Farts come with such a wonderful sounds, smells, and durations. Their tactile "feel" when exiting, which is too-often ignored, can be delightful to compare and contrast. A rare but interesting variety, the toothbrushy fart has considerable gas volume, but exits very rapidly, in a single raspy rip. The blast of gas gives the sensation of a toothbrush being used to clean and polish the pipe.
John: "I've just had the most marvelous toothbrushy fart!"
David: "That must have been a tremendous pleasure! Do you feel shiny clean and scrubbed? I can't remember the last time I had one, I am so jealous!"
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.”