U.P Prince - Man from the Upper Peninsula. Age: 20 to early 40s. Uneducated, yet somehow builds an empire from the ground up, typically in the areas of construction, landscaping, or auto repair. His chariots are ATVs, snowmobiles, and motorcross bikes. Most commonly has a U.P. Princess for whom they buy a beauty salon, or those of lesser stature simply work at a beauty salon. Attire consists of Ski-doo jackets, tapered jeans, and a mouthful of chew. Diet consists of pasties, Coors light, and venison. He is a Prince, and the U.P. is his kingdom, with his castle residing in Soo Hill. Subkingdoms referred to as “camps
I just saw my U.P. Prince fillin' up his quad at the gas station. Holy wa! His Fox Racing jacket looked sooo hot on him!
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.”