Anti vandal paint is like a horrible grease to stop you climbing on something.
In Worthing in England, on new years day, it was tradition to climb the clock tower. One year they put antivandal paint on it, and people got grease on their hands and clothes. They were cross and smashed the clock up. So it did not work as intended.
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)