Causing oneself to go with as much as is possible.

“Full Send,” a term likely defined differently by its many users, means something specific to me. I first heard the term used formally by the internet famous underage drinker Stevewilldoit. A recently 21 instagram and youtube sensation who gained his dedicated following by posting videos of himself drinking excessive portions of alcoholic beverages along with the occasional condiment or fluid food. In one video he chugs 64 eggs. No I don’t know why. The group with which he affiliates himself, the NELK boys, is a group of similarly famous delinquents that have, since their come to stardom, coined the phrase Full Send. They use the expression as a form of exemplifying their level of their debauchery. Rather than sending, which merriam webster defines as, “to cause to go or happen,” partially, they self describe their level of “send” to “full,” which MW defines as, “containing as much or as many as is possible or normal.” In short, causing oneself to go with as much as is possible. They rarely half ass their work, no matter how ridiculous that work may seem. In their defence, if you’re going to do something, at least do it fully.

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Growing up I’d maybe heard the term at neighborhood get togethers, or perhaps an upbeat pool party. For example, if my friend Ethan were to say, “yo guys watch me backflip off this waterslide,” and subsequently does the backflip off of the waterslide, a reasonable response would be something along the lines of, “you just went full send bro!” In essence, the term describes an action, maneuver, physical motion or movement of sorts that is executed without hesitation or reluctance. A send that is not half, but rather, full. Though this term doesn’t only apply to illegal activity or dangerous pool jumps. When broken down it can apply to many aspects of life. Imagine per-say a lowkey office environment in which an employee we’ll call Jared is deciding between an industrial sized stapler to staple the stack of papers he needs to submit to his boss, or the regular sized potentially wimpy stapler. Daren may take a look around and decide to himself, “you know what, I’m going full send,” and use the larger and potentially more dangerous of the two staplers in an effort to avoid using the smaller stapler and potentially risking the staples capability of stapling all of his papers along with the livelihood of his office place status and resultant coworker chatter. 

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For me, I believe the term “Full Send” is just another way of saying, “done thoroughly and truthfully.” I believe my time pursuing restaurants has been nothing short of thorough and truthful. I make sure that in describing an eatery I do so accurately. Yes, I do it for myself in a fun and mental note-taking way, but also for my followers and readers (likely just the one), because I believe that if I’m going to take the time to express something, who’s to benefit from it if it isn’t at least accurate or truthful. To say the least, my lifelong send is rarely not full.