Bars in Thailand Set to Close This Week for Buddhist ​​​​​​​ Holiday

[Mazungu]

555 I love the confusion over 12am and 12pm....12am is midnight....12pm is noon. The funniest sign I saw in Pattaya was for a massage shop that had a huge sign saying they were open at 11am and closed 12pm. I guess they were only open for one hour!

 

If they are closing for 24 hours I'm guessing that means from midnight Tuesday night until midnight Wednesday night. 

 

[billd766]

2 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

Why punish non-Buddhists for not joining the club .................😥👀 - LOL 

What punishment would that be?

 

Unable to drink in a bar for one whole day?

 

What a cruel and unusual punishment.

 

I should complain to the United Nations Human rights Committee if I were you.

 

[kingstonkid]

30 minutes ago, Spock said:

It's not a case of living without alcohol but of drinking it in public. Sensible people stock up their fridge the night before and drink in their room or at home.

Some bars will still be open just selling non alcoholic drinks.

 

We in the west used to have the same rules about liquor sales on Christian days

[Geoffggi]

3 minutes ago, billd766 said:

What punishment would that be?

 

Unable to drink in a bar for one whole day?

 

What a cruel and unusual punishment.

 

I should complain to the United Nations Human rights Committee if I were you.

 

 

Are you unable to recognise lighthearted comments? Hint, note the LOL

[Patong2021]

2 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

Why punish non-Buddhists for not joining the club .................😥👀 - LOL 

No one is being punished, unless you are an alcoholic addicted to the drug and need to consume it  a tacky bar. You can  still drink at home or with your friends at your homes.

 

32 minutes ago, Spock said:

Too many goody two shoes, holier than thou types in SEA now. 

 

Nope. It is  pathetic that some elderly foreigners are up in arms because  the crappy bars  won't be open for a few days. 

 

14 minutes ago, madone said:

 

what a stupid remark, sensible people don't drink at all.  
 

and what about those non-sensible folks that don't drink at home, but enjoy the social aspect of going out for a cocktail or having a beer while people watching?

even at the height of my drinking, I rarely opened a drink if I was home alone. the alcohol was never the point of the exercise. 

 

Get real. No one goes for a cocktail at the  crappy beer bars. Those places wouldn't know how to make a decent cocktail  if their lives depended on it. My experience has been that the  major hotels will still be discretely  serving cocktails and some of the private clubs which cater to the  discerning  Asians  will be serving alcohol.  The crappy  beer bar/brothels with their  uncomfortable plastic chairs and filthy tables will have to  stop. It will give some of the staff a much needed chance to rest and maybe get treated for their STIs.

[Nickcage49]

This gets old. And it royally pisses off tourists. Good job, drive them away.

[billd766]

4 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

 

Are you unable to recognise lighthearted comments? Hint, note the LOL

You seem to be unable to understand sarcasm.

[impulse]

Millions of livers breathed a short lived sigh of relief.

 

[Ralf001]

Love me a mid week public holiday.

 

Will have some friends round for an afternoon of beers N BBQ and maybe a sly game of poker !

 

[Thumbs]

1 hour ago, Negita43 said:

It's their country so it's their call - if you can't live without alcohol for one day that's a very sad state to be in and if you are that desperate stock up.

More the fact that organisations such as tourism authority thailand don't advertise these non alcohol holidays to potential visitors so they can make an informed decision about their holiday destination, elections last weekend and Buddhist holidays this week can put a dampner on a 2 week holiday,

[LudwigK]

Alcoholics [Thai and farang] are storing "things" at home as a precaution

[Patong2021]

1 minute ago, Nickcage49 said:

This gets old. And it royally pisses off tourists. Good job, drive them away.

No it does not. The majority of tourists are from China, Malaysia  and India and understand the  restrictions. 5 days without alcohol in a year  are hardly deal breakers. Yes, some western and north Asian  tourists get annoyed. The smart visitors will stock up if they need alcohol. They are allowed to consume during the. holidays. 

So what if the sex tourists  are annoyed? It is not like they are going anywhere else. They are in Thailand because it is all they can afford.

