In the book Suck it Up
the quote is used because of the main character's loserpersonality and he has to live with his whole life
It is kind of like cry me a river, build a bridge and get over it
Person 1: I'm never going to finish this essay.
Person 2:Dude, pop the lid and suck it up!
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)