Bars closed Sat 23.

[Joel F]

I lost all my phones on last trip so cant ring any fecker can I????

Got a nice new one with no numbers in it.

They were all in darkness at 7.30 my southern soldier, and as Im away for a few days I am taking the opp to see the guys in Bangla.They are nice people, they dont diss me on the forum like your little fat mate, and they buy drinks.

 

[LEAH.]

Chang opened at Midnight, just had a ring from Daw!!!

You know the one with the boyfriend! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Anyway, I told her I was busy listening to a bit of Tom Jones and getting up early so I can give Dennis's car the finger on the way to the airport.

 

[Lutz]

Walked into Ting tong bar on Nanai at 18:05.. Asked if they were serving.. Girl working said nope not yet.. Ok when ?? 6 O'clock was the reply... erm ok.. Point to clock.. DOH.

Not called Ting Tong for nowt.

 

[Sacha]

Fingers ok porky, just dont dive at it like you do the bikes, its getting fecking mbarrassing trying to explain away the excentric falang who likes to bounce off the road.

 

[shergal farkey]

From today's Phuket Gazette Online- obviously the bar closures had the desired effect, encouraging a huge turnout- NOT!!

PHUKET: Advance voting held in Phuket on Saturday and Sunday for the March 2 senatorial election saw much less interest among out-of-town Thais than before the parliamentary election held last December.

PEC Director Supap Akkam told the Gazette that of 30,291 non-Phuket Thais registered to cast advance ballots in the province, only 7,301 (24.1%) chose to do so. Of those, 2,968 voted on Saturday and 4,333 cast ballots on Sunday.

This was in sharp contrast to the weekend of December 15 and 16, when 25,956 voters (more than 85%) made their way to Phuket Community Hall on to cast absentee ballots for the December 23 general election.

K. Supap attributed the low turnout to the fact that canvassing activities of Senate candidates and their supporters are highly restricted compared with those for candidates running for parliamentary seats. Similarly, low turnouts were common across the country, he said.

There were no reports of any violations of voting rules during the advance voting, he said.

“I hope at least 60% of registered voters will turn out to vote next Sunday,” he added.

There were also 4,186 Phuket residents who cast advance ballots over the weekend: 1,918 on Saturday and 2,268 on Sunday. Most were people who will be unavailable to vote next Sunday.

 

[Four Monkeys]

Let's calculate the economic loss.

I'd guess each night in just Patong/Kata/Karon/Kamala there is 30 million baht turnover related to bars/booze (excluding ladies/boys/ladyboy fees). Let's say we lost 2.5 nights of trade. So the kapkin math on each got-drunk-at-home-not-at-a-bar vote cost around 10,000 baht loss in trade. That's big money in this parts of the world.