1.A term used to describe a poor joke most often in a sarcastic response to being the comic's intended target. 2. A dry response to a person who is witty and clever only to themselves, usually said to the person with a completely straight face.
Steve: I just flew in for the holidays and boy are my arms tired!
Joe: Yeah Steve that was haha-larious, you should quit your job as an architect and totally do stand up.
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.”