Bizarre moment Canadian politicians start arguing over the use of the word 'fart'

UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/19/2016 | Daily Mail Reporter

[DFG]

It's certainly nothing to sniff at! A heated row has blown up in the Canadian parliament - over the use of the word 'fart'. It happened after Conservative MP Michelle Rempel accused the government of treating the province of 'Alberta like a fart in the room' over employment. But shocked Green Party leader Elizabeth May did not like the use of the word and asked for it be revoked.

[mad_as_he$$]

Nice.

[trebb]

What’s even nicer is that Mother Superior knew my Dad because he had been an altar boy at the church....she never saw it coming.

[mad_as_he$$]

Icing on the cupcake.

[trebb]

You said “cupcake”!!! - gotta be something racist/bigoted/misogynistic about it....maybe on another site.

[headstamp 2]

[’With all eyes on Trump’s destruction of US politics and civil society,]

Sorry, that was all Bill Clinton.

[Bigg Red]

I know nothing about Canadian politics, but I must say that a lady should find a better, more dignified way of expressing her thoughts in any public forum, especially in the Parliament.

[elcid1970]

“Conservative MP Michelle Rempel accused the government of treating the province of ‘Alberta like a fart in the room’ over employment.”

Agreed. The need for decorum and this case ladylike language is apparent.

Or, “MP Michelle Rempel accused the government of treating the province of ‘Alberta like the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles’...might have worked.

[higgmeister]

I know Terrance and Phillip but who is the “S” that is berating them?

[Big Red Badger]

RAISING ARIZONA,,,
Watched it Last nite.

The Last biker of the APOCALYPSE!
Leonard Smalls.

[SES1066]

I know nothing about Canadian politics, but I must say that a lady should find a better, more dignified way of expressing her thoughts in any public forum, especially in the Parliament.

Perhaps but there is a 'relatively' honorable history to the use of the word and the discussion of the same. I give you Benjamin Franklin; “Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.” and “He that lives upon hope will die farting.” While a 4-letter word, it is a word, as used by this MP, is eloquent as a simile, a noticeable but worthless reality.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Great movie!

[KC_Lion]

That’s Scott, he’s a d**k!

[Twinkie]

“Fart” sounds better than “toot”,
And really makes more “scents”
Than either “poot” or even than does
“FLAT-U-LENCE”.

Is this either a poem or a haiku?

Offending Sensibilities Since 1946,
TWINKIE KING

[Balding_Eagle]

Thanks, that was great.

Hehe

[Bigg Red]

Franklin was not a lady.

[KC_Lion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7HegNSoWs4