Crackdown On Alcohol Beverage Firms

[catmac]

RACY CALENDAR

Sales will go ahead : producers

By Hassaya Chatmontri

The Nation

Published on December 17, 2009

This was also a good opportunity for the committee to bring up the printing of brand names or logos of booze on clothes for possible legal punishment, because that was also within the framework of advertising.

Meanwhile, well-known Thai woman activist Arunee Srito slammed Jittapas's action and said her group, together with some anti-alcohol activists, would submit an open letter to government heads today to express their objections and demand for the calendar distribution to stop.

-- The Nation 2009/12/17

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Does the first item mean that the BIBs will be rounding up any farang sporting their Beer Chang T-shirt and sending them off to prison?

As for the second item, am I the only one to cringe when I see words like "women activist" and "anti-alcohol activists"? Why don't these people get a life, and leave everybody else alone to enjoy life as they chose?

[SomdetK]

Jittapas Pirompakdee

The 23-year-old heiress to Singha Beer fortune

Supermodel Methinee Kingpayom, who produced the calendar

Methinee (center) at the calendar launch party with some of the models

has said she would start selling the 2010 calendar

cover of the calendar involved

and an additional shot of the calendar's models

[PhilHarries]

Do they really think that a person such as myself is so shallow as to be influenced to go drinking beer by a picture of a bevvy of scantily clad beauties like that?

Well if they do......................

..............................................they're dead right!

[luangtom]

OMG, they had better shut down the Bangkok Auto Show, too. Scantily clad young ladies promoting sale of vehicles whose use could end in death. No more businessmen's venues that have young ladies at them. No more dubious destinations whose employees are scantily clad either. OMG, the morals police are working over-time. Ya gotta be kidding.........these people actually get paid to write and enforce such archaic and draconian laws? It is no wonder that Thailand will remain a third-world country in the eyes of the rest of the world. It politics and laws leave much to be desired for the traveling public.

[basjke]

cover of the calendar involved

Why they call them the leo girls?Half of those in the picture are blokes.

[TAWP]

cover of the calendar involved

and an additional shot of the calendar's models

Not to dispel any erotic moments for you guys, but not all in the pics are women iirc.

And the calender isn't raunchy at all...

[SomdetK]

Thai Rath has published photos and articles here:

Leo calendar nud_e (with body paint) models:

ww.thairath.co.th/content/ent/52953

Methinee’s semi-nud_e layouts

ww.thairath.co.th/content/ent/52550

[jackspratt]

A more complete picture may be gained here:

ww.teen7.net/2009/12/leo-beer-2553-leo-beer.html

[Samuian]

How would the work of, say Helmut Newton and David Hamilton (f.E.), be perceived then or what would these guardians of the nations morale, think about the works of Rubens, Milo's Venus, Michelangelo's David... etc. and wasn't there an Art Exhibition Centre in the planning for Bangkok?

Who is educating those mega-conservative "educators", what is really going on around them, in their very own country where a "Mia-Noi" is not only a very common used term as it is a very well known fact too, not to mention certain entertainment industries or transvestite "Miss Tiffany" contests ?

[Gary A]

It's comforting to know that the government has solved all the serious problems in Thailand and now has time to concentrate such trivial matters as calendars. If they want to do something effective concerning alcohol, how about getting the drunk drivers off the road and eliminating the obvious and blatant police corruption.

[ratcatcher]

How would the work of, say Helmut Newton and David Hamilton (f.E.), be perceived then or what would these guardians of the nations morale, think about the works of Rubens, Milo's Venus, Michelangelo's David... etc. and wasn't there an Art Exhibition Centre in the planning for Bangkok?

Who is educating those mega-conservative "educators", what is really going on around them, in their very own country where a "Mia-Noi" is not only a very common used term as it is a very well known fact too, not to mention certain entertainment industries or transvestite "Miss Tiffany" contests ?

"Philistines" comes to mind.

"Philistinism is a derogatory term used to describe a particular attitude or set of values. A person called a Philistine (in the relevant sense), is said to despise or undervalue art, beauty, intellectual content, and/or spiritual values. Philistines are also said to be materialistic, to favor conventional social values unthinkingly, and to favor forms of art that have a cheap and easy appeal (e.g. kitsch)."

Courtesy Wikipedia.

Edited December 19, 2009 by ratcatcher

[ratcatcher]

cover of the calendar involved

Why they call them the leo girls?Half of those in the picture are blokes.

Silicone City.

[animatic]

Booze does increase your chances of having sex,

because in makes you more likely to go off with a

girl, or Katoey, who could NEVER get on those calendars.

Blind drunk, and they all look good, till the sun comes up.

Booze and bad eysight, are the great equalizers in the sexual battlefield.

Edited December 20, 2009 by animatic

[ratcatcher]

Booze does increase your chances of having sex,

because in makes you more likely to go off with a

girl, or Katoey, who could NEVER get on those calendars.

Blind drunk, and they all look good, till the sun comes up.

Booze and bad eysight, are the great equalizers in the sexual battlefield.

Well, animatic, I usually agree with your posts but surely the one lying flat on the floor would not look out of place in Casanova's Bar?

[animatic]

Booze does increase your chances of having sex,

because in makes you more likely to go off with a

girl, or Katoey, who could NEVER get on those calendars.

Blind drunk, and they all look good, till the sun comes up.

Booze and bad eyesight, are the great equalizers in the sexual battlefield.

Well, animatic, I usually agree with your posts but surely the one lying flat on the floor would not look out of place in Casanova's Bar?

RC that really highlights the problem with this place:

You must either have a very open mind or

be out of your mind so's you don't notice.

Having done an essentially full visual tour of Nana over the years,

I can agree with your reasonably prone, pneumatic and elastic,

assumption, front and center.

Most anyone of them would not look out of place in any bar not labeled Boys Town...

J.Spratt's link makes clear the near mircles than can be done with cello-tape!

Edited December 20, 2009 by animatic