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redzonerocker
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 Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject: ban |
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| Vital Spark wrote: |
These two girls are abiding by the rules, but can see something that the so-called educated people who run the country can't. Wouldn't it be rather nice if the law-makers had the same mindset as two lower-educated law-abiding lasses. |
& if this philosophy was applied everywhere, wouldn't the world be a much better place 
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klikster
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| DawnHHDRC wrote: | ^ Once in 4 years, Klikster? Are you figuring in local elections, Buddhist holidays, Royal birthdays etc? All of those have alcohol bans.
I still think it's a bit of a storm in a (sangsom filled) teacup, but it's not exactly an irregular occurrence here in the Land Of Smiles. |
My post referenced the general elections .."This particular inconvenience normally happens once in 4 years"
But I can't get overly upset over the other alcohol bans .. especially on Buddhist holidays. It's not like tourists can't find the information .. it's all over the internet. |
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lomuamart
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I'm gobsmacked. Despite the best efforts of my wife and I to find any local establishment willing to sell some beer, they've all come to no avail. Will NO-ONE sell me a beer?
I'm down to my last bottle. Got to get the intavenous drip equipment out soon 
Bloody hell, it's Xmas tomorrow. My liver could probably do with the rest today anyway
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DawnHRD
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I know of a restaurant serving beer today, Lomu (same one as last week), but I don't think they'll sell it for home consumption. I saw them serving a Thai girl a Singha in a milkshake cup this morning. I don't want to get them in trouble though.
If you want some, I have a box of large Archa that I bought yesterday. I can let you have half a dozen... 
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HHTel
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| I've just come back from a well known entertainment venue. Openly serving beer etc (which is why I stayed). Not a small Thai bar but a large concern. Wouldn't be right to disclose the name but has a large swimming pool, gym and sauna. A very 'sporty' villa!!! |
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Randy Cornhole
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I also found somewhere selling beer openly...hic! But like every good alcoholic I have my own stash of 10 x large sangsoms, 30 X coke zero (well you don't want to become a fatty do you) and the obligatory dripping baguette. Happy new year to you all..............
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buksida
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The principle being Thai venues are allowed to get away with it and the major clamp downs and enforcement are against farang ones. I took this weekend out of Hua Hin, went to a less touristy area and got happily lashed up with the locals who all went to vote that same day!
Theres a message there somewhere
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redzonerocker
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject: ban |
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| buksida wrote: | The principle being Thai venues are allowed to get away with it and the major clamp downs and enforcement are against farang ones. I took this weekend out of Hua Hin, went to a less touristy area and got happily lashed up with the locals who all went to vote that same day!
Theres a message there somewhere |
yes, thailand belongs to the thais, like it or lump it!!!! 
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Did I say it didn't.
Not another one of these "if you don't like it go home" merchants 
Heard it all before, they can't abide by their own rules and regulations but expect farangs to?! Yeah right.
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redzonerocker
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: ban |
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| buksida wrote: |
Not another one of these "if you don't like it go home" merchants
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not in the slightest buksida!
i just prefer to go with the flow & having lived in several countries around the world, have found on numerous occasions certain rules & regs are always stacked against the 'farang' in many shapes & forms.
its sometimes just best to accept the predujice because in the long run i doubt you will change the reasoning behind it, no matter how much you challenge it.
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buksida
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: ban |
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| redzonerocker wrote: |
its sometimes just best to accept the predujice because in the long run i doubt you will change the reasoning behind it, no matter how much you challenge it. |
Can't argue with that one, its just not that easy sometimes.
I did enjoy reading the report in todays BKK post about all the people that got arrested for tearing their ballot papers, whether intentional or not half of them were pissed at the time they voted.
Probably explains the outcome too. 
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: Gutted |
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I have to say had i been on holiday during this drink ban period i would have been rather upset.
Were the larger hotels not even serving a tipple? |
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richard
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Didn't have a problem in Khon Kaen. All the Thais DID!
I rolled up to a roadside shop and read the sign saying 'no liquor today'
The Thai boss waddles out and said 'your not Thai and cannot vote so I can sell you liquor'. I even had pleas from local Thais for me to sell them some of my liquor
All this twaddle about it being biased towards farang is based on small minded people with farang chips on their shoulders airing their biased views
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In the tourist zones it most certainly is from what I saw in CM and what the others are saying.
Khon Kaen isn't exactly a tourist zone and probably has a different style of enforcement (being an Isaan zone).
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Not sure about that
True........ KK has few tourists but a lot of expats
True.........Isaan districts have a different set of rules but usually tend to be laxer than other parts of Thailand. So why a heavy clampdown on the Thais in KK?
Question? Why hit the tourist areas? when they can scuttle back to their hotel and imbibe. Most tourists now in HH are families and not bar dwellers. Expats know the game and know where to go for a sherbert or three
It all goes back to my previous posting about narrow minded farang thinking. We are here because we all love the place and we think it's better than where we have come from. Can we not integrate and accept their logic? If not a plane is not far away and back to so called 'western civilisation'
Abide by the law, take a low profile and be guided by the Thais. They know best
No offense meant but 'when in Rome----'
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