The Ryan Pethick Theory is an answer to the paradox of quantum superposition better known as "Schrödinger's cat". This theory states the second that the cat (or any other thing) becomes non-observable, it is dead. This theory is based on the not so logical logic that it is much easier to just assume that it's instantaneously dead. You don't have to worry about him, care about him, remember to send a text on his birthday. Basically everything is easier with the assumption that they are dead.
Friend of Ryan #1: "Ryan isn't dead guys he just goes to a differentschool"
Other Friends of Ryan: "Shut the fuck up... Ryan Pethick Theory."
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)