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this idea has been talked about for a while over there and now it looks like it may go through, part of the "social order" campaign they are running over there {I suppose having a country with over 800,00 prostitutes is not against the social order, but drinking a beer after midnight is a really bad thing}.
for all us night owls, this is an incredibly bad thing. some guys on the BKK tonight forum were talking about this and saying basically that they didn't care; they can get their drinking done and have a girl in their bed way before midnight so it doesn't matter what times the bars closed. But some of us have to live there parts of the year and would like to actually, you know, have fun? this was my reply to some nonchallant posts I saw on that forum;
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it seems as though many of the guys who posted replies to my other post were vacationers who are just spending time in Thailand for 2 or 3 weeks at a time; the typical response to the early closings was ' so what? I can meet a girl before midnight and have her in my room for a screw easily by then'. that's true, but what about the rest of us?
a good many of the readers here live in BKK or are like me and split their time between BKK and somewhere else. I have a place in the city and to me it is just appaling that I may have to go home now at 12 or even 1 AM. I think if the people who don't care about this had it apply to the city that they live in like we do, they may care more; imagine if all the bars in your cities closed at 12? you would just be starting to go out for the night and it would be time to go home.
lets remember that we are talking about ALL bars here, not just the girly bars in NEP and Patpong and Cowboy, where indeed you can meet and screw a hottie as early as 7 or 8 PM. But I am still relatively young at 38 and like to go out to popular watering holes like Hollywood, Q-Bar, and RCA and Khoa San Road; as you know in any big city, it's not fashionable or even sensible to show up at places like this before 11AM or midnight because they are still empty. What will happen to those places now? Local Thai's and even local ex-pats like me will not be willing to go out dancing and imbibing at 9PM and heading back to your apartment at 1215, bored and depressed.
remember, not everyone who wants a later closing time hangs out in go-go bars. I spend my fair amount of time in them, but this stupid law will much more effect the ability of local people to go out and have fun. seriously....I mean even in boring old brahmin Boston it's 2AM, and just about everywhere else you go in the world [or later].
lighten up, Thaksin; we love your country and you are trying to drive us all away.
Jon
for all us night owls, this is an incredibly bad thing. some guys on the BKK tonight forum were talking about this and saying basically that they didn't care; they can get their drinking done and have a girl in their bed way before midnight so it doesn't matter what times the bars closed. But some of us have to live there parts of the year and would like to actually, you know, have fun? this was my reply to some nonchallant posts I saw on that forum;
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it seems as though many of the guys who posted replies to my other post were vacationers who are just spending time in Thailand for 2 or 3 weeks at a time; the typical response to the early closings was ' so what? I can meet a girl before midnight and have her in my room for a screw easily by then'. that's true, but what about the rest of us?
a good many of the readers here live in BKK or are like me and split their time between BKK and somewhere else. I have a place in the city and to me it is just appaling that I may have to go home now at 12 or even 1 AM. I think if the people who don't care about this had it apply to the city that they live in like we do, they may care more; imagine if all the bars in your cities closed at 12? you would just be starting to go out for the night and it would be time to go home.
lets remember that we are talking about ALL bars here, not just the girly bars in NEP and Patpong and Cowboy, where indeed you can meet and screw a hottie as early as 7 or 8 PM. But I am still relatively young at 38 and like to go out to popular watering holes like Hollywood, Q-Bar, and RCA and Khoa San Road; as you know in any big city, it's not fashionable or even sensible to show up at places like this before 11AM or midnight because they are still empty. What will happen to those places now? Local Thai's and even local ex-pats like me will not be willing to go out dancing and imbibing at 9PM and heading back to your apartment at 1215, bored and depressed.
remember, not everyone who wants a later closing time hangs out in go-go bars. I spend my fair amount of time in them, but this stupid law will much more effect the ability of local people to go out and have fun. seriously....I mean even in boring old brahmin Boston it's 2AM, and just about everywhere else you go in the world [or later].
lighten up, Thaksin; we love your country and you are trying to drive us all away.
Jon
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