Yeah I saw a meme that went along those lines. I'm not doing that.
Hym "You see: There's literally nothing I can do about it (There's something he can do about it) 👈 That right there is YOUR ego. That's the little voice in your head. I say something. You tell yourself the opposite. The reality is in fact the thing I said. You prompt me to do something about it. I already said the thing that is commensurate with what is actually the case and, therefore, have no choice but to repeat myself. OK. I'll do the only other thing I can do which is: tell you something else that is non-contradictory. That being 'Stop stalling and do the thing I said."
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)