Ok, what is this crap about "traditional costume"? What the <deleted> is "traditional costume"? In my country, the "traditional costume" doesn't exist and has never existed. We have something called national costume or local folk costume, both which nobody in their right mind would be seen in if it was not for an exhibition or costume event or any other organized theater event. And those costumes go back several 100 years. So if that is the case, Thais should be wearing simple unstitched loin clothes and be bare-chested, like they did several 100 years ago.

17 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

But..but..that does look like a traditional military coup uniform,doesn't it?

And a traditional military greeting.....

3 hours ago, sirineou said:

If 80% of the people wanted revelers to wear traditional costumes, 80%  of the revelers which I assume are people would be wearing traditional costumes.

so what's stopping them?

It's the old and deeply embedded tradition of what 'we say vs. what we do'...

I'm not sure why these 'polls' even get reported as news.

Everyone in their right mind knows they are as fake as Hell, jeez, another day another Nida poll telling us how 95% of the populous agree with whatever today's junta proclamation happens to be

Maybe time will prove me wrong.

But with the exception of the specially staged photoshoots for the nightly fantasy news, I predict in your average Songkran water fest in a town/village near you, the percentage actually dolled up will be close to 0%

Some don't like to wear anything. That is the problem. 

 

 A new O-net Test Question:

 

  Over 84 percent of people want revelers to wear traditional costumes during Songkran. What will the other 50% wear?

 

   

 

 

   

 

   

3 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

Like my stepson..

 

Pair of shorts,thongs and a T shirt with 'MEGADEATH' on the front.

 

A MegaDEATH T shirt? Boy, did the printer screw up...

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Over 84 percent of people want revelers to wear traditional costumes during Songkran

What if 84% of the revelers didn't drink and drive? 

I hope they will publish the results of another survey of exactly what percentage of revellers at Songkran were actually wearing their traditional costumes.  Certainly not 86% and almost certainly not even 14%.  

29 minutes ago, NextStationBangkok said:

Some don't like to wear anything. That is the problem. 

That's a 'problem'? 

1,250 respondents out of how many?  No mention of the number that didn't respond!

25 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

 

 A new O-net Test Question:

 

  Over 84 percent of people want revelers to wear traditional costumes during Songkran. What will the other 50% wear?

 

   

 

 

   

 

   

Ah ha, you clearly understand Thai maths. 

 

Well if the various lakorns are to believe, the good general should be true to his word, and wear traditional clothes.

All that Western camo stuff....not good

 

I await with bated breath to watch next Friday

 

I wonder what the poll question was...

 

would you  like to see people wearing traditional dress? 

Or

Would you wear traditional dress?

Surely those 2 foot long fingernails make firing a pump action water gun difficult.

18 minutes ago, lvr181 said:

That's a 'problem'? 

Yes in some cases, if it were me, for example it would not be a pretty sight wet or not

3 hours ago, heybuz said:

Poll revealed 14percent of Thais have common sense

I won't disagree with that, when you take everything in to consideration, driving and riding ability etc, that

should be about right.

2 hours ago, captspectre said:

what about the falang tourist idiots who wear tank tops, and shorts, and walk around like a bunch of drunken fools  throwing water on everyone? what about the drunk females who wear next to nothing yet take offense when someone grabs their butt?

 

It does not matter what the girls are wearing, or almost wearing, Songcran or not, you do not touch them.

1 hour ago, NextStationBangkok said:

Some don't like to wear anything. That is the problem. 

What problem?

All songkran is a week of boozing and for thais not to work. Half would not even know what songkran means. 

Well, so what? Has there ever been a more pointless poll - unless General Happiness and his deputy, General KeepTime, are planning to make it compulsory?

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45 minutes ago, TEFLKrabi said:

I wonder what the poll question was...

 

would you  like to see people wearing traditional dress? 

Or

Would you wear traditional dress?

Probably " Do you like som tam !! "

2 minutes ago, ronaldo0 said:

Probably " Do you like som tam !! "

Ha ha! Couldn't have been, only 84% said yes.

 

Where do we get all these traditional celebratory garb and gear? Where did this girl find this ancient "cock" bow for example? 

3 hours ago, merlin2002 said:

These polls are a joke. they claim to have asked respondents across the country and only had 1,000 plus replies. For a country that has a population of 70 million it's a pretty meaningless poll...

Let me guess, you skipped all your statistics classes in high school as you clearly have no clue how sampling works.

 

Hint: you don't need to ask everybody to find out, with a certain degree of certainty, what "everybody" thinks.

Yes I agree with many posters here that wearing Thai traditional clothing while getting soaked is an expensive, and wasteful, idea. If they aren't anywhere near the water games, fine and nice ti see. In fact, I have just been to Tesco and at a guess I'd say 30-40% of the Thai shoppers were dressed traditionally...children too.

The 84 percent ??? most of that total must be  taylors  . a lot of colors from food dye go into the water thrown . 

84.96% of thais want to wear traditional costumes and the remaining 93.74% answered they will dress as they did in the past years.

56 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Ha ha! Couldn't have been, only 84% said yes.

 

I think Nida, AKA The PM, has downplayed the percentages. He asked three members of his staff, all of whom said yes, NIDA Poll published but to be believable percentage figure reduced. 

 

And no magic or ghosts involved. 

 

They completed this survey at Pension House. 14 out 17 agreed