Create the right atmosphere

with this farty card

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Card creator Afaik Yolo writes about

Le Connoisseur de Trompe!

According to Houston Methodist Hospital, in Texas, “Women may actually fart more than men. However, they are typically more discreet about doing it.” I have sought to capture that truth in my design, Le Connoisseur de Trompe!

The two women display a delicacy and elegance of posture and movement while their speech is devoid of masculine excess or crudity, preferring instead to focus on the expression of a refined forensic factuality.

The pink flowers emphasise the essential femininity of the scene and play into the meme of “smelling of roses”, which is posed as a contradictory challenge to the one-dimensional olfactory experience of a wet cabbage or chicken vindaloo fart.

I see this as an “omnibus” card, suitable for the celebration of many different events from a birthday to a Valentine and one that sits perfectly within the catalogue listing of greetings cards designed “With Women in Mind”.

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Readers’ Queries: Ask Dr Oracle

I am a student of journalism and my sub-editing lecturer has declared that it is not OK to use the binary word “manhole”. She says that “personhole” is the acceptable gender-neutral alternative. I am uncertain about this and would be grateful for your opinion.

First, thank you for asking.

Secondly, let us begin by considering a definition of the word “manhole”. Wikipedia will serve our purpose here. It says that “a manhole is an opening to a confined space such as a shaft…[they] are often used as an access point “.

The use of “personhole” will inevitably lead to readers confusing cast-iron lids in paved areas with individual sexual preferences.  Furthermore, the word will undoubtedly provoke flippancy with the supplementary question, “Which one? Oral, anal or vaginal?”

My understanding is that the main task of sub-editors is to “cut it short” while retaining meaning. On that basis, to make “personhole” a portmanteau word is asking it to carry too great a load.

A brief look at a diagram of typical male and female anatomies should, I would suggest, provide enough established terminology to identify the “hole” being referred to as a “personhole”.

I appreciate that that still leaves us with the problem of finding an unambiguous alternative to the word “manhole” where it refers to a pavement-level access point.

This is one of those questions where you can very easily find yourself in a hole! I will say no more.

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