What a lot of young people are in Europe becuase the government pays all their education expenses so what they do is drink and fuck and do drugs all the time while taking the bare minimum in BS classes to keep receiving government funding, which includes cost of living (booze/drug money).
They purposly never graduate so they can continue living the life style they are living for free.
Lukas began his 12th year at University having accomplished nothing except 11 years of being intoxicated most of the time while the government picked up the tab.
The guys that look down on everyone, young and old, probably into Solipsism because they're that fucking up themselves.
Walk about with a huge swagger and boast about how much money they've got, when in reality, they live in a ditch which a janitor built for them when he saw him lying pissed outside a curry house.
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)