a fake high, usually brought on by considerable amounts of caffeine, an awesome video game, a movie marathon, and 3, 5, and 7 a.m. escapades without sleep, making everything funny, awesome and crazy.
1:58 a.m.
Blake: But why is there an olive in the cocoa!
3:12 a.m.
Zac: Time for a Wegmans run. We should pause Terminator 2 to get some Full Throttle.
5:27 a.m.
Evan: Yo! Did you see that opossum.
7:45 a.m.
All: Duuuuu...uuuude We are so 3/4 half high off nothing!
In a world where everything is offensive to someone, some people have gone to the other extreme, being offended by nothing - meaning they don't realize some things are still genuinely very offensive and shouldn't be joked about.
"Did you hear that some guy made a joke about Justin Bieber's facial disease that said, 'In five years, no one will come to Justin Bieber's concerts because his face will scare them away'?"
"Yeah. That was so wrong. Whoever made that should be ashamed. I don't like Justin Bieber, but I don't wish that upon anyone...and I definitely wouldn't make jokes about it. It's a serious disease and it probably sucks to have."
"...Unfortunately, the offended by nothing group vigorously defended the offensive joke after people called them out."
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.”