An irritating song originally written by Steve Earle and later re-recorded by Sharon Shannon and Mundy. The song is basically about some idiotic dude who falls in love with this random girl from Galway in Ireland who then leaves him. The Mundy version was a huge hit in Ireland, reaching number 1.
Nob Nation's version, the Galway Whore, is much better.
Me: So... d'you wanna go shopping or something?
Friend: Sure... hey, what's that strange sound?
Me: SHIT! My mum's playing the fucking Galway Girl again! RUN!!!
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.”