Fartage

Fartage is a comic expression shared by Bridget Jones and Roxster, built around the collision of farting with ski waxing. Its meaning is explained in their Twitter exchange, but its joke depends on keeping both ideas in play: a practical activity associated with skiing and the bodily silliness Roxster repeatedly brings into the conversation.

Origin and Meaning

The word enters the exchange through a retweet by Roxster. A post from one of his followers mentions meeting outside the Fartage; Roxster adds that posh people are skiing in France. When Bridget asks what Fartage means, he answers that it means waxing. The explanation makes the skiing context legible while leaving the sound of the word open to comic misreading.

That ambiguity has already been established in their messages. Roxster asks whether Bridget said fart rather than fat, and she corrects him, accusing him of an unhealthy preoccupation with farting and vomiting. Fartage therefore does not arrive as an isolated pun: it extends an existing pattern in which Roxster steers ordinary conversation toward bodily humour and Bridget answers with mock exasperation.

Twitter Banter

Bridget and Roxster keep the joke going by turning the noun into a verb. Bridget asks whether Roxster is getting fartaged in preparation, and he replies that he definitely is. The exchange is flirtatious as well as absurd, and Talitha joins in to tell them both to go to sleep. The joke thus becomes a small shared performance among the three, with Talitha puncturing the pair’s late-night enthusiasm rather than explaining or ending their wordplay.

Bridget’s diary records that she continued flirting with Roxster and enjoyed the feeling that someone else cared about the little things that excited her. Fartage belongs to that intimacy: its appeal is less the ingenuity of a single pun than the ease with which the two keep elaborating it together. The word gives their mutual attention a deliberately silly subject.

Reuse and Comic Effect

The joke returns in person when Roxster asks whether the eight friends Bridget says are in the bar to protect her have all been fartaged. The question carries the online wordplay into a conversation about imagined protection and possible danger. Bridget, drinking wine, laughs while taking a sip, chokes, and begins to bring up her wine. The verbal joke therefore produces a literal bodily mishap, turning the expression’s farting association into slapstick without changing its ski-waxing explanation.

Across these appearances, Fartage moves from an unfamiliar term in a retweeted message to a private, adaptable bit between Bridget and Roxster. Its recurrence marks the continuity of their teasing across Twitter and face-to-face conversation; its final use also makes the joke’s physical consequences part of the comedy.