Bangkok bans sale of alcohol 10th to 20th April

[Caine 534]

On 4/9/2020 at 9:13 AM, MaiDong said:

I've become bored of beer recently, so I'll just use this as an opportunity to give it up for a while, we're all getting fatter now anyway... 

Beer ? you can’t call that sh*te they bottle up in the Land of Liars. Beer.

[MaiDong 486]

1 minute ago, Caine said:

Beer ? you can’t call that sh*te they bottle up in the Land of Liars. Beer.

I take it you've left already then?

[meshborg 89]

Certainly will work.The roads will be safer,less deaths.Which will allow the covid 19 deaths to be hidden under the radar.

[SunsetT 1,762]

On 4/9/2020 at 9:22 AM, nikmar said:

After my initial child like sulking , Ive started thinking along the lines of it being a good thing for me. Ive already packed in the cigarettes and now i can have a dry out as well. I WILL be a better man.

May I suggest my favourite hot weather thirst quenching drink instead of beer. Simply ice + soda water + fresh squeezed lime. It has the same bite in the throat as your 1st ice cold beer of the day....and healthy too!

[BritManToo 44,445]

2 minutes ago, SunsetT said:

May I suggest my favourite hot weather thirst quenching drink instead of beer. Simply ice + soda water + fresh squeezed lime. It has the same bite in the throat as your 1st ice cold beer of the day....and healthy too!

Where's the alcohol! did you forget to list the shot of Vodka?

Edited April 10, 2020 by BritManToo

[ReLo 77]

Banned in whole Thailand for Sonkran, with 24 hours curfew.

 

 

[thecyclist 721]

You can still head out to Nonthaburi or Pathumthani to purchase this 'most essential' item in this time of crisis, or is this ban for greater Bangkok.?

There gotta be plenty of roadside stalls and shops still selling, at least as their stocks last. Anybody managed to purchase booze during the ban? 

[digbeth 878]

3 minutes ago, thecyclist said:

You can still head out to Nonthaburi or Pathumthani to purchase this 'most essential' item in this time of crisis, or is this ban for greater Bangkok.?

There gotta be plenty of roadside stalls and shops still selling, at least as their stocks last. Anybody managed to purchase booze during the ban? 

Not for long, SamutPrakarn is starting the ban tomorrow (Sat 11) so time's running out to stock up

[thecyclist 721]

2 hours ago, Ranshoko said:

How selfish can you get! Watch out you don't catch the Covid 19 virus in Germany

Where do you get 10 Baht per pint beer in Germany? Are you brewing it yourself? 

[MaiDong 486]

30 minutes ago, SunsetT said:

May I suggest my favourite hot weather thirst quenching drink instead of beer. Simply ice + soda water + fresh squeezed lime. It has the same bite in the throat as your 1st ice cold beer of the day....and healthy too!

I've been enjoying just soda and ice recently, instead of coke/Fanta etc, good job really, too late to add anything else now! 

[soi3eddie 1,459]

2 hours ago, Joe Mama said:

Too late...they pulled the plug already until the end of April & with no advance warning....that really sucks!  

Lucky enough we went shopping at Makro just after I posted yesterday. Plenty of stock and no panic buying (I guess others didn't see a ban coming here). This morning at 7-11 for coffee I noticed empty shelves where the alcohol was.

 

Ps. not all in pic below was for us  

[zaZa9 1,662]

3 hours ago, CiderFizz said:

This will save about 700 deaths due to drunken driving over Songkran. 

Ahmm , not being allowed to drive around , let alone back to a home province , will sort out road deaths.

The  alcohol ban will  have nothing to do with it.

 

But in the rural areas where Lao Kao is the drink of the masses , and even more likely already to be   taking over as less  and less  people  have  the money for beer  , an alcohol  shop sales ban will  not change anything ...

[JAG 24,423]

3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Said on here previously that there will be food riots eventually with this lockdown and the money starts running out, I think my prediction will be wrong. there will be alcohol riots and then food riots - or maybe steal the food as an afterthought

Sort of: after they loot the booze stocks, the rioters will get the "end of p*ss up munchies"?

[JAG 24,423]

2 hours ago, transam said:

Just a police/army state, smacks of communism to me....

I'm not so sure, back in the olden days the Soviets were amongst the biggest p*ssheads on the planet!

[skorp13 651]

Is this a Songkran thing or the new norm? How many think this will end on the 20th? Pattaya is now banning deliveries of alcohol but not the sales. In 1 day what will be the difference?