12: Burps, Farts and Embarrassing Moments

Rosie (00:00)
We're both drinking our drinks. There's a clear liquid in my cup. What do you think it is Rula? It is 6.05 PM where I am.

Roula Abou Haidar (00:00)
I tried to go backward.

yeah, you can have your vodka now, it's no problem. No, I don't think you drink alcohol. It's like 7 up. What, did I say something wrong?

Rosie (00:12)
You think it's vodka?

Yeah, not really, no. It's not my thing.

No, it's just funny because it reflects like my childlike fun nature. love that. No, it is soda water. So it's just water with bubbles in it. Yeah. No, nothing exciting. when I'm living large, I'll have cordial or I might have chocolate milk there like my indulgent drinks. Yeah.

Roula Abou Haidar (00:35)
okay, so nothing exciting.

This is when you're living large.

Chocolate milk, that's also very childish.

Rosie (00:52)
I love it. Frickin' love it. I love it.

Roula Abou Haidar (01:08)
I have a question for you. A little bit disgusting. Okay. Should people say excuse me when they burp or fart?

Rosie (01:10)
Yeah.

Yes. my God. Like, okay. It is a natural bodily function. We if we fart, we burp, we're human. I do it. Whatever. Do I think it's a bit gross? Yeah. And if I'm around other people, even if it's people I'm very familiar with as family, best friend, whatever. Say, excuse me. It is not pleasant to be around someone burping and farting. It's just really obnoxious and loud. And sometimes it's smelly.

what do you feel about it? just, I don't know what it is, but it pisses me off. It's not the fact that burping or farting, it's the fact that they think they don't need to acknowledge that actually that was a little bit unpleasant for the other person.

Roula Abou Haidar (01:53)
yeah.

Mmm.

Because you do have people around you that would do this? That are not direct family?

Rosie (02:15)
Absolutely, my ex would do it all the time. That's

fucking disgusting. Not direct family. My ex would do it. We were together eight years and she still wouldn't do it. would piss me off. No matter how many times I asked, I'm like, I know it's not logical, but please. So...

Roula Abou Haidar (02:21)
Your ex.

So what would be your ex answer? Why would she not say excuse me?

Rosie (02:38)
on iRoll or

just like whatever and just do it again kind of thing so that would very annoying it's not like we had an argument about it but it would put me in a shitty mood I'd need like a good five minutes to just settle down

Roula Abou Haidar (02:57)
this is a little bit and falls into the etiquette I think doesn't it yes

Rosie (03:00)
Yeah, does. This is true. I think you're right.

Yeah.

Roula Abou Haidar (03:05)
Growing up, there were a lot of rules in how to do things. Burping and farting was really like forbidden, unless it's a private.

Rosie (03:10)
Mmm.

Yeah, okay.

Roula Abou Haidar (03:20)
And burping mostly was really like you have to turn your face, burp in your sleeve and keep it discreet. Farting too. So it's not the culture I grew up in. It's like these two things are so unacceptable. It's close to unhealthy. Like you would have a terrible stomach pain after an appointment or something.

Rosie (03:31)
Mm.

Hmm.

hell yeah.

Yeah, which is crazy.

Yeah.

Roula Abou Haidar (03:47)
because you're keeping

it inside and it's really, really bad. On the other hand, I wouldn't like fart in public or next to people. My friends, we don't do this. There's a private place to do that. The thing that would be OK, I think, to talk about it, we don't talk about it. When we meet with people that are not from our household,

Rosie (03:57)
No, yeah. I wouldn't do it deliberately. No, yeah.

Yeah

Yeah.

Roula Abou Haidar (04:15)
It's like farting never been in the dictionary. There aren't any talks about it. I don't know how important it is to talk about it.

Rosie (04:22)
Hmm, very true. Yeah, mean,

it does make me feel uncomfortable. I've had people I don't know well fart in front of me and I'm a bit like, I just burped, excuse me. I just burped, excuse me. It was quiet, wasn't it? It was a quiet one. fuck yeah. Hangin'

Roula Abou Haidar (04:34)
Yeah. You just burped now? This is disgusting. I

don't know. don't know. The body wants to take action and it's sometimes it's so hard to push it down.

