Fard
The chat's preferred orthographic softening of *fart* — the gaseous-emission complement to **[[Shidding|shid]]** — first attested by [[Evan Bbbender]] on **2020-11-05** and conjugated through *fardy* / *fardier* / *fardiest*. **52 corpus mentions** spanning **2020-11-05 → 2026-04-04**.
Fard
The chat's preferred orthographic softening of fart — the gaseous-emission complement to shid — first attested by Evan Bbbender on 2020-11-05 and conjugated through fardy / fardier / fardiest. 52 corpus mentions spanning 2020-11-05 → 2026-04-04.
Fard is to the chat's shidding vocabulary as fart is to shit in standard English: the lower-stakes, lighter-volume gaseous parallel. Its adoption follows the same pattern as shid — a one-letter retreat from the underlying word — and it appears in the corpus continuously across all six years.
Origin
The earliest fard appearance is by Evan Bbbender on 2020-11-05 and is itself a direct opposition to shid:
"I keep thinking it's shid but nope just fard" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-11-05
Within three weeks Cullen Conway has produced the first documented run of conjugated forms — farding (2020-11-05, immediately self-corrected from fart), fards (2020-11-28) — and the chat has begun the Britney Spears riff that recurs across the corpus:
"Oops, I shidded again / I played with a fard / Got lost in the game / Oooo baby baby" — Cullen Conway, 2020-11-14
The rewrite has been re-deployed verbatim by Cullen on 2021-01-09 and is treated by the chat as the genre's canonical lyric.
The fardy/fardier/fardiest sequence
The chat's most fully-developed fard moment is the 2020-11-19 comparative-grade thread, in which three members produce the formal English degrees in a single minute:
"It made me fardy" — Kyle Derrick, 2020-11-17 "Fardier*" — Kyle Derrick (immediate self-correction) "They made me fardy" — Kyle Derrick, 2020-11-19, 20:12 UTC "*fardier" — Cullen Conway, 20:14 UTC "*fardiest" — Daniel Miller, 20:15 UTC
The three-message fardy → fardier → fardiest progression is the chat's only fully-completed grammatical-degree sequence and has been cited in the encyclopedia's editorial decisions as the model for similar conjugations (cf. hoeny / hoenier — though that progression has stalled at the comparative).
"I had a dream last night that I farded"
The corpus's most extended single fard narrative is by Cullen Conway on 2021-12-28:
"I had a dream last night that I farded but when I did I accidentally spray shidded onto a leather couch" — Cullen Conway, 2021-12-28
The dream — combining a fard and an unintended spray shid outcome — is the chat's only documented case of unconscious fard-event narration and has been preserved as the canonical illustration of the genre's structural risks.
Operational fards
By the Hoen Lunch era of 2026, fards have acquired venue-specific naming conventions:
- Blutos hummus fards. Cullen Conway, 2026-04-04: "I'm ripping Blutos hummus fards" — the morning-after report from a successful Blutos hoen.
- Dimos farts. Daniel Miller, 2026-04-04: "Anyone else rippin Dimos farts" — issued at the same hour, establishing the venue-fard dyad as a settled morning-after greeting.
The encyclopedia notes that Daniel's use of farts (without the d) in the Dimos message is one of the very few documented cases in the corpus of a chat member abandoning the fard orthography mid-thread; the chat has not flagged the deviation.
Distinction from shid
By chat convention:
- A fard is gaseous, volume-uncertain, generally not announced.
- A shid is solid, volume-significant, frequently announced.
When uncertain, the chat invokes Evan Bbbender's founding 2020-11-05 disambiguation ("I keep thinking it's shid but nope just fard") as the operative test. See Shidding for the full body of solid-emission scholarship.