webfact Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 People urged to wear retro-Thai costumes during Songkran festival 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. -- nnt 2018-04-04 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bluespunk Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 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. 6 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JoePai Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 I'll tuck my jeans into my socks 2 1 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post starky Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 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". 14 1 1 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ezzra Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 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.?.... 4 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kotsak Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Thailand 0 B.E. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bluesofa Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 2 minutes ago, kotsak said: Thailand 0 B.E. One Boiled Egg? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kotsak Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Just now, bluesofa said: One Boiled Egg? B.E as 'Buddhist Era', similarly to 0 A.D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starky Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Just now, kotsak said: B.E as 'Buddhist Era', similarly to 0 A.D I thought it would surely be 0 P.E. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BobBKK Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 Back to the Rice Fields peasantry!!! know your place 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dmaxdan Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 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. 6 1 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NanLaew Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 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. 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jonclark Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 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! 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 1 hour ago, NanLaew said: ..and farangs hadn't been invented yet. They hadn't even got as far as 'Pat. Pending' with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DM07 Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 Finally! After 10 days of stupid BS about Songkhran AND that dumb- @$$ soap, we finally join the 2 together for even more stupid BS! It really was inevitable! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odysseus123 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 4 minutes ago, DM07 said: Finally! After 10 days of stupid BS about Songkhran AND that dumb- @$$ soap, we finally join the 2 together for even more stupid BS! It really was inevitable! Very,very,true-it was our destiny, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denim Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 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. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannork Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post geriatrickid Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 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. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post klauskunkel Posted April 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2018 Sure, why not put on those expensive silk costumes and then face the beer swilling crowd with their ice-water/powder mix. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odysseus123 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 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, 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemos Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 6 hours ago, JoePai said: I'll tuck my jeans into my socks I've seen pictures of what the Thai women used to wear Topless ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Time of the year to breakout the sub mariner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawadee1947 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 the whole government is a kind of RETRO......attitudes, culture, brain.....(unfinished) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinsdale Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Nationalism. Nothing more, nothing less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odysseus123 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 (edited) 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: Edited April 4, 2018 by DrTuner Fixed image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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