Thais encouraged to stop drinking during Buddhist Lent

BANGKOK, 5 July 2017 (NNT) – The Stop Drink Network and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation are organizing a campaign to invite public members to refrain from drinking during the upcoming Buddhist Lent in honor of His Majesty the late King.

Director of the Stop Drink Network Songkran Pakchokedee stated that the no-drinking campaign for this year’s Buddhist Lent focuses on public participation from the community to district and provincial levels. It also aims to create a new generation of anti-alcohol advocates as a way of doing good deeds and following the royal footsteps of His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

For the past 15 years, the number of participants in the no-drinking campaign has been found to be on the rise. According to a survey of participants, over 80 percent said their abstention from alcohol allows them to save money while enjoying better health, both physically and mentally, while 31 percent said it helps reduce family problems. Another 60 percent expressed determination to remain sober after the Lent period.BANGKOK, 5 July 2017 (NNT) – The Stop Drink Network and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation are organizing a campaign to invite public members to refrain from drinking during the upcoming Buddhist Lent in honor of His Majesty the late King.

Another 60 percent expressed determination to remain sober after the Lent period.

http://nwnt.prd.go.th/CenterWeb/News...C6007060010001

Assisted by a blanket ban on bars and restaurants opening from midnight Friday until midnight on Sunday, actively enforced by the Army.

Not sure what hotels are doing?

This applies in Koh Samui and is presumably being enforced elsewhere in the kingdom.

I have my fingers crossed for a BBQ invite on Saturday afternoon, so that I can watch the third, and deciding Rugby Union test match between New Zealand and The British and Irish Lions, with friends and with a cold beer in hand.

No disrespect to HM or Buddha is intended. Life must go on.

I will be drinking more, fuk them and their repression

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I have my fingers crossed for a BBQ invite on Saturday afternoon, so that I can watch the third, and deciding Rugby Union test match between New Zealand and The British and Irish Lions, with friends and with a cold beer in hand.

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Luckily a house red tastes just as heavenly out of a coffee mug.

Buddhism is a philosophy not a religion. Right conciousness, one of the 8 steps to follow to get to Nivarna. Nope, not for me, I'll tell you what I'll do for Bhuddhist lent. I'll buy some orchids and a bottle of fanta red and stick it outside on the spirit house. There, oh I feel so much better.

Only joshing!

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I will be drinking more, fuk them and their repression

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In the ass, remember the head is sacred.:kma:

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Luckily a house red tastes just as heavenly out of a coffee mug.

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Provided it is not Mont Clair disguised as paint stripper. ;)

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I will be drinking more, fuk them and their repression

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Rosa Parks on the bus, Gandhi’s Salt March, Thich Quang Duc's self-immolation, Lennon and Ono's Bed-In for Peace...

...xanax drinking more alcohol to spite people and fight 'repression'.

:smileylaughing:

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I will be drinking more, fuk them and their repression

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In the ass, remember the head is sacred.:kma:

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Oddly enough I put that to a chick that 'couldn't' give me head because of her Buddha necklace.



Strange thing was I couldn't put it in her bottom either.


Crazy Buddhists. :)

Folks will partake of alcohol, regardless of situation.

I think it's funny that every time there's one of these 'alcohol-free' periods there are so much dramatics, angst, and gnashing of teeth over it.

It's not as though it actually becomes impossible to have a drink if you so desire.

And if going without a drink for a day or two really does cause you so much concern and conniptions then you've got a much larger problem that simply being inconvenienced to the local laws/customs.

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And if going without a drink for a day or two really does cause you so much concern and conniptions then you've got a much larger problem that simply being inconvenienced to the local laws/customs.

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:chitown: ...same with Xanax for sleepy-deep and Prozac to rise 'n shine and Valium to...555

Normally I only drink at weekends anyway these days so why should these fukers interfere with that, none of them are real Buddhists anyway. Try asking any Thai what the four noble truths are and none of them know, even drunken monks :)

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none of them are real Buddhists anyway.

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I'm not sure some terminally angry internet bore is quite the person to judge.

Pissing through again, I thought you had pissed off a long time ago :rolleyes:

Oh. Gawd. :(

Maybe you should drink more, it might even make you marginally amusing.

Mr Jolly only gives us alcoholics a 3 day stooper, then it's back to normality on Tuesday.

What a killjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvmA_7pMlX4

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Folks will partake of alcohol, regardless of situation.

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Folks will ignore Jeff's homespun faux philosophy regardless of situation.