Foreigners online slam "ridiculous" booze ban - no drinking from 6pm Saturday to 6pm Sunday

[jesimps]

Can't stand smart alecs who say "live with it". Pointless reading any more of this thread.

[wwest5829]

8 hours ago, petermik said:

TIT...live with it..

I recall from history that earlier in the US, alcohol was also banned on election days. If I remember correctly, in part to keep from handing out bottles of booze to get people to vote for your candidate.

[Jiggo]

Feeling sorry for all those poor little cherub's not being able to have a bar stool for one night LOL 

[pgrahmm]

6 minutes ago, wwest5829 said:

I recall from history that earlier in the US, alcohol was also banned on election days. If I remember correctly, in part to keep from handing out bottles of booze to get people to vote for your candidate.

Still is in some states....Also, some year around dry territories....

People seem to do just fine....

[overt2016]

My take is what is the point of the ban?

Forget foreigners how does it affect Thais?

If they partake of a drink do they forget to vote, mark the wrong square because they are drunk????

Does the tout of a candidate not supply the grog after the voter has ticked the right box???

 

[rott]

46 minutes ago, ronaldo0 said:

Can’t buy booze for 24 hrs , 7-10 hrs of which you would be sleeping through usually and people act like it’s the end of the world ! ????

I am now told it is all day Saturday, not just from 18.00.

Anyone else heard this.? 

[ukrules]

The Thai people aren't too happy about this either.

[mvdf]

Early Christmas gift for your liver. Be thankful.

[Purdey]

Seems like a good excuse to buy a crate or two and invite friends around to the house, watch a film and have a drink.

[orchidfan]

8 hours ago, Disparate Dan said:

Name one.

Hong Kong 

[Thaifly88]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Foreigners online slam "ridiculous" booze ban - no drinking from 6pm Saturday to 6pm Sunday

 

File photo for reference only
 

Foreigners living in Thailand have been taking to social media to slam this weekend's alcohol ban due to local elections.

 

The sale and distribution of alcohol and even parties with alcohol are banned from 6pm Saturday to 6 pm Sunday for the Provincial Administration Organisation elections. 

 

Foreigners, of course, have no right to vote. 

 

Weddings and parties can go ahead but they must be dry, reported Sophon Cable TV in Pattaya saying that violators will go to jail for six months or be fined 10,000 baht. 

 

When the ban was announced earlier in the week many foreigners went online to say it should not apply to them. English language print media in Thailand is reporting that the elections will be a "damp squib" with many Thais not even bothering to vote.

 

D.R. on facebook asked angrily: "What the #### is having a beer got to do with putting an X on a ballot paper?"

 

Y.A. called it and other government measures against drinkers a "ridiculous war on alcohol" adding: "Farang can't vote and should be exempted from this foolishness". 

 

Many clicked "Like" to those suggestions. 

 

Mr M chipped in: "Why should people on holiday.....be subjected to (this)?"

 

M-san suggested it was a "ridiculous law".

 

Taking Pattaya as an example there are just 228,140 registered voters in Bang Lamung district. 

 

Many will say just those might be banned from drinking, not visitors on a potentially busy pre-Christmas weekend that could provide much needed income in these disastrous economic times caused by the pandemic. . 

 

Others think that even stopping registered voters is a waste of time. 

 

Some people went online to say that there will be queues for alcohol before the ban. 

 

Others felt it would be ignored but Pattaya's police and those in other areas of the country have been told by RTP chiefs to strictly enforce the law. 

 

Meanwhile non-drinkers or those with well stocked fridges told the complainers to "get over themselves - this is Thailand". 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2020-12-17

 

- Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you

- Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates

Drink at home if you can’t do without for 1 day 

[keithkarmann]

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

Why does the government continue to treat the electorate like they're all backwards thinking knuckel dragging yokels?

That will never change.

[DUNROAMIN]

TIT, just stay home and have a couple from the fridge for one night,  big deal over nothing, very childish over reaction.

[Sujo]

4 minutes ago, Thaifly88 said:

Drink at home if you can’t do without for 1 day 

I dont drink at home. I only drink out. What a stupid thing to ban drinking out, like banning farangs drinking in bars can change an election.

[pgrahmm]

Unless this story is only reported to stir up sh#t....

The reality is - if this is all people can find to whine/bitch about with all that's happening in 2020 = their life is probably pretty good....

[maprao]

39 minutes ago, herwin1234 said:

Another quality farang. 

 

"common  sense" what are you talking about?  Out of free will you choose to live here yet you make zero effort to understand or respect anything here, and wrongly label your own ignorance about another culture as "they donthave common sense" and "stupid ban".

 

Facts are Thailand , just like China, has managed the covid crisis excellent and thanks to their "common sense" like "politicians making decisions based on science" (sounds like common sense to me!!) and citizens who use their common sense and follow up on medical advice like wearing  a mask, YOU sir, are now BENEFITTING from this Thai common sense and living in a chaotic-free almost covid free country. YOUR OWN COUNTRY most likely is still reeling and gasping from the covid crisis bc it LACKS COMMON SENSE.

 

maybe it is you, and not the Thais, who lack "common sense".

Not really 

Just didn't do extensive testing 

Removed the blanket FREE testing on mass being done in the ???????? USA

Made it too expensive for the average Simcha to get.

