Why do farts smell?

wtf, they don't even explain it. 

Thought it was going to be a Trace thread upon first glance.

Haha if I'm being honest I thought so too.

It always seemed to make sense to me. Its like when you have stinky feet. From wearing shoes all day. I guess when human flesh is warm and in a humid and enclosed environment, it produces a stinky natural human smell that we try to control in society by bathing regularly and wearing deodorants and stuff. Our bodies are warm and made up of a lot of water, so when you just mash up food in that nasty slimy wet ecosystem that is our digestive tract, it just hangs out in there and gets old while our bodies mush it up further. Imagine what a home cooked meal might smell like if you poured a glass of hot water on it, mashed it up with your fingers, then put it in plastic container with a lid and let it roast in the hot sun. When you pop that lid off, your food would probably smell like dogshit after a few days. Without any sort of air filtration system, the stink has no where to go until it blows out of our ass. By then its a really nasty concentrated stink.

it is weird how it seems to smell generally the same every time though. Theres a pretty short range of flavors they tend to flatulate at. Maybe our bodies extract all that other stuff and utilize it for other bodily things that would normally make our shit smell differently if it cane out in the dump.

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