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{{quote|''"In China it's considered perfectly good manners to talk with your mouth full and to burp after your meal. Farting seems to vary according to the situation and your current company, so ask ahead of time. Lighting the fart is frowned upon in almost all provinces."''|'''[[Cracked.com|Cracked]]''', [http://www.cracked.com/article_16335_7-innocent-gestures-that-can-get-you-killed-overseas.html#ixzz1dXz1TwkU Seven Gestures That Can Get You Killed Overseas]}}
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This ''does'' work in [[Real Life]], though [[Reality Is Unrealistic|not always, and not very impressively]]. Despite the fact that it ''is'' [[Truth in Television]], [[Don't Try This At Home]].
Science fact: farts are, essentially, just the body expelling methane. Methane also flees quickly. Timing is required. Rather than the huge flame you see in [[South Park|certain cartoons]], it'll be a tiny blink-and-you'll-miss-it flame. Don't ask us how we know.
[[Fartillery]] is this taken to its illogical extreme.
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* ''[[Tremors]] 3'' takes this trope to the extreme. The Assblasters are capable of propelling themselves to flight at high altitudes by igniting their own farts. One even used this technique to try and burn through Burt's bomb shelter.
* In the 1993 Live-Action film of ''[[Dennis the Menace US|Dennis The Menace]]'', when Dennis is (unknowingly) held captive by a burglar, and he is accidentally handcuffed by Dennis, Dennis accidentally drops the release keys into a cooking pot of beans, since "Food is not wasted" Dennis force-feeds him the ''entire pot'' making him to fart near the fire causing a big flame.
* In ''[[Critters|Critters 3]]'', when the title creatures (who are [[Extreme Omnivore
* In the comedy ''[[Caveman]]'', one of the rival cavemen gets his butt lit on fire, he runs around farting and emitting jets of flame.
* In ''[[Black Sheep]]'', the fact that their fart contains large amounts of methanol is used to blow up the {{spoiler|flesh eating sheeps}}
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* [http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Ass_Burners Ass Burners]. They got it depicted on one of their albums' covers. It's a grindcore/black metal project, of course.
* The [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] song ''[[Suppers Ready]]'' has the lyric "Oooh, can't you feel our souls ignite...". This has inevitably led to the [[Mondegreen]] "can't you feel arseholes ignite".
* [[Hammerfall]]'s "Hearts on Fire" is commonly [[
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