This hardly seems to be a question - what are the disadvantages of farting in public. It's also a quandry...people do fart, both publically and privately, so it's pretty certain that some of them will sneak out in the company of other humans.

The first disdvantage to this is that you can never be certain what kind of fart is sneaking past your underwear. If it's silent but deadly you can quickly move through the crowd hoping it doesn't follow you - but it always does, and unless you are light on your feet, folks will figure out who the offender is. Naturally you can go on the offensive and wrinkle up your nose and start glancing around while fanning the air.

Then there are the popcorn farts. Pup-pup-pup-pup they go while you are walking. These audibles sound like muffled machine gun fire and you might as well have a police helicopter shine a spot light down on you. You're IT and there's no way to deny it. Stop walking right away and give it the old bottom clench. This will allow the immediate crowd to move on and those coming toward you have no idea, unless you start walking again, that is.

Probably the biggest offender to one and all is the schwooch fart. It's the one you think is just gas and turns out it's a lot more than that. This is a kid fave. They pop their farts with no abandon but they also brownie up their panties daily. When it happens to an adult it's just horrifying! There you are in a literal mess and you hope to God it isn't leaking through. There's no disguising this one at all. People prone to this need to wear pads because it will cut the public displays down quite a bit.

Truthfully, public farting goes on all the time and most of them are just puffers - little airy things that don't amount to much and certainly don't call attention. The things is, if no one knows, then no one cares. The other end of the spectrum is the squeeker - these are the high-pitched drawn out bleats in the key of C. Oh good Lord! They usually stink the place up. These are usually favored by teen aged boys for their obvious stink and disgust factor. Nothing much redeeming about that kind of behavior because it's deliberate.

The most prized, or disgusting depending upon point of view, are the Frat House Farts. Generally fueled by a diet of junk food, pork and beans and way too much beer, these are the farts that make people jump because they have been known to hit 10 decibles. Because they are usually performed in the company of like minded farters at co-ed parties, the general public is not as familiar with the amazing breadth of this type of fart repertoir.

In the end, farting in public, though awkward and usually socially unacceptable, will happen often. If you are easily embarrassed, duck into an alley and releave your body of pent up gas. If not, follow the axiom that farts held in could implode and then you'd have another huge problem on your hands, walls and surrounding people.