE FART : The one you let rip in bed a couple nights ago, that is still there and smells even worse.
STOLEN FART : Someone else lets it, but it’s so good that you claim it.
THE SYNCRONIOUS FART : More than one person farts in sync. Sounds neat sometimes.
TANDEM FART : Tandem Farts are the worst smelling and longest lasting farts ever to be recorded. They are so named since they are the only fart that is detectable by the nose on a Tandem bicycle (bicycle built for two) as it is being pedaled. A tandem fart occurs when the captain of the bike farts and the stoker smells it. As you can imagine, the fart most be extremely strong to compete with the wind and to get to the stoker’s nose. Extremely disgusting farts off of a tandem are sometimes called Tandem farts, but they can never be confirmed as true Tandem.
STEALTH FART : A stealth fart is similar to the point blank fart but uses the silent-but-deadly fart. Very effective when your bored at a party. Just when your ready to release your SBD, you would walk toward a group of guests and then release your payload and slowly walk away. Then the guests won’t know what hit them when your payload reaches equilibrium.
TENSION BREAKER FART : Usually during a test or some stressful meeting where everyone is concentrating, and someone in the room lets a fart that, rather than making people gag, makes everyone laugh. Then of course, if it was at school, people start imitating it.
TIMEX FART : Very rare fart, lasting at least 10 minutes -if not longer. A variation on the theme, the Accuse Fart is roughly the same but smells worse, and so you get the blame.
TIMID FART: Short, sweet, petite, not much odor, and not much air.
TOOT-UNCOMMON: This fart is one that happens when you are asleep and therefore not in control. Like the mummy of the famous Egyptian ruler, you lie still while it rips out. The sound may not awaken you, but the smell surely will, particularly after a night at the pub. Egyptian theme can be carried further if you trap your partner under the covers and cause him/her to share in the experience, much like the burial of an Egyptian queen in the same tomb.
TRIPLE FLUTTER BLAST: This is the fart that occurs after a hefty Chinese meal. To properly ‘perform’ it one leg must be elevated and resting on a convenient chair or stool. Happens in three short but powerful bursts.
TROUSER RIPPING SPECIAL: Sends seismic ripples to the next city. Rips the back of your pants. This fart genuinely hurts, and you can still feel it 20 minutes later. Anyone sitting nearby at the time will suffer hearing loss.
THE TWIST-OF-FATE DOG FART: The dog lets a fart so big that everyone blames it on you!
UNDERWATER FART: Often done in the bath, or while swimming. Sounds like the engine of a nuclear sub. Can be smelt on rising to the surface, and experienced windbreakers will often catch the fart in an upturned jam jar, in order to set light to them. A few others have referred to these rare creatures, so proving their existence. Somehow ‘The dog did it’ just doesn’t cut the mustard.
UNKNOWN FART: The kind where you don’t know who did it -but it has a rotten smell.
VIBRATING FART: The person sitting next to you can feel it.
WALKING FART: The kind that makes a little sound every time you take a step.
WEDDING FART: Happens when the Pastor is pronouncing them husband and wife, egg and beefy combo, Loud and deadly, the bride and groom never actually leave.
WINDY FART: The sort of fart which goes ‘Whoosh’, and is more felt than heard. A little like an SBD, but louder and considerably less toxic.
WORRYING FART: The kind which seems to be a Fart right up to the point at which you release it. At this stage matters become less sure, as it feels too solid for comfort. You go to the bathroom and check your underpants at the next possible opportunity.
whew ….. post from hell ……
Oink! Oink! Oink! El Puercos Funesto* ….. and the war cry of the next big superhero
Damn ….. I really wanted to talk about penis farts today ….. oh well ….. the next black death will have to take center stage …..

2 weeks sick leave if you eat 2 whole jars ……. in 1.5 minutes and stay on camera
for 10 minutes without throwing up and post it on youtube
Mexico …. a the key holiday location for white trash honeymooners, land of pharmacists who know more than most of my collegues, cheap plastic surgery and a bustling trade in drugs and hookers (who as we all know work very, very, very hard …..) that targets the middle-lower-lower class of the market (where as vegas seems to have dibs on the rest) has recently suffered a major blow to commerce thanks to a rather nasty outbreak of killer flu which has infected 1000 and only killed 60 (10 bucks says the dead were either above 80, below 5 and with one or two longstanding diseases ….. i.e. they would have died anyway ….. )
This while seemingly a rather small number, is actually verys significant as we tend to have rather alot in common (we’ve been using pig organs as replacements for their human counterparts for some time (well not in this country …. we barely do transplants here as it is)) making it alot more likely that we do get an outbreak than if it was any other human/animal trnasitioning disease such as the avian flu for yesteryear ….. you know the one that made you cack your pants and stop eating chicken ….. or the foot and mouth disease that made you think that beef wasn’t such a good idea the year before ……
Besides if you look at previous swine outbreaks, many have proven fatal killing thousands in the 1970′s and 1950′s and was very difficult to control and maintain. Another thing that worries me is the children …… recently my collegues working in the fantastic and rather scary field of genetics have decided that it’s ok to start making hybrid babies …. and what better McSpecies combo than the pig-human hybrid which has been approved by the house of commons this July past …….. Geneticists are spending time trying to make pig boy and have yet to give me a 6th finger to hit the return key with ….. or wings …… or laser eyes ….. god-damn it get your act together …….

