Popular Post webfact Posted March 25, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2022 By Nop Meechukhun Bangkok – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is planning to propose a plan for Songkran celebrations including the permission to splash water at the next meeting of the Communicable Disease Committee on Monday, March 28th. Bangkok Permanent Secretary Kajit Chatchawanich told the Associated Press that the Culture, Sports, and Tourism Department would present details of the activities for the Songkran Festival, previously proposed by all governments, private sectors, and entrepreneurs working in Khao San Road and Silom Road, to the Bangkok Communicable Disease Committee meeting which is scheduled on Monday afternoon. Keep up to date with all things Thailand - Join our daily ASEAN NOW Thailand Newsletter - Click to subscribe Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/03/25/thai-authorities-to-meet-monday-for-proposal-allowing-water-splashing-activities-in-tourism-heavy-areas-for-songkran-after-business-owner-complaints-about-ban/ -- © Copyright The Pattaya News 2022-03-26 - Aetna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaiDong Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 (edited) 'including the permission to splash water at the next meeting of the Communicable Disease Committee on Monday' Lucky committee! Can I join this committee please! Edited March 25, 2022 by MaiDong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ikke1959 Posted March 25, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2022 If they allow in a few areas watersplashing they to allow it everywhere. No eceptions for a few streets because of the so called tourists,who are not coming yet. Let the people have their fun or ban it everywhere with no exceptions. Besides allowed or not I strongly believe that there will villages, places all over Thailand which will do watersplashing aloowed or not...It is common not to follow the rules. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damrongsak Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 Only officially sanctioned ditch water can be used in those squirt guns. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted March 25, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2022 Of course we know water causes transmission of mild Omicron, just like beer and wine. Deprive the masses! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrunchWrapSupreme Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 This Songkran looks like it will be the turning point. They're gonna have to throw in the towel. Everyone's fed up, it's been too long. Look at the recent Pattaya vids on YT. Nearly all the bars have reopened. Oh yeah, they're following the Covid "safety measures", all have alcohol gel in front, signs reminding you to social distance, and have now become "restaurants" since Covid is less contagious around food or something. Heh. Yet from what I can tell we're back to the good ol' Amazing Thailand with hands on gyrating waists and behinds in skimpy mini dresses, the same older blokes in their Chang tank tops, and nowhere to be seen is that new wave of high rolling five-star quality tourists talked much about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardColeman Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 Thai authorities to meet Monday for proposal allowing water-splashing activities in tourism heavy areas for Songkran after business owner complaints about ban Listen mate, I doubt it will make any difference to business. 1. Foreign tourists are not about to suddenly book a holiday and go through hoops for a water fight. 2. The foreigners still here are like me, are old, grumpy and will avoid the area like the plague. 3. Thais have already been exploited enough to bail these idiots out, only business they will help are likely to be the local 7/11's or bring their change and grub ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 3 minutes ago, RichardColeman said: 2. The foreigners still here are like me, are old, grumpy and will avoid the area like the plague. Basically it will keep me out of town for the holidays ,when I was considering a few nights in a hotel there. I don't mind others enjoying themselves, but it is the randomness of it... will I get drenched, my phone potentially damaged....? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 3 hours ago, webfact said: The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is planning to propose a plan for Songkran celebrations including the permission to splash water at the next meeting of the Communicable Disease Committee on Monday, March 28th. Make an area a "water splash area" and thousands will flock there and increase the infection rates... absolute buffoons. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 It doesn't matter in the slightest what the authorities decide. People will do whatever they want to do, with zero enforcement of the 'rules'. Anyway, what has chucking water over people got to do with Covid? Absolutely nothing. Just more control control control. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post alex8912 Posted March 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 26, 2022 1 hour ago, jacko45k said: Basically it will keep me out of town for the holidays ,when I was considering a few nights in a hotel there. I don't mind others enjoying themselves, but it is the randomness of it... will I get drenched, my phone potentially damaged....? A. You are supposed to get drenched B. Everyone who brings a phone puts it in waterproof small bags that are available everywhere C. Best you and any other " grumpy ones " stay away, maybe that's why you are targeted., D. Songkran is very fun to many regular Thais and foreigners. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shackleton Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Well the good news can't see many foreigners arriving in Thailand for the Songkran 2022 The ones here know what's expected so if you want to enjoy go ahead others like me stay away especially from areas like Khao San Road and Pattaya Enjoy ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malibukid Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 6 hours ago, spidermike007 said: Of course we know water causes transmission of mild Omicron, just like beer and wine. Deprive the masses! buckets of Klong water is not clean. doubt if you would want to drink it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jacko45k Posted March 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 26, 2022 6 hours ago, alex8912 said: A. You are supposed to get drenched B. Everyone who brings a phone puts it in waterproof small bags that are available everywhere C. Best you and any other " grumpy ones " stay away, maybe that's why you are targeted., D. Songkran is very fun to many regular Thais and foreigners. A. No thank you. B. No thank you. C. 'Targeted' suggests bullying, and that is what it often is.. sadistic people doing it maliciously. D. Is 'very fun' even English? Anyhow, it is fun for many but perhaps not all. Just a band of drunks picking on other people like a football mob. Infantile..... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidermike007 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 3 hours ago, malibukid said: buckets of Klong water is not clean. doubt if you would want to drink it? The authorities have never concerned themselves with klong water before. Just look at the state of it. This is about the potential transmission of Covid. From buckets of water. Or beer. Or wine. Or riding a motorbike. Inane. