3 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Where? 

He was dreaming or having wet dream.

No alcohol sales may 1&2 from any 7/11.

Just a nonsense post from chap you quote.

5 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

32 minutes ago, dukeandduke said:

I'm no expert on this.  Any reason they would be unloading a truck of beverages, 90% of them beers, into a 7-11 this evening?

Where? 

Did you actually see this live just now?

 

If this is actually happening, there might be a surprise temporary 'lifting' just like how they shut it down with a 2 hour surprise 20 days ago

10 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Where? 

 

 Before 10 pm , curfew ,  @ 7/11 , every somewhere ..

2 hours ago, Ketyo said:

I wouldn't be surprised if the alcohol ban is the cause of social disturbances in future. It will be the root cause of Prayut's demise.

I strongly agree with you. This poor decision will cost them losing power. They've upset too many people.

7 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Yes sure thanks, I love golf not drinking and will certainly be enjoying myself.

I hate golf. I want it banned.

4 hours ago, DrTuner said:

Finding things like interesting hobbies in Thailand is not that easy. F.ex. I like to restore classic cars and they completely destroyed any possibility of that with the ban on importing them. Only thing that seems to be happening is making robots.

 

Many people seem to have drinking and mongering as their main hobbies, unless they are already sedate octogenarians that'll play chess against themself.

I am buying a new rc sailboat , nice! just what wanted and hand crafted in Germany 

what dont want is 22% import tax .. they don't make it easy

7 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

He was dreaming or having wet dream.

No alcohol sales may 1&2 from any 7/11.

Just a nonsense post from chap you quote.

Actually someone else had said the same thing about a couple of hours ago. 

15 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Where? 

My people on the ground took these at the Sukhumvit Soi 79 location.

 

 

If I wanted to come up with a policy which would make young Thais take drugs I would ban booze.

Lot of trouble going to come from this. Expect to see a huge increase in drug related crime as well.

 

Course not a problem for the top guys. The officers mess will still be open serving drinks.

Rather interesting! Domestic affairs (within Thailand), are usually the responsibility of the police on behalf of the Ministry of Interior - so the mind boggled further when I saw, that this time the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Spokesperson Natapanu Nopakun, broke the news.

Maybe someone explains this government, what those ministries are here for and who should say/do what. It would also help to put professionals as ministers - the "dirty farang" wacko has never spent five minutes on a medical study, lest forget a degree ........

The only professional ministry might be the Ministry of Inactive Posts, but I could be wrong there again ...

2 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Actually someone else had said the same thing about a couple of hours ago. 

I was responding to chap that asked a question. Thanks for useless assistance

16 minutes ago, LeamchabangLarry said:

Did you actually see this live just now?

 

If this is actually happening, there might be a surprise temporary 'lifting' just like how they shut it down with a 2 hour surprise 20 days ago

These were taken at about 8pm this evening.  They were stocking, not selling.

No bars or restaurants open here in USA, but I can still buy reasonably priced wine in grocery stores.

 

Thursday is my night to have one drink (I'm limiting myself to one a week and drinking 0.0 beer the rest of the time).

 

Can you imagine buying great tasting California wine in Thailand for 82B a bottle? ????????????????????????

 

 

5 minutes ago, dukeandduke said:

My people on the ground took these at the Sukhumvit Soi 79 location.

 

 

Wonder if prearranged and they would not stop delivery on the purchase order. Those people are distributors. All we can do is hope. But don’t hold your breathe . Thanks for the pics. Interesting. 

3 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

10 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Actually someone else had said the same thing about a couple of hours ago. 

I was responding to chap that asked a question. Thanks for useless assistance

well...

that escalated quickly

The government likes to shot its self in the foot ,they have lost billions of baht with no lottery tickets on sale ,and how much will they now lose in lost alcohol tax ,and how will they claw all that all back .

I can see a 5 baht increase in fuel prices ,mainly on gasohol ,first time I have known petrol/gasohol cheaper than diesel. 

