In 2007 on a cruise ship in Mexico, 35 yr old Eric Quandingle gathered everyone's attention as he pulled a pink balloon and a can of loaded potato soup out of his pocket. He blew up the balloon and then proceeded to remove his red Nike Hyper Shift shoe from his left foot. He then tied the pink balloon to the back of the shoe. At this point everyone on the cruise was watching Mr Quandingle, confused about what the fuck he was doing. He then opened the can of soup and tipped the whole thing into the shoe. "Y'all watch this shit!" screamed Eric as he put the shoe to his mouth and did a shoey, gulping down the soup until the shoe was empty. All the passengers started to chant "Eric, Eric, Eric!" and he loved the attention so to keep the hype going, he ran to the pool and frontflipped in. It was epic
Damn, I'd be real mad if I wasn't on the Mexico Cruise of 2007
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.
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.”