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In the eighties, Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre {1981} and Kenneth Frampton {1985} created the term critical regionalism to describe a contemporary architecture which could neither be branded as internationalism nor as a folkloric or historical concept of region and architecture. The architecture of critical regionalism makes reference to the site, the genius loci on a more abstract level. Rather than dealing extensively with the region itself and a particular regional style, Framptons concept of regionalism mainly focuses on the relationship of a building to its site and location in a sociological context. Tzonis and Lefaivre {1981} chose the term critical regionalism in reference to the Frankfurter Schules {Adorno, Horkheimer} critical theory. This theory claimed a delusion of the objective illusion as the only way to obtain a critical and independent position within rapidly developing capitalist, Western societies. It was seen as a way of becoming independent from the capitalist {neo-liberal} mechanisms of media and economy, which tend to dominate the world in a process of globalization. According to Tzonis and Lefaivre, architecture should also refer to the notion of self-reflection. It should be independent of an emotional {therefore easy to manipulate} view of a countrys way of looking at region, tradition and history. Furthermore, Framptons critical attempt was to work against an ever-increasing industrialized and standardized world-wide use of building materials and construction methods which neglects and destroys local building traditions and their transgression into contemporary architecture. In the 1990s, the concept of Critical Regionalism has become the key theme of an intense and lasting debate on local, modern architecture {see, among others, Axthelm 1990 and Achleitner 1997}. In the process of the reflection on the own and the foreign in contemporary architecture, the term critical regionalism was also used as a theoretical basis to describe modern architecture in developing countries. It was taken up in many countries of the South to re-examine their traditions in search of their "own" traditional values, principles and national identity. This process has had an impact on contemporary architecture and has eventually triggered an intense discussion on how local "own-ness" should be created without simply copying fragments from the past.

editorJonathan Budd

Excellent comment, Khun Kotee. More than a few of the BKK elite made or increased their fortune playing all sides and trafficking in war materiel and humanitarian supplies throughout the various wars in Indochina. I'm quite certain those Tachew merchants will welcome your insurgency and even covertly support you. And as various lesser elites meet the knives of your vengeance said super-elites will busy themselves mopping up the businesses interests left behind, further tightening their control of the economy. Perhaps you'll be rewarded with a minor shred of one of these enterprises, thus ensuring your lineage's passage into fold. Remember the mantra: "Adhere and prosper."

Broken leg not out of the question. Or if upcountry, 'bpai nang yang" (go sit on a burning tire).

Uptooyoo 55555+++

Thought the original story had the boiler room scam in Pattaya and that HKT was more of a failed refuge?

Yup, Beavis + Square-Head are in this for keeps and the Isaan people know that intuitively. Whether they like him or not, they really do hate their perennial oppressors. This is going down as surely as Hong Kong was to be handed over to Peking once Thatcher signed the Joint Sino-British Declaration (in 1984).

And I, too, hope I don't die outside of Thailand.

An extremely wealthy Thai-Chinese woman I know well married her moderately wealthy European husband in his home country. They have lived together in Bangkok for more than a couple of decades and have never been considered married for Thai legal purposes. She owns a serious amount of property and a controlling interest in all of their many companies in Thailand. Her lawyer(s) and her family, several of whom have held high elected office and who are all invested in some of their ventures, have never been willing to risk a possible rigid interpretation of the law banning a Thai woman married to a foreigner (ANY foreigner) from owning land.

Right you are Khun Suradit. I find its always better to overpay and overtip. And I am often pleasantly surprised by how much and how far playing the silly bugger still gets me. Its not like it costs a whole lot

So CapeCobra is not part of the refined TV audience.

From your condescending remarks above it does sound like the circles in which you run are a bit 'different,' zeichen. But they would do, wouldn't they? I don't run in circles. People who do are stupid to me [sic].

So now a 4x4 to the face (sometimes known as attempted murder) of a juvenile delinquent is an acceptable practice in the farang community on Phuket. God bless that filthy island for keeping such scum away from the rest of the country.

Richard Cranium would be proud, sah!

Yeh, let's celebrate and have a drink! Oh wait, the normal girl don't drink, boring, boring, boring.

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Right on, nong sao! I've never met a more boring 'normal' anywhere than the 'normal' Thai woman. Let the OP enjoy his newfound innocent <yawn>. Since first setting down at Don Muang 26 years ago, at the doddering old age of 27, nowhere have I encountered a more ruthless blood sport than that played by the female predators of Thailand. Isaan or Thonglor, Rajabhat or Chula, I'll take the thrill over the chill any night of the week. It does take a toll, but boredom even more.

Could you possibly post a pic of the weapon? Maybe with a light shining on it?

the light should be on the other side if its supposed to be "shining on the weapon "

Knew I wouldn't get away with it

Edited to keep speedtripler satisfied

Sometimes the light's all shining on me

Other times I can barely see

Lately it occurs to me

What a long strange trip it's been

from "Truckin'" by the Grateful Dead. The first live performance of this iconic track was on August 18, 1970 at the Fillmore West, San Francisco. They opened the show with an acoustic set, and "Truckin'" was the first song. Words by Robert Hunter; music by Garcia, Lesh, Weir

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You might consider selling the equipment into the company at a significant profit, charge market rate interest on the loan, allowing the interest payable to accrue, all the while capitalizing interest and of course technical services fees, etc (also accrued, not paid) into the CAPEX, then depreciating it all against those certain future profits (insert hockey stick revenue projection curve here). Then just before you run out of tax offsets, sell the lot to a bigger fool (Koninklige Bolls Wessanen comes to mind). It's worked before.

