The new Thai Prime minister Samak Sundaravej(aka. Fat pig) wanna open a casino and make Sports bidding legal what your opion???
The positive thing is it'll create jobs and thai gambler don't have to go all the way to cambodia to play so the money stay in the country. what you think??

agree but it should be part/owned by the govt. so govt can control.

i dont like gambling tough.

I really know how the Thai style is very flex.To be honous I dont think they can control the casino.


And it will attract new gambler to play there cuz it easy to access.

yes, yes, yes

a casino city in Phuket

yes

this is the best idea ever comes out of this stupid gov


i'm a big gambler myself


my family used to be very fu-king rich

now everything gone since my first trip to a Cambodia casino

i'm driving taxi to save enough money for another trip to get my money back from the casino


if there is one here, i would save some travelling expenses
plus i can gamble there after finishing my shift


yeah

/555

NO NO NO pls, ppl going to get addicted. They even gamble for soccer matches, lost money, stealing, become criminals so Casino would cost more damages to the society.
If they wanna play go to Arunya Prathet or Burma okay, now Laos having Casino too...gosh what a world coming too anyway.

Most asian people are genetically addicted to gambling anway so why not have one in your own country so they dont go overeas to gamble. When i was in Los Vegas a few years ago, i saw alot of Asians over there and alot of them work in Casinos.

Samak is a genius. His plan may even work to calm the southern insurgency because now they may have a good reason to stay united with Thailand so they can gamble away their life savings.

oozing of corruption

casino in thailand will get out of control, just like the prostitution industry. how about fixing current problems before emulating more?

prostitutes?

bathlover.com

Yeah im afriad it will attract new gambler this is the most to be concerned. how about those exist gamblers? make them gov's customer instead of spening outside. there are casinos in every neiboring countries of thailand's border though.



fix thai men first. specially police.



besides gambling? AnAtta seriously need to be fixed.

No, that would be too much for 65 million people to handle. Gambling has ruined many people in thailand already. Here is my two cents. If siamese wanted to gamble, just go spend your baath in Laos or cambodia.

They should open them up down there in the southern region, Pattani.

It means that they're asking for more bombs. I think, alcohol and gambling are prohibited in Muslim's world.

What if prostitution is thrown in there too? would that distract them from more bombing? i know alot of muslims here in the states that dont exactly follow muslim laws either, they're as bad as anyone lese here.

Like this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLXhYOAv_x0

555

So many people said yes, but I'm the second person who voted yes?

I think it's more beneficial to Thailand to have a casino since people would go out of the country to gamble. But what if the poor people who can't afford to go elsewhere to gamble start because it is close?

Isn't there already a casino at Aranya Prathet?

Moreover, with the degree of gambling that already goes on in LOS, partly due to the nature of Thai people that I mean to commend, in being able to live for the day and give some credence to chook dee, then if there was to be a casino in the centre of Bangkok, or somewhere like that, I can see thousands of poorer people without the chance to drive their lover's Mercedes out of country succumbing to the gambling addiction as such.

This is coming from someone who is currently enjoying a beer and a cigarette on a Sunday afternoon, but like booze and tobacco, gambling is a similar vice IMHO, and the variance of incomes, with the similar sorts of happy-go-lucky mindsets that Thailand is famous for, led me to vote no, for we only just got wheelchair footpaths in a couple of places last year. Now do you want all the people in wheelchairs off to the casino on Sukhumvit Road everyday to spend what little they have leftover on the pokie machines?

Casinos are not government-funded. Casinos are loser-funded. Monetarily speaking, Thailand has more than enough losewrs already, without adding gamblinbg to the list of vices for the poor.

Leave the casino in Aranya Prathet for the Mercedes to change hands, and not the wheelchairs of the poor, for they will be the eventual victims of the casino shareholders.

Random conversation between Thai high school boy in 2010

Boy_A: What should we do after school to day mate

Boy_b: Mmm may be the easy one buy some beer at 7/11

Boy_c: We done that alots it too simple

Boy_A: How about go to casino? To get some fun ,If we are lucky enough we can go to massage palalure or whore house ,and celebrate our 1st time?

Boy_B: Oh its good idea Why we need to find that much money to go to get a whore when the goverment provided 30 Baht whore for every one.

Boy_A Any way thanks to the goverment project for easy access Sinful stuffs ,lets go to the Casino and follow by bang some cheap whore

Boy_C Oh wait dont you guys want to change the highschool uniform before go to Casino?

