Short for 'technical loser'. What actors and non-theater types call those who do setbuilding, lighting design, and audio mixing for shows. Possibly the most exciting and challenging job.
Friends: Good for you! Nice jobs
Alex: Fuck you bitches Friends: calm down
Alex: screw you losers
Friends: fuck you ass hole
Alex: I am going to get some real friends.
Friends: We were trying to be nice
Friends: you are such an ass
Alex: just like all of you
Friends: we just have 3 months until the end of the year
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.
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.”