Could you possibly post a pic of the weapon? Maybe with a light shining on it?

Took the Friends of the High Line years to get such a project going in NYC, and it's turned out to be one of the greatest new public spaces on the planet. I hope they don't let bureaucratic inertia and public naysayers get the better of them.

http://www.thehighline.org/about/friends-of-the-high-line

Excellent question. We need more lads like you in here.

Sam, are you suggesting that the upcountry Thai, absent near term payment for the rice, are going to switch sides? I'm probably not the brightest crayon in the box, but if you are saying that I sure don't follow your logic. Could you elucidate?

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How odd that there's no 'recreational yaba smokers' group on MeetUp's Bangkok page. One would think there's a few of them out there. And it should be a relatively active group of folks.

Excellent suggestion, ThaiLike2! There's nowhere more convenient, more rewarding, nor more forgiving of such research. After all, fish at every meal for over a decade is no way to live. It's not like one has to swear off it forever, or even at the same meal. The variety will be worth the effort.

Another suggestion comes from my personal experience. I did a master's degree at Chulalongkorn in the early 90s and have never regretted it for an instant. Compared to advanced studies elsewhere its a bargain. And some of the faculties at Chula (and a few of the others upcountry) are on par with many in the West. I have friends from a wider spectrum of Thai society than I would have had had I not done the course. And a small added bonus in my particular case was receiving my diploma directly from the hand of HRH Queen Sirikit.

That said, there's always a bowling league in need of a new member, regardless of which country one resides in.

Having returned to my home country to pursue even more study it wasn't long before I was looking forward to my return trips. My next one will be a permanent relocation.

Change your sexuality on Tuesdays. Think of all the new people you'll meet.

Splendid suggestion, ThaiLike2. After over a decade of eating fish at every meal one could do worse than to change his diet, at least occasionally. It's not like one has to forsake fish forever. There's no more convenient, welcoming, or rewarding place on earth for such investigations. And nowhere more forgiving of such research.

Another suggestion comes from my personal experience. I did a master's degree at Chulalongkorn in the early 90s and have never regretted it for an instant. Compared to advanced studies elsewhere its a bargain. And some of the faculties at Chula (and a few of the others upcountry) are on par with many in the West. I have friends from a wider spectrum of Thai society than I would have had had I not done the course. And a small added bonus in my particular case was receiving my diploma directly from the hand of HRH Queen Sirikit.

That said, there's always a bowling league in need of a new member, regardless of which country one resides in.

Having returned to my home country to pursue even more study it wasn't long before I was looking forward to my return trips. My next one will be a permanent relocation.

Change your sexuality on Tuesdays. Think of all the new people you'll meet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b26BD5KjH0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

If all sex tours to The land of smiles are cancelled its goodnight Thai economy. Theres not all that much else here.

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Pure nonsense...... Industries in Thailand that export products made in Thailand (even if they are Japanese cars) are a far greater proportion of the real Thai economy than tourism actually is.

Only a small percentage of the Thai economy actually depends directly on Tourism, and only a small part of that actually trickles down to the street level Thai worker.

It may have been true 30 or 40 years ago that tourism was a major player in the Thai economy, but that has changed now.

When I worked in Greece on the island of Crete I used to shop in a large Greek supermarket chain.

I remember they sold canned Tuna there.

That Tuna was packed in Thailand at a packing plant just outside of Bangkok and it said so on the label.

I won't give you the name, but it was a major international brand name well known all over Europe and the U.S. also.

Just last week there was an article in an English language Thai newspaper about the large investment that Ford Motor Company was making in Thailand where their cars would be assembled.

And actually, "packaged sex tours" are only a minor part of the Japanese tourist traffic anyhow.

This is 2014, not 1980, and the Thai economy has changed drastically since then.

Times have changed, my friend.

(The first time I came to Thailand was in 1977, and I can remember the illustrated Japanese books with the girl's photos in the massage parlors for Japanese tourists back then.)

No more.

Actually it was probably Bumble Bee Tuna you'd have seen on a grocery shelf in Crete. Khun Dumri Kunantakiet (RIP) acquired the brand and numerous assets from Pillsbury as Grand Met jettisoned the deck chairs. I worked that transaction from Hong Kong. It was, ca 1988, the largest ever foreign acquisition by a Thai company, and Khun Dumri walked tall for Thailand on the world stage for a brief moment in time. It truly was a sensation.

The sex tourists giddily whisper to mates down the pub back home the fact that their dollars, quid, Yen, or Deutchmarks can purchase (still) the entire crop of nubile daughters of Isaan, many times over, year after year. But to suggest that's the extent of it is rubbish.

Khun Dumri once introduced me to an official of some large, East German shipbuilding outfit in the coffeeshop of the Darling massage, following said official's return from his soapy.

Khun Dumri was arranging, in the Darling, to more than double his worldwide tuna fleet by acquiring shipping assets from the Treundstalt - one of the more difficult institutions with which I've dealt, to put it politely.

Alas, the days of 'Milliken Money' and swashbuckling Thai pirates ringing the bell on the NYSE are probably gone forever, but it would be a great mistake to believe that a collapse of the tourism industry would cripple the nation. It would, of course, devastate Isaan (a Thaksin stronghold, btw), but most Bangkok elites are completely insulated.

Apparently there's a fair bit more going on than our Jalang Sanitwong pundit realized.

Thailand is justly famous for a few of its well-publicized industrial sectors, and sex tourism is one of those, but many others carry on every day with global operations that would stun the Cheap Charley's beer-bar set.

"Get out of the door - light out and look all around...

And don't tell me this town ain't got no heart, when I can hear it beat out loud."