The highly contagious mental disorder, causing the irrational belief that skin tone actually matters. The only known treatment is completely ignoring those afflicted until flare ups subside which is also the best way to avoid becoming infected. Pathogenic pathway: conversation. Never engage in conversation with those afflicted during flare ups, in fact, it is highly recommended to avoid all conversation with the afflicted until it is observed the disease is in remission
Skintonitis Symptoms: 1.Participation in any skin tone group such as the aryan brotherhood, laraza or naacp.
2. Regular use of the words black, brown, white and race in discussions about persons or groups of people.
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)