General nonsense, tomfoolery or foolishness. May have a negative connotation when used in regards to foolishness of others that you are not a part of. Can also used to describe a waste of time.
The bizarre series of hand gestures that many of our less effective politicians have been trained to perform, in order to distract attention from the vacuity of what they are actually saying.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between David Cameron handjobbing and an ambidextrous koala doing karate.
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)