Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.

Cristiana Paşca Palmer, the executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said the destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest was a grim reminder that a fresh approach needed to stabilise the climate and prevent ecosystems from declining to a point of no return, with dire consequences for humanity.

His grim determination enabled him to win.

In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.

– Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge?
– Mate, that is grim!

You got a new girl and she looks choong (Choong)
But you didn't know your girl was a grim
[…]
Your girl she's a grim, I wouldn't have no grim as my ting

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