<p>I take it he is not talking about armaments when he is talking about “grenades.” I know what GTL is (thank you, Bones). Is “creeping on chicks” as creepy as it sounds? Maybe I should buy the book to answer all of my questions…</p>
<p>The process of staying fresh and mint. Stands for “Gym, tan, laundry.” Must be done everyday to achieve maximum potential. Side effects include fist pumping. Coined by the eloquent Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino from MTV’s ground breaking Jersey Shore.
You gotta GTL everyday to make sure you’re looking your best bro. If your shirt looks bad it makes the whole product look bad</p>
<p>I actually watched the show a couple of times, and have to say that the women these guys call “grenades” are infinitely better-looking than any of them. Of course, that’s almost always true of men who enjoy putting down the way women look.</p>
<p>I think a grenade can also be someone who is not DTF (but who initially seemed so, and ends up wasting your time). I will leave it up to the reader to look that one up. </p>
<p>I have viewed the show a bunch of times (with my mouth open and in the spirit of social scientific inquiry). It is sort of like watching a car crash in slow motion. Perhaps the car crash image is a metaphor for popular culture. </p>
<p>In any case, we are in serious trouble if Jersey Shore behavior resembles what teens and twenties do in real life. The most amazing thing to me is how Vinnie, Paulie, or Mike will arrive late to a club, find a grenade-less, attractive girl (one who is free of a potentially disruptive friend), and bring her immediately home to bed. The girl will change into the guy’s pajamas, and they both just get under the covers as previous generations would sit on a couch. A few of these girls decline the act itself, but they were game to get under the covers even if it was not their intention to participate. What is up with that?! Also, there are two beds in a room, and it is apparently completely acceptable to “smush” with a stranger while your roomie is in the bed next to you. Or for you and your roomie to both entertain women simultaneously in the same room. There is only one word to describe this: BROTHEL (without monetary compensation for the visiting females).</p>
<p>That there are two seasons now filled with young, attractive women willing to be humiliated like this on camera is beyond belief.</p>
<p>^^^^Agreed. And the double standards with which actions of the males and females are judged made me sick. One of the girls slept with one of the men in the house. The next night, everyone (wrongly) assumed she had had sex with her date. The guys (and other girls) were referring to her as a “whore,” even though they routinely sleep with whomever they can convince to come home with them every single night. One of the guys said, “Girls aren’t supposed to sleep with two guys in two nights. Guys are supposed to do that, but girls aren’t.” </p>
<p>Another time, a female house mate received an inexpensive watch from a suitor. The guys all told her she had to “let him get it in” (a gross phrase all of the cast members say routinely) as he had spent money on her.</p>
<p>My DD and I watched this stupidity one day at our lake house during a “Jersey Shore marathon.” I guess I wanted to see what the big deal was, and before I knew it, I was all engrossed in this mess of a show. </p>
<p>It certainly gave me the opportunity to stress to my daughter how gross it is when men objectify women like this, how it’s even worse that so many women seem just thrilled to give them the chance to do so, and all the downsides to said behavior.</p>
<p>For people who don’t believe these sorts exist on the Jersey Shore have clearly NOT spent time in either Seaside Heights or Belmar on a summer weekend. My beach house is a few north of Belmar and I enjoy riding my bike around early Sunday AM in the summer to see the people passed out of the porches of some houses. It exists, so don’t deny it!</p>
<p>And if you “enjoy” Jersey Shore there’s also Jerseylicious (The Gatsby hair salon reality show on Style) and the Real Housewives of NJ on Bravo. NJ seems to be a mecca for these strange shows. Wasn’t that exciting when I grew up there.</p>
<p>So true, nj2011mom. I really wonder sometimes if people think that these NJ shows are all a put on. They aren’t. There are probably half a million table-flipping girls in the Garden State. It isn’t at all uncommon. The unique grooming, the made-up language and pronunciation (“sangwitch”), etc. The whole Jersey shore culture…I think the level of smut is updated, but the basics (accent, attitude, focus on mindless activities) have been there for generations.</p>
<p>I laugh when I meet people that think ‘yous’ is a pronoun! I do think there is a high concentration in Staten Island, but NJ is not without fine characters. </p>
<p>PS - don’t forget “Jersey Couture”, set in Freehold.</p>