and not just middle-school boys.

That is all !

I wish I could read the end scroll to maybe get the artists story behind this.

And what were they eating-looked like rhubarb?.

Epic!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2104250/Divine-wind-Japanese-He-gassen-art-actually-form-social-commentary.html
The art of flatulence! How 200-year-old Japanese 'He-gassen' paintings really DO have a deep meaning
Cartoons reflected anti-European sentiment in shogun-ruled country

Most people would look on this Japanese art - depicting various men and women engaged in flatulent combat - as 200-year-old toilet humour.

But the artwork, known as 'He-gassen' (or 'fart battle'), is in fact a pointed comment on political and social changes in Japan.

Made by an unknown artist or artists, the scroll depicts a number of different scenes - all linked by the fact that at least one character is directing a debilitating blast of flatulence towards another character.

This scroll and similar drawings were created in response to increasing intrusion of Europeans in Japan during the Edo period - between 1603 and 1868.

Just like renaissance painters left hidden meaning in their work, or modern-day cartoonists provide humorous takes on serious political events, the He-gassen scroll has specific meaning that would have been instantly interpreted at the time.

This was the era of the Tokugawa shogunate, which is characterised by a suspicion of foreigners and a ruthless persecution of Christians.

By the middle of the 17th century, only China, the Dutch East India Company and a group of English traders were allowed in restricted sections of Japan.

Any other Europeans who landed in Japan were arrested and executed without trial.

While the He-gassen scroll looks ludicrous now, it was a comical depiction of Japan's serious xenophobia toward the end of this Edo period.

The country enjoyed relative isolation until Europeans and Americans - specifically Commodore Matthew Perry and his armada of 'Black Ships' ferom the U.S. NAvy - forced Japan's opening to the world in the 19th century.

I just moved in with my boyfriend last month ...so we haven’t lived together very long. I might have (mind you) might have farted last night while sitting on the couch watching a movie...and then I was like uh oh ...and then he was like do you smell that??? of course, that’s when I lost it and I had to own it!!!
oh my gosh it didn’t result in a fart war but I’m currently laughing my ass off and I might fart!!!

You have guessed that I have no one to blame human or animal !!!

just go with the flow...