The exchange rate between the words used in the "I don't give a ___" phrase. In a recent treaty between all English-speaking nations, it has been determined that there are:
2.71828183 shits per onefuck 3.14159265 damns per one shit
and 5.02734907 x 10^5 hoots per one damn
Brett: You see that cloud up there? It doesn't give a fuck about your existence _or 2.71828183 shits or 3.14159265 damns or 5.02734907 x 10^5 hoots.
Alex: Wow, you know the entire hoot-damn-shit-fuck exchange rate.
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)