Formerly known as the old Mental Health Institutions of the bygone era, where patients were abused and experimented on (ie. lobotomy, electroconvulsive therapy, etc..)
Now the term āInsane Asylumā takes on a whole new meaning.
Its not a place to warehouse the crazies anymore. Its a place, where sane and rational people can seek Asylum from this crazy world and all the nut-jobs in it.
Hey, look, Theres too many crazy mental defectives in the world. I need to seek asylum in an insane asylum, that way I have asylum from the insane!
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 OāConnelās time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before OāConnel 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)