webfact Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Video: The Demon Drink! Why giving booze as a present is so yesterday! Picture: Sanook Thai media has reported on the continued success of health marketing to stop the Thai public boozing. The campaign "Lao=cheng" (booze = a curse on you) has already become a well known catchphrase in Thailand to try to encourage Thais to stop drinking alcohol. Now a festive season advertisement ahead of New Year present giving is set to add to the campaign's success. In the latest ad a man arrives with a red package that everyone at the expectant table assumes is a bottle of spirits. But the host stares into the eyes of the present giver and says menacingly: "Are you trying to curse me?" But the tense mood breaks as he laughs and shows he is joking only to open the package in front of his thirsty friends to find it is just an ordinary torch. The friends stare at their own gifts arrayed on a table and discover them to contain such items as vegetables, fruit, an umbrella and even a plunger. The ad - featuring Thai celeb "Mam" Suthon Petchsuwan - has already been viewed about 4 million times online and is the idea of the Social Marketing Thaihealth group that wants the Thais to give up the demon drink. Sanook reported on the story saying that the campaign has the slogan: "These days no one gives booze". They said that the dangers of alcohol are well known and it is high time that alcohol stopped being given to family, friends and bosses as gifts. And it should also not figure in the baskets of goodies that are handed out at New Year. Source: Sanook -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-11-30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Many Thais have, perhaps due to their affluence, developed a taste for decent Whisky/whiskey and fine wines. Unfortunately, the Demon drink is usually released from bottles looking like this, more affordable by poorer Thais (and farangs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiwrath Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, webfact said: The friends stare at their own gifts arrayed on a table and discover them to contain such items as vegetables, fruit, an umbrella and even a plunger. If someone gave me that as a festive present, I know where I would be sticking it ! And it would be theirs, not mine ! Edited November 30, 2017 by Thaiwrath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaywalker Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Too bad they won't do similar campaigns against driving like a maniac and littering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morch Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 BiL already posted in the family Line that I'm to ignore said campaign, and retain my official role as purveyor of finer alcohol for family gathering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colabamumbai Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 I intend to give Scotish whiskey to my postman for Xmas/New Years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkidlad Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Reminds me of when a customer asked me if I like wine just before Christmas (a rich customer). I ended up receiving two bottles of rice wine. Gave them to my security guard with an apology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 15 minutes ago, Colabamumbai said: I intend to give Scotish whiskey to my postman for Xmas/New Years. He will love you for that and then turn round and sell it, the Scotch whisky, that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Next week I am lookg forward to seeing reports of a delegation of alcohol retailers lobbying the government to reduce tax and promote the product to revive flagging sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandtee Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Not so yesterday for me to gratefully receive a bottle of Laphroaig whiskey or Southern Comfort. Any offers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofarnorth Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 22 minutes ago, Gandtee said: Not so yesterday for me to gratefully receive a bottle of Laphroaig whiskey or Southern Comfort. Any offers? I too would like a bottle of single malt or Southern Comfort but ; as above , a toilet plunger ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandtee Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Perhaps the anti alcohol brigade would ban this? Responsible drinking is the spice of life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YetAnother Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 10 hours ago, webfact said: Sanook reported on the story saying that the campaign has the slogan: "These days no one gives booze". alcohol is an easy target for the current ultra-conservativism; everyone needs something to blame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YetAnother Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 10 hours ago, webfact said: is so yesterday! weak thinking, giving antiques would be 'so yesterday' to an elderly person ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy50 Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 52 minutes ago, Gandtee said: Perhaps the anti alcohol brigade would ban this? Responsible drinking is the spice of life! Thanks, that was great. In this country, they would have to blur out all the glasses. Sad. Unfortunately 'responsible drinking' is not a concept Thais understand. In Italy, where alcohol plays a big part in life, few people get drunk, and to do so, is seen as gauche and impolite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sklmeeera Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 If there is one phrase that irks it is 'responsible drinking ' What the <deleted> is that and why would anyone even consider that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morch Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 28 minutes ago, sklmeeera said: If there is one phrase that irks it is 'responsible drinking ' What the <deleted> is that and why would anyone even consider that ? That's an easy one: it's when you don't find yourself late night, on your knees in a puddle, having just found the key your dropped, then looking up at face of your elderly high-school teacher tsk-tsking, . Other examples aplenty, of course, but this one's textbook material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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