An extreme sickness caused by excessive drinking of port wine. This is both an addiction to Port Wine as well as the sickness that follows after a bender.
Signs of addictions:
1) Drinking at 7 am Port Wine even though you need to be at work at 8:30 am.
2) Spending over 20% of your paycheck on Port Wine.
3) Fighting with people both in personal and business relationships.
4) Missing work 2 plus times a week from a bender and coming in the next day without a shower stinking of Port Wine.
Signs of sickness from a bender:
1) Excessive Vomiting.
2) Extreme sweating.
3) Missing work.
4) Fighting with anyone you come in contact with both during and the day after a bender.
Addiction Example -
Glen, "I keep noticing Eric has no money, has a poor attitude, and misses work alot."
James, "I think he has a case of Port Wine Fever."
Sickness Example -
James, "Man Glen, Eric has thrown up three times today, is sweating on his desk, and stinks like a homeless wino."
Glen, "Yeah it looks like he has Port Wine Fever again today."
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.”