That’s what happens when the first one hits puberty …..
(I swear if he gets more tail than I do I’ll bludgeon him and sell him as beef bacon at Sultan Center so help me)
So whether you want to be pissed about the fact that they’ve decided that pig boy is a better idea than giving me wings or laser vision, not to mention that fact that pig boy might infact end up going crazy and killing all humans after he forms an army (It’ll be like terminator except with a pot bellies …. 8 nipples and no time travel). Or the fact that nobody gives a shit about a swine epidemic brewing in South America that is far more likely to kill us than damn bird flu or fucking foot and mouth disease; I think you’ll agree with me in that it’s all gone to hell ….. and if you don’t read Animal Farm …… it’ll give you nightmares …..
(they could have made a thundercat for gods sake and the best the could come up with was a pig man ….. what the fuck ….. even if we enslave the hindewalkers they’ll revolt …. and we cant use them as pets ….. god-dammit! Who was dumb enough to come up with goddamn pig humans …..)
*Apologies for my crude Spanish …….
UPDATE: For more info please refer to the CDC webistes Q and A.
Move Over Big Tabacco ……. you Ain’t got Shit on these Bastard ……
no sex in this post …… apologies ……
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Since the 80′s drug companies and their lobbyists have been trying to cut costs, change the way we prescribe and give us incentives (including conferences/golf trips/workshops, freebies (I have 6 lipitor mouse pads, one usb memmory stick from Glaxo-smithkline and about 120 pens which I keep in a drawer …. in another year it’ll beat my GI Joe collection in another month)
1980 marks the year when the first pro-pharm act was passed. The Bayh-Dole Act allowed drug companies to scavenge data from any research conducted in a university in the united states. At the time most research was funded by tax dollars. This meant that a fair amount of the research and development costs was cut by simply allowing the government to fund drug development instead of having to rely on their own capital. In other words most drugs from then on (at least in part) were developed for free.
Next came the orphan drug act in 1983 ; giving drug companies incentives for slow sales in drugs which were used to treat diseases affecting less that 200,000 people in the US. In other words they were now getting paid for making a drug that wasn’t selling too well.
Since then drug companies have been trying to streamline the FDA approval process beginning in 1992 with the prescription drug fees act which allowed drug companies to pay the FDA for faster approval. In other words they legalized paying for streamlining the vetting process designed to keep dangerous drugs out. From then till the end of his term Bill Clinton had tried to pass price control proposals that would limit the amount of money the companies were allowed to charge individuals and dismantle the current pricing structure which is pegged to GDP within a given country. His failure is in effect why you had to pay 30 kd last week for that medication for the clap.
1995 saw the big-pharm lobbying for (and getting) the right to start manufacturing drugs at sites without the need for FDA approval or inspection of the lots. It also saw the introduction of free range genetic patents regardless of the use and allowed the companies to use pre-clinical (rather than full blown clinical trails on a significant number of humans) data (not trails …. sporadic data as in I know of 10 people x who were given drug X and experienced some relief of some of his symptoms …. literally). This has allowed a whole gaggle of drugs to be released and sold to the general public including Celebrex (a type of anti-inflammatory …. kind of like an aspirin 2.0) which was designed for people in their 80′s with arthritis, only to find that it could increase your risk of stroke or heart attack.
Then in 1997 drug companies get handed the FDA Modernization Act which basically allowed drug companies to hire other companies to review asses and submit their drugs for FDA approval …… in other words do their dirty work for them and legally indemnify them. It also allowed them to publish direct to consumer advertising through TV, Radio and printed press. This was considered unethical a couple of years back because of obvious conflicts of interest.
They also made it impossible for medicare providers to negotiate wholesale prices for drugs through the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 ….. this established company policies which extend to some companies in Kuwait as well and is relevant when we talk about how drugs are sold to the ministry of health through local peddlers.
They also spent over 80 million in 2005 successfully overturning proposition 79 which would have cut off a whole gaggle (= million …. close to billions) of incentives they were getting through the government.
The only reason why I haven’t taken a jab at any of the local companies in the region is because they look like angels compared to these people. Since 1980 they’ve been paid for doing nothing through incentives, been paid if they can prove that their drug is a failure and have invested in intense lobbying that has made the FDA approval process no more complicated than getting a scoring a license for your 18 year old kids here in Kuwait. They’ve also given themselves the right to copyright your blueprints and any use they feel like. without asking your permission.
So the next time you walk into a drug store with a headache go for the generic Gulphar stuff ’cause all that Tylenol is going to do is get them to bribe another unsafe drug into the market or by me a new pen ……..
P.S. I’m sorry if I bored you ……. the Micheal Moore movie is far more entertaining …….
Porn.

