Restrictions on buying wine - by time, location or none?

I love my wine, can't go a day without a glass and can't go a weekend without a bottle.

By Time.Thaksin brought in restricted times which meant if I fancied a wine out of these hours then I would have to buy 2 x 5 litre boxes or 1 box and bottles of wine of my choice ( Disregarding shops that don't care about the law)

By Location. I am currently in Norway which probably has the most healthiest but boring populace on the planet. Here they restrict purchase of wine by location. Only shops with a wine monopoly are allowed to sell wine. The nearest to me is 3 Km away..and I am in the Oslo suburbs not on an effing remote moose farm or whatever they do out in the wilds here.. So, each Saturday I go and buy what I think is enough wine for the week..but of course over estimate and buy more....which I have drunk by Thursday..

No Restriction. When I fancy a bottle I buy a bottle.....and for sure I know I drink less...

What says you?

I enjoy the odd tipple. It certainly ticks me off if I've driven to Pattaya to stock up with provisions, and just happen to mibbe want a bottle of decent Merlot with the meat I've just bought-
"Cannot.."- from the cashier. "Eh?!?" She points to the clock.

FFS! It's not like I'm going to knock the top off the bottle and go and swig it shirtless outside on the Foodland steps like a Cambodian labourer, is it?:confused:

my local supermarket have Ok wines at 3 bottles for B1000
so I never run out!

foreign wine is pricy in Thailand due to high import taxes, but why the mediocre Thai wines cost so much I cannot fathom

The wine monopoly shop I use has a bloody good selection from around 110 NOK to 400 NOK..10 to 40 quid...but the whole concept of having a special shop to buy wine baffles me...I walk passed a local shop selling beer before I get to the wine monopoly.

wine is for poofs

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Originally Posted by Jeremia

The wine monopoly shop I use has a bloody good selection from around 110 NOK to 400 NOK..10 to 40 quid...but the whole concept of having a special shop to buy wine baffles me...I walk passed a local shop selling beer before I get to the wine monopoly.

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That concept sounds strange to me too. Here you can buy wine easily at any super market or if they are closed, at the gas station but their choice is a bit limited of course. You only have to be of legal buying age which is 16.

110 NOK sound soutrageous to me though. That's 14 Euros!

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Originally Posted by Fabian

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Originally Posted by Jeremia

The wine monopoly shop I use has a bloody good selection from around 110 NOK to 400 NOK..10 to 40 quid...but the whole concept of having a special shop to buy wine baffles me...I walk passed a local shop selling beer before I get to the wine monopoly.

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That concept sounds strange to me too. Here you can buy wine easily at any super market or if they are closed, at the gas station but their choice is a bit limited of course. You only have to be of legal buying age which is 16.

110 NOK sound soutrageous to me though. That's 14 Euros!

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..and thats the cheapest!!

The point of all this is to say that BOTH methods of restriction actually make me buy more and drink more...

I love California, here you can buy anytime you want at prices for decent everyday drinking prices from $2.21 to whatever your budget will allow. Used to carry a half case or more in my back pack when visiting Thailand until those stupid terrorists tried to blow up planes with bottled explosives