Okay,

I play chess Thursday evenings at a local club and while I was playing this old guy he kept ripping fart after fart. They were loud too. He acted like it was no big deal and didn't even say excuse me. A couple of times he cleared the area. How do you tell someone this nasty to stop crapping their pants? A lot of people were laughing. After beating him in a couple of blitz games I promptly excused myself from the board. What's the problem with people these days.

Anyway, another good reason to play online chess.

Ouch...

Well, being an old guy he probably couldn't help himself (and he might even have been too deaf to hear them). The problem with people these days is that they age and gradually wear out and fall apart, Dweeb...get a little respect for your elders (someday you might be wearing the Depends).

How the hell you can be pushing 50 yourself and make the comments of some mallrat teenager is beyond me.

"I stink therefore I am"

- the philosopher DeFartes

Maybe his shoes were grating.

 Ah, when I say old, I meant really old. 70 plus. I wasn't being disrespectful by any means. I actually finished both games. I was cordial and polite. However, if I ever get to the point to where I just don't care about my hygiene and the people around me it will be time to stay at home and play online. Old age isn't a pass for bad manners.

Luckily, you're no good at chess so you can take it or leave it. Perhaps you should leave it.

Oh, leave Dweeb alone, you miserable gits.

Rael: nice :)

 aadaam - I see that your rating is not much better than mine. So I have no idea why you would be so self efficating. By internalizing my results you must feel better about yourself because of your own disappointing performance. Maybe you should post your self hatred and disgust of your failure to rise above your current level elsewhere. Look in the mirror my friend, accept who you are. You, like a great majority of us on chess.com are a patzer. You will probably never get any better so learn to accept chess for it's beauty and fascination. Quit belittling it by using it as a weapon of insult against people that play for enjoyment.

Why not? being young seems to be an excuse for being rude and ill illmannered.

 Hi CPawn. Some people may accept that excuse. But it is false. I know that teenagers may try to push the boundaries but they usually know when to stop. There were kids from 5 years old at thge club, they didn't misbehave.

But I get your point. Maybe the gentleman was regressing into his childhood and acting like an unruly teen for enjoyment. Totally possible.

looks to me like tonydal stated it clearly, but cpawn has captured the 'essence' of this forum topic in one line.

I agree totally with his succinct evaluation.

So because others are rude and ill-mannered we should excuse it across the board?  Old or young there's no excuse for being rude and ill-mannered -- some people just are because they're inconsiderate jerks.

I think that tolerance for the elderly and their infirmities/frailties among us is a quality that is oft lacking in the young and intolerant.    I don't believe anyone would deliberately sit, playing chess, and attempt to gas anyone with internal methane production.  I have seen my father's body fail in various ways over the past 40 years and now, as he is 93, I am simply glad he still is able to hold up his one good hand, grasp mine feebly and smile.  That his body is failing him in many ways does not detract from his spirit.

    That an elder citizen might want to participate in a chess tournament is commendable, and those who fail to be tolerant of his predicament - trapped in a failing body and quite possibly (speculation, of course) not even realize or know his 'releases' are offensive (he may not even realize he is doing it, as another pointed out), is just "part of life".       

be kind to your elders, as one day, you may find yourself where they are now.

   You know there is an old Indian saying:  Until you walk a mile in his Moccassins, do not criticize another.

   [[ jokingly:   the advantage of that is:  you got his moccassins (he is barefoot), and you got a mile head start.]]

 I am sure this guy knew what he was doing. It was systematic. He grunted with each pass. I seen the grimace on his face, and the tilt of his left shoulder so as to raise an asscheek. After the game he was jubilent and very talkative with everybody. (Maybe just relieved) I am telling you, he just didn't want to leave his seat during the game. So he farted on the spot with no consideration of others. By the way, I would never be condescending towards other because of a condition. If you ever saw me you would know why. My personal opinion is that this person (regardless of age) was just being rude.

Ofcourse if the old gentleman couldnt help himself its excusable. If he could however, well thats a horse of another color as they say......

In either case, excusing yourself should be expected. 

I thought the reason they call them unmentionable is because you're not supposed to mention them.

You're in the same room with the Queen, she passes gas at the dinner table, she says nothing, nobody raises an eyelash. She burps, she says excuse me. You still say nothing.

 Now that would be something to talk about. The Queen sitting at the dinner table tearing it up just because she can. Accidents happen, no doubt. But blatent rudeness isn't acceptable. If the queen did do something, I am sure it would be an accident.

It was a blitz game. If he had left the table and gone to the restroom you would have won on time.

Don't remember what year it was, but one time at band camp -- I mean a National Open -- I ran into a GM in the lavatory who had a terrible flatulence problem. At 40/90 if mother nature calls you can excuse yourself. Not at G/5.