Oh Dear! A Ban On Farting In Public - In Malawi Anyway!

YIKES, I don't know how they could possibly enforce that! I'm pretty sure *most* people don't like to fart in public and annoy people or maybe embarrass themselves, but there are LOTS of folks who can't help it. Including my husband, sheesh if they had this law we'd never be able to go anywhere! ...are they going to outlaw chili & pork n beans too? LOL

That's another holiday destination off the list! When I fist met the Boss I would go to the loo to let go of my windy pops. 24 years later I am afraid that I am less well mannered. But then neither is she!! I shall get a double whipping for that comment. Goody!! LOL.

Hahahahaha!~That's so hilarious & yet so ridiculous at the same time!~ Who the heck came up with such an idea. Maybe they need to stuff something up his you know where & experiment it out with the fella fist, hahaha!~

Hello, Janey. Well, that's Malawi off the list of places to go. I come from a family of farters, and although we do let them go when we have to, I try to be polite. I try never to fart in a lift, although that's my brother's favourite place. He has the enviable skill of being always able to do silent ones, so he can let one go and then look around accusingly. Mine always give me away - they're loud and proud, just like me. I can call them up to order, though, which is very handy when you're with someone you don't like. I can't see how they can pass this law to stop people passing wind, though. Still, it gave me a good laugh.

I heard about this yesterday on the radio. How ridiculous is it? Nature intends for us to release these gases and we must keep releasing them in order to be healthy. Sure there are those people who are eating absolute crap food who's farts smell worse than most, but they still deserve to be able to 'release the hounds' every now and then!

This law would just be ridiculous and I can see a lawsuit coming from it. Some people have digestive issues that cause farting so by making this law, it would be discriminatory against them because then they could not go out in public. My husband has a lot of gas issues so he would be one of them. I guess nobody in Malawi will be having a colonoscopy done either because a hospital is considered a public place and one can not help but pass gas after having this test done.

my mom has the same problem.only she usually farts wherever she is. i keep telling her one of these days she's gonna get a surprise. you can't enforce something like that.that's ridiculous.

That STINKS!!! LOL!!! I hate to tell them but when you have to toot you have to toot. Holding back little farts just builds up till you have one huge uncontrollable fart. Thats just nature. F them. Let er ripp!!!

That's pretty funny but it could have serious consequences. Farts should never be held in. If you do, they travel up your spine to your brain. That's how crappy ideas happen.

I need a good laugh this morning..this is CRAZY to say the least. I will be sharing this with my husband. However, like others has said, it is not good to hold it in, and my dad is the prefect example of that. He will be standing in the kitchen letting it "rip". When my girls were younger ( just toddlers ) , and realized what he was doing, they would be pull me off to the side saying "Did you just hear granddaddy, your not suppose to do that " lol. I explained he had always done this for as long as I can remember, as well as how it is not healthy to hold it in. All I got was "GROSS".They are preteens now, and they will leave the room when he decides to let it out. So I am guessing they are going to be young ladies and believe that you are not suppose to do something like that. lol Thanks for sharing this !

That is quite the interesting law. I should suppose I should be glad that I don't live in that country. I mean, half of my family would be in jail(yeah, chronic gas issues, it is a hereditary thing). That is one of those things that I look at, and I can just imagine the meeting that proposed that law. How would you even bring something like that up? Am I alone in trying to envision the meeting that said law was purposed and what would cause said law to be passed? (Oh dear, a law that bans parting having passed. You know like gas. I believe I have made a really bad pun and it wasn't intentional). Seriously, how are you going to really enforce something like this? I do wonder how much thought was put into this. Most likely none at all. It is a natural body function. Might be a little gross, but hey, if you think about it, most of the functions of the body can be a little disturbing. Biology, its quite the horror show you know. Still, I'm just baffled.

Wow Janey, that's a very hard law or ordinance to enforce, police got a gas chronometer or or something , just being funny, anyway, one thing with fart is nobody really wants to own up to it

The Conservative Government in Malawi is too ridiculous.Just like eat,drink,piss,sleep,the fart is a physiological needs.Easier said than done,The fart is not easy to keep in like controlling the tap.It would seem that people couldn't eat sweet potatoes,chestnut and the like before entering the public places in Malawi.

Now this would really be terrible. How can people control it? What if you are actually walking by the beach? What if you are in the main roads? What if you go mountain climbing? I find this ban so silly.

What will they think of next? I wonder if the people making the law has never done it. I wish they would just start working on things that matter and quit being totally stupid.

I wonder if they employ fart police Of all the silly things - this must take the crown! In the unlikely event that you're ever in Malawi you'll have to perfect the art of the silent fart! (That's the phantom farter by the way)

Wow that is one ridiculous ban they are trying to put into effect. It is gross to walk in public and smell peoples farts but I know that sometimes they cannot help it. Some people really are just pigs and go around farting around everyone not caring that other people have to smell it but I think most people arent that ignorant. I would be very upset to get fined for accidentally farting when I couldnt hold it in. Sometimes its impossible to hold them in.

Oh geez. I suppose that "Who smelt it, dealt it" is going to reign supreme...

Hi Janey I don't see how that law is going to be enforced unless you have police or local lawmakers walking behind people sniffing their butts like dogs and while their at it they need to check their own butts cuz their going to be doing it too so why try to put a law into effect when you yourself can't possibly obey it? I just don't see the point in a law like that Gas is a natural response the body has and its not going away as they say better out than in

This will be interesting. I know it is an irritating habit but will the rule prevent people from farting. It's not like when the urge comes you can hold it. How are they going to punish the crime?