The unignorable barely containable urge to take a crap.
For example: You and your mother hurriedly crossing a busy street to the nearest bathroom when she suddenly falls down as you see a bus in the distance quickly closing the gap between it and her. You scream an apology without missing a step asking the other pedestrians to please help her in lue of you trying to save her and shitting your pants in the middle of the road.
For example: You and your mother are hurriedly crossing a busy street to the nearest bathroom when she suddenly falls down and in the same instant see a bus in the distance quickly closing the gap between it and her. You scream an apology without missing a step asking the other pedestrians to please help her (in lue of you trying to save her and shitting your pants in the middle of the road). This would be a case of it being hard to give a shit when you have to take one.
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)