Posted on 04/03/2016 8:33:34 AM PDT by Covenantor
Excerpt:
I hate to say it, but doctors have something of a flatulence problem: at the moment, they know embarrassingly little about the bubbles brewing in your bowels.
“What comes out of the backside only tells us about the last 20cm of the gut,” says Peter Gibson at Monash University in Victoria, Australia....
Gibson wants to know what’s happening in the previous 130cm of the digestive tract, leading up to that final explosion.... Digestion depends on the subtle interactions between your genes, diet, metabolism, and the myriad micro-organisms inhabiting your body, each of which may leave its signature in gaseous by-products. A noticeable change in your farts’ peculiar recipe might therefore be a sign of serious diseases affecting any part of that process. “We know bits and pieces about it, but it’s been very difficult to get to the crux of what is happening,” Gibson says. To this end, his team are working on a probe that would work its way through your gut, measuring your gas at every stage of digestion.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Here’s another one that I can put in the “Headlines I Never Would Have Thought I’d Ever See” file.
I know some guys whose efforts in this department could be measured on the Richter scale.
Perhaps it would be a proper Spring replacement to the UT thread.
Therefore, I humbly nominate it as the next UT thread.
Amen.
Is said subject covered by the first amendment, after all politicians do....?
:)
I had my personal best just a couple days ago, a real mind sweeper. The winning formula was beer and Brussels Sprouts.
The Youngest Brother dog walked in to the family room this morning, laid down beside the easy chair I was sitting in, and ripped off one that made children in England cry. He then got up and walked out of the room. I stumbled, choking, to the back door and opened it. Through my watering eyes, I saw the filthy gasser walk out the back door. He let me have another one on his way out as, I guess, a tip to the doorman.
It's my Pursuit of Happiness :-)
Aye vote
“... I will continue, unimpeded and damn you all..”
My paternal Granny (known for passing LOUD wind) use to say, “Hold it in and bare the pain, let it out and deal with the shame”. Not 100% sure what she truly meant BUT she chose shame over pain. :)
“Declaration of Independence!”
Liberated from an old windbag.....ROFLOL!
ping
Rege Cordic - pride of Pittsburgh!
"Whew, that one was a 7.9 on the miasmic-whiffy scale!"
Or maybe a letter-only scale like the temperature of stars (O,B,A,F,G,K,M)
Or a geological scale like Moh's mineral-hardness scale (T,G,C,F,A,O,Q,T,C,D)
When I was somewhere between 6th and 8th grade, I left a silent but deadly two days in a row on the school bus. I sat in the back of the the bus, and kids in the front could smell it. I never told any of my classmates that it was me. The cause was scrambled eggs.
This BLR clip gives the Blazing Saddles campfire scene a run for its money at 4:47.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Krz-dyD-UQ
Seems like the cigarette lighter test would work. If it shoots a green flame or a blue flame...you know.
An inebriated college roommate of mine burned himself pulling that prank, the blue flame spread out across the back of his bluejeans. Minor 2nd degree and a lot of singed hair, he was OK but never did it again.
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