Rosie (04:51)
I know.

And I find a fart more disgusting than a burp. But,

Roula Abou Haidar (04:55)
yeah look

burp burp can be discreet or can be like in your sleeve away after having a meal it happens and it's natural as long as it's done in a a private way even though at the table and yeah say excuse me

Rosie (04:59)
Yeah. Mmm. Mmm.

Yeah.

Okay.

So for you, it's important

to do it privately, quietly. And the excuse me, how important is that?

Roula Abou Haidar (05:19)
Burpinius.

Yeah, I mean, if they did it secretly and privately, it's fine if they don't say excuse me, because they already were considerate in turning away and burping in their sleeve. But when they burp it right in your face, like an alien breathing in your face, then this is disgusting. I would freaking slap them for it.

Rosie (05:46)
Yes!

shit, we're both opinionated about this. I don't think I'd go that far, but Have you ever like accidentally farted somewhere in public or around people you don't know very well? Come on, be honest. Yeah, I was here, let's go.

Roula Abou Haidar (05:56)
Yes, yeah.

Do you want to the story?

Wow, okay, this is so private, but also very funny. I was visiting my ex, we weren't together yet, we were like still exploring our relationship. So I was visiting him here in the Netherlands were having fun and like playing around, et cetera. And he carried me and I farted.

Rosie (06:11)
Okay, alright.

Mm-hmm.

huh.

Was it loud? Like noticeable?

Roula Abou Haidar (06:37)
Yeah, he heard

it!

He took it like the most sweet way and he was smiling and laughing and treating us as a compliment because I'm comfortable, whatever.

Rosie (06:46)
my god. Wow. Yeah, true,

Yep.

Roula Abou Haidar (06:52)
And for me, that was a deal breaker. I would not blame him if he breaks up with me. That was so unsexy and so terrible. Back then, I was 23, I think. Yeah, so that's why I remember this is because after that, I made sure I never make this mistake again.

Rosie (06:58)
Yeah, well, holy shit.

Yeah, well.

I

mean sometimes it comes out.

Roula Abou Haidar (07:18)
I can't say I

succeeded, but it's a vivid memory of me, like...

Rosie (07:23)
gosh,

burned into your memory, yeah. And now you've shared it with the world.

Roula Abou Haidar (07:28)
Yes, so listeners I was

23 years old, okay, so I don't do these things anymore. I don't play around.

Rosie (07:34)
really? So you

have full bodily autonomy now, do you?

Roula Abou Haidar (07:39)
I don't know. No, I don't think so. I don't think so. I manage it better.

Rosie (07:40)
Yeah

god.

Okay, alright. Ugh.

Roula Abou Haidar (07:49)
don't

know if people want to listen to this, My story. gosh.

Rosie (07:52)
Yeah, should we wrap it up? No, they love your, I love that story. I think

sharing embarrassing stories is great because it, it kind of makes people feel less bad about their embarrassing stories. Cause they've probably had a similar experience and they go, my God, that's so embarrassing. And then they're like, maybe my story isn't so bad.

Roula Abou Haidar (08:13)
sometimes

people wonder just how, what? No, no, I don't know how long this episode is, because my recording is showing 26 minutes. 952, okay, one thing, what did I want to say?

Rosie (08:19)
952.

No, 952.

Roula Abou Haidar (08:32)
cut.

Totally disappeared.

Rosie (08:41)
Send us in your embarrassing

stories, please. I want to have a giggle. I want to hear from somebody else. What is an embarrassing story? Yeah.

Roula Abou Haidar (08:47)
about farting and burping, because we will

have another story about embarrassment.

Rosie (08:51)
yes, gosh, yeah, we'll share more embarrassing stories, many, just not in this episode. I need to think about which ones I want to share.

Roula Abou Haidar (08:59)
You didn't share your... Rosie,

you didn't share your embarrassing burp or fart. Can you call in please on the website and leave a voice mail post message?

Rosie (09:03)
Because I'll be the first

one to leave a message, won't I? How embarrassing. I can do that. I can do that.

Roula Abou Haidar (09:11)
Great.

See you next time.

Rosie (09:13)
Bye!