jaywalker

The alcoholics aren't going to like this.

because they are too dumb to buy their booze during "times allowed?"

By 5pm they probably don't make it to the shop anymore on their own, and before 11am they're not alive yet.

Ever thought about the word "Convenience" in the term convenience store?

I wake up at 0530 for my trip to the beach near Trat.....The beach is isolated as hell. PRISTINE stuff. Thinking I'll probably enjoy a few beers in the afternoon so I pop into 7-11 to grab a few beers, Cokes, snacks, ice etc on my way to the beach with the wife & daughter.

"So solly suh, Cannot bia"

I work with my company in USA time, finish at 0100 hrs. Exhausted, ready for a beer. "So solly suh, Cannot bia".

The question is about freedom of choice, not your (nor anybody else's) skewed way of looking at other people's choices.

As has been said many times on here these times are not law, just govt request. Or is somebody going to claim Villa are paying off the cops on this?

Interesting question.

You can get a jug at Foodland in Pattaya most any time you want one. They never changed even years ago.

7-11 two doors up or down the street won't sell it though during the witching hours.

As for the pundits of this "rule", I say 2 things:

1) - If a law is a law, then enforce it 100%, not somewhat, sometimes, maybe.

2) - Reality is for people who can't handle drugs. Some of us can. Leave us alone.

We don't hold you down and water-board you with Jack Daniels (that almost sounds fun!), so don't tell us when we can or cannot drink booze.

Poor old lady. Glad she was found OK, but the mushroom comment was HILARIOUS!

FWD to 1:15

When my Mom was about 70, she went with my younger brother for a walk in the woods.

She took a roll of toilet paper with her & left little pieces hung on trees as she went so she could find her way out.

"The new restriction on sale of alcoholic drinks has come into force throughout the country as of January 7."

So it started 16 days ago? Has anyone noticed yet?

Well, actually I have noticed it for close to 16 years or so.

Pretty close.

I moved to Thailand in March 2001 & it started a year or so after that.

I recall the Hoop-la in the BKK Post and/or The Nation about keeping teenagers from drinking on their way home from school.

Can anyone explain the "logic" in not allowing alcohol sales between 2pm and 5pm? What is its purpose? What is is supposed to achieve? You can't stop off and have a beer on the way to pick the kids up from school?

As I recall, it was around 2003 when some brainiac dreamed this up as a way to keep teenage kids from drinking on their way home from school.

It seems like I am the only one (current powers that be included), that recalls this bizarre "reasoning".

Checking ID cards was never mentioned back then, nor does it seem to be mentioned very much at all, unless the BIB raid some place in Pattaya.

With it you could explain the 2-5 PM ban, but what about the midnight to 11 AM?

Sorry Dude, all I remember was the part about keeping kids from drinking on their way home from school.

Probably some busy-body tossed the night - morning stuff in there along the way. They probably heard Roadhouse Blues by The Doors in 1968 or so & had a bee in their bonnet over a beer in the mornings ever since.

"I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer".

Hell, I do it from time to time.

http://youtu.be/lw7QbpDbqXU

I must admit though, Thailand isn't the only place with stupid boozing times. 0200 - 0700 in most places I've been in the USA, along with dry Sundays.

Fairly inane stuff that only makes busy-body politicians feel good and smug about themselves.

I used to work in N. Indiana where it was dry on Sundays, so I'd drive 10 miles into Michigan to get a 12-pack.

I'm in Mt Vernon GA right now. No beer on Sundays, but I can drive 10 miles to Vidalia & get a 12-pack on Sunday.

In Thailand I can get refused beer at 10 AM and just walk next door to the Mom & Pop shop and get it.

Oh yeah....can't buy ONE case of beer at Makro before 11 AM, but you can buy TWO.

Buddy of mine wanted to grab a case of beer for me once because I'd done him a favor. I wound up with two cases as they wouldn't sell him only one

What is the point of elevators for the wheelchairs, when there is no chance for someone alone in a wheelchairl to get to the station. Maybe best to go to the courts and make the pavements wheelchair accessible first.

Yes, that's the first thing that I thought of.

They'd need something like this to transit BKK sidewalks.

Pfft! Amatuer! Only $4 million over 20 years?

Some Thai folks are probably laughing at how inept his corruption- is. They'd have got $20 million in 4 years.

EDIT: Can I say corruption "Kung-" with out it being deleted?

Edit (pt 2) - I guess not.

Its just a Thai version of Airport programs done elsewhere? I mean they look for colorful characters who have to deal with issues that come up. Camp bloke, etcetera.