Just hidden statistics. 

Back to the basement 

 

Rationalization at its best!

Edited December 17, 2020 by maprao

[a340bangla1]

I don't get all this excitement. As long as I have been here (a long time) and as long as I can remember (not so long time) booze was not allowed to be sold on the night before and on election day. So what ? Plan ahead stock up dand drink at home ....

[maprao]

I wish I had never gone for the temples and clean beaches.

 

Never been burnt in Thailand by anyone 

 

Just see it for what it is

 

Ridiculous.....

[rayw]

I have to agree with posters here who say TiT so falangs should simply get over it and live with it as we should be polite guests here.  However I must say personally I find this law is way over the top and unneccessary. 

 

Surely it is easy to do what they do in almost all other democracies and of couse ban any drunken voters from entering the voting stations to vote.  So it is so much more sensible for it to be a legal condition of voting that you are not over say the driving alcohol limit when going to vote. Not difficult as folk can vote first and then they can go and have drinks and live life normally after voting.  It is so easy surely and IMHO a no brainer. That way it also does not impinge on others who either cannot vote or simply do not want to vote and does not put off much needed tourists either.  Also the rather OOT total alcohol ban has adverse fininancial implication to bar/club owners and shops who sell alcohol and of course intolerable ruining of normal parties and celebrations like weddings etc. 

 

Personally I drink very little and mostly at home or at a freinds home when I do , but I really do not like to see folk being so unnecessarily restricted in this way as it seems so pointless.  As I said I am purely a guest here so of course not my business how Thais run their society and is this democratically what the majority of good Thai people want as an alcohol banning law?? However that does not stop me making what I think is a sensible and I feel popular suggestion and easy solution for all.

[MrMo]

If you do not like the rules of the country you have chosen to visit or live in then get yourself out of it.   Amongst many others, the two prime issues you are demonstrating are your disrespect for the Thai people whose country you are in and your disrespect for non-Thais who wish to make it their home.   So .. ! (I will leave the ThaiVisa powers that be to replace to ..)

[richard_smith237]

A booze ban for 24 hrs is not really a big deal IMO... 

 

But, I feel sorry for those people who’ve planned in advance for weddings and parties etc only to have the goalposts shifted as drinking becomes illegal on their special day. Thus, its the inconsistent timing of such bans which makes the whole thing ridiculous. 

 

The buying booze ban from 2-5pm is far more ridiculous and inconvenient. I’ve lost count of the amount of times my Wife and I are in the supermarket and I want to pick up a 6 pack or a bottle of wine or two, then realise I can’t and think “This juvinile ‘offing nation, can’t they grow up and let normal people do normal things?”... then I think, its OK, I’ll order online, but they’ve also banned that now, also for some unknown juvenile reason. 

 

Again, none of these issues are showstoppers - but it just gets a little pathetic. 

 

 

[roger101]

I remember some years ago when they were still shutting the bars for the kings birthday they had a General Election in December.

The weekend before the election the bars were shut for 2 days for Pre Election voting then the following weekend the bars were shut again for 2 days for the election proper.

I remember some bar owners ranting about  it saying how bloody ridiculous shutting the bars for 5 days in a peak tourist month. The bar girls were nun to happy either.

[animalmagic]

5 hours ago, djayz said:

I made a very similar suggestion but got a very blunt "no". Pity, as I was willing to travel. 

I'm hoping my charm, wit and winning smile will get results.

[Blumpie]

I'm angry.  I'm old.  I have an underlying drinking problem that I refuse to admit to and understand.  

 

IT's just too much for me to plan ahead and get enough to drink for three days!  

[shy coconut]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

.R. on facebook asked angrily: "What the #### is having a beer got to do with putting an X on a ballot paper?"

I think sobriety tests should be compulsory at voting booths given some of the crazy people elected and motions voted for in the last 4 years or so!!

[Techno Viking]

1 hour ago, djayz said:

 In the words of Joseph Stalin "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything", which begs the question: what difference does a clear head make?  

 

A question for the law makers I guess.

 

doubt any vote cast makes any difference in Thailand, elections are run and done before anyone votes !!

[wwest5829]

1 hour ago, pgrahmm said:

Still is in some states....Also, some year around dry territories....

People seem to do just fine....

And, as in the USA, we can stock up here in Chiang Mai beforehand. 

[sweatalot]

The ban is just anmother unnecessary and sensefree restrictiuon of citizens' freeedom

 

 

"violators will go to jail for six months or be fined 10,000 baht"

and this is completely out of relation.

Beating up an innocent victim is probably cheaper.

[Techno Viking]

3 minutes ago, sweatalot said:

The ban is just anmother unnecessary and sensefree restrictiuon of citizens' freeedom

 

 

"violators will go to jail for six months or be fined 10,000 baht"

and this is completely out of relation.

Beating up an innocent victim is probably cheaper.

 

You are American ?

[SupermarineS6B]

I still can't believe that people get angry over these posts, just stock up and ride over the rivers of Bull dung coming out of the marmite motorway of the goons in charge....... (At the moment )  .......  Imagine how much tea money the coppers are losing at the moment, how long do you think that can go on for ?     Not much longer.....