In the doghouse [Clearly Confused]

When you use the internet without an adblocker

You're just

RAWDOGGING THE INTERNET

Someone once described LimeWire to me as, "having unprotected sex with the internet," and they were completely right.
- ...and The Internet is a disgusting, filthy slut.
- Its not as fun with a firewall.
Back in my day we were told that was how you got a virus.
Quite sure that in that case the internet is RAWDOGGING YOU

I mean, she's still using it correctly in that context. 👀

If I say something "tastes like ass" and I'm eating, like, a bagel, I'm probably saying it tastes bad and not like ass cheeks.

Although it's not really possible to eat pizza without rawdoggin it.
Unless you use a fork and knife like a heathen
- Maybe she's a ranch user?
- Although it’s not really possible to eat pizza without rawdoggin it.
  Unless you use a fork and knife like a heathen
  I have my butler cut up my pizza for me with a pizza knife and a pizza fork. And then I have my nanny feed it to me. "Here comes the train to the tunnel, choo-choo!"
You gotta go to Edgar's Bagels on 65th if you want ass check flavored bagels. They don't skimp on the cream cheese either.
- Gotta get that schmear on the rear
- Edgar's Bagels: Another way to fill a hole.
I'd rather eat ass than this.
You're supposed to eat AROUND the hole
Nice profile picture!
- Thank you ❤️

That's.... A valid way to use that phrase now

Someone is going to feel so edgy when they use it as originally conceived unwittingly.
Not at work without some serious eyes
- I'm blue collar lol I can't relate to NSFW warnings.
  Idk what you meant by without some serious eyes

I had a friend who thought "Netflix & chill" just meant watch movies and relax, so she had it on her dating app profile and couldn't understand why she only got hookups.

So ugh where’d she post it again?
I thought that's what it meant, too.
I'm old.
- It's a double entendre. It means both, but much more the "hook up" subtext.
- I thought that's what it meant, too.
  I'm young.
If you're old enough, she's correct.
My daughter, still in elementary school a few years ago, asked if we can Netflix and Chill after a long day.
I had trouble explaining to her what it meant.
I think it can mean a both - that's the great thing about a noncommittal word like chill. I think the key part is that whatever happens is casual.
But yeah would probably get a lot of hookup attention on a dating website
- I don't know, I don't think of sex as chilling. Just like I don't see sport as chilling. Chilling should be more calm and less purpose-driven.
Or ignorance made a convenient fig leaf.

What’s with modern webcomics only posting to social media and nowhere else unless someone reposts it? I want an easy to browse gallery. If your comic is only available via instagram/twitter then I won’t read your comic

