Out on my bicycle this morning as usual and on my usual route.

Cycling along a four lane main highway a policeman told me to stop cycling and stand for the National Anthem at 8am.

I was surprised as I was riding along at about 40kph and he tried to step out in front of me! Anyway, going too fast to stop so carried on.

Now I will stand up in the cinema and at the local market in the evening like everyone else when the anthem plays but to try and stop traffic just because the National Anthem is playing seems slightly over the top to me.

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There was talk a few years of doing the same with all the traffic on the roads, ie at 08:00am and again at 18:00...

Tell em its not your anthem but if they want to stand for yours its ok.

Personally this is one thing I dont like anywhere, enforcement to "believe or do"

Ask them if all foreigners must rise to the mighty Thai nation.................if only they knew eh!

if everyone else in the traffic stops, i think you should too.

all thanks to the last coup and the democrat party that we have this heigtened propaganda where fear stops people at 8 am and 6 pm every day in ear shot of the tuuune

how many people stand up in their private homes?

Edited August 22, 201312 yr by humbug

Out on my bicycle this morning as usual and on my usual route.

Cycling along a four lane main highway a policeman told me to stop cycling and stand for the National Anthem at 8am.

I was surprised as I was riding along at about 40kph and he tried to step out in front of me! Anyway, going too fast to stop so carried on.

Now I will stand up in the cinema and at the local market in the evening like everyone else when the anthem plays but to try and stop traffic just because the National Anthem is playing seems slightly over the top to me.

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Clearly not a yank........

Never been to disney world then????

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Thai rak Thai came from the man on the run not the democrats.

Was he waving a visa from Malaysia? ??

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Out on my bicycle this morning as usual and on my usual route.

Cycling along a four lane main highway a policeman told me to stop cycling and stand for the National Anthem at 8am.

I was surprised as I was riding along at about 40kph and he tried to step out in front of me! Anyway, going too fast to stop so carried on.

Now I will stand up in the cinema and at the local market in the evening like everyone else when the anthem plays but to try and stop traffic just because the National Anthem is playing seems slightly over the top to me.

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Clearly not a yank........

Never been to disney world then????

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Didn't realise there was a four lane highway through the magic kingdom that came to a halt for the Star Mangled Spanner. Learn something everyday on tv.

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how many people stand up in their private homes?

Well maybe I can offer an answer??????

Proberly none at all....... but thays not the point. How many ppl stand up for other reasons??????

Many ppl for many reason's. Why do americans have to hold there hearts evey 2 mins when there national anthem is played???

The english....... ladys an gentelmen the queen / king all stand.

Italian and spanish crying?????? Grown men??????

The way I see ii takes 2 mins of your time. We say thais only do it to save face so there not the odd in ones out but in the us???????????? Trust me you be shot as well if you did not follow

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In all my experience here in Thailand, I have never known people to stop whatever they are doing at 8.00am and 6.00pm where the National Anthem is not played or cannot be heard.

If the OP was on a 4 lane fast flowing highway, than I doubt that anyone would have heard the National Anthem on there or that the police would have tried to stop traffic, even a lone cyclist on a freeway for this reason.

Besides that, if the OP was cycling at 40kph and did not stop to hear why the policeman wanted him to stop, how does he assume that it was for the standing to attention of the National Anthem?

all thanks to the last coup and the democrat party that we have this heigtened propaganda where fear stops people at 8 am and 6 pm every day in ear shot of the tuuune

What <deleted>. It's been going on for years long before the coup. Most do it out of pride. others from conditioning.

Personally I like the cinema one.

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If you're out and about at such an ungodly hour, you get what you deserve ...

if everyone else in the traffic stops, i think you should too.

I didn't realise the traffic moved in Bangkok at that time anyway.

In all my experience here in Thailand, I have never known people to stop whatever they are doing at 8.00am and 6.00pm where the National Anthem is not played or cannot be heard.

 

If the OP was on a 4 lane fast flowing highway, than I doubt that anyone would have heard the National Anthem on there or that the police would have tried to stop traffic, even a lone cyclist on a freeway for this reason.

 

Besides that, if the OP was cycling at 40kph and did not stop to hear why the policeman wanted him to stop, how does he assume that it was for the standing to attention of the National Anthem?

I was cycling along a four lane highway through town and could hear the anthem playing as I was going past an array of speakers. I understand a little Thai and heard 'song' as the cop pointed toward the speakers.

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In all my experience here in Thailand, I have never known people to stop whatever they are doing at 8.00am and 6.00pm where the National Anthem is not played or cannot be heard.

