1 hour ago, Vacuum said:

I bought Sangsom in my local hole-in-the-wall shop at the market this morning, no problem, as usual.

Thats holy water.

Just now, richard_smith237 said:

 

Yes... its called 'self control'.... if only you had the same instead of posting some of your replies.

Yeah right never met a drinker who switched off when having a good time. Its always the alcoholics who try to hard to justify their drinking.

the 3 stooges puffin out their bird like chests in the above pic put more emphasis on spouting off on how stupid they are with budda alcohol bans than they do for cop killers (red bull cop killer).

 

What a pathetic bunch.

37 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

The death sentence comes when an alcoholic's liver is so far gone they start shitting blood. Time off alcohol actually gives the liver some respite.

DTs will kill a guy.   Hopefully not w/in 24 hrs.   Usually worse 72 hrs than the first 24. 

Since when was Buddha a Lord. 

I will just leave that there... 

I would happily bet  alcohol is freely flowing in Army Navy and air force officer clubs.

Purely a bunch of hypocrites who are about as Buddhist as Ian Paisley!

 

 

 

Edited May 18, 20197 yr by poohy

What the heck is wrong with Thailand: drink = jail, mandatory health insurance, Visa restrictions, 800/400K in the bank, motorcycle deaths, foreigners committing suicides, stabbings, sheer idiocy here...people have gone mad!  And they call this paradise?  At what COST?  Is home country that bad, that this place looks like heaven? Looks worse than hell...

Edited May 18, 20197 yr by mike787

Bunch of Ting Tong!  Maybe you should have let my Thai neighbors and his police buddies know that out in the darkside they just got done drinking all night just breaking up and going to sleep now 11:15 am.  Jail what jail seems like the lights are on but no one is home?

Hey wait a minute the guy in the middle looks sure looks like I just saw him?

Edited May 18, 20197 yr by thailand49

1 minute ago, rkidlad said:

We’re all adults here

Shouldn't that be a poll question?

6 minutes ago, topt said:

I'm curious. Quite a few posters on here blaming the current "government" for this and the BIB for enforcing it. Was it actually any different when there was "civilian" rule?

 

I seem to remember bans on Buddha days going back about 10 years?

There have been alcohol-sale bans for as long as I can remember (over 10 years). Civilian rule? I don’t think there’s ever really been civilian rule in its purest form. 

1 hour ago, KhunKenAP said:

No change, except lights in bars turned off.

 

And your beer will be served in a coffee cup with the bottle hidden behind the counter.

Cannot sell but can drink isnt? 

So what, for anyone needs to drink alcohol today the solution was to buy what they needed yesterday. 

As guests in this country we have to accept the laws and regulations they have here. Simple 

Get your vodka in a water bottle day by the look of it ????

1 hour ago, Lemonltr said:

According the the Thai public holiday list publication, Visaka Bucha day is Monday 20th. Banks closed. 

The religious holiday is today, May 18th. As it falls on a Saturday, it is observed (offices and banks closed) on Monday. Alcohol ban only today.

14 minutes ago, madmen said:

Yeah right never met a drinker who switched off when having a good time. Its always the alcoholics who try to hard to justify their drinking.

 

Given your unbalanced and antagonistic responses towards ThaiVisa members who've posted perfectly reasonable comments I suspect that those people willing to meet and entertain conversation with you are not the best examples of a healthy mind and a true representation of balanced society....  As it would appear, your sample of the population in this case seems limited to alcoholics which perhaps distorts your judgement confirming an untrue bias. 

30 minutes ago, malibukid said:

i could anyone fall in love alcohol.,  very un-hip.

Disjointed. Absolutely.

2 hours ago, lemonjelly said:

Buddha would’ve let people decide for themselves; this is just another S.E. Asian country that has cnts in uniforms oppressing people.

I will always strictly abide by the laws and cultural ways of any host country I visit,but as you say knowing the ways of Buddhists open gentle ways they would prefer to do it your way, seeing as this country relies heavily on tourism I would have thought it would be more sensible to  let the locals do it their way for them, and allow a bit of slack for tourists, ah well no buying alcohol for me, good job I always have a stock, it says 'selling alcohol',  what about drinking alcohol ? better not drink for this day, just to be sure. (cough)

Many places around my neighborhood i can buy alcohol.....its ridiculous. It just hurts the chain stores, not the mom and pop shops.

43 minutes ago, Tengtai said:

So what, for anyone needs to drink alcohol today the solution was to buy what they needed yesterday. 

As guests in this country we have to accept the laws and regulations they have here. Simple 

Dont worry, plenty of places to buy despite what the government says,

2 hours ago, alant said:

Oh dear, another opportunity for the holier than thou to class all that want a drink as alcoholics and make a sarcastic remark.

True, they just cannot resist a miserable dig.

Years ago I began keeping 4, 1 liter bottles of vodka in the pantry for situations just like this. Grey Goose no less ????

7 minutes ago, MickeyDelux said:

Years ago I began keeping 4, 1 liter bottles of vodka in the pantry for situations just like this. Grey Goose no less ????

Sounds like breakfast's sorted, what about the other 2 meals?

20 minutes ago, tominbkk said:

Many places around my neighborhood i can buy alcohol.....its ridiculous. It just hurts the chain stores, not the mom and pop shops.

Poor chain stores, having to obey the law and all that... whatever next.

Alcohol's available. I mean, if you're one of the fraction who don't know where to get such banned items on such days, then making a plan shouldn't be too difficult - I mean, you planned to come to Thailand and managed to make it here on-time (I assume).  It's not like they've never had a Buddha Day in Thailand before, right?

Edited May 18, 20197 yr by Odisan

25 minutes ago, eddysmit said:

I will always strictly abide by the laws and cultural ways of any host country I visit,but as you say knowing the ways of Buddhists open gentle ways they would prefer to do it your way, seeing as this country relies heavily on tourism I would have thought it would be more sensible to  let the locals do it their way for them, and allow a bit of slack for tourists, ah well no buying alcohol for me, good job I always have a stock, it says 'selling alcohol',  what about drinking alcohol ? better not drink for this day, just to be sure. (cough)

It's got nothing to do with Buddhism. It's those in power enforcing it on others.

Let's face it (critical-thinking hat on now), if it was a Buddhist 'thing' and with Thailand being a Buddhist country jam-packed full of Buddhists for whom alcohol contravened one of the precepts, then surely there'd be no need to ban the sales of alcohol; or, at the very least, they'd refrain from partaking of Satan's juice for just 1 day? Either way there'd be no need to ban it.

Right, off me high-horse. Time for a beer...

2 hours ago, bristolgeoff said:

the old coffee cup trick will work and the mum and pop shop will be ok to buy beer on any day along with a supply of local

It used to be a teapot with a cup and saucer. Apparently fooled everyone.

A bit of a hit in the ares pocket for the likes of bars etc... but for the rest of the population it'll be a cold one or three out of the fridge.

2 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Great post UNTIL u had go on with that last sentence. Nobody has ever said here, on any such thread, that they just couldn't survive without alcohol for a day. Or that they were gonna "go postal", keel over or commit harakiri. That is just something created by the booze adverse lot. Got a bone on for drink and drinkers for whatever reason. 

 

You made the point so well, then totally blinkered it up. 

I don't see how it was blinkered up.

3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

I bought Sangsom in my local hole-in-the-wall shop at the market this morning, no problem, as usual.

It isn't a ban on toilet cleaning products.

13 minutes ago, Happy Grumpy said:

It isn't a ban on toilet cleaning products.

I know, but the choice was this or Hong Thong.

Edited May 18, 20197 yr by Vacuum