If someone is unconscious, don't give them a cup of tea.
"Where's George?"
"He's having a cup of tea"
Sometimes, people agree to having a cup of tea. But then, when the tea is ready, they might realise, that they don't want it anymore. Sure, that sucks, but you wouldn't force them to have a cup of tea.
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)