to pull a philipp is to befriend someone with the pure intention of getting together with them and once you find out they’re uninterested, ghosting them completely without warning.
Zoey: “What happened to your friend Dave? I haven’t seen you guys hang out recently...”
Lou: “Fred told him, he doesn’t think I’m interested and he pulled a philipp”
to pull a philipp is what Sharon did to Aaron, when she talked with him about deep topics, and gave him a shoulder to cry on almost everyday, but after he rejected her, Aaron never saw her again
A very specific case of texttake, when a dude accidentally sends a gloriously soppy love message to his buddies instead of his beloved beau.
Also a verb: to Phillip
Coined in the mid-2010's in a pub in Dublin.
Phil to his bros while out on the lash: Just sending a quick text to the boss
Bros receive msg to The Bros WhasApp group: Hey babe, I hate not being with you. I JUST FUCKIN HATE IT.
Bros to Phil after snorting beer: HA HA HA HA WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK HA HA HA You just pulled a Phillip!
Phil to self: Fuck my life
Len to self when rat-arsed with his bros and about to sext Claire: don't pull a Phillip... don't pull a Phillip...
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.”