Comments on: Trader Vic’s opening in Kuwait

By: Morv

Morv — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:52:15 +0000

Hello.
Kuwait and Saudi are not the only two countries where alcohol is not legal!! Iran is another such place and I would think there are other places if you do some search. However I think it is your right to choose whether to drink or not to drink, as muslims have a choice to the way they wish to pray, cover, not drink and so on worldwide. I respect everyone in their choices and I think as long as your not harming anybody by your behaviour then you should have freedom in your way of life. The countries that penalise many freedoms tend to end up having the highest population of excessive drinkers, gamblers and even sexual activity. As their residents will find a way to disobay and break the rules, its human nature!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:21:04 +0000

Hello,
While I was reading this i was so disapointed never thought that ppl who are kuwaities want alchohol to be legalized in kuwait. I thought that they would be proud that kuwait and Saudi Arabia is the only two countries that dznt serve or allow alchohol.
Please ppl, kuwait is a muslim country and alchohol is haram, and that is so obvious and if you ppl are not muslims or just dont wanna follow your own religion then please leave kuwait!

By: MAC

MAC — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:50:55 +0000

Guys,
I made some time to read all these comments and, somehow, all of you are right.
I’ve got a couple of points though:

1) With or without alcohol, i’ve seen more car accidents in Kuwait than in anywhere else i’ve been to. And it’s not because of drunk drivers but just because of crazy duddes driving fast as if they were in a car racing, either chasing girls to get their mobile num’s or just to prove that their cars are the best !

2) All of us know that alcohol is forbitten here but you can get it anyway. The only thing is that we have to pay the “unacceptable” price. However, it’s true that “if you wanna drink alcohol” you can always take a cheap flight to Dubai, Bahrein or Lebanon and enjoy like hell !

Legalized or not, i kind of like this country but – as everywhere else – we always will find “people” and “people”

CHEERS!

By: Addy

Addy — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:40:32 +0000

Where is this Trader’s Vic located in Kuwait ???

By: luke

luke — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:12:58 +0000

i dont know about any of u guys but i personly have a drink every weekend and to tell u the truth if T.G.Is and their other franchise brethren started sellin booze i would more than likley still be in friends houses, at friends bars rather than sat down in a shit american version of a pub.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:58:00 +0000

ALL:

Prostitution is alive and well all over the Arab world. Gay prostitutes as well. Rich Arabs get whatever they want from hookers, alcohol, drugs, etc. To those of you that believe that its not alive and well even in Kuwait, then you are fooling yourself. If you need to drink, go to Dubai. I see Kuwait allowing alcohol sooner or later, but of course like Qatar and UAE, it will be offlimits for Muslims (though they still drink). For those of you scared of the opposite sex, there is nothing in the world that causes prostitution other than the desire of people to have sex. Its biological. BTW, the most expensive hookers? Those wearing abayas! Take care. Everyone get over it and grow up! Any addiction in life, including religion, is bad for you!

By: The Screwdriver

The Screwdriver — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:24:40 +0000

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander and why should it be any differently for lads and ladettes in Kuwait who are out on the town Wednesday nights and who like letting down their hair and shaking a leg or two(provided they are not already on the flight to Beirut or Dubai)?
Trader’s Vic is just the thing for them.
It won’t be very long before Cheers, the Black Widow, Rat & Parrot, Slug & Lettuce, Shelleys’ of Mayfair and the Mad Bishop have opened shop in Kuwait and started to woo people over with their non-alcoholic mocktails – now, that will be a true mockery of cocktails, don’t you think?

Will there be separate enclosures for families and supposedly deviant bachelors at the Trader’s Vic in Kuwait?

By: crazy

crazy — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:25:58 +0000

Guys come on…

We are living in the 21st century, it’s not only about economic development and tourism, which by the way, definetely need alochol to be legalized, but, it’s about the educated and civilized times we are living in. Maybe you don’t want this to apply to Kuwait?

There should be freedom of expression, action, speech, thought, and, if that means I want to consume alcohol, then I should be allowed to. If you think you shouldn’t drink because it goes agaisnt you’re religion, then its entirely you’re choice, I’m not going to force you, just like you shouldn’t be forcing me.

As for its implications on traffic, underage drinking, well the govt. can make plenty of money from taxing alcohol, it can put effort into devising measures of solving these alcohol related problems, and implement them FORCEFULLY. with sufficient funding and effort, everything can be acheived.

There are plenty of other Islamic values and principles, for instance, that women should wear headscarves, and, like denying the Christian beleif that Jesus/Esa is god or son of god. How about we force everyone to wear headscarves, fall deeper into the shadows of saudia, and ban the christian beleif of jesus and all that?

This is just like what happened in france with women not being allowed to wear headscarves, which is wrong, just as it is wrong when someone wants to wear a bikini or consume alcohol, is stopped from doing so by the law.

As for islam, there are plenty of worse things that go on in our society, such as the open human rights abuses, the corruption, the discrimination, the racism, the violation of womens rights. kuwait is in clear voilation of many human rights treaties that it signed, and there are several treaties that the world signed upto 20 years ago, and we still havent…

i read this article on the kuwait times website like 2 days ago. check it out. its so terribly sad. and you talk about islam?

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/localnews.asp?dismode=article&artid=212911162

By: anon

anon — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:42:07 +0000

your?? i assume you ment YOU’RE such a kid?!!? :)

By: mike

mike — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:31:14 +0000

haha get lost, your such a kid.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:44:55 +0000

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By: mike

mike — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:53:34 +0000

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