If the OP was on a 4 lane fast flowing highway, than I doubt that anyone would have heard the National Anthem on there or that the police would have tried to stop traffic, even a lone cyclist on a freeway for this reason.

Besides that, if the OP was cycling at 40kph and did not stop to hear why the policeman wanted him to stop, how does he assume that it was for the standing to attention of the National Anthem?

I was cycling along a four lane highway through town and could hear the anthem playing as I was going past an array of speakers. I understand a little Thai and heard 'song' as the cop pointed toward the speakers.

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200 baht fine?

In all my experience here in Thailand, I have never known people to stop whatever they are doing at 8.00am and 6.00pm where the National Anthem is not played or cannot be heard.

If the OP was on a 4 lane fast flowing highway, than I doubt that anyone would have heard the National Anthem on there or that the police would have tried to stop traffic, even a lone cyclist on a freeway for this reason.

Besides that, if the OP was cycling at 40kph and did not stop to hear why the policeman wanted him to stop, how does he assume that it was for the standing to attention of the National Anthem?

I was cycling along a four lane highway through town and could hear the anthem playing as I was going past an array of speakers. I understand a little Thai and heard 'song' as the cop pointed toward the speakers.

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Did he say song as in two or Pleng Chat Thai.

Lol.

how many people stand up in their private homes?

One of my wifes friends family all do. Even stand up during dinner or breakfast. They're the only Thais I know that stand up at home when the anthem plays.

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This wouldn't be any of the four-lane highways in Bangkok that run past a palace, would it?

This wouldn't be any of the four-lane highways in Bangkok that run past a palace, would it?

Kanchanaburi

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There was talk a few years of doing the same with all the traffic on the roads, ie at 08:00am and again at 18:00...

Not so long ago in Thailand all the traffic did stop for the national anthem at 0800 and at 1800 everyday.

should you avoid the lavy at anthem times ?? or can you wait till it finishes

Every Sunday at 17:30 is a free concert in Lumpini Park (Bkk). The music does not stop at 18:00 when the anthem is played loudly over the speakers. In fact, people always stop and stand except on Sundays. Weird rule exemption, eh?

There was talk a few years of doing the same with all the traffic on the roads, ie at 08:00am and again at 18:00...

Bangkok traffic doesn't move at 8am or 6pm anyway.

At Lumpini Park almost everyone stops.

Ditto the BTS ... but I haven't been changing trains, but in the station generally they do ... or they did.

Personally, I like the respect for the song.

At Lumpini Park almost everyone stops.

Ditto the BTS ... but I haven't been changing trains, but in the station generally they do ... or they did.

Personally, I like the respect for the song.

To me this is a total alien concept. But then again I don't hail from a flag waving country. These things seem to be much stronger in countries like the US or UK even Oz.

In all my experience here in Thailand, I have never known people to stop whatever they are doing at 8.00am and 6.00pm where the National Anthem is not played or cannot be heard.

If the OP was on a 4 lane fast flowing highway, than I doubt that anyone would have heard the National Anthem on there or that the police would have tried to stop traffic, even a lone cyclist on a freeway for this reason.

Besides that, if the OP was cycling at 40kph and did not stop to hear why the policeman wanted him to stop, how does he assume that it was for the standing to attention of the National Anthem?

I was cycling along a four lane highway through town and could hear the anthem playing as I was going past an array of speakers. I understand a little Thai and heard 'song' as the cop pointed toward the speakers.

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Did he say song as in two or Pleng Chat Thai.

Lol.

Song loi baht

In all my experience here in Thailand, I have never known people to stop whatever they are doing at 8.00am and 6.00pm where the National Anthem is not played or cannot be heard.

If the OP was on a 4 lane fast flowing highway, than I doubt that anyone would have heard the National Anthem on there or that the police would have tried to stop traffic, even a lone cyclist on a freeway for this reason.

Besides that, if the OP was cycling at 40kph and did not stop to hear why the policeman wanted him to stop, how does he assume that it was for the standing to attention of the National Anthem?

I was cycling along a four lane highway through town and could hear the anthem playing as I was going past an array of speakers. I understand a little Thai and heard 'song' as the cop pointed toward the speakers.

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Maybe the nice policeman suspected you of selling drugs from your bike and wanted to arrest you for being a peddler?

Sorry, I couldn`t resist this one.

Edited August 22, 201312 yr by Beetlejuice

Gawd, people get their nickers in a twist over such little things.

General rule, if you are within earshot of the national anthem being played publically, you stop.

Now, if you are within earshot when they start playing the introductory ditty just before the anthem, you've got a good 45 to 60 seconds to hightail it out of there, just like many Thai's do.