The act of trying to find every little freaking thing wrong about anything, in a rather sad/pathetic attempt to validate one's intelligence, yet the act of shitpicking actually does the opposite; as it proves that the person shitpicking is so desperate for attention that they will grasp at literally anything in an attempt to prove someone else wrong, and/or win an argument.
Person 1: (referencing a baking recipe on the web for a "brownie cookie") The person who owns this baking site should know that a brownie IS a cookie, and in fact, is a type of bar cookie. I read it in a book in my culinary arts class, the name of the recipe is just retarded.
Person 2: the average person would not consider a brownie to be a cookie
Person 1: yes, but the person who runs this baking website should know this. I consider the brownie/cookie thing to be a biggy mistake
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)