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex8912 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 2 hours ago, jacko45k said: A. No thank you. B. No thank you. C. 'Targeted' suggests bullying, and that is what it often is.. sadistic people doing it maliciously. D. Is 'very fun' even English? Anyhow, it is fun for many but perhaps not all. Just a band of drunks picking on other people like a football mob. Infantile..... Nope. You speak of those who have not participated in many years but keep perpetuating lies. In Bangkok on Silom Songkran from 2015 to 2019 was a great place to enjoy. They do water play three days. It's very rare to see anyone drunk. It's very fun and it's actually therapeutic! There's always a mob on this forum who really know nothing. Spare me the pics. I was there and thousands of others were also. No klong water either! Just tons of fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billd766 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 11 hours ago, jacko45k said: Basically it will keep me out of town for the holidays ,when I was considering a few nights in a hotel there. I don't mind others enjoying themselves, but it is the randomness of it... will I get drenched, my phone potentially damaged....? I used to put my mobile and glasses in a zip lock bag. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billd766 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 1 hour ago, alex8912 said: Nope. You speak of those who have not participated in many years but keep perpetuating lies. In Bangkok on Silom Songkran from 2015 to 2019 was a great place to enjoy. They do water play three days. It's very rare to see anyone drunk. It's very fun and it's actually therapeutic! There's always a mob on this forum who really know nothing. Spare me the pics. I was there and thousands of others were also. No klong water either! Just tons of fun. After a few years playing Songkran during the mid 1990s and 2000s it tends to get boring and not really worth bothering with any more. I used to play on Sukhumvit 22 and 93. After I was married I also used to play for a few years in the big village near where I live up country, in Kamphaeng Phet and father afield so guess I DO have the experience of Songkran and probably a little more than you. Having said that neither I nor my family played last year or in 2020 nor will we this year because of Covid. I do make an exception for young children though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Add some Clorox to the water. Should be good against the virus <don't!> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 11 hours ago, alex8912 said: Nope. You speak of those who have not participated in many years but keep perpetuating lies. In Bangkok on Silom Songkran from 2015 to 2019 was a great place to enjoy. They do water play three days. It's very rare to see anyone drunk. It's very fun and it's actually therapeutic! There's always a mob on this forum who really know nothing. Spare me the pics. I was there and thousands of others were also. No klong water either! Just tons of fun. You are correct, my last experience was in Pattaya and it may well have been different. But perhaps if you never experienced that, it is you who could also be referred to as a mob on this forum who really know nothing. After seeing a gang fight and beating, and soon after a fight between 2 farangs, where one had been deliberately targeted by another with malicious intent, I decided it was not kiddies playtime any more. Grow up.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 10 hours ago, billd766 said: I used to put my mobile and glasses in a zip lock bag. My plan was usually not to get drenched, and for that reason, as many do, stay home for a few days. I recall doing that, and having a post songkran ride around Pattaya early in the morning, it was like some tumbleweed derelict town. I of course got caught on my motorcycle on the way home by a kid on a street corner, my first and only drenching that year...oh well. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex8912 Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 14 hours ago, jacko45k said: You are correct, my last experience was in Pattaya and it may well have been different. But perhaps if you never experienced that, it is you who could also be referred to as a mob on this forum who really know nothing. After seeing a gang fight and beating, and soon after a fight between 2 farangs, where one had been deliberately targeted by another with malicious intent, I decided it was not kiddies playtime any more. Grow up.... Zzzzzzzzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex8912 Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 14 hours ago, jacko45k said: You are correct, my last experience was in Pattaya and it may well have been different. But perhaps if you never experienced that, it is you who could also be referred to as a mob on this forum who really know nothing. After seeing a gang fight and beating, and soon after a fight between 2 farangs, where one had been deliberately targeted by another with malicious intent, I decided it was not kiddies playtime any more. Grow up.... Why do thousands of adults participate? Even people in their 60's and 70's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 In keeping with the festival just urinate on the whole thing for another year ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 10 hours ago, alex8912 said: Why do thousands of adults participate? Even people in their 60's and 70's? Not all adults have quite got there yet.... Thailand is full of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malibukid Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 On 3/26/2022 at 4:12 PM, spidermike007 said: The authorities have never concerned themselves with klong water before. Just look at the state of it. This is about the potential transmission of Covid. From buckets of water. Or beer. Or wine. Or riding a motorbike. Inane. well i should get some of it analyzed at CMU and post the results. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bert bloggs Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 Ban water throwing completely,go back to the old ways of gently putting a little on each other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 On 3/26/2022 at 5:46 AM, alex8912 said: Nope. You speak of those who have not participated in many years but keep perpetuating lies. In Bangkok on Silom Songkran from 2015 to 2019 was a great place to enjoy. They do water play three days. It's very rare to see anyone drunk. It's very fun and it's actually therapeutic! There's always a mob on this forum who really know nothing. Spare me the pics. I was there and thousands of others were also. No klong water either! Just tons of fun. Silom, 2017. Lumpini Park was packed, and this crowd went on for blocks and blocks. Generating all kinds of spending, if only on super squirters. I took the photo from the BTS Skywalk, but spent a lot of time in the crowd in Lumpini Park. It was a great time, and I only got wet when I motioned people it was okay to squirt me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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