Rambling on about stuff you have never really thought through before. Usually any opinions will lack substance, although they are often phrased in a way that makes you sound intelligent and well educated. Often includes hot takes and seemingly deep questions.
“Do you ever wonder if we are living in a simulation? Ooh I wonder if anyone I know has experienced a glitch in the matrix, i heard that it can all be put down to this quantum mechanical theor-“
“Oh would you ever shut up and stop shite talking”
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)