Whiskey business

re: "Govt warns against sharing Lisa Blackpink's whiskey ads" (BP, Life, March 16, 2022)

Dear editor,

The reported crackdown on former Thai resident, now Blackpink superstar Lisa Manoban, for creating apparently star-stunning advertisements for "a famous Scotch whiskey company currently conducting a global publicity campaign" raises several questions: 

1) Where can we see the forbidden images?

2) Is this vindictiveness because Lisa declined the Thai government's invitation to join Andrea Bocelli in that mega-successful, world famous New Year's Eve countdown that, despite being ignored for unspecified reasons by local media, so made the international headlines a few months back and still being gushed over today? 

3) Are Thais really so much less mature than the citizens of the rest of the world that exposure to an image of alcohol in an advertisement really has them rushing to get blotto before before jumping behind the wheel of the Ferrari for a high speed spin down Sukhumvit, with or without cop cleaning en route? 

4) If good citizens unsuspectingly Google Lisa and the forbidden images pop up by transmission over digital media, who is legally liable for the severe punishment being threatened: Google, or the innocent star gazer, or the star herself, or the star-making gods? 

5) Is Lisa still an official Thai mega-star, even though she has now sets the prudent example of leveraging global success to pursue a sufficiency of sustainable income generation?

6) When will Lisa be appointed to Prayut's cabinet of the most absteamious to raise everyone's spirits, unspeakably Scotch or otherwise? 

7) Does the advertising also feature that famed Thai headdress that caught the world's notice for about a second? 

8) How much did the unnamed famous company pay whom to create this added publicity for their deliciously forbidden product? 

Perhaps the Bangkok Post could contact the most righteously threatening Office of the Alcohol Control Committee for answers to these and other pressing questions that Lisa's latest cavortings to global renown for Thailand to piggy back on must raise for uniquely immature Thais who might be exposed to such forbidden knowledge of good and evil.  

And
9) is the Bangkok Post permitted to give more explicit details regarding the unspeakably taboo images of this revered former resident of Thailand? 

 Felix Qui

 

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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.

The text as edited was published in PostBag on March 18, 2022, under the title "Whiskey business" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2281034/eye-on-wrong-test