We all love porn. But apparently we don’t see the same thing when we are watching. Recent studies (well relatively recent) show that men and women react to porn differently. This is obviously no surprise ofcourse since for the most part men tend to watch the stuff daily while women tend to savour it more in bouts rather than regularly. I’d like to think that porn and our love of it tends to compensate for the fact that we are the only things on the planet who don’t have sex in public.…….. porbably wishful thinking though …….
Another key difference is in how sexual orientation defines how we watch porn and the types we appreciate. Women tend to appreciate good porn regardless of whether it involves men or women or both in varying numbers where as men tend to be more picky. Straight men love lesbian porn or porn with more women while they can’t stand the site of gay porn at all and vice versa; gay men just aren’t feeling the hoo hoo as it were (they just don’t know what they’re missing out on I say ….. o well to each his own I suppose……..) Researchers suggest (= wishful thinking …. the damn idiots think everything they say has to be right) that this is because of a stronger genetic blueprint for sexual orientation in men. I tend to disagree, based on my rather limited experience with the opposite sex I think it’s because women tend to be able to feel the passion in the images more than men and tend to derive xarousal from that.
Another interesting thing is how much time we spend looking at faces, apparently men tend to spend a little more time looking at faces than women but both genders tend to spend an equal amount of time gawking at the naughty bits. The amount of time spent by women tends to largely be dicatated by their hormonal states (i.e. their periods and whether or not they are preganant; rather than the amount of testosterone or oestrogen they have circulating in their bodies).
One thing is for sure though …… we all love porn …….and it’ll probably be here to stay
Smoking …… The Next Green Tea?!?!?!!?
Fuck you Marlboro Man!
I thought I was going to be riding a horse and have balls as big as boulders by my third packet! Instead I hawk up a lung every morning ……. goddammit* !

We all smoke from time to time. Some of us rarely, some with that occasional drink, some of us indoors or in our cars and others at various cafes.But despite our best efforts to get addicted to the stuff smoking has been in overall decline over the past 40 years as more and more of us tend to fear loosing our lungs to a little white stick.
Despite this rather sharp decline and the tax hike that Mr Obama has instigated (120% …… two thumbs up my friend ….. kudos …. now all you have to do is legalize marijuana and you’d be the bestest president ever) the industry continues to flourish and provide people with jobs in many south american countries and well we can’t just fire them all once the world is rid of smoking. Can we?What would the implications be? Will people revolt in certain countries? Will it add to the recession? Will we suddenly get an influx of kidney donations from various less than well off countries?
Or will the industry try and save itself? Surely there must be some benefit to smoking….. there’s no way something that looks this cool could be all that bad, could it?
Sadly, the tobacco plant in it’s current form will probably kill you and has about as much nutrition as prison gruel but thanks to (corrupt? Well paid? Benson and Hedges Sponsored?) researchers at the University of Verona in Italy there might not be the end for smoking or the Big Tabacco. Professor Mario Pezzotti and his team of researchers have been trying their hand at genetically engineering a strain of the plant that produces interleukin 10 (IL 10) a chemical which is naturally produced in our bodies and may be beneficial in the treatment of various immune and inflammatory disorders. The team have now manged to get the plant to produce the substance in 3 different compartments and in very ample amounts.
They’re now planning to start testing it on rodent models as a potential treatment for type 1 diabetes and the initial results seem quite promising. It’s ironic that a plant that we have now labeled as toxic may soon be considered main stay therapy for many conditions such as auto0immune arthritis, diabetes and other conditions. Worse still, every single smoker will rejoice as health spas will soon be offering you an post massage choice of Cigar, Pipe or cigarette. Could tobacco be the next green tea? Or (far more likely) could the tabacco industry have finally found some way to unshackle themselves from ad companies and their cheesy over used Ad campaigns designed to make smoking look cool ?!?!!?!? Is this the death and return of big tabacco? and will the institute of tobacco research actually work towards curing disease?
More importantly how much did it cost Benson, Hedges and the rest of the gang to genetically engineer that strain of Tabacco and when will I be able to prescribe my first cigarette to a four year old for the sake of his health?

* For the record I rarely smoke more than once a week and almost never cigarrettes. The implication that I’m a chain smoker only helps to get the point accross better …… I’m a big fat liar …. apologies …..
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