Not me. As I gotten older I've actually somehow managed to give less fucks about what other people do with their lives. Shits not my business
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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No, I fart louder by choice.
Can confirm I ain't got time to hold in a fart.
Tell me about your sneezes.
I've had the opposite experience. Old people fart all the time and just don't give a shit. Unless middle age is what you mean by "older", in which case I agree.
Not true.
Your ass gets looser over time. Get old enough and they're all silent but deadly.
Interesting.
Your ass doesn’t get looser over time unless you’re doing something to it or with it
Don't poop, I guess. Especially if you regularly hold it for 3 days.
I think the trope of 'OK boomer' etc is largely bullshit. I know plenty of old folks who are largely supportive of young people and are getting a rough deal from 20 somethings who assume they're dicks because they don't get really interact with them. The folks who first marched against racism and homophobia are well into their twilight years.
many boomers at the protests. The good ones are still around.
Have you gotten older? How many "older" people have you interviewed to come to this assumption?
I dunno, personally, I think I've stopped letting things work me up.
The only things that seem to get louder are my joints and back.
For a post about farting this is definitely a shitpost.
and young people are idiotic amoral cunts
until they grow up
do you see a pattern?
I'm afraid I don't. Could you explain the pattern?
I will concede the farting.
I never farted quietly when I was younger, I'm not about to start now!
Did some IT contracting once for an ancient miser-lich geezer. 3-piece suit in the house type fella, prolly some baron of a technology we've forgotten how to pronounce or some shit, lol, dude was comically old.
Blew ass just constantly and had no idea. Smiling and exchanging pleasantries? Imagine a few notes on a keyboard, an amateur noodling around - textbook, permanently fungible farts. No acknowledgement or apology.
Turning and walking across the room? A growing crescendo, with budding themes that begin to hint at the grace and mastery of the performance to come.
Reaching and lowering to a position of rest - ah, the virtuoso has now begun. May we listen, and weep.
It was a surreal experience. Like a deaf, grinning, be-suited Mongolian throat singer, if one of the otherworldly tones came from his butt.
TBF no one gets younger so this must apply to pretty much anyone …