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janeainsworth Sat 28-Sep-19 13:24:05

That you can buy ‘flatulence-beating’ knickers?
https://www.myshreddies.com/
I’ve just seen some adverts in the loos at Killington Lake Services on the M6.

In my simple way, I thought it was advertising Shreddies the breakfast cereal, and that eating them would minimise flatulenceconfusedhmmgrin

TerriBull Sat 28-Sep-19 19:36:29

Well we know what to ask for Christmas now grin

olliebeak Sun 29-Sep-19 09:33:25

I was out at a 'family gathering' yesterday evening, and as the evening progressed, the conversation turned to all our individual 'digestive issues' plus our medications and their effects on our digestive systems - what a 'windy lot' we've turned into .................. I'll send that link to everybody this morning wink.

Mind you, at those prices, I can't imagine anybody ordering very many of them - £75 for a pack of 5 ladies briefs confused.

Minerva Sun 29-Sep-19 09:51:30

This has been a really funny thread. My daughter wants to know does it also deaden sound?

I always know when my grandson’s glue ear is bad because he stops commenting/laughing at farts from his mum or me.

NotSpaghetti Sun 29-Sep-19 09:54:16

My daughter wants to know does it also deaden sound?
?

Can someone email the company to ask?...

BusterTank Sun 29-Sep-19 10:14:45

Let your wind to free , were ever you may be .

jenni123 Sun 29-Sep-19 10:22:46

At last, a post that made me laugh/smile. Most I read are depressing and I feel sorry for the poster.

GrandmaJan Sun 29-Sep-19 10:39:07

We stop at Cambridge Services when we visit my daughter and her family in Kent and the advert is on the inside of the toilet doors. Couldn’t believe at first they made such things. NotSpaghetti my DH asked the same question as your daughter. He said just say you’re asking for a friend grin

Nannan2 Sun 29-Sep-19 11:15:15

gringringrin

Nannan2 Sun 29-Sep-19 11:16:35

These posts cheered me up no end!grin

Nannan2 Sun 29-Sep-19 11:17:12

Or either end!grinwink

Marmight Sun 29-Sep-19 11:19:30

? Love this chat. I wonder if they make them for small boys and dogs?

petra Sun 29-Sep-19 11:42:27

When you clicked on the link did you see the 'filter fart' click that and there's a picture of a young woman bending over with a young man with his nose on her arse. Amusing, but slightly, mmmm, don't know ?

Merryweather Sun 29-Sep-19 12:33:07

My darling OH drop one ever time he laughs, which makes me and the girls laugh. There’s many in between giggles too ?‍♂️?

Mamma66 Sun 29-Sep-19 15:06:49

I don’t know that I dare mention this but.... DH has a farting stance, proudly scores himself out of 10 or shouts “guess my dinner!” I cannot help but laugh (after all farts are funny). He also pretends to be the dog and apologises when the dog lets one go. He also does an hysterical impression of me when I accidentally trumped as I was walking across the bedroom. It has me in stitches every time...

GabriellaG54 Sun 29-Sep-19 15:22:12

I don't actually think they're funny, either the knickers or farts.

Fabulous50s Sun 29-Sep-19 16:16:50

I know this will sound prim, but farting in company is one thing that REALLY offends me. I detest breathing in gas that only moments ago was in the perpetrators bowels.
Everyone needs to release gas, but some are just too lazy to step away - and slob enough to find it funny. It is not funny and is disgusting.

TyneAngel Sun 29-Sep-19 16:28:28

Thanks to everyone for some much-needed laughter and smiles.

Esmerelda Sun 29-Sep-19 16:40:59

Mamma66 you had me laughing out loud ... so sorry for those that don't find it amusing, but each to his own! ?

janeainsworth Sun 29-Sep-19 17:32:12

Gabriella I’m afraid you’ve missed the point.
Of course knickers in themselves are rarely amusing.
They are only amusing in certain contexts, for example Katherine Whitehorn’s time-honoured advice about what to do if your knickers fall down at a cocktail party (step out of them as unobtrusively as possible, walk away, and pretend they’re nothing to do with you).
What I found amusing about the advert in the M6 female toilets was that the fart-busting knickers had the same name as a well-known breakfast cereal, which as annsixty pointed out, conjures up a stereotypical image of a curly-permed nanna busily occupied knitting knickers.

Some very clever marketing there, but I’m surprised that Kellogg’s haven’t spotted it and taken legal action.

GabriellaG54 Sun 29-Sep-19 18:17:00

janeainsworth
I saw the ad in Oct issue of Woman and Home and agree that it's not in itself funny (they just look like swim trunks) but in certain contexts, vould be.
I stopped going to a particular WI as a number of ladies were prone to 'letting loose' when we were seated, listening to a guest speaker.
After sitting in the row behind a perpetrator once too often, I decided it wasn't for me. grin

GabriellaG54 Sun 29-Sep-19 18:17:43

* could

janeainsworth Sun 29-Sep-19 18:55:55

Yes I think I’d be grossed out too Gabriella grin

jocork Sun 29-Sep-19 19:00:56

Fabulous50s
Sadly I've reached an age when 'stepping away' can be enough to make me let one go! blush And one can't always 'step away'. It's at times like those I wish I'd been more diligent with my pelvic floor exercises!
I remember my FIL used to walk along accompanied by little popping sounds which my children found hilarious. Now I've turned into him!

janeainsworth Sun 29-Sep-19 19:04:07

jo grin Yes it shouldn’t be assumed that letting go is always under the control of the perpetrator blush

annygee Sun 29-Sep-19 20:17:02

It's not about the knickers but it's a rather funny youtube item on the subject - have fun... www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQzp2OR9eW4