A Man With a Gift
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posted by gwint at 11:56 AM on February 5, 2021


Have to agree with Samer, not an overly impressive talent. As someone who scrolls through way too many TikTok videos there are any number of times I’ll come across a video and immediately know, “That woman didn’t really fart in her gym instructor’s face, that’s just the audio of the guy farting at the urinal”.
posted by The Gooch at 12:23 PM on February 5, 2021 [3 favorites]


Have to agree with Samer, not an overly impressive talent

Samer: i told you!

Kelsey McKinney: no I TOLD YOU

I said one or two other people

you have found one

find two more and u can be right
posted by sideshow at 12:25 PM on February 5, 2021 [2 favorites]


help why am I laughing so hard
posted by Space Kitty at 12:25 PM on February 5, 2021


I, like Samer, knew that fart well. You don't spend 20 minutes laughing yourself into hiccups without a firm imprint of what got you there. And yes, I know what this says about me, but the only thing that I've laughed harder at was when the cat jumped on the BBQ to get a hamburger patty while it cooked. The cat was fine BTW.
posted by The Power Nap at 12:38 PM on February 5, 2021 [2 favorites]


Can we read it without registering?
posted by doctornemo at 12:40 PM on February 5, 2021 [3 favorites]


It’s Unimpressive That I Recognized An Online Fart As I Would The Voice Of My Grandmother

oh lord oh my stomach

I am laughing at this good old fashioned roasting of somebody for being too online, but any day now it could be my turn for recognizing, say, a joke about some unfathomable tumblr wank
posted by Countess Elena at 1:01 PM on February 5, 2021 [2 favorites]


but any day now it could be my turn

Oh yeah, one of the things that made me laugh until I cried reading this yesterday was a very "there but for the grace of god go I" type thing where I could be the mocker or the fart-identifier.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:05 PM on February 5, 2021


I have not heard that particular fart but that is totally the kind of thinks brain does all the time, but still I cannot really defend Samer as “normal”
posted by aubilenon at 1:21 PM on February 5, 2021


Anyway memes are a fundamentally intertextual medium and Samer is right and everyone else there is wrong
posted by aubilenon at 1:25 PM on February 5, 2021 [3 favorites]


doctornemo, I cannot read it without registering but perhaps there are others who can. Anybody?
posted by Bella Donna at 1:38 PM on February 5, 2021 [1 favorite]


I couldn't read it on my computer but then later I clicked it on my phone and it let me so IDK if there's some per-device quota that I already exceeded or what.
posted by aubilenon at 1:54 PM on February 5, 2021 [1 favorite]


Team Samer. In the era of TikTok it's not an especially weird skill to recognize dubbed memes!! Also the acoustics of the dog fart vid made no sense, come on, people.
posted by Emily's Fist at 2:05 PM on February 5, 2021 [2 favorites]


this is exactly the kind of dope ass skills they looked for when recruiting the unconventional code breakers of ww2
posted by Foci for Analysis at 2:24 PM on February 5, 2021 [1 favorite]


Agent 1: "We can hear waves in the background of the audio from the call, which means they're near the coast. We only have 6 hours until they execute the hostages. We have to narrow the search radius!"
Agent 2: "Wait, repeat those last 5 seconds... was that a foghorn? Are they near the harbor?"
Agent Samer: "That's no foghorn. Get me a list of IP addresses that accessed this youtube video in the past hour."
posted by subocoyne at 4:16 PM on February 5, 2021 [4 favorites]


subocoyne, you had me in the first half, I'm not gonna lie.
posted by Ipsifendus at 4:43 PM on February 5, 2021


Yes, the sound in both videos is the same. But that is not a real fart. From whence came the reverb?
posted by njohnson23 at 6:14 PM on February 5, 2021


I had not seen the grocery store fart video, but if I had I probably would have recognized it.

Because of the reverb.
posted by atoxyl at 10:58 PM on February 5, 2021


Anyway memes are a fundamentally intertextual medium and Samer is right and everyone else there is wrong

I mean, this is really is just the memeification of a sound rather than an image. It would be funny in a lot of contexts, as long as you know where the original came from and how it had been recirculated since... kind of like the Benny Hill song set to so many other videos.
posted by Snowishberlin at 1:12 PM on February 6, 2021


I sincerely doubt that fart actually went through the PA. It looks like he just grabbed the handset and put it up to his butt without hitting any buttons. You can't just grab a phone and immediately be on the intercom.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 5:55 PM on February 6, 2021


omg I can't believe Metafilter is home to fart truthers
posted by Pronoiac at 10:25 PM on February 6, 2021 [4 favorites]


Just stumbled on another "dog reacts to own fart amplified by mic positioned near butt" video on tiktok and lol isn't is the same fart sound?!
posted by bitteschoen at 2:57 AM on February 7, 2021


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