Booze industry urges govt to lift prohibition

[vogie]

14 minutes ago, GreasyFingers said:

Sounds like that Leo is looking pretty good now.

Not really, I still have six cans of Cheers and Tiger left, 3 bottles of vodka, 1 bottle of homemade Grand Marnier and a bottle of homemade Limecello, 6 litres of homemade pineapple wine and other partly filled bottles of various liquor. Hopefully this should see me through untill the 1st of May.????????????????????

[hotandsticky]

5 minutes ago, GreasyFingers said:

You know the old saying "any port in a storm". The same with beer.

 

 

I draw the line at Archa.

[fishtank]

24 minutes ago, GreasyFingers said:

Sounds like that Leo is looking pretty good now.

Leo will never look or taste good. ????

[SoilSpoil]

In my opinion alcohol should be banned for a year, as a social experiment. Would love to read the reactions.

Edited April 27, 2020 by SoilSpoil

[Lacessit]

Just now, SoilSpoil said:

In my opinion alcohol should be banned forever, made a class 1, drug, and other much better and less damaging mind altering substances legalized. 

Perhaps it is worth noting that since 1989 it has the WHO classification of a Class 1 carcinogen.

[aZooZa]

6 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

In my opinion alcohol should be banned for a year, as a social experiment. Would love to read the reactions.

How erudite. Great contribution to the thread.

[robblok]

10 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

In my opinion alcohol should be banned for a year, as a social experiment. Would love to read the reactions.

It would certainly limit the amount of foreigners living here. I figure more then half on this forum can't live without it. 

[kickstart]

My few cattle and a lot of dairy farmers in this area ,will glad of the lift of the ban ,the spent barley grains from the beer brewing industry ,are feed to cattle,a good feed they are too ,since the ban very little  beer has been brewed , so no brewers grains for our cattle ,and very little  to substitute them, some spent grains from the making of Ovaltine but not enough to go round .

[bannork]

14 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

In my opinion alcohol should be banned for a year, as a social experiment. Would love to read the reactions.

Alcohol, especially beer, is a wonderful drug if you use it right. I'm toiling in the fields of our farm every day and returning home at 6.00 pm, those first and second beers are pure heaven.

The first quenches the thirst, like a plant deprived of water. The second kicks in, the mild euphoria rejuvenates me. Ready to face the world again, and of course any more beers after those first two, are more than welcome 

 

Edited April 27, 2020 by bannork

[Eibot]

Please lift this ridiculous ban and do a power trip of something else.

[robblok]

5 minutes ago, bannork said:

Alcohol, especially beer, is a wonderful drug if you use it right. I'm toiling in the fields of our farm every day and returning home at 6.00 pm, those first and second beers are pure heaven.

The first quenches the thirst, like a plant deprived of water. The second kicks in, the mild euphoria rejuvenates me. Ready to face the world again, and of course any more beers after those first two, are more than welcome 

 

Its one of the drugs that creates the most violence. Weed is far better (health wise) if you vape or eat it. But sure some people can use alcohol without violence. Too bad a lot of people cannot. Too bad its not legal here yet (weed).

 

For me its a bit of fun to see peoples drug of choice banned, now they know how it feels for those who like other drugs. Maybe they learn something from it. 

Edited April 27, 2020 by robblok

[kickstart]

30 minutes ago, vogie said:

Are classing Leo as beer?

When it first came  out on the label was imprint of a  medal Leo beer won at an  Australian beer festival..................says something about Aussie beer.  

[cyril sneer]

2 hours ago, Saradoc1972 said:

From what I know Lao Kao is made putting a covered aluminium pot in the sun for two days with two measures of rice and one measure of sugar.
Does anybody know, how much water? 

Can someone answer this please 

[stubby52]

1 hour ago, Dmaxdan said:

And what of the thousands of people whose livelyhoods depend on sales and distribution of alcohol? And the billions of baht that the government rakes in every year from the tax on alcohol sales? Whatever the decision the government decide on has to focus on the bigger picture. 

 

 

why do you listen to these wowsers treat them with the contempt they deserve!

[holy cow cm]

Ban the ban. Ban Anutin! 

[eeworldwide]

2 hours ago, Muzzique said:

The number of emergency A&E cases that were alcohol related have fallen from 40% to around 15% which has freed up much needed emergency medical staff and beds. This ban is likely to continue well into the summer/autumn so get used to it. 

 

If the government didn't hide the true virus figures you would see why it is needed. Thailand is in a deep hole at the moment with CV19. You can probably tell this from the severity of the lock down against so few cases reported, the size of the mismatch.

 

The issuing of doctored figures is designed to prevent civil unrest. This is probably the best way for everyone's safety including yours.

 

So just sip on your iced tea and enjoy the rest. We should see things easing off by October hopefully.

Im sorry - who are you?

[Zarathustratos]

I'm confused as to why these articles are talking about "the government". 

 

As far as I'm aware there is no national ban. The bans were put in place by the individual provincial governors. It's up to them whether or not the bans stay.

