the art of overtaking another vehicle (usually a motorbike overtaking a car or cars) as slowly as possible with almost no acceleration to speak of so as to selfishly get what you want while simultaneously maximizing the inconvenience of everyone around you (especiallyy the 4guys behind you who'd really like to and could also overtake if you would just speed up or get the fuck out of the way!).
Question Guy: Why are you late?
Answer Guy: I got stuck behind this douchebag who was an absolute master of the SlowVertake. I swear every car on the way here was doing 40kmh and he overtook all of them at 41kmh max without letting anyone get by him. Fucking prick... Hope he dies in a fire.
The incredibly frustrating habit of older drives to occupy the overtaking lane on the road while going at a speed way below the limit; thus making the road effectively single-laned.
Jim was late for work because he got stuck behind a slowvertaking nun in the outside lane.
Overtaking another vehicle on the freeway at a speed barely fast enough to complete the maneuver. Usually occurs while on cruise control, a slovertake may take many seconds to complete.
Particularly relevant if your journey begins, ends or is via San Luis Obispo (SLO), Calif.
Driver: Gonna pull off at the next exit to get Gas. Just going to Slovertake this Big Rig.
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.”