Im OK with social media as long as it has RSS. But that also means no insta and no twitter.
It costs money to host things
- Hosting is cheap and there is free hosting available if you don’t care about having a custom domain and have a limited audience. If your audience is big enough to go past that bandwidth you can probably monetize somehow and cover server costs easily, even if it’s just selling a few pieces of merch. My website is $80 a year with a custom domain and I get unlimited transfer/bandwidth. It’s shared hosting so over about 1k visitors per day means it’ll get slow but if you’re getting that kind of traffic you can probably sell more merch and get a vps
  Use twitter/pixiv/ig for promotion but if you don’t do the above your locking out anyone who refuses to make account. All of them won’t let you look at more than 1-5 images before locking you out entirely with account nag screens that can’t be bypassed. Or just stay on those platforms, I don’t care, I’ll just never read your comic
- Yeah like $10 a month for a comic.
- No, it really, seriously, doesn’t. People that rely on social media are just lazy and ignorant.
- And it gives you some degree of control over reposts and people stealing content. If your not on the platform you cant really contest claims against a video or post.
- Plenty of ways to host for free, even with a custom domain. (Though the domain is $15 per year) Like GitHub. Or you can even just use Tumblr with a custom domain.
There are a billion more people on Instagram that will see a comic there than actually go to websites to read comics.
- that’s why the internet fucking sucks now. Everyone’s too afraid to make their own site and lazily relies on the conglomerates of social media, which has reduced the internet into like 5 websites that repost each others content
  Also seeing isn’t converted to income, especially on instagram. The more hardcore comic fans may want to see your work in full, may want to follow the story if there’s a narrative to your comic, see your arts evolution, etc. and they’re probably the ones that are far more likely to drop cash on merch for a series they enjoy. That’s why you combine the approaches, post comics on instagram or whatever to get the word out, and have a site so your hardcore fans can easily browse your work (with the added bonus of letting people who don’t fuck with social media also see it)
  Again, or don’t, I don’t care. Post everything to facebook and twitter, make the internet just 2 websites instead of 5, refuse to have control of the primary platform your work is shared on, whatever
As a fanart hoarder, the number of great artists I know of who seem to exclusively post their work on Twitter, a completely unsearchable platform that lossy compresses anything you upload to it and makes it a pain in the dick to get highest quality downloads, as opposed to a browsable upload platform like deviantArt, Pixiv, or Tumblr, infuriates me.
I think I know why a lot of them do it, too. To them, their work is intentionally ephemeral. They want to draw a thing, release it to the world, be admired for a day, and let it fade away into the aether. They don't want a browseable archive of their past work. Art they draw is disposable. Twitter is the best platform for this, as everything on Twitter is naturally consumed this way. That, and its audience is way larger than any of the other platforms I mentioned, so they get more eyes on their work.
Yeah, an archive exists on Twitter, but unless you want to scroll scroll scroll through every single tweet they've ever made in reverse chronological order, you're never going to find what you're looking for without some kind of external indexing tool. All of this before Elon bought it and further enshittified it within an inch of its life. You can't even browse posts without being logged in anymore.

Off my antidepressants and just rawdogging reality.

I just rawdogged this comic

I just rawdogged this comment
- I just rawdogged myself?

Ok, but like the use of the word is correct as it evolved from the original meaning.

That dude is just explaining (albeit recent) word etymology to her.

It's like porn - "art porn" is not the same as "porn art".

Did you enjoy the joke?
- Your mom enjoyed my jokes
- Yes, that dude is gonna get raw hotdogs now.

She should have barebacked it instead.

Prescriptivists hate this one trick.

I still like the phrase "raw dogging reality" as I have zero desire to do so.

I'm too lazy to get my glasses, I guess I'll just RAWDOG this post.

Some context, this girl's character is one of those people strongly against using swear words with bad meanings, so to her it's quite a bit worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X33sr3T7ZTE

What a bore of a character premise.
- Only if it's a lecture in disguise or a "role model".
  As an actual character? Totally fine.
- Nah those types of personalities are freaks in the sheets.

I had to explain to my friend that "struggle snuggle" is not when your cat is trying to get away from you while you hug it.

I mean... from the cat's point of view that's EXACTLY what it is emotionally.
So also not a struggle session that ends with snuggles?
- That’s called aftercare.

Please explain like I’m 5, and a non-native speaker, what "rawdog" means 🧐

Fuck without condom.
You are not five.
- Thank you, I'm going to go repeat this in front of my teacher and tell them I heard it from my parents.
- Thanks pal. You’re right about me not being 5 of course. No idea how one would ELI5 that anyway.
Literal Eli5: "it's a slang term that some people use, but it isn't something you should worry about right now. It's meant for adults"
Since I'm becoming a father soon, I started learning responses like this
- This is how you end up with a generation of kids who grow up using "rawdog" to mean something other than "unprotected sex". Just talk to your kids about sex.
Me: Stop playing with the Nintendo Billy and listen: Rawdogging is when a mommy and a daddy loves eachother very much, and want to make a little baby then daddy puts his pee pee into mommy's wee wee...
Billy: eeeew TMI!
Just in case you really needed an answer.
In a sexual context, having sex without protection. In conversational context, it pretty much means with no support or accessories. So her "raw dogging" a bus ride means no music/entertainment, she's just going to have to look out the window or something.
Specifically, "raw" is rather obvious - meaning unprepared, as in to not use a condom
But the dog part comes from a more sinister usage where to "dog someone out" was to "pimp someone out" - ie coerce someone into sex work.