[Lingba]

In the US most states deemed liquor stores as essential businesses and have been allowed to stay open

[eeworldwide]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

Don't know about that, can't say i have ever had sex with an ugly woman.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, mate!

[darksidedog]

I find Anutins comment that " we can't sell beer as we have no vaccine yet", as further proof of his complete inadequacy to hold any public office, let alone be the health minister.

Is he seriously suggesting we can't buy alchohol for another year plus, that being the time it is likely to take? Tourism will just love that one, eh?

His incompetence, stupidity and blatant racist comments, make him quite possibly the worst person on the planet to be allowed to run anything. Pound against a pile of dog poo, we can buy beer again before there is a vaccine.

If Prayut insists on keeping him in office, at least muzzle the fool to stop him creating further embarrassment.

[VictorInBKK]

12 minutes ago, Zarathustratos said:

I'm confused as to why these articles are talking about "the government". 

 

As far as I'm aware there is no national ban. The bans were put in place by the individual provincial governors. It's up to them whether or not the bans stay.

Pretty obvious that provinces are reacting to what is being decided in Bangkok. Provincial Governors are essentially spokesmen these days.

 

By the way, I find it sad how fast those who dont drink / care about alcohol go out of their way to judge others in these threads.

 

I would not read more than 2 posts in a thread that was discussing an ongoing ban on conventional massage services, let alone messing around with those wanting them back... 

 

[lamyai3]

2 hours ago, Muzzique said:

If the government didn't hide the true virus figures you would see why it is needed. Thailand is in a deep hole at the moment with CV19. You can probably tell this from the severity of the lock down against so few cases reported, the size of the mismatch.

Perhaps you could provide links to evidence of overstretched hospitals with patients lying in corridors, and bodies piled up with nowhere to dispose of them? These images were leaked easily from countries with very strict internet freedoms such as China and Iran, surely with Bangkok being the facebook capital of the world social media would be awash with such reports in a matter of minutes - if any existed. 

[Zarathustratos]

14 minutes ago, VictorInBKK said:

Pretty obvious that provinces are reacting to what is being decided in Bangkok. Provincial Governors are essentially spokesmen these days.

 

By the way, I find it sad how fast those who dont drink / care about alcohol go out of their way to judge others in these threads.

 

I would not read more than 2 posts in a thread that was discussing an ongoing ban on conventional massage services, let alone messing around with those wanting them back... 

 

If the national government wanted a national ban, I'm pretty sure they'd just do it, as they've done in the past. 

 

This seems to have been mostly the initiative of governors, hence the staggered stop dates which were then replaced by a uniform date of April 30th.

[lamyai3]

2 hours ago, Oldie said:

I don't see it like this. It for sure wasn't easy for them to lock down the whole night life and to ban alcohol - didn't make them many friends. But despite of this they did it. Some western governments could learn something. There they are often too scared of powerful lobbies and are just slaves of them. 

It was super easy for them. Don't you remember Section 44, which allowed them to pass laws and do what they wanted with impunity? The Emergency Decree is a hark back to those good old days of absolute power, with the freedom to do whatever they want, including silencing critics in the name of national security. 

[3NUMBAS]

thai livers are saying nein nein mein heir

[djayz]

4 hours ago, Oldie said:

I think it is quicker to tell in what sense it didn't work. Drunken people can create many problems. 

And sober ones are incapable of doing anything? Adolf, to name but one, was a teetotaler and look at what he got up to! 

Edited April 27, 2020 by djayz

[tomacht8]

Alcohol kills the virus. Lubricated on the outside on the hands and for gargling and drinking from the inside. That the population, such an important active ingredient is banned for use, is a cheek.

Edited April 27, 2020 by tomacht8

[lamyai3]

1 hour ago, bannork said:

I'm toiling in the fields of our farm every day and returning home at 6.00 pm, those first and second beers are pure heaven.

The first quenches the thirst, like a plant deprived of water. The second kicks in, the mild euphoria rejuvenates me.

Although I'm more likely to be found lounging on the sofa than in a field, I'd describe my first couple of beers of the day in much the same way. 

[Thunder26]

5 hours ago, vogie said:

I hope Leo, Chang and Singha are banned permanently and only allow sales of Cheers and Tiger.

Cheers? You must be kidding. That's one of the worst lagers in the market. Anyway you got it right with Tiger ????

[Thunder26]

4 hours ago, OneeyedJohn said:

My wife wife got 2 cases of beer today from the Mom 'n Pop shop I have always patronised.

Any extension of the ban will simply not work because people will not put up with it, and by people I mean both the customers, and the retailers.

 

To give an example, our village is just one of 25 in a small jurisdiction outside of Chiang Rai, There are hundreds if not thousands of other villages like ours in the province as a whole.

The wholesaler in our village has a warehouse where he can store 100's upon 100's of cases of beer all on pallets.

I would be careful posting an illegal activity at the moment plus giving away the location. There are a lot of vultures at present looking for any opportunity to financially punish the "wrong doers". Enjoy your beer ????