Favorite Native American pastime, perfected and propagated by the Wampanoags, in which contestants endeavor to the be the first to poop out kernels of a meal of corn begun at an agreed upon hour. Serious matches involve the careful auditing, often by independent counsel, of each contestant's meals in the days preceding the main event, such that no contestant enters the competition having recently eaten corn.
Despite his prowess in corn races throughout the early 17th Century, Squanto has continually failed to win admission to National Corn Racing Hall of Fame, headquarted in Plymouth, MA.
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.”