If someone want to do something on a unusual place where are not needed tools or materials.
Want to do impossible things.
My brother came to me to the swimming pool yesterday and he wanted me to help him with making a snack. Looking at him I said idly: Here? You're throwing monkeys out of the South Pole?
My girlfriend want me to pay a boat-trip. She thinks that I'm gonna to throw monkeys out of the South Pole, I'm not a millionaire.
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)