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People urged to wear retro-Thai costumes during Songkran festival

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People urged to wear retro-Thai costumes during Songkran festival

 

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BANGKOK, 4 April 2018 (NNT) – The Ministry of Tourism and Sports and the Ministry of Culture are encouraging the people and foreign visitors to Thailand to wear retro-Thai costumes during Songkran festival. 

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports and the Ministry of Culture jointly launched a campaign promoting the wearing of Thai costumes while celebrating the upcoming Songkran festival. 

Tourism and Sports Minister Wirasak Kowsoorad said the campaign promotes the Thai people who travel to their home provinces during Songkran festival to wear retro- Thai costumes, making the atmosphere of the festival more beautiful. 

In addition, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports will organize Water Festival 2018 in various locations across the country during 13-15 April 2018. 

He said Thailand will host Sport Accord Convention 2018 during 15-20 April 2018, bringing together some 5,000 members of 100 sports associations to help boost the economy of tourism sector, and generate incomes to local villagers. 

The Sport Accord Convention 2018 will lead to the improvement to sports associations, promoting the roles of the Thai people in international sports associations, and exhibiting Thailand's readiness to host regional offices of international sports federations in the future.

 
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  • I'm thinking Prayut wishes he could have a time machine and drop the whole country back a 100 years. Where everyone dressed how he wants, commoners just did what they were told and of course there wer

  • I'll tuck my jeans into my socks  

  • I must confess it would be really nice to see Songkran celebrated in the traditional way with none of the chaos and carnage..  But it would also be nice to see a flying elephant, dressed in a pin

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4 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports and the Ministry of Culture are encouraging the people and foreign visitors to Thailand to wear retro-Thai costumes during Songkran festival. 

I’ll pass. 

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I'll tuck my jeans into my socks   :sorry:

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I'm thinking Prayut wishes he could have a time machine and drop the whole country back a 100 years. Where everyone dressed how he wants, commoners just did what they were told and of course there were none of these ridiculous "elections".

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If i wear a thai costume, speak thai and walk like a thai, will i get to live

in peace in this country like a thai? and without worrying about Visas,

90 days, permits etc.etc.?.... 

Thailand 0 B.E.

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2 minutes ago, kotsak said:

Thailand 0 B.E.

One Boiled Egg?

 

Just now, bluesofa said:

One Boiled Egg?

 

B.E as 'Buddhist Era', similarly to 0 A.D

Just now, kotsak said:

B.E as 'Buddhist Era', similarly to 0 A.D

I thought it would surely be 0 P.E.

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Back to the Rice Fields peasantry!!!    know your place

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I must confess it would be really nice to see Songkran celebrated in the traditional way with none of the chaos and carnage.. 

But it would also be nice to see a flying elephant, dressed in a pink tutu, playing Beethoven's symphony no 9 on a Lego harpsichord.

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39 minutes ago, starky said:

I'm thinking Prayut wishes he could have a time machine and drop the whole country back a 100 years. Where everyone dressed how he wants, commoners just did what they were told and of course there were none of these ridiculous "elections".

..and farangs hadn't been invented yet.

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So they have a soap opera that is popular and the government jumps in a tells people to dress like the people in the soap opera. 

 

The UK missed an opportunity there then didn't they - why weren't cameroon and May encouraging the UK populace to dress like the actors in Downton Abbey - Oh yes I know its a ridiculous idea!

 

25 minutes ago, jonclark said:

So they have a soap opera that is popular and the government jumps in a tells people to dress like the people in the soap opera. 

 

The UK missed an opportunity there then didn't they - why weren't cameroon and May encouraging the UK populace to dress like the actors in Downton Abbey - Oh yes I know its a ridiculous idea!

 

Bugger Downton... that appealed to the seppo's more than the average Brit.

 

Now Coronation Street has much more to offer.

 

How about Peaky Blinders eh?

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

..and farangs hadn't been invented yet.

They hadn't even got as far as 'Pat. Pending' with them.

 

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Finally!

After 10 days of stupid BS about Songkhran AND that dumb- @$$ soap, we finally join the 2 together for even more stupid BS!

It really was inevitable!

:bah:

4 minutes ago, DM07 said:

Finally!

After 10 days of stupid BS about Songkhran AND that dumb- @$$ soap, we finally join the 2 together for even more stupid BS!

It really was inevitable!

:bah:

Very,very,true-it was our destiny,:smile:

4 hours ago, starky said:

and drop the whole country back a 100 years

His brain, so it seems, already reached the desired time slot. 

4 minutes ago, Lupatria said:

His brain, so it seems, already reached the desired time slot. 

Except he doesn't have one......just a wind up key somewhere discrete.

The government is really trying to milk the success of the Channel 3 drama Buppaysaniwat, The trouble is in this heat that cow is soon going to run dry.

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The outfits everyone assumes  are period costumes are a fiction. The majority of Thais wore clothes that were dirty and  well worn because they were dirt poor peasants. Only the wealthy had the beautiful Chut Thai. Having  foreigners dress up in Thai outfits is an insult in the making. The  traditional outfits do not go well with scooters.

A troll post containing nudity has been remove as well as a reply.  

 

A troll post containing offensive reference to the government has been removed as well  as a reply.

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Sure, why not put on those expensive silk costumes and then face the beer swilling crowd with their ice-water/powder mix.

1 minute ago, klauskunkel said:

Sure, why not put on those expensive silk costumes and then face the beer swilling crowd with their ice-water/powder mix.

No.Whilst I understand the political import of all of this..

 

Nevertheless my mother-in-law will put on traditional costume for Songkran as will many of her friends and I admire her for it.

 

Having returned to my own country-sans tradition,respect,and  for anything other than 125 inch  flat screen TV's, and X Boxes- and with the brains of technological,industrialized proletarians,I prefer elsewhere.

 

I admire it  because that is why I came to Thailand,

6 hours ago, JoePai said:

I'll tuck my jeans into my socks   :sorry:

I've seen pictures of what the Thai women used to wear Topless ? 

Time of the year to breakout the sub mariner.

the whole government is a kind of RETRO......attitudes, culture, brain.....(unfinished)

Nationalism. Nothing more, nothing less.

1 hour ago, geriatrickid said:

The outfits everyone assumes  are period costumes are a fiction. The majority of Thais wore clothes that were dirty and  well worn because they were dirt poor peasants. Only the wealthy had the beautiful Chut Thai. Having  foreigners dress up in Thai outfits is an insult in the making. The  traditional outfits do not go well with scooters.

No,I don''t think so.

 

They had their Sunday best just as Welsh miners had.

 

Do not treat these people with disrespect.

Sarong and no shirt it is then. Do I get a good boy medal?

 

Also, boobies seem to be allowed, Big P must've mellowed:

 

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