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#5339593 US Embassy Bangkok Complained Over Lady Gaga's Fake Rolex Tweet

Posted chooka on Today, 18:26

View PostPib, on Today, 18:18 , said:

View Postchooka, on Today, 18:11 , said:

View PostRedr0m, on Today, 17:51 , said:

This is just hilarious. Every single main road of every single tourist destination is full of copies that being a watch or a polo-shirt.

Is there anywhere in Thailand where you can purchase original products?

There are a few places but I don't think many are sold due to their high price....a high price caused by the high import/luxury tax placed on them by the Thai govt.  So, fake ones are sold instead.

These high taxes are usually imposed to protect the local industry, which I guess in this instance is the pirating industry


#5339565 US Embassy Bangkok Complained Over Lady Gaga's Fake Rolex Tweet

Posted Pib on Today, 18:18

View Postchooka, on Today, 18:11 , said:

View PostRedr0m, on Today, 17:51 , said:

This is just hilarious. Every single main road of every single tourist destination is full of copies that being a watch or a polo-shirt.

Is there anywhere in Thailand where you can purchase original products?

There are a few places but I don't think many are sold due to their high price....a high price caused by the high import/luxury tax placed on them by the Thai govt.  So, fake ones are sold instead.


#5114488 Nationwide Alcohol Ban For Makabucha Day: Thailand

Posted koto on 2012-03-07 06:38:03

View Postrobblok, on 2012-03-06 18:29:53, said:

View PostTechnikaIII, on 2012-03-06 18:12:01, said:

View Postrayw, on 2012-03-06 17:42:46, said:

So silly and what a waste of police tiem with so much real crime still to solve. Prohibition NEVER works hasn't history shown us that.  If your religion says you should not drink and it is important to you then simply do not drink but why involve others who do nto follow you faith in such rulings.  Hardly freedom or logical or sensible/  Oh well I suppose TIT.

Or perhaps you could try observance out of respect. After all, it's not your country. No doubt you would be pissed off with foreigners in your own country carrying on as though your own sacred days meant nothing. Just a suggestion.

Im sure the locals will drink too. Anyway i am not religious so if a foreigner would do something on my sacred days i would not care one bit. Religion is not a good thing when its forced upon others. You have to follow a religion out of free will
As long as one has respect for self, others, is fully responsible for ones actions, it doesn't matter who, or what, one prays to, also have respect for Mother Earth and the Voiceless, Children, Wildlife, Waterways and Soil. We are all in this neighborhood together.
If there "Happens" to be another place, after this Heaven and Hell, one will get a key.
You can take that to the bank, No! Not the bank, put it under your mattress.


#5113795 Nationwide Alcohol Ban For Makabucha Day: Thailand

Posted cardholder on 2012-03-06 20:38:17

View Poststarkey_rich, on 2012-03-06 20:20:02, said:

View PostNewguy70, on 2012-03-06 20:06:21, said:

View PostTechnikaIII, on 2012-03-06 18:12:01, said:

View Postrayw, on 2012-03-06 17:42:46, said:

So silly and what a waste of police tiem with so much real crime still to solve. Prohibition NEVER works hasn't history shown us that.  If your religion says you should not drink and it is important to you then simply do not drink but why involve others who do nto follow you faith in such rulings.  Hardly freedom or logical or sensible/  Oh well I suppose TIT.

Or perhaps you could try observance out of respect. After all, it's not your country. No doubt you would be pissed off with foreigners in your own country carrying on as though your own sacred days meant nothing. Just a suggestion.
+1

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Really most of you need to get a life if you cannot spend a day without drinking, or if your life resolves around drinking. Ohhh wait, what do we call that back in the states. That's right, an alcoholicPosted Image .

Enjoy your stay! Posted Image

It's nothing to do with do with spending a day without a drink, it's to do with being dictated to what you can do and can not.Thailand is a major tourist destination so T.A T say. So why treat the tourist like children just because you are like sheep in the STATES we are are not all like that

I agree - at least with the first part of the post.  It is quite right that Buddhists keep faith with their traditions and if Makha Bucha Day is a non-drinking day then all Buddhists should abstain. Anyone who feels that it is appropriate to support their partners/friends by also abstaining - again OK. However, I am not a Buddhist, and indeed have no religious leanings, so (in a free-thinking world) why should I be denied the opportunity to have a glass of wine at my favourite restaurant.

There is also a question of whether buying, selling or actually drinking is prohibited under the rules of Buddism. I still can't enjoy my glass of wine if my favourite restaurant is Buddhist owned if selling is prohibited.

This is not about needing a drink and this not about not showing respect to Buddhists or Thailand. It is about the reasonable freedom of choice.which is unnecessarily lost when the law enforcers badly interpret or inconsistently apply religious ideologies.


#5113760 Nationwide Alcohol Ban For Makabucha Day: Thailand

Posted starkey_rich on 2012-03-06 20:20:02

View PostNewguy70, on 2012-03-06 20:06:21, said:

View PostTechnikaIII, on 2012-03-06 18:12:01, said:

View Postrayw, on 2012-03-06 17:42:46, said:

So silly and what a waste of police tiem with so much real crime still to solve. Prohibition NEVER works hasn't history shown us that.  If your religion says you should not drink and it is important to you then simply do not drink but why involve others who do nto follow you faith in such rulings.  Hardly freedom or logical or sensible/  Oh well I suppose TIT.

Or perhaps you could try observance out of respect. After all, it's not your country. No doubt you would be pissed off with foreigners in your own country carrying on as though your own sacred days meant nothing. Just a suggestion.
+1

Posted Image

Really most of you need to get a life if you cannot spend a day without drinking, or if your life resolves around drinking. Ohhh wait, what do we call that back in the states. That's right, an alcoholicPosted Image .

Enjoy your stay! Posted Image

It's nothing to do with do with spending a day without a drink, it's to do with being dictated to what you can do and can not.Thailand is a major tourist destination so T.A T say. So why treat the tourist like children just because you are like sheep in the STATES we are are not all like that


#5113487 Nationwide Alcohol Ban For Makabucha Day: Thailand

Posted dominique355 on 2012-03-06 18:21:12

View PostCheops, on 2012-03-06 17:51:56, said:

"1097 user(s) are reading this topic"

It seems that we are worried when we see the words alcohol and ban in 1 sentence:)

We are worried just by the word "ban", especially in connection with religion. Smells ... Taliban-ish


#5113506 Nationwide Alcohol Ban For Makabucha Day: Thailand

Posted robblok on 2012-03-06 18:29:53

View PostTechnikaIII, on 2012-03-06 18:12:01, said:

View Postrayw, on 2012-03-06 17:42:46, said:

So silly and what a waste of police tiem with so much real crime still to solve. Prohibition NEVER works hasn't history shown us that.  If your religion says you should not drink and it is important to you then simply do not drink but why involve others who do nto follow you faith in such rulings.  Hardly freedom or logical or sensible/  Oh well I suppose TIT.

Or perhaps you could try observance out of respect. After all, it's not your country. No doubt you would be pissed off with foreigners in your own country carrying on as though your own sacred days meant nothing. Just a suggestion.

Im sure the locals will drink too. Anyway i am not religious so if a foreigner would do something on my sacred days i would not care one bit. Religion is not a good thing when its forced upon others. You have to follow a religion out of free will


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