[Ralf001]

11 minutes ago, Nickcage49 said:

This gets old. And it royally pisses off tourists. Good job, drive them away.

 

that would be great if the tourists stopped coming.

[Geoffggi]

6 minutes ago, billd766 said:

You seem to be unable to understand sarcasm.

I can that's why I answered

[impulse]

2 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Love me a mid week public holiday.

 

Will have some friends round for an afternoon of beers N BBQ and maybe a sly game of poker !

 

Just remember not to get caught over the limit of cards in your possession.

 

[Ralf001]

5 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Just remember not to get caught over the limit of cards in your possession.

 

 

All good... Only have two decks in the house.

 

Both are Vegas V.S gold from PCF, very nice playing cards.

[flexomike]

2 hours ago, smedly said:

so just to be clear, this closure is from midnight on wednesday - effectively thursday until midnignt

Read it again and see if you can comprehend what it says

[impulse]

3 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

All good... Only have two decks in the house.

 

Both are Vegas V.S gold from PCF, very nice playing cards.

 

I forgot what the limit was...  Just that there was a limit.   What a hoot.

 

[outsider]

2 hours ago, smedly said:

so just to be clear, this closure is from midnight on wednesday - effectively thursday until midnignt

From 00:00 am on 12 February, Wednesday to 00:00 am, 13 February, Thursday - if I'm not wrong 😄🍻

[Dazinoz]

1 hour ago, Unamerican said:

When is 12pm please?  midday or midnight? 

There is no such thing as 12am or 12pm. It's 12 midday or 12 midnight. One reason 24h time was created to prevented confusion.

 

From Google :-

 

AM and PM are abbreviations used to indicate the time of day. AM stands for ante meridiem, which is Latin for "before midday". PM stands for post meridiem, which is Latin for "after midday". 

[Spock]

43 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

Some bars will still be open just selling non alcoholic drinks.

 

We in the west used to have the same rules about liquor sales on Christian days

'Used to' being the operative words. Though personally I couldn't care less that a 4 or 5 days a year are alcohol free. I just drink at home.

[Purdey]

Will tourist hotels owned by rich people be exempt?

 

[Peterphuket]

1 hour ago, Andytheburiramman said:

Looks like all the piss-heads will have to sit drinking their ethanol out of a coffee cup 😁

That's always better than Methanol.

[hotandsticky]

3 minutes ago, Purdey said:

Will tourist hotels owned by rich people be exempt?

 

 

 

"Properly registered hotels are, however, exempted from the ban under the Hotels Act".

 

 

 

 

[KhunLA]

1 hour ago, lordgrinz said:

 

Since 99.9% of the people who "can't live without alcohol for one day" are Thai nationals, it would be hypocritical to expect others to follow the same law they ignore. 

And yet, the Thais I know, rarely drink alcohol 

 

Most farangs I know, knew, are borderline Alkys, and I'm pretty sure I'm being kind.  Drinking alcohol every day.

 

Even when I did indulge, I wasn't even a weekend warrior.  Maybe 2X a month.

[connda]

Like they do every year for Makha Bucha Day and a bunch of other Buddhist holidays to boot.  Go to Makro tomorrow and stock up.  Not the end of the world.  Visit a park or a cafe.  Read a book.

[pomchop]

1 hour ago, bradiston said:

Midnight to midnight on Wednesday, ie 12am Wednesday to 12pm Wednesday. 24 hours.

12 am is midnight...12 pm is noon...midnight til noon is 12 hours...something off above??

[connda]

1 minute ago, KhunLA said:

And yet, the Thais I know, rarely drink alcohol 

Most of the ones I know hit it for an hour or so after work and then go home.

[DaRoadrunner]

4 hours ago, lordgrinz said:

 

Then Thai's ignored those teachings, and created their own perverted version of Thai Buddhism. 

The God of the Thais is called Baht and their temple is the Bangkok Bank.

[Liverpool Lou]

5 minutes ago, DaRoadrunner said:

The God of the Thais is called Baht and their temple is the Bangkok Bank.

Why Bangkok Bank?