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jakeXT

(10,575 posts) Tue Oct 22, 2013, 04:11 AM Oct 2013

New line of underwear filters out farts

A healthcare underwear company has designed a range of briefs and boxers which use chemical warfare technology to filter unwanted gas.

The hi-tech pants, created by Shreddies Ltd. based in Leicestershire, England, feature a highly absorptive carbon cloth back panel which traps and neutralizes flatulence odors.

The thin and flexible cloth, which contains Zorflex — the same activated carbon material used in chemical warfare suits — is reactivated simply by washing the pants.

Shreddies say through extensive testing the carbon cloth could filter odors 200 times the strength of the average flatus emission.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/new-line-underwear-filters-farts-article-1.1491756

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New line of underwear filters out farts (Original Post) jakeXT Oct 2013 OP

I'm saved! Wounded Bear Oct 2013 #1

What a great xmas gift idea! B Calm Oct 2013 #2

I wonder if the folks who did the testing got paid much. Kaleva Oct 2013 #3

Maybe it's just a photo jakeXT Oct 2013 #4

She's laughing 'cause she just had a dinner of boiled eggs, sauerkraut and baked beans. Kaleva Oct 2013 #5

LOL Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #6

I thought he was an ass kisser. /nt jakeXT Oct 2013 #7

will it fit on my dog warrior1 Oct 2013 #8

My dog too LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #12

I'm getting one sharp_stick Oct 2013 #9

Doubles as an emergency chemical warfare mask, too! kentauros Oct 2013 #10

Use it as a mask first; then as underwear and not vice versa. Kaleva Oct 2013 #11

Is there an optional noise suppression feature? mysuzuki2 Oct 2013 #13

No, but it comes with a Duck. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2013 #14

no more pull my finger jokes Bombero1956 Oct 2013 #15

My wife would probably appreciate it if I bought those davidpdx Oct 2013 #16

Wounded Bear

(58,666 posts)

1. I'm saved!

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Tue Oct 22, 2013, 04:20 AM

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B Calm

(28,762 posts)

2. What a great xmas gift idea!

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Tue Oct 22, 2013, 05:50 AM

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Kaleva

(36,309 posts)

3. I wonder if the folks who did the testing got paid much.

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 06:32 AM

Oct 2013

It appears there are two types of jobs involved here. He who farts and he who smells it.

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

4. Maybe it's just a photo

Reply to Kaleva (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 07:16 AM

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Kaleva

(36,309 posts)

5. She's laughing 'cause she just had a dinner of boiled eggs, sauerkraut and baked beans.

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Tue Oct 22, 2013, 07:40 AM

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Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

6. LOL

Reply to Kaleva (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 08:11 AM

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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

7. I thought he was an ass kisser. /nt

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Tue Oct 22, 2013, 11:27 AM

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warrior1

(12,325 posts)

8. will it fit on my dog

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Tue Oct 22, 2013, 11:32 AM

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LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)

12. My dog too

Reply to warrior1 (Reply #8)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 12:55 PM

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silent but DEADLY

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)

9. I'm getting one

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 11:52 AM

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for my eight year old.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)

10. Doubles as an emergency chemical warfare mask, too!

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Tue Oct 22, 2013, 12:13 PM

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Kaleva

(36,309 posts)

11. Use it as a mask first; then as underwear and not vice versa.

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Tue Oct 22, 2013, 12:53 PM

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mysuzuki2

(3,521 posts)

13. Is there an optional noise suppression feature?

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 09:43 PM

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If so, I'm in.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)

14. No, but it comes with a Duck.

Reply to mysuzuki2 (Reply #13)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 11:39 PM

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Bombero1956

(3,539 posts)

15. no more pull my finger jokes

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 12:56 AM

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I wonder if they'll come in various scents

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

16. My wife would probably appreciate it if I bought those

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 07:38 AM

Oct 2013

I tend to have smelly gas from time to time. There was one time I was teaching a class, actually it was the final and I couldn't help it. The whole front row got a rather large helping of it.

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