What gets used when a bloke is asked to look for a misplaced item, but does not end up finding said item because it was either right in front of their face, or not blokey enough to register as anything of interest.
Pete - "I looked through your bag, but couldn't find your Michael Bolton CD"
A gender specific medical condition impairing the vision only of the male population, making locating everyday objects next to impossible. Or more simply, it makes the male blind to the bleed'n obvious.
"Man-eyes" is believed to be a genetic variation of "Astigmatism (uh-STIG-muh-tiz-um) which is an imperfection in the curvature of the eye that causes blurred distance and near vision."
"Man-Eyes" is related to other Male-Only afflictions such as "Man-Flu" and "Man-Poo".
Husband: "Honey, I can't find the milk. Do we have any left"
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)