What happens when a South African Death Squad gets old and useless. They stop hitting random drunk people, start drinking wine instead of rum and start using useless buzzwords in unnecessary places in a conversation.
South African Death Squad - Im trying to filter out all this noise in this noisy data im examining. God dam all this noise, I wish it would be less noisy.
Colleague of South African Death Squad - Is that noisy data annoying you? Do you want to hit it like usual?
South African Death Squad - No I just feel really sorry for the data, I wish I could give it a cuddle
Colleague of South African Death Squad - Your such a South African Love Squad these days.
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)