Culture Ministry: Undergarments being sold with prints of Thai flag and map

[taony]

Quick! Everyone around the world! Download the brochure!!!

[doremifasol]

Got FLAGGED!!!!

[englishoak]

I just realised they are moaning about a US based website too....OMG , maybe they should try and copyright the flag if they dont like it

[focus27]

They need to come into the 21st Century.

They haven't got to the Renaissance yet!

[chooka]

Got FLAGGED!!!!

Underwear for all occasions

http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+thai-flag+underwear-panties

[Mister Fixit]

Underwear and other clothing with the Union Jack have been sold in theUK since the 1960's. Same in the US. What's the problem?

Get your head out of your bum, Thailand. It's not as if you're a world power or anything ...

[seajae]

wow, a thai map on our undies, just think, we could have the map positioned so that all the sh*t happens around Chang Mai and the north, home of the reds(or browns in this case)

[jollyman]

Well, Thai people use the British Union jack for just about every thing,maybe the British Government should have crack down on the union flag usage

[klauskunkel]

They need to come into the 21st Century.

let them finish the Middle Ages first, one step at a time...

[noitom]

"Do's and Don'ts According to Thai Culture"

Also known as "Make It Up As You Go Along".

The whole Thai system is based on winging it.

[belg]

as long as hitler t-shirs are ok in thailand

[taqila]

I think the foreign flags on the bra mostly worn by Thai girls are a symbol of bigger boobies! Not sure too many want to advertise tiny thai ones! 555

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[Lupatria]

The Thai Ministry of Culture make noises like this every few months to justify their existence.

Well, if you don’t have a football club that would survive in the EPL, not a single invention recognised by the rest of the world as ‘Thai’. If you live under an incompetent government, corrupt religious leaders in a remote controlled nation and in your schoolbooks the country’s history is modyfied to fit, you are left with no reason to be proud of. Hence, you have to stick to obscure nationalism based on constructed ideas of ‘thainess’ and doubious interpretations of ‘culture’.

[noitom]

Meanwhile, Thailand has no problem selling Hitler shirts and swastica symbols.

What utter hypocrisy!!!

Well, culture ministry....its our country, our culture and we will sell what we like.

And don't forget the blackface Sambos and the name of the store - Hitler.

[lemonjelly]

Just some bureaucrats periodically shouting at trees to justify their salaries.

[chooka]

I recently saw a Union Jack carpet for sale in Bangkok. I asked the shop assistant if they had a Thai flag carpet too and they said they didn't stock this item. I said the Union Jack was nice but, I would rather have a Thai flag as I live here. Apparently anyone else's flag is fair game.

Funny you should say that. I have an Aussie flag door mat which we purchased from a wharehouse in Kanchanaburi and we all know how thais feel about feet and walking on things.

[DrTuner]

I know where Pattaya will be be located when those panties are on.

[JoeThePoster]

I think the foreign flags on the bra mostly worn by Thai girls are a symbol of bigger boobies!

Or just like collecting scalps.

[Khon Thai Ben Khon Dee]

Once there's a Map of Tassie underneath, I'm cool with it.

[Ulic]

Glad to see nothing that important is happening here so the Thai government can focus

on undergarments with Thai lags and a map of the country on them being sold on an

American website.

[bigbamboo]

Lol @ "maps."

Just like the old joke. "My girlfriend always buys her knickers from C&A, so she knows which way round to wear them."

Haha!....... I remember that one too!

[londonthai]

I have seen dogs with thai national colours in their hair, and that was from the protest site and from the celebrities and hi-so and whoever.

The problem for the ministry might be, that they can't tax or make money any other way from this venture

[Khon Thai Ben Khon Dee]

Meanwhile in Thailand. the hub of cultural sensitivity:

[DocN]

Boooooo- hoooooo!

Nothing wrong of course, with wearing the Union Jack on your @$$ or the Stars and Stripes on your Flip- flops or the Brazilian flag...or...or...or...

[Khon Thai Ben Khon Dee]

Boooooo- hoooooo!

Nothing wrong of course, with wearing the Union Jack on your @$$ or the Stars and Stripes on your Flip- flops or the Brazilian flag...or...or...or...

Or Thaksin's face.

[tonytigerbkk]

Boooooo- hoooooo!

Nothing wrong of course, with wearing the Union Jack on your @$$ or the Stars and Stripes on your Flip- flops or the Brazilian flag...or...or...or...

Or Thaksin's face.

O.M.G., where can i buy these from.

I would love to wear these on my next trip to Isaan.

Edited February 7, 2014 by tonytigerbkk

[tomross46]

I think that Thailand should go back and follow some of the old customs. In old Siam a woman's top was only covered by a cloth, and no bras.

[Thaddeus]

Boooooo- hoooooo!

Nothing wrong of course, with wearing the Union Jack on your @$$ or the Stars and Stripes on your Flip- flops or the Brazilian flag...or...or...or...

Or Thaksin's face.

O.M.G., where can i buy these from.

I would love to wear these on my next trip to Isaan.

Two feet.

That's about how far you would get.

[JeffreyWitty]

I recently saw a Union Jack carpet for sale in Bangkok. I asked the shop assistant if they had a Thai flag carpet too and they said they didn't stock this item. I said the Union Jack was nice but, I would rather have a Thai flag as I live here. Apparently anyone else's flag is fair game.

A bunch of hypocrites.

[Sayonarax]

Who gives a shiza. Kids in my country use our flags as capes. All we hear is wah wah wah.