laislica Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 But seriously though. The 10:30 pm stop on drinking in the UK for years simply encouraged the rapid drinking that is the norm in the UK today.+Cram them down fast, one for the road..... Not a good idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenterry Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Once a week, and it's usually at weekends, I like to visit my 'local' which sells English beer. Not that I have any issues with lagers from any country, but I prefer the taste of real ale. I prefer the TASTE. I'll spend a couple of hours chatting to other ex-pats and setting the world to rights, eating a baguette, and quaffing 1 litre of beer. I might even stay and watch the EPL footie. That's what I like doing, and it pisses me off when these frequent 'election' days spoil my enjoyment. Yes, I could drink soft drinks, and I could ship out back to the UK, but's that really not the point. So for me, I give these alcohol bans a big thumbs down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smotherb Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Sat in Nana Plaza all night Saturday; after 6pm, I had to drink out of a glass and pay as I ordered--this is Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon11 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Don't see what you problem issues are it's not our country we have no say wand why should we , we are but they sitors every country has their own regulations which many visitors call funny / silly whatever but the point is it's not our country........i refer you to the very old saying. " when in rome do as they do " in other words get over it stop worry about or move Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AhFarangJa Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Had lunch today in a small restaurant in a big town, ordered a Chang, it was served in a coffee cup. Several other Expats doing the same. Ban something and people will always find a way around it. Sometimes just for the sheer hell of defying a ban... .as many posters have said, just another day in the land of smiles! Be careful out there is all we ask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt K Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Matt K, you will be telling me next that you can't get a drink in the ME. How is the Sid? Sent from my GT-I9500 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app I don't know what "Sid" is...sorry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surin20000 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Starbeams in Surin is not selling beer today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanrchase Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Matt K tis the local moonshine. Even the locals have a name for it from many years ago. Sent from my GT-I9500 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AhFarangJa Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Matt K, you will be telling me next that you can't get a drink in the ME. How is the Sid? Sent from my GT-I9500 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app I don't know what "Sid" is...sorry? Sid is short for Siddiqui...Arabic for friend.....the drink is.distilled from a fermentation of sugar, water and yeast......typically 150% proof...then cut with water 3 to 1........................or so I am told............................. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maroon Watcher Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 (edited) yeah, yeah, yeah and they dont have crap jobs or morgages or work with lousy management or listen to a nagging wife... And they don't have to teach those ******* kids!!!!!!! Don't care, don't like alcohol and I think it turns people into instant morons. If alcohol was banned forever I wouldn't care one bit. Well, it isn't and you sound like a lot of fun..... Oh, right, almost forgot; we NEED alcohol for people to have fun! Because having fun without alcohol is completely impossible; just ask any small kids, they look miserable playing outside, sober. Live on Koh Phangan for a few years then tell me again how alcohol is a good thing. Edited March 30, 2014 by Maroon Watcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tafia Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Here we go again, everytime there is an alcohol ban we go thro this <deleted>, which, like most threads brings out the Thai knockers. Stop feeding them George they do ok on their own!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanrchase Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 AhFarangJa You know. Sent from my GT-I9500 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AhFarangJa Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Picked it up in my travels along the way, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanrchase Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 AhFarangJa Bit off toppic so suppose should leave it be. Had many a good weekend fishing the Red Sea with my friend Sid. Sent from my GT-I9500 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maroon Watcher Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 ... so take drugs and/or have extra cigies (They kill most uses and or cause deaths to uses and/or others) Don't see what you problem issues are it's not our country we have no say wand why should we , we are but they sitors every country has their own regulations which many visitors call funny / silly whatever but the point is it's not our country........i refer you to the very old saying. " when in rome do as they do " in other words get over it stop worry about or move Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosquitobill Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 I don't know what the problem is with some folk,Sat I went for a few beers at lunch time then went for a meal at 7 ish all this on the main road in Pattaya/Jomtien and did same about 5 ish today Sun no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReporter Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 There is no such thing as a ban on alcohol in Thailand. The businesses that supply alcohol make more money whenever there is a ban, because instead of selling the alcohol at a legal price, they double the price to buyers who want them. Common sense also says it is absolutely stupid to ban alcohol when the country is heavily depended on tourism - meaning people who come to the country to party and have fun, so again, Thailand is shooting itself in the foot as usual....This amounts to nothing but stupidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanrchase Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 I really don't care about the ban. So many people on TV take the p**s out of "Thai folk" for various reasons most of which are a reflection on themselves. Sent from my GT-I9500 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laolover88 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 It is all just part of making people infantile, which so-called governments are very fond of trying to do. Do you really think a Thai person is incapable of making a rational decision, well more so than usual,about the choice of a senator because they have had a beer for lunch? I think they should only sell alcohol to tourists on these days and then farang will be seen racing tuk-tuks round the municipality dispensing alcohol to undermine the "Thai Democratic Process" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benmart Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 I had peace and quiet for two nights as the bar next door to my condo was/is closed. Other venues in central Pattaya were subdued but drinking was taking place, although very low key. The local grocery store was selling booze as usual to foreign tourists who make up a majority of their customer base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papa al Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Difficulty in obtaining alcohol, seems troubling to some Thai Visa members. I am not sure why. Home brew, is easy to make if you find alcohol to be a life staple. Or even easier you can stock up the day before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laolover88 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 (edited) Actually, as I think more lucidly; thankfully have a bottle or two of Hennessey in the cupboard, to open later... on these days you should roam the streets insulting Thailand and any other country you can remember, get locked up. Theywill send you to the VFS Passport/ Visa/Detention center in Trendy Sukhumvit 13 in BKK where your passport, wife and children will be confiscated. Then you will be put in a Silk sack and bludgeoned, as was the old Thai way until you confess that Thailand is the only country on earth worth living in. Unless of course you happen to be Somali, Pakistani,Ukrainian. Polish, Romanian, ET, A Womble, Siberian, Bagpuss, Darth Vader, Winnie The Pooh, Peter Rabbit, Charles MansonG. Depardieu... in which case you will confess that a DSS supplied penthouse in Kensington in the UK is a better option. And can you go there, NOW? Do you remember when you could not buy a drink on Good Friday? Sorry must not mock !! Edited March 30, 2014 by laolover88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickylies Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 no ban where i live. just back from beach and beer & lao a gogo.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanrchase Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Enough is enough. If you can't find a beer today you are c**k. What is your problem? If you want a beer and "extras" use the phone book. You a tourist or what? Sent from my GT-I9500 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gil Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 (edited) She delivers! Edited March 30, 2014 by Gil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinoThailand Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Lies! Dream on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 It's complete <deleted>, that's my take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rumbo1 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 In Nong Khai ban until 3pm Disagree , I think you'll find it's 12 p.m also , some bars are open but taking a gamble wether police will come or not . Last night many bars were open but the one I was in was closed by police and warned not too pen today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MILT Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> Don't care, don't like alcohol and I think it turns people into instant morons. If alcohol was banned forever I wouldn't care one bit. Ditto! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirchai Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Not a problem for me, as I quit drinking and still smile, reading the holy cow story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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