Monthly Archives: March 2007

St. Patrick’s Week Pattaya 2007

March 25, 2007 – 9:51 pm

7 days after March 17th St. Patrick’s Week finally came to an end in Pattaya. At least for me. The week’s alcohol consumption was probably 30-40 beers, five bottles of wine, and an undisclosed number of vodka tonics. My Celtic heritage was celebrated in Maggie May’s, Shinnanigan’s, Janet’s on Soi Excite, Dirty Dens’ on Soi 6, The […]

By Peter | Posted in Drinking, Pattaya | Comments (0)

Vaseline Festival in Jomtien

March 17, 2007 – 10:44 pm

Pattaya City Hall has announced a Vaseline Full Sun Double Fun Fair for this coming April 29. Vaseline is spending over $2 million US dollars to promote its sun block products, but questions have been raised by the local gay and fetish communities about why Vaseline wasn’t focusing on the use of its main lubricant as […]

By Peter | Posted in holiday, Pattaya | Comments (0)

Bolivia Claims Coca-Coke Logo

March 17, 2007 – 10:27 pm

The BBC reported that indigenous Bolivian coca planters have started a legal process to prevent Coca-Cola from using ‘Coca’ as a logo name, citing coca is as native to the Andean nation as hot dogs are to the USA. The multinational company has retorted that their logo is protected by Bolivian law, however the Coca Committee of […]

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Booze Ban for 20 year olds in Thailand

March 15, 2007 – 12:01 pm

Thailand’s interim government approved a bill aimed at curbing the alcohol consumption through a ban of booze ads, zoning for drinking, and the raising of the drinking age to 20. Their most recent attempt to push through this legislation was defeated by the major ad agencies along with their whiskey company subscribers, however this time they have a […]

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Youtubes ban on Thailand internet

March 12, 2007 – 5:09 am

Over the weekend several web blogs reported youtubes.com had been blocked access in Thailand. I never had any problems, then again I don’t check the site often since Viacom exiled Jon Stewart from the viewing public. Reasons for ban in Thailand range from insulting Buddha or criticizing the government or showing sex pictures of any […]

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