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Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-say-mammals-can-breathe-through-their-butts-in-emergencies/
TIL I learned that catfish can breathe partly through their butts — and maybe we can too. So can loaches (a type of freshwater fish) and orb-weaving spiders, and apparently also mice, rats, and pigs. (Bonus: So can some turtles.)
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Some people certainly exhale loud.
You just gonna breeze right over maybe we can too?
*Currently Clinching And Releasing Butt-Hole whilst Holding Breath*
That would explain my coworker’s breath.
What you mean, maybe? There’s tons of assbreathers out here on the internet.
I learned from South Park people can eat with their butts too
I know I can breathe OUT thru my butt, and that breath stinks. The Inhale is proving to be tougher to master.
Jokes aside, this is actually a method researched for humans:
https://nyscf.org/resources/a-surprising-new-solution-for-low-oxygen-breathing-through-the-rectum/
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So the suckfart *is* real…
…in the elevator, waiting to exhale…
Idk bout that but you can definitely take drugs up your ass.
Flight of ideas
I can breathe through my ass, but it requires switching between sucking on a leaf blower and a vacuum.
Someone go tell Gavin that he was right
you can drink through your butt. in fact if you don’t have any clean water this is the way
Makes sense we could do that. The intestines are adapted to absorbing things. I suspect we’d need to cheat for it to be effective though. The rectum has way less surface area than the lungs (your lungs have about the same surface area as a tennis court), so we’d need pure O2 or maybe even that liquid breathing setup from the movie The Abyss.
This could make snorkeling much easier. I mean, once the “breath through your ass” part is worked out.
I’m letting my ass breathe.
Talking requires exhalation, and I’ve heard countless people talk out their asses
I think that you are talking out of your butt. I learned some people do that…
So, there _was_ some medical benefit to blowing smoke up your ass.
I domt know about breathing, but plenty of people have mastered the ability to talk out of their ass.
No wonder I snore so loud
A frenchman called Le Pétomane made his living off of it in the 1890s, he could apparently smoke a cigarette and belt out La Marseillaise from below. [QI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9SA8x0W4go) did a short bit about him.
Gives choking on a fart a new level of importance.
Both nose and butt have to be wiped, too. Weird.
That must explain my sister’s terrible breath.
I’ve just seen a vision of the Olympics, 2050, and everyone has giant monkey-butts with plugs that increase oxygen uptake.
I’m sorry, but I had to share that with you. Science fiction is supposed to *prevent* the future, not predict it.