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"Miss Drunk"
Contests Held in Thailand
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Date: 17 January
2003
Being called a drunk is something
irrational, but Thailand's Arunothai Sriaran is delighted to be
crowned as "Miss Drunk". Arunothai was so named at a
contest aiming to promote Thai wines. She is a wine seller who
defeated 14 other female rivals by completing the obstacle course in
seven seconds after putting down five pegs of wine. A peg is
approximately 0.1 liters. To make the course harder, the contestants
were dressed in traditional Thai dresses of heavy silk finery
including golden headgear.
The contest, held by a private
company, aims at promoting Thai local products and encouraging
people to stop drinking foreign whiskey.
The contest went on despite
objection by some Thai senators who regarded it as a dishonor to the
dignity of Thai women. In Buddhist society like Thailand, public
drunkenness, especially by women is frowned upon.
Miss Drunk Arunothai expressed her
disagreement on that conservative protest by saying that she could
not understand why people criticize them for promoting local
production, and that one had to accept the truth that women drinking
wine was widely common in the society.
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