Oddly, I only seem to get embarrassed for people in that sort of situation is when it’s on TV. Of course, things relying on humor like that get this reaction from me
Funny one time, people, not once every ten seconds.
I seem to find the noises that a lot of farts make far more amusing than they should be. If I laugh when someone farts, it’s probably just that the sound amused me, and I may still be trying not to laugh about it ten minutes later even though I really don’t remember at all (or never knew in the first place) who farted. Gets really annoying when people keep doing it on purpose just for the reactions, though - again, generally only funny a time or two (unless it’s replayed in my head, apparently
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Although I also do get very embarrassed if I didn’t actually fart but something I did (like rubbing my shoe against a metal chair leg) sounds like I might have and people near me start giggling - regardless of the situation, probably no one would actually believe that it wasn’t a fart even if I was telling the truth.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"