A game played with a ball or other object with two or more players. The object is thrown up onto a angled surface, such as a roof, by Player 1 (P1), and P2 must catch the object midair and throw it back onto the roof. Then P3. Then P4. and so on. Until P1 plays again. If a player is on the ground when they catch it, miss the ball, or throw the ball over the roof, they lose a point or gain a letter. Rickity Shickity can be scored many ways. HORSE scoring is common. You can also play elimination after a certain number of violations. Also, this game is hilarious to watch when the participants are tipsy or drunk.
Dude, you wanna play some Rickity Shickity with us during lunch? Yea man, who else is playin?
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.”