Often used by ignorant lumberjacks suffering various degrees of hearing loss from using chainsaws on old growth timber.
2. There's no need to shout, old bean.
Often used by Oxford Dons or wearers of jacket sweaters with leather elbow patches (ironically) to gently inform the speaker their volume of speech is uncouthly excessive.
I'd like to glennbeck Glenn Beck.
I herd dat wit my bad ear!
I'D LIKE TO GLENNBECK ANN COULTER!
I herd dat wit my bad ear - and that bitch is old.
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)