The government has announced the cancellation of the annual Water Festival. The Water Festival was supposed to be held from October 30 until November 1.
Sorry lads, no boat races this year.
Water Festival canceled due to Covid-19
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How many times in past ten years has there been a water festival held?
Maybe 5?
Maybe 5?
A the annual color revolution fears again.... Better keep farmers out of town before they spot all the accumulated wealth and get strange ideas.
Have been once. Way too crowded and we have seen how wrong that can go.
Have been once. Way too crowded and we have seen how wrong that can go.
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Yes, because an extra 2 million unwashed provincial bumpkins cramming into Phnom Penh, getting drunk, and standing on each others toes would in no way spread disease and viruses amongst them all. Then once contaminated, returning to their home towns to cross contaminate everyone else for good measure.
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The city seems pretty quiet this week(end). Not sure why they would ban the waterfestival when all Khmer are already milling around due to the government endorsed/enforced holiday. Lets see if the China virus infections rise a couple of weeks from now.
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The reason for banning the Water Festival amongst CoVid concerns should be pretty obvious.
It is the only Khmer holiday where instead of Phnom Penh emptying out into the provinces, an extra 2M+ unwashed peasants cram into Phnom Penh, as tightly as sardines, tripping over each others feet they are so close.
Several million extra litres of urine are deposited on the roads, walls, and pagodas daily.
Copious amount of drinking has everybody hugging and being wrapped around strangers.
The local, and imported, low budget hookers are ploughed by a dozen different newly arrived bumpkins daily.
Any infections would spread like wildfire amongst them all.
Then at the end of the week, they would all return, contaminated, to every single corner of the country to carry on spreading it there.
Is that easy enough for you to understand?
It is the only Khmer holiday where instead of Phnom Penh emptying out into the provinces, an extra 2M+ unwashed peasants cram into Phnom Penh, as tightly as sardines, tripping over each others feet they are so close.
Several million extra litres of urine are deposited on the roads, walls, and pagodas daily.
Copious amount of drinking has everybody hugging and being wrapped around strangers.
The local, and imported, low budget hookers are ploughed by a dozen different newly arrived bumpkins daily.
Any infections would spread like wildfire amongst them all.
Then at the end of the week, they would all return, contaminated, to every single corner of the country to carry on spreading it there.
Is that easy enough for you to understand?
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Would it be fair to say that you are not a big fan of the Water Festival.Playboy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:44 amThe reason for banning the Water Festival amongst CoVid concerns should be pretty obvious.
It is the only Khmer holiday where instead of Phnom Penh emptying out into the provinces, an extra 2M+ unwashed peasants cram into Phnom Penh, as tightly as sardines, tripping over each others feet they are so close.
Several million extra litres of urine are deposited on the roads, walls, and pagodas daily.
Copious amount of drinking has everybody hugging and being wrapped around strangers.
The local, and imported, low budget hookers are ploughed by a dozen different newly arrived bumpkins daily.
Any infections would spread like wildfire amongst them all.
Then at the end of the week, they would all return, contaminated, to every single corner of the country to carry on spreading it there.
Is that easy enough for you to understand?
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To be fair, over the years I have had some great times here in Phnom Penh during the water festival, however as I grow older and more antisocial (even more so than before) I spent less and less time in the thick of it.spitthedog wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:12 pmWould it be fair to say that you are not a big fan of the Water Festival.Playboy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:44 amThe reason for banning the Water Festival amongst CoVid concerns should be pretty obvious.
It is the only Khmer holiday where instead of Phnom Penh emptying out into the provinces, an extra 2M+ unwashed peasants cram into Phnom Penh, as tightly as sardines, tripping over each others feet they are so close.
Several million extra litres of urine are deposited on the roads, walls, and pagodas daily.
Copious amount of drinking has everybody hugging and being wrapped around strangers.
The local, and imported, low budget hookers are ploughed by a dozen different newly arrived bumpkins daily.
Any infections would spread like wildfire amongst them all.
Then at the end of the week, they would all return, contaminated, to every single corner of the country to carry on spreading it there.
Is that easy enough for you to understand?
Given the current possibility for things going horribly wrong, I think that cancelling it is the right move.
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I know what you mean.Playboy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:23 pmTo be fair, over the years I have had some great times here in Phnom Penh during the water festival, however as I grow older and more antisocial (even more so than before) I spent less and less time in the thick of it.spitthedog wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:12 pmWould it be fair to say that you are not a big fan of the Water Festival.Playboy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:44 amThe reason for banning the Water Festival amongst CoVid concerns should be pretty obvious.
It is the only Khmer holiday where instead of Phnom Penh emptying out into the provinces, an extra 2M+ unwashed peasants cram into Phnom Penh, as tightly as sardines, tripping over each others feet they are so close.
Several million extra litres of urine are deposited on the roads, walls, and pagodas daily.
Copious amount of drinking has everybody hugging and being wrapped around strangers.
The local, and imported, low budget hookers are ploughed by a dozen different newly arrived bumpkins daily.
Any infections would spread like wildfire amongst them all.
Then at the end of the week, they would all return, contaminated, to every single corner of the country to carry on spreading it there.
Is that easy enough for you to understand?
Given the current possibility for things going horribly wrong, I think that cancelling it is the right move.
If i'm in Thailand during the festival i almost feel like i'm the most miserable person in the world situated in the middle of a zombie apocalpse.
We spent one festival in Kanchanaburi from the safety of our hotel room once, and i remember almost gazing like a sniper from the balcony.
But then i saw the drunk chicks dancing on top of the cars and thought it aint that bad.
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