Sensible Erection | What Makes a Fart

Thursday, 18 March 2010

quote [ A baby is born with a sterile intestinal track. During the delivery, there’s lots of fluid and stool and whatever, and it’s thought that at that exposure the baby’s colon is populated by the mother’s colon bacteria ]

NSFW because it's Vice.

[sci&tech] [by f00m@nB@r@5:38amGMT] [+10 Informative]

Comments

structured_spirits said @ 6:18am GMT on 18th Mar
Ok, in the interest of science, I have to ask the question, how do babies born by c-section get their colon bacteria? According to the theory of the article, they shouldn't have any.

lilmookieesquire said @ 6:20am GMT on 18th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
I was born 6 months early- I lived in a little sterile bubble thingy for a month util my parents broke me out and pulled a runner. So far, being a preemie has had no negative effects on DUUUUUUUUUR.

dominion236 said @ 9:04am GMT on 18th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
Wow, you were born 3 and a half months after conception and lived? Medical history here folks.

lilmookieesquire said @ 11:47am GMT on 18th Mar [Score:3 Funny]
Oops. Three. I'm not good wi- DUUUUR

kang said @ 11:05pm GMT on 18th Mar
To think, you could have ended up being bigmookieesquire.

mwoody said @ 6:41am GMT on 18th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
I call bullshit on a lot of this article, actually.

The smell has to do with the amount of absorbed products like methane, which is made by fermentation of what we eat, and that’s what causes the bad smell, basically.

No, methane is an odorless gas. The smell is mostly the result of sulfur. Hell, not all human flatulence even contains methane at all.

Naruki said @ 12:40pm GMT on 18th Mar
I call bullshit

How very apt, save for the bull part. :-)

kang said @ 11:04pm GMT on 18th Mar
You pick it up from the environment and what you eat. It changes depending on the locale.

For instance, it can change after being in the hospital for several days and picking up a single bacteria that can overgrow the usual colonials. This also is the reason you might get GI upset when trying out new endemic foods while travelling.

lilmookieesquire said @ 6:25am GMT on 18th Mar
I heard liquids make you fart because they water down your stomach acid, so more food gets passed into your intestinal track, which is then food for bacteria. This guy also seems to be saying that the bacteria in your gut never changes etc.

I wonder if this guy isn't up-to-date on his shit.

papango said @ 6:28am GMT on 18th Mar
Your gut instinct is to go with you something you think you heard somewhere from some guy? Maybe not the most credible source.

lilmookieesquire said @ 6:30am GMT on 18th Mar
No, it's what I read on the internets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulence etc.

lilmookieesquire said @ 6:31am GMT on 18th Mar
(you see, it works because it was a shit attempt at humor.)

papango said @ 6:33am GMT on 18th Mar
Crap on, man. Crap on.

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:22am GMT on 18th Mar
One one. :(

lilmookieesquire said @ 11:45am GMT on 18th Mar
Joke crapped out.

Menchi said @ 9:55am GMT on 18th Mar
Geez, man! No need to be so anal!

Naruki said @ 12:42pm GMT on 18th Mar
Quit farting around and give me the straight poop already!

granitewitch said @ 12:42am GMT on 19th Mar
I've been listening to my gut since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

eightysix said @ 6:29am GMT on 18th Mar
I like how he starts up all serious, and then loosens up at the end.

just like my bowels.

damnit said @ 6:53am GMT on 18th Mar

JOECAM said @ 7:01am GMT on 18th Mar

f00m@nB@r said @ 7:09am GMT on 18th Mar

f00m@nB@r said @ 7:12am GMT on 18th Mar

kang said @ 11:07pm GMT on 18th Mar
30% of people are methane producers. This is their stories....

kang said @ 11:07pm GMT on 18th Mar
These/their. Pfft.

Acbar said @ 1:14am GMT on 19th Mar
You might consult a pirate for your next substitution in that sentence.

f00m@nB@r said @ 7:13am GMT on 18th Mar [Score:1 Funny]

Bob LLama said @ 7:30am GMT on 18th Mar
Yeah I'm gonna listen to the guy who doesn't even know it's "intestinal tract".

papango said @ 7:39am GMT on 18th Mar
Good thing they didn't interview the person who typed it up.

maryyugo said @ 7:39am GMT on 18th Mar
This is sort of a shitty post.

otiarstill said @ 8:49am GMT on 18th Mar
But lets be honest, you poo-poo pretty much everything.

maryyugo said @ 8:54am GMT on 18th Mar
Yup. The whole world is going into the crapper.

Cakkafracle said @ 8:59am GMT on 18th Mar
stop being so feceshious

lilmookieesquire said @ 9:03am GMT on 18th Mar
Hey now, don't get all flushed with anger!

ahPook said @ 9:32am GMT on 18th Mar [Score:1 Underrated]
I'll just remain silent....

... but deadly

b said @ 2:57pm GMT on 18th Mar
i can still see your ass lips moving.

Janus said @ 3:02pm GMT on 18th Mar
I'm sure it'll pass.

mrcucumber said @ 3:48pm GMT on 18th Mar
quit tooting your own horn.

maryyugo said @ 6:30pm GMT on 18th Mar
that's very colonial.

cold_water said @ 3:07pm GMT on 18th Mar [Score:2]
Ah Mythbusters!