I once had the misfortune of going thru the Newark, NJ airport.

I thought I was in the bar scene from Star Wars!

Typical story really. One idiot maybe starts something he can't finish. The fragile egoed males are hovering in the background as their women carouse with other men then jump at the chance to vent a bit and beat a lone man into unconsciousness. No wonder their women work bars as they're clearly not man enough to satisfy them.

Just waiting for the apologists to start blaming the tourist......

It's obvious really.

The tourist made the bar thugs "Feel Sad".

Further technology advances will have left them behind before they've even dug a hole.

They'll probably invent a way to transmit electricity wirelessly before they get past the first "Lawsuit" from a whining utility company.

My first ever visit to the USA Consular office was in in 1999.

They had GREAT BIG NOTICES plastered on the bulletin board.

"BEWARE OF SCAMS".

16 years later it has been admitted.

"...However a spokesman for the office of Indonesia’s attorney general, Tony Spontana, insisted the executions were in line with Indonesian law..."

Well then it certainly must be OK since it's the law. What asinine logic. And all those SS troops under Hitler had every right to kill millions because Hitler said it was OK. Humm, but maybe the law is barbaric or maybe the people making these laws are insane. Drugs are no reason to execute someone...EVER.

I do support the death penalty for brutal and premeditated murderers. I have zero sympathy for these people, but drug smuggling is not even close to murder.

So many countries in this world are still living in caves.

I just love "Laws". They must be OK right?

Here's a recent example of what "Law Makers" do, but...but...but we MUST OBEY.

They remind me of the original Planet of The Apes movie, where they have a "Giver of The Law".

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OUCH!

Gives a new meaning to the term "Finger Food"!

If some farang prove to be inept as teachers, let 'em go, and hire new ones.

Also pay English teachers more than what they can earn flipping burgers at McDonald's back in the West.

No wonder many are inept.

Dogs are higher in status then motorbikedrivers, they can sleep at the middle of the road and all cars will avoid them.

"He has said that he wishes to bring the younger generation back to agricultural sector as Thailand is an agricultural country."

Sounds like Pol Pot.

No it will not.

What do think they have computers for.

Btw. do you know what happens when you claim an American passport lost.

Yeah, don't claim it as lost.

Give it a cycle or two thru a washing machine & blame it on your wife.

That way you've got a damaged passport instead of an "unaccounted for" passport.

And it has restrooms half the size of those at the Mo-Chit bus station

A decent parking lot where I don't have to make a 97 point turn to get my car in or out of.

Thainess,,,,,,,,,,,,

To me, it's where they hire me to teach them some very technical stuff that a monkey could do, were he able to read English.

I teach them. I tell them. I set up systems and processes.

They grin at me and I have a workshop with garbage everywhere, 6 inches deep in water when it rains every day, a squat toilet with no running water, replete with a vicious dog that must be either beaten or circumvented on one's way to said bog...being fed nuclear spicy Thai food, so bog encounters are frequent.

And........They ignore every damned thing I say.

That was my last job in Thailand, re-building 25 each, 25 year old Air Force trucks.

I swear it was like working with 10 year old kids.

Thainess.

I wonder if "Eat S&t & Die" at the countless irritating touts AND "You falang No Good Man" will be banned when fake watch sellers armed with bayonets will apply.

I'm quite certain this rule will be strictly enforced...NOT.

It will be, like most laws the world over, just another selective clause the Bumbling Boys in Brown can charge somebody with....If it suits the occasion.

Agreed, but I still feel badly for the Muslims that just want live their lives peacefully and fit into Western society.

haven't met them yet...

peacefully yes but integrating-no...

So what ? do you speak Thai.. go to the Thai temple.. forgot about where you came from.. do you live in a farang ghetto ? Pattaya .. Phuket ect ? Do you only eat Thai food drink Thai beers ?

Immigrants complaining about other immigrants not integrating

Sorry but i prefer to stay how I am instead of turning Thai, give those Muslims the same cutesy as long as they are peaceful.

valid points...but i try NOT to change my host country or live from their social security...and to some points yes i integrate...

Forsooth! At least we integrate to the point where we don't go around screaming about our God whilst shooting people...

How does one cut someones penis twice?The first time could have caught him by surprise, but the second time.........

Personalty. after the first time I would have bought steel lined underwear.

Yeah No Sh*t!

Fool me once but......That was Mr. Happy she messed with once before. Methinks I'd have choked her to death the first time around.