4 minutes ago, norfolkandchance said:

Has it changed. When I was there it was Thursday and Friday.

Hi Norfolk, Yes it did change. I cannot remember the exact year, but for a long time in Saudi the imams resisted change because the Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath. However, the government realised they were losing a lot of trading time due to their weekend being Thursday / Friday, then the rest of the world was closed for business on Saturday and Sunday. It was sometime around 2013 that the King changed the weekend to Friday / Saturday which brought them in line with most of the neighbours. 

3 hours ago, LawrenceN said:

Saturday at midnight is the end of the week. Opening begins in the next moment, Sunday. Not confusing. 

Monday is the first day of the week, according to ISO 8601.

 

However, in USA, Canada and Japan, Monday is considered the 2nd day of the week.

10 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Hi Norfolk, Yes it did change. I cannot remember the exact year, but for a long time in Saudi the imams resisted change because the Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath. However, the government realised they were losing a lot of trading time due to their weekend being Thursday / Friday, then the rest of the world was closed for business on Saturday and Sunday. It was sometime around 2013 that the King changed the weekend to Friday / Saturday which brought them in line with most of the neighbours. 

Thanks for that. I always remember, our Wednesday nights where like Friday nights. Out with the boys down the Pub. (BAE)

What about condo pools and hotel pools?

Public pools?

21 minutes ago, Phil McCaverty said:

Restaurants in Pattaya are open with the same guidelines as Bangkok. Many restaurants choose to remain closed because of those restrictions, the inability to sell alcohol and the fact that they would have insufficient customers to make opening viable.. Many markets never closed in Pattaya, but were restricted to selling food items only. They are now fully open. Beaches in Pattaya are closed to discourage tourists (primarily from Bangkok) to visit.

I think you will find that restaurants in BKK allow seated customers whereas in Pattaya it is take away only..!!

So just how would anyone know that you left your province and then returned home ?...As far as the hotel serving Alchohol the answer is a firm maybe..I've been bringing my own as I travel around running the checkpoints and have never been stopped or bothered....

19 hours ago, BobbyL said:

I hope so. Desperate to get to ikea (yes I know you can order online but not everything is available on there). 

An interesting definition of desperation.

 

There are families in my village who are desperate to feed their children.

 

Mainly day labourers, don't qualify for assistance.

19 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

 

Come on make your mind up, is it the end of this week, or Sunday which is the start of next week!!!

Most normal people would see the end of the week as Sat/Sun(weekend?)

When it comes to Thai bashing, normality goes out the window.

52 minutes ago, visacrack said:

It is obvious that standard-size pools (25 m - thus not fancy-shaped splash pools) in condos could be safely opened for swimmers, if these rules were observed: 

 

The pool in my gated village opened on Monday after the juristic manager phoned the city hall. Closed again today as she saw the latest announcement regarding pools on TV.

27 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

I think you will find that restaurants in BKK allow seated customers whereas in Pattaya it is take away only..!!

In Pattaya it is seated as well.

35 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

I think you will find that restaurants in BKK allow seated customers whereas in Pattaya it is take away only..!!

Wrong. Same rules as Bangkok.

19 hours ago, Curt1591 said:

I believe "fun parks" would cover Harborland. 

What I find a bit weird is the 1 pot per 1 person suki rule. You can be locked up with the family all month, but can't eat the same suki ?

It's purely a sales campaign.

 

11 minutes ago, henry2109 said:

In Pattaya it is seated as well.

Afraid not..!!

2 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

Afraid not..!!

Really?

 

 

Let's all hope there is no second wave....the news from Korea and Germany is not good.

28 minutes ago, JAG said:

An interesting definition of desperation.

 

There are families in my village who are desperate to feed their children.

 

Mainly day labourers, don't qualify for assistance.

Of course, that is the unfairness of life.

 

There are millions of poor people all over the world. I don't live in a village in rural Thailand so that rightly or wrongly doesn't impact my day to day life at all. 

Why can't Buddha image shops open? That sounds like a bizarre exclusion. Others I understand, like cinemas.

 

19 hours ago, Curt1591 said:

I believe "fun parks" would cover Harborland. 

What I find a bit weird is the 1 pot per 1 person suki rule. You can be locked up with the family all month, but can't eat the same suki ?