Boy_A: No worry dont you know my GrandPa Name? (Insert name here->_ฉลิ_ ) the Ministry of the Interior

thailand should have legalized gambling and protitutes since decades ago

but the example of the very high and increasing rate of alcohol consuming has stop any government to bring those two sinful industries up from underground

the cost of healing alcoholics and social problem is far exceed the tax revenue from the licencees

however, this gov,i think, should do it with some restrictions

for example, only people who pay income tax are allowed to enter

it ain't gonna happaned guys thx god http://webboard.mthai.com/16/2008-03-09/372989.html

Those muslims in the south aint gonna like that at all.

Yep, too many of them. here is my two cents. Siam has one of the most dynamic Casino, whore house, porn, Ya-Ba house of SE asian already.




It's already legalized, one of the best in SEasia. open your eyes little bit more.

wtf

don't get confused here is the video. the junta is trying to tell the world that prostitution in Siam is not legalized. Yeah, yeah is not on the paper, but the common senses tell you something else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3NWYScZohw...feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaK-l64KW6w...feature=related

i can't access youtube

go buy a new computer, if you don't have money, ask some from those siamese members.

If Thailand can have Prostitution(which is a big source of income for Thailand), why can't they have Casino?

what is a new computer?

do i need a new computer to get access to youtube?

help, please

money? why do i need to ask for money?

Don't be such a lazy wanker. Cut and paste the stupidity you are trying to impose here, for no doubt it's not worth clicking on a link to. You were asked whether Thailand should have a casino. I can see by your replies already that you have no honest answer but to troll thr thread, as you did back in January on another thread.

Why do you continue to embarrass yourself BudLove?'

Don't you think professinal- help outside the forum might suit you better?

When all you have to give the forum is argument like that above, maybe you might be better off elsewhere. Definitely better if you stay out of the Thai talk, you loser.

March 8, 2008
BANGKOK - Only a third of Thais support the plan to introduce casinos to Thailand, according to a survey.

Just over 56 percent of people polled by Assumption University said they did not want to see casinos on Thai soil, expressing concerns that people may get hooked on gambling and quit their jobs.

Nearly 32 percent said they supported the plan because it could bring more money to the kingdom.

2,726 Thais surveyed in 18 provinces this week said they were neither for or against casinos.

Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said that he planned to build five casinos open to both foreign holidaymakers and Thai citizens in the tourist hotspots of Phuket, Pattaya, Khon Kaen, Hat Yai and Chiang Mai, according to AFP.

The move drew a backlash from social conservatives, who said the gambling havens could spawn social ills such as addiction.

Gambling is illegal in Thailand, but Thais flock to neighbouring Cambodia and Myanmar where casinos dot the border.

Thais bet nearly one billion dollars on the 2006 World Cup.

It is interesting that about 55 percent of the Thais polled by Assumption University said that they thought gambling was a normal part of life in Thailand.

http://www.manager.co.th/Home/ViewNews.asp...D=9510000029376

That's why i thought it was a good idea in the 1st place. People are gonna gamble no matter what so why not have casinos for them and foreigners to go to and make money for it too. I know here in Texas gambling is illegal too but it doesnt stop alot of the Lao people from going from one house to another doing all weekend long gambling parties.

yeah!

buttlover needs to be treated

he is just too sick

555

If it was only for tourists, no problem. That cannot be done. It is not Thai to allow farang into places where Thai citizens are prohibited. This is one of the strong points of Thai culture.

As a simple proposal, what about a trial casino in Hat Yai, where many tourists of a diverse range train and fly through. Hat Yai is the one of the five suggestions that might work, due to the nature of the local people, as wel as the tourists. Khon Kaen, Pattaya and Bangkok will only hurt the poor and ignorant. Try it in Hat Yai or not at all. Put it next to the Oriental Hotel on Thanon Niphat Uthit 3 and see how the construction costs get paid off by wealthy Malaysians and Indonesians in under 24 months!

Try before you buy. Never put a casino in Bangkok.

hate to tell you this

there are at least one golf course in Thailand that not allow thai citizen to apply for a membership == no dogs and thais allowed

and some hotels/hostels/motels in Kao San Road don't let thai id card holders stay as well

so if the gov will built a casino for foreigners only

i think it can be done

it is nothing new

OK, brown noser, You still take time to response to my post. I already gave my two cents about opening up a casino in thailand, so STFU. Now it is about legalizing prostitution, which i strong believe is already legalized, even though is not on the paper, but look around thailand. thailand has one of the world dynamic whore house in the world, luring farang $. You need professional talk, if you're expecting a serious response from eveyone in the forum. Have you check your other members posts, like Dekthia101, thaitanium, Atnatta. take a look at yourself in the mirror, then you'll see the reflection of the loser. glad i can help.