I once used the word twat around my then-girlfriend and she "corrected" me, insisting it was pronounced "twah". Turns out she thought people saying it were trying to use the French word toit and mispronouncing it. No idea why she thought anybody would want to call somebody else a French roof.
- Lookit' this French Roof, over here, c'rectin' people's grammer...
You're friend wasn't the first to make such a mistake. There's a poem from 1841 by Robert Browning, called Pippa Passes, in which he misunderstands the meaning of the word "twat." Apparently he thought it was the name for part of a nun's outfit.
But at night, brother howlet, over the woods,
Toll the world to thy chantry;
Sing to the bats' sleek sisterhoods
Full complines with gallantry:
Then, owls and bats,
Cowls and twats,
Monks and nuns, in a cloister's moods,
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry!
I learnt that when I was about 7 after shouting it at my dad in front of a crowd of people.
- That reminds me of the time I went to a roller disco as a child, having just seen Mr Bean at the pictures that afternoon (this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_(film)). There's a bit at the end where Mr Bean's in a convertible waving at everyone he sees, when this hard knock rides up on a motorbike and responds with the middle finger, so Mr Bean naïvely copies the gesture and ends up sitting high up on the back of the seat giving the finger to everyone and no one. Ironically enough, I was too young to know what the finger was, so I just naïvely copied the gesture myself and started skating in circles around this sports hall giving the finger to everyone and no one. I don't remember anyone doing anything about it either!

I've seen so many Gen-Zers on TikTok saying how to raw dog a flight. ummmmmm please don't

Wait all this time I was supposed to wear a condom while on a flight?
Oh no I have a lot of phone calls to make.
Literally today heard a preteen at my daughter's dance class say she was "rawdogging" the parking lot because she was walking around without shoes. No, child. Just... no.
- Man, people my age (39yo millennial) have been using "raw dogging" to mean literally doing anything without some sort of protection or barrier between you and something nasty for a while; not strictly sex without a condom.
  "Ew .. You cleaned your toilet without gloves? You just raw dogged that shit?! Bro, I'm going home. Fuck this BBQ."
That's 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂

When you dont have adblock You raw dog the internet

At least it's not an I'll informed engineer inventing new terms out of already existing terms.

Forgot my sluice gate goons raw dog this shaft work.
- I'm almost ashamed this makes sense to me

What do people actually think rawdog means (besides having sex without a condom)?

People use it as slang for doing something in the most basic way without protection/assistance/augmentation, etc.
Pretty much just like the lady in the comic.
- Yes, because they understand the meaning and are making a play off of it. I genuinely do not believe anyone over the age of 12 who uses the term "rawdog" isn't completely and fully aware of the meaning when they use it.
Taking a transatlantic flight and spend it all awake, looking at the flight map.
- I feel like the real meaning is milder than this

This was the exact joke used on the show Shrinking. Where Harrison Ford had no idea what its true meaning meant and would use it in some questionable situations until eventually someone had the balls to tell him what it really meant. It wasn't a great show but it was ok sometimes.

Thank you, I was struggling to remember where I (and the cartoonist I guess?) had originally heard this joke.

Alternatively the phrase suggests a wiener is cooked for protected sex so it wasn’t the best used metaphor in the first place.

Raw can also refer to the lack of a protective layer. One can rub their skin raw, for example, meaning the skin was rubbed so hard that the top layer was removed. The "cooking" in this case would be the skin healing back. And putting a condom over it for safety.
Raw meat carries infectious disease

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/style/rawdog-flights-term.html

I had a friend that did exactly this. We had to tell him and he wasn't impressed.

Just gonna say, I find this kind of thing adorable

I will relentlessly make fun of them, but it's endearing and I'll go off on anyone else making fun of them

Next thing it'll be"I got pegged last night. I was so full!"

Clearly the sudden popularity of this phrase comes from this exact confusion.

Is it a term originating from the Omegaverse?