News You Can Use

Here is a story that validates guy stuff. It is not conducive to good health to try and suppress a fart. In fact, holding a fart may backfire. The gas buildup may back up into the gut. Flash back to when you were a kid. Do you recall calling a sandlot friend “Fart-Breath?” Turns out you were right, the noxious odor, once in the gut, can be absorbed into the blood and then expelled through the lungs. I want to see the breath mint commercial for that condition. Science, ain’t it wonderful. At the link:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/holding-in-a-fart-means-you-might-breathe-it-out-your-mouth/news-story/f6c1a735233946a1303e59724711f9a0

This re-introduces a concept that has fallen out of common usage. I don’t know why.

Hobson’s choice

1: an apparently free choice when there is no real alternative
2: the necessity of accepting one of two or more equally objectionable alternatives