Thailand to allow alcohol sales after three-week ban: officials

[dinsdale]

Why was this moved to this forum?

[vogie]

24 minutes ago, graemeaylward said:

I find it sad that a previous thread announcing the lifting of the alcohol ban attracted 13 pages of comments, however, really important news about the ozone layer and the rejuvenating of nature in National Parks barely mustered a handful of comments!  I choose not to drink alcohol, but I am appalled by the number of people on this forum who see it as the only reason to live! Alcohol does not make the world go round! (unless you drink too much of course). 

Some of us drink to forget, I had nearly forgot how climate change and Brexit was going to kill us, now we have covid-19 to worry about, how about giving us some slack here, I think we deserve it.

[colinneil]

Get the tyres pumped up on my scooter, ready for the rush tomorrow buy some booze... Yippee.

Wife just said... You silly old sod, you dont drink, upstairs i have beer/ whisky from sawadee pee mai,????

If you want i will get for you.... Just think, many farang going cold turkey, no drink, and we got plenty, and neither of us drink.

Edited May 2, 2020 by colinneil

[animatic]

2 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Someone seen the Light 

Someone seen the stacks of pastel bills 

[2 is 1]

Something to catch up.

 

[loong]

They should also remove the time restrictions for buying alcohol.

I can imagine that at 11 am tomorrow the 7-11's will be very busy.

I just hope that people can avoid opening their purchases as soon as they leave the shops.
I don't want to see the ban re-introduced because of "gatherings" all chugging down beer outside the shops.

[mrjohn]

Whether you agree with an alcohol ban or not, this tin pot government's handling of the issue has been staggeringly incompetent.

[Susco]

Looks like Barrow was confused or got the wrong info, because the 2 day window to purchase, actually turned out to be a 2 day extension

[Rookiescot]

As a protest against these draconian measures I will not be going out and purchasing any alcohol tomorrow.

 

Yeah right. I'm heading into town tomorrow to show the Thais how to panic buy like a professional ????.

[metisdead]

37 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Why was this moved to this forum?

 

Because this is in the Thailand News forum which is about news in Thailand. 

[metisdead]

A post using inappropriate language and the replies have been removed. 

[Chassa]

To read ThaiVisa you would think that Thais don't drink beer.

[generealty]

I for one will be happy to buy a beer and drink at home, which I have not in the month of April. However, I can see how confusing it gets to people when Government makes a decree then less than 24 hours later does a 'U Turn'. They seem to do this regularly, I wonder why ?

[sqwakvfr]

My local Tops market removed all the beer from the shelves and cooler. They put tea and water on the shelves.  Now the poor employees have to remove the tea/water and put the beer back up.  But for how long?  Also, the Air Conditioning at this location is either off or at a high temp because every time I go in it seems rather warm.  I’m looking out for the employees and the sale of alcohol should never be banned again.  

[cyril sneer]

What about the province’s that already announced their own bans? 

[PatOngo]

8 minutes ago, Chassa said:

To read ThaiVisa you would think that Thais don't drink beer.

...and it would appear, by reading the urgency to have the ban lifted, that beer is highly addictive! 

[SymS]

So we can buy alcohol starting tomorrow? Did I get this right?

[rott]

2 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

Bring back Singha Light and dump that horrible MyBeer.

 

 

I have emailed Boonrawd Trading Co accordingly....... still waiting for a reply. 

I am still waiting for a reply to my query over increasing the abv from 3.5%%............ ????

[ChrisKC]

4 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

I guess they managed to strike a deal for 2 billionaire families to "help" them after all..

I wonder how much had to be added to the piggies trough to get the ban lifted ??

Pure speculation!

[Millman]

Time for a social distance party. Let’s all get on our motorbike, with masks and without helmets, and run down to buy beer. But then there are 4 of us on the motorbike....that’s Thai social distancing. Don’t you love this country? 

[rott]

36 minutes ago, Susco said:

Looks like Barrow was confused or got the wrong info, because the 2 day window to purchase, actually turned out to be a 2 day extension

He seems quite unapologetic about it. Unless I missed that bit. 

[ChipButty]

Jai Yen Yen guys Just listening to the Thai news it could stop anytime soon and it seems they will leave it upto each province whether to ban or not.

Not looking forward to going to Makro Sunday I think it will be chaotic  

[actonion]

Outdoor markets, & street food stalls  will start working again from Sunday?

 

In East Pattaya they never stopped...

[cornishcarlos]

19 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:

Pure speculation!

 

Or educated guess..

[sandyf]

49 minutes ago, mrjohn said:

Whether you agree with an alcohol ban or not, this tin pot government's handling of the issue has been staggeringly incompetent.

If you want to understand what incompetent really means, look to the west.

[Misterwhisper]

I have drained my pool as I'm planning a scotch pool party for Sunday evening. If you're free, please do drop by.

Edited May 2, 2020 by Misterwhisper

[Don Mega]

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

Get the tyres pumped up on my scooter, ready for the rush tomorrow buy some booze... Yippee.

Wife just said... You silly old sod, you dont drink, upstairs i have beer/ whisky from sawadee pee mai,????

If you want i will get for you.... Just think, many farang going cold turkey, no drink, and we got plenty, and neither of us drink.

Ive still got supply here at home in the spare room but my local mom and pop stores opens at 7am.... will have the missus give em a call at 7.01am and tell em to send round another 20 boxes of Leo and another box of Jack Daniels !!

[lamyai3]

25 minutes ago, rott said:

1 hour ago, Susco said:

Looks like Barrow was confused or got the wrong info, because the 2 day window to purchase, actually turned out to be a 2 day extension

He seems quite unapologetic about it. Unless I missed that bit

The two day window was proposed by the CCSA and reported widely in the news. Interestingly, the spokesman doctor for the CCSA appears to have been kept in the dark about the backroom deals - only yesterday he cited public health reasons for the ban being extended to the end of May. So the government is now overriding the official advice of their own medics. 

[JeffersLos]

And I'm stuck with 4 boxes of Chang that I paid 4,000 baht for.

 

If anybody needs to poison some soi dogs just let me know and you can have them.

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, metisdead said:

 

Because this is in the Thailand News forum which is about news in Thailand. 

Sorry, but what was it before?