What fat people go on to lose weight. Apparently, if all you eat is cabbagesoup, the weight falls off you, but it makes your shit 20 times more rancid. My ex-boss was on one for a couple of months - he'd go grab the newspaper and charge into the toilet for a good half hour session. The place was off-limits for a good 45 minutes afterwards and some of the tiles had fallen off the walls
Workmate: Oh dear, Lynchy's just gone into the bogs with the paper Me: Dammit! I really need to piss! Guess I'll have to go in the 'ladies'...
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)