YouTube ban in Thailand has been lifted right ?????? So there fore likely something wrong with your computer. Since you have no problem access the internet.

Look who's talking.

It may be against muslim law.

here is another troll. evidence.

I didn't know about the golf course, sorry. I'd hate to see any more of it, for it reciprocates. Kao San Road you can raffle. Nobody WANTS to go there anyway. Worst of all about this golf course you mention, it has an effect on the patriotism of Thailand; one of the many greatest assets of the Kingdom. I doubt that Thais with clubs and Mercedes would be denied entry, but I have never bothered with the stupidity of golf before, so I can't say I've tried it.

If the government want to build a casino for tourists, then put it in Hat Yai, or else on Ko Samui or Samet. It was a stupid idea to think of such a thing in BKK, and no half-wit PM would ever have had the lunacy to conjer up such a comical joke against the people he in turn claims to represent. Down with the casino, and down with the PM who suggested such an evil idea. I think there might be another coup before the casino doors open anyway, based on this madness.

wait a minute

there is one of you that is a nice guy

but the other one is not

please tell me which one is a civilized guy


i treat ppl the way they deserve to be treated

I have my limits too.

The idea of a casino is basically revenue generating and job creation. Entire cities like Las Vegas can spring out of a desert juz on the basis of gambling revenues alone. There is alot of a spin-off too like entertainment and leisure businesses that soak up the spouse and children of the gamblers. Education wise, schools will need to set up how to train the croupiers, and operations logistics support like restaurant staff, hotel staff etc.. Alot of counselling and funeral parlour business too as addicts seek rehab or commit suicide.

I know all these benefits cuz Singapore government decided to build not one but TWO casinos. hahahaha... its going to be part of the skyline of the country in every postcard u see!

Of course church people and temple folks are worried about impact on national image, citizens, their families and society, but you know what? Singapore government wouldn't iinvest in something like this if they didn't think it makes money... but then this government has taken many gambles and lost before heavily... so who knows? Maybe Thailand should just build a Disneyland instead. It's better for its image as well.

555 national image - our is fu*ked already (even teh netherlands has had their national image ruined and they're a rich nation dammit) just like most of the world and jeez, the police tolerate prostitution (well in pattaya anyway) , gambling DOES go on, the police are rampantly corrupt (even i've contributed to the problem by paying a few extra baht to get out of several speeding fine)... legalise drugs and prostitution and of course gambling, regulate and tax the industry. f*ck national image - people generally have negative stereotypes of foreign countries and unless you're switzerland there's always someone out there who hates you.

money first, morals seconds. morals never built a country. money did and still does.

Have it or not have it is depend on how extend the control is. In Spore your goverment are professional as control people. Where as the Thai isnt with the large demographic and take it easy management style. Casino will hurting people more than helping people.

Let's not forget Martina Hingis...

...and then there are cuckoo clocks to make fun of. Every place on the globe has good and bad aspects of their reputation depending on what type of opinion is being cast. I think last night, I was a bit drunk (medicinal purposes) again, so out came some of the more negative opinions. Sorry everyone.

Anyway, judging by the Singapore development as yet another alternative for tourist gamblers and rich Thais with private jets, and considering that the first thing everyone will be arguing if there ever was to be a casino in Hat Yai, "They've got it there, so why can't we have it here too." maybe it's best looked at from a national point of view. Stop the rot before it starts. Keep the casinos out. There are so many other tourist attractions in LOS, without the need for gambling, anymore than what currently goes on. If it was legal in one place, before long there will be pokies in every 711 store, and beggars outside the doors.

totally agree...

People are gonna gamble anyway so why not have a legal establishment where they can safely gamble and in return you get tax money going into governement coffer?

u can hire us as control agents for your casinos? cheap cheap for u la.....

selling the casino license to singapore is the best solution

or just rent out Phuket to Singapore for 90 years

thai ppl are not capable of running anything

they are more than happy to work for foreigners

Why not legalise heroin too? Just as addictive as gambling and nicotine, and look at the revenue generated by keeping tobacco legal! My how it would be profitable!

Legalise murder and save the HR people at the casino from having to bother to hire more staff! If everyone is dead anyway, we could save the wages of additional croupiers!



Just having a laugh, mate. Chon gao!