The rate at which you pour a fizzy drink from it's bottle to a glass, so that the level at the top of the bubbles doesnt change, but the ammount of liquid increases up the glass. This technique takes time, skill, and dedication, but in the end, leaves you with the satisfactory ability to say "I mastered the Anti-Bubble Rate".
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)