1. a non-snobby foodie 2. a person who enjoys dining at restaurants, understands the business as a former server/bus person/back waiter/bartender and can appreciate the stress, the joy, and the satisfaction of servicing the public 3. a person who enjoys cooking for the fun of it - not claiming to be a "foodie" who can only cook based on a recipe from one of their 5000 cookbooks or food magazines - cooks from the heart, not from a book
"I think the steak was a little too medium rare and the potatoes had slighlty too much crunch" said the foodie, as the foodcentric that I am enjoyed the cheeseburger and potato chips.
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.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
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.”