A yellow-orange coloured drink, sold in pints, made by mixing a bottle of the alcopop Smirnoff Ice and a bottle of a high-caffeine alcoholic energy drink called Raw Spirit. Unique to, and college drink of, University College (colloquially known as 'Castle'), a college of the University of Durham. The drink is only available in the college's bar, the Undercroft, otherwise known as the 'Undie'.
"I'mgoing to head down to the Undie for a Smenergy, see you there?"
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.”