When one attempts to draw the attention or initiate conversation with someone they know, only to be completely ignored, leaving the instigator looking like a total twat.
Today it usually means something like being ignored. During the Great Depression, the phrase was "eating air custard and wind pie"; that is, nothing to eat; going hungry.
When you are either a total noob at smoking weed or have such a chemical dependence and you dont have any glass so you just light it in your hand and breathe in the fumes.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”