6 minutes ago, dukeandduke said:

These were taken at about 8pm this evening.  They were stocking, not selling.

as I understood the ban, it was also illegal to stock alcohol, but hey, I ain't no martial law scholar

 

 

6 minutes ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Can you imagine buying great tasting California wine in Thailand for 82B a bottle?

No! not even letting my imagination run wild I couldn't, 30 odd years ago a reasonable bottle was ~ around 350 Baht ???? 

3 hours ago, EricTh said:

 

Alcohol isn't necessary whereas buying fresh food at market is necessary.

 

I haven't drunk any alcohol for more than a decade. Try healthier drinks like fruit juice and green tea instead.

 

Your post is pointless

Nobody cares that you haven't had a drink in 10 years and nobody is interested in your "Top Tips" of alternative beverages, do you think that people are so stupid that they don't know that green tea is more healthy than alcohol?

Of course they know, but since the government have not banned the sale of green tea it's a non issue.

People want to drink, simple. They should also not be judged ie, "you must have a drink problem if not drinking for a month is going to have such a profound effect on you"

Most people just enjoy a beer or two or a glass of wine, where is the problem? dogooders,  and there are at least 3 participating in this thread should butt out as it is no concern to them as they don't drink

 

You are only here to goad, go and post on the knitting forum you should find more comfort in that

6 hours ago, riclag said:

Right on the very day it was decided that the population here of 69 million with no death's from covid, as of yesterday , can't buy alcohol until further notice!

Whats goin on!

 

    Democracy , Thai style .

     Aka , Military rules ..

 

Was there any mention of massage parlors??

 

6 minutes ago, LeamchabangLarry said:

as I understood the ban, it was also illegal to stock alcohol, but hey, I ain't no martial law scholar

 

 

Oh, interesting.  I didn't see that.

According to Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, who seems to be the government's point man on the virus, the booze ban will last at least until 31st of May. You'll need to tighten your belts, guys, with all the weight you're going to lose not drinking any beer or wine for six weeks. 

7 minutes ago, LeamchabangLarry said:

10 minutes ago, dukeandduke said:

These were taken at about 8pm this evening.  They were stocking, not selling.

as I understood the ban, it was also illegal to stock alcohol, but hey, I ain't no martial law scholar

 

Not sure about stocking, but transporting alcohol was specified in the ban

17 minutes ago, dukeandduke said:

My people on the ground took these at the Sukhumvit Soi 79 location.

 

 

So close, yet so far...all that lovely booze will have an A4 sheet in front of it telling us all in bad English that it's not for sale. And we can't even leave the damned country either. 

20 minutes ago, Thunder26 said:

I strongly agree with you. This poor decision will cost them losing power. They've upset too many people.

I have to think that they had no choice in the matter! they are being told what to do by?

The people that put this "government" into power are the same people who own the breweries, the mega rich yellow families! there is no way this "government" would dare to stand up them in this way!

Just my opinion, the agenda has been changed, that must be blatantly obvious to the blind by now, the numbers just don't stand up to another month of lockdown!

1 minute ago, CGW said:

The people that put this "government" into power are the same people who own the breweries, the mega rich yellow families! there is no way this "government" would dare to stand up them in this way!

If there was even the slightest truth in your claim, then there would be no alcohol ban

4 minutes ago, Guderian said:

According to Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, who seems to be the government's point man on the virus, the booze ban will last at least until 31st of May. You'll need to tighten your belts, guys, with all the weight you're going to lose not drinking any beer or wine for six weeks. 

Somehow, i can foresee a spike in the sales of fruit juice, sugar and yeast

Wow 36 pages.   A hot topic.  I wonder how many expats would leave Thailand if this ban was permanent?  I read that mom amd pop stores still sold alcohol?   Was there still product shipping?  Wasnt there a big fine or jail time?  I'm sure all brew pots are now being filled with mash and stills  will be going full steam