So I am preparing for my trip to Thailand in the next few weeks, and been watching a lot of IG and tok tok clips… There is a new trend going on with the youths: They call it RAWDOGGING. I had to Google it to get an explanation. It is basically sitting on the plane with : No eating, no drinking, no bathroom breaks, no entertainment, etc…Just staring at the ceiling for 12 hours straight..Any volunteers?
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The discussion revolves around a new trend called 'rawdogging', where people attempt to endure long flights without engaging in any form of entertainment, eating, or drinking. This trend has triggered various reactions, with many commenters criticizing it as idiotic and an indicator of mental health issues among participants. Others suggest that the fixation on social media trends may lead individuals to engage in foolish fads rather than enjoying the flight experience with normal activities such as reading or snacking.
Didn't know you can fly AirAsia from UK to Thailand. I heard a rumour a few years ago that they were going to operate those flights. So can you educate me please, do they do these flights. I believe it was supposed to be from Stansted?
One word "why",maybe examining what social media trends and tik tok are making utter morons of us 🙄I'm glad I grew up when booze was free on planes and as youngsters we got smashed for fun 😜🍻
Says the person posting on Facebook. Part of a generation for whom STDs and HIV were a scourge due to behavior. Actually STDs have always been around with whole families with inherited syphilis because Great Grandad was a randy degenerate.
ok Mr PC spoiler ,contradicting himself about stds 😂😂and even my 81 yr old father uses FB now to keep in touch 🙄and yes I also have Herpes ,but had a great time getting it 😂😂😂🍻
Well, the term has an obscene origin. It has many meanings now. If you drink black coffee, you are rawdogging caffeine. If you don't drink coffee at all, you are rawdogging your morning. It's an example of semantic beaching. To rawdog now means to do something without help. It's not about a made up fad on flight. Many a time I suppose I have rawdogged on a Thai flight (in the context described the OP, not in the context imagined by the disgusting 30 stone oafs) because the in flight entertainment is knackered and the 30 stone oaf in the Chang vest and purple skin is sleeping off the half dozen miniatures he has just knocked back. If something "sucks", we don't think of the origins in fellatio. W**ker is still fairly obscene, but being a jerk is now in everyday speech. Minced oaths are much the same, many falling out of use (gadzooks or gods hooks). For a while, minced oaths are code, everyone knows you are swearing, like fudge, bleep, sugar, frickin', but then it gets forgotten like blimey, gosh. The best one is when your old mum tells her grandson to stop being a berk all his life. She has just used literally (semantic bleaching of latin) the worst swear word known. And she didn't know it.
Noticing how something that represents existence with no pacification needing a name? That’s how foreign it is? 🤣
“What should I do? Nothing. 😳”.

Fwiw collectively IG and tic Tok are probably the worst representations of Thailand life publicly posted I’ve seen so hopefully you’re preparing in other ways. 😉
If that person seats next to me, and I'm not on the aisle (which I always choose, whenever it's possible), then their challenge would be interrupted many many times by my toilet breaks 😂
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