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1. A fictitious band from the Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels. It consists of the character Stephen Stills doing the vocals and playing lead guitar, the main protagonist of the series Scott Pilgrim playing the bass guitar, and character Kim Pine playing the drums. The name is a reference to both the Bomb-omb, an enemy from the Super Mario series of video games, and either the Flipper song "Sex Bomb" or Tom Jones' song of the same name. In the film "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World", Sex Bomb-omb's music is provided by "Beck".
"We are Sex Bomb-omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff." - Scott Pilgrim, "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (film).
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
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.”