It is about as insane as limiting the size of a family at one table. There is an astonishing amount of ignorance floating around, at this stage. You can stay together in the same home, but you cannot eat together at the same table? Who is making these rules? I am astonished they never got rid of Anatin. To have such an uneducated man (in the field of health) running the health ministry during a crisis was an abomination.

20 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

 

Come on make your mind up, is it the end of this week, or Sunday which is the start of next week!!!

a great example how they do things here differently, like; same same but not the same ????????

They seem so often to classify Monday as the first day of the week. 

Heaven only knows why, wouldn’t get any sense asking, as it would become more enigmatic from the response. 

11 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said:

Let's all hope there is no second wave....the news from Korea and Germany is not good.

Ya better tell the little insane man, and his cronies. Last time I read here or on Google news that China Andy ‘Korea’ where going to be on their clean list to enter Thailand as and when flights start again 

20 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

 

Come on make your mind up, is it the end of this week, or Sunday which is the start of next week!!!

“On the 7th day he rested.” Sunday.

so Monday is start of the week.
 

12 minutes ago, Caldera said:

Why can't Buddha image shops open? That sounds like a bizarre exclusion. Others I understand, like cinemas.

 

Don’t ask, trust me, don’t ask you will probably be quite amazed, dumbfounded by the answer

And the beaches are still closed?????

 

(No worries to me. I live well away from one, but I think it's a shame not to open them.)

10 minutes ago, animatic said:

“On the 7th day he rested.” Sunday.

so Monday is start of the week.
 

Many would argue that was Saturday, but I am not getting into that. 

When does the week start ?  My calendars all say Sunday. my diaries say Monday. I had to make my own diary this year as I want the top of every left hand page to say Monday.  Every diary for the past 10 years , top left Monday. ( couldn't find one this year ). Oh how I hate a different day top left.   When I last went to school 58 years ago the week started Monday.

1 hour ago, sandyf said:

Most normal people would see the end of the week as Sat/Sun(weekend?)

When it comes to Thai bashing, normality goes out the window.

True, the twists and turns to get in some kind of bash are astonishing. Many, of course, draw on ignorance and provincialism, as in this case.

 

According to international standard ISO 8601, Monday is the first day of the week. It is followed by Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sunday is the 7th and last day of the week.

 

    --https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/

44 minutes ago, mindfulness said:

a great example how they do things here differently, like; same same but not the same ????????

No. But we like to think that to make ourselves feel superior.

 

45 minutes ago, mindfulness said:

They seem so often to classify Monday as the first day of the week. 

As they should, following international standard ISO 8601. Good on 'em.

 

46 minutes ago, mindfulness said:

Heaven only knows why, wouldn’t get any sense asking, as it would become more enigmatic from the response. 

You now know the reason, and it's perfectly clear, not enigmatic. So that leaves us with a proposed senseless question.

21 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

 

Come on make your mind up, is it the end of this week, or Sunday which is the start of next week!!!

And, it's not official yet.  This group has no authority to implement policy.  It has to be approved by the PM.  It's confusing to me why this group is even issuing statements which can cause confusion among the public if their recommendations which many people take as policy are not approved by the PM.

Parks and beaches, not shopping malls, should be top of the list for reopening. You're safer from germs in the open air, where we all need to exercise to stay healthy and fit, than in big stores with everybody breathing recycled air.

 

I guess this proves that the mall owners have more lobbying power than their poorer relations who rent a few feet foreshore or parkland to sell their wares.

13 hours ago, Thunder26 said:

Great response and I completely agree with the risk of the spread you meantioned. However, Thailand's virus situation is not comparable to UK and US. There are just a few cases registered in Thailand that are close to 0. I believe it's the time to lift all the restrictions in Thailand, especially when the borders are closed.

Not really a logical argument, as the nursing homes inflate the figures over there and testing is much more widespread. The true extent of the spread in Thailand isn't really known, less so than there. In fact our TVF Virologists insist the number is understated by Thais attributing deaths to other causes that they know was owing to COVID. One may still argue that the reason that the virus hasn't spread more is owing the Thai authorities' success in following the measures they thought efficacious, however imperfectly applied; and so the bias for listening to them is more compelling than that against, no matter what our TVF Virologists have determined from their keyboards.

 

Moreover, in USA states and cities, and in UK provinces and cities, having few or no cases, the same measures have been and are being followed. Hence you still haven't explained why Thai authorities' logic is inferior to USA and UK authorities' logic or why you need to think so.