1) To have a very jovial experience, such as with the intake of weed or alcohol.
2) Used by Mr Burns in the Simpsons to describe an event he had when he was younger.
3) An event pre-dating the present and that involved homosexual behaviour.
1) By jove, this Vodka is insubstantial compared to the hydro we were just smoking. But, of course, it does enhance the experience. Ah, what a gay old time we're having.
2) Oh, well, when I was six, my father took me on a picnic. That was a gay old time! Oh-ho, I ate my share of wieners that day.
3) Hey, Oscar Wilde, I hear ya've been having a gay old time down at the Gentleman's Writer club.
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.”