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[G54]

Strange, this talk of closures. I was out last night and had 3 venues open at 1 hotel. Same on Tuesday.
I talked to one of the management staff and joked they must have paid a kick-back to be open, but it seems not.
As ever, one rule for one place and other rules for others.

England used to have lunch time closing and early closing on Sundays too. I never saw that as a problem. Last orders often at 10-45 p.m. I will agree that since the abolition of those closing times coupled with the aiming of certain brands of drink at youngsters that the drinking scene has changed dramatically and the problems have increased. Not so sure it is due to the opening hours as much as drinks like WKD being aimed at teenagers who drink them like they are cherry soda.

Same applied to pubs being closed over Christmas holidays.

That was the way it was and we accepted it. No real hardship to be without for a day or two. Helps clear the system out

[seri thai]

Beacher, on 2009-07-03 09:12:57, said:

The Thai government should be embarrassed by the laws it makes regarding drinking. The one forbidding sale of alcohol between 2-5 PM says to the rest of the world, "Our people are like irresponsible children who won't stay at work/school and do what they're supposed to do, so we have to make draconian laws to ensure that they won't shirk their responsibilities and get drunk instead."

This latest one screams out that the citizens of this country are not truly Buddhist, because if they were, they would follow the 5 precepts of Buddhism and not drink at all, let alone on religious holidays. But since religion here is only something superficial, we must make more draconian laws.

Passing through Ban Chang yesterday I found most of the "fahrang" bars closed apart from the offshore bar where I had a meal. The manager politely informed me that alcohol could not be observed due to the religious holiday. After finishing my "fahrang" meal I proceeded to a thai restaurant down the road to meet some friends where the religious holiday was in full swing and most of the thais were drinking the beer and sangthip happily.

So it would appear that laws are created primarily for the fahrangs who respect or fear them and a few elderly traditionalists who remember Sarit and Pibulsongkramm who kept streets safe and made the trains run on time. Most modern thais blithely ignore them as an irrelevance . I am honestly starting to believe that Thai laws are promulgated by stuffy, conservative old men and ignored by most of the youthful population.
The only people that pay heed are fahrangs who have an innate respect of judicial/legal systems and a healthy fear of the boys in brown. (The only other group to show interest in laws, for their own pecuniary interests    )

[dragonvolker]

mickvisa, on 2009-07-09 04:45:32, said:

any thing that restricts the abuse of alcohol is a good thing ,same as cigarettes ,learn to live clean you will live longer and happier

May be longer but for what?

[alant]

reports today that 71 have died in gujarat india due to drinking bootleg booze at a party... why point something that happened in india out?
well you cant buy booze in gujarat......

take away the legit supply and you are left with .... you get the point.