Nativist learns Mahanakhon designed by top foreign architect, complains to govt

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Nativist learns Mahanakhon designed by top foreign architect, complains to govt

By Sasiwan Mokkhasen, Staff Reporter

 

 

BANGKOK — As Bangkok’s shiny new building currently wins attention and plaudits, there’s at least one person unhappy about it.

 

Seven years after MahaNakhon was announced, its showy debut Monday night brought it to the attention of Srisuwan Janya, a nativist activist who just learned foreign forces were behind its pixelated design.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/business/2016/08/30/nativist-learns-mahanakhon-designed-top-foreign-architect-complains-govt/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2016-08-30

[Mango Bob]

I hope is daughter marries a western.

[PatOngo]

This is not good he said as he rode /drove his foreign car/motocy while pocketing his foreign iPhone/Samsung wearing his cool Levi jeans and smoking a Marlboro cigarette or maybe he looks forward to riding the Chinese high speed train to Chiang Mai.............Get a life!

[DrTuner]

Xenophobia? What xenophobia?

[jamesbrock]

He's obviously very bright, considering the architect was announced seven years ago... 

[ChrisY1]

Some people will just never understand......this guy heads a group that designs shophouses......

[Chookie]

Reaction above has been predictable, and the posters are right to be scornful. But this is another line written on the wall, for foreigners in Thailand. Yet one more line. In addition to all the others.

 

Sensory acuity is the ability to notice what's going on around you. and to infer significance to those things. Without it, you are liable to believe whatever bullcrap people tell you, and to simply not see the punches that life is getting ready to spring on you. It pays to have as much sensory acuity as you can, not as little as you can get away with.

 

Chook.

[DM07]

What a $%#^&*@ idiot!

[ChrisY1]

Just now, DM07 said:

What a $%#^&*@ idiot!

Not fair DM07.....he's a Thai nativist.......whatever that might be.....!

[BigBadGeordie]

2 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

Not fair DM07.....he's a Thai nativist.......whatever that might be.....!

According to the Oxford dictionary it is:

 

Ah <deleted> to the cut and paste:

 

A bit of a <deleted>.

[NCC1701A]

"As head of his own group called the “Safeguarding the Constitution Organization,” Srisuwan said his next target is campaigning against entrepreneurial expats who might illegally own any businesses in the kingdom.

“Both case involve neglect by two government agencies, the Ministry of Labor and Ministry of Commerce,” he told Matichon."

 

Thanks for the heads up.

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

Dear Khun Srisuwan , did your wife run of with a foreigner?

[Thechook]

Of God,  I just paid 62 million for a one room apartment in the basement, there goes my investment.  Oh well rear it down and get Thai a architect and engineers to build a bigger and better one.  Damn farangs again.

[mca]

10 hours ago, PatOngo said:

This is not good he said as he rode /drove his foreign car/motocy while pocketing his foreign iPhone/Samsung wearing his cool Levi jeans and smoking a Marlboro cigarette or maybe he looks forward to riding the Chinese high speed train to Chiang Mai.............Get a life!

Actually I spotted him whizzing his way up Wireless Road on a tuk tuk sporting a natty pakama and puffing on  Khrong Thip so hats off to him for keeping it real. Although he did stop and tell me that Wat Pho was closed today, offered to take me to a special one day only TAT sponsored gem sale at his friend's shop and quoted me 300 baht for the fare to Central Rama 9 so maybe it wasn't him but a bona fide tuk tuk driver. Who knows?

[ratcatcher]

 

Good morning you miserable foreigners.

Srisuwan Janya

[PatOngo]

...and by the way....this is a Thai wrist watch!

[jamesbrock]

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

...and by the way....this is a Thai wrist watch!

 

Backwards?

[soalbundy]

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

...and by the way....this is a Thai wrist watch!

A genuine Rolex copy

[soalbundy]

I think that they got a westerner to design it because they want it to last more than 5 years

[timewilltell]

This xenophobia disgusts me! It is everywhere and prevalent everywhere and terribly also in the justice system. The fair way would be to leave Thailand isolated internationally, without help, to produce everything for themselves as an experiment and see where they end up in 30 years. Thst way no foreigner would be taking any jobs from these superior beings and advanced race of such pure descent.  Maybe open a zoo in 2050 for children to view the results of the experiment.

 

[phantomfiddler]

There are many things that a Thai could never understand

[soalbundy]

1 minute ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

 

And was born in Massachusetts.

 

careful now, you must know how liberal the laws are here.

[manhood]

Srisuwan Janya : you better and all the rest of having same mind than this stupid guy - anything you have in this modern world in Thailand is designed, produced, build from foreigners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing is created from Thais!!!!!!!!!!

 

[williamgeorgeallen]

as long as who ever designed it had a work permit and employed 4 thai people i cant see a problem. on the other hand it should be easy enough to knock down as it seems to be partially missing already.

[soalbundy]

18 minutes ago, manhood said:

Srisuwan Janya : you better and all the rest of having same mind than this stupid guy - anything you have in this modern world in Thailand is designed, produced, build from foreigners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing is created from Thais!!!!!!!!!!

 

Oh yeah, what about the cure for Ebola

[ChrisY1]

38 minutes ago, timewilltell said:

This xenophobia disgusts me! It is everywhere and prevalent everywhere and terribly also in the justice system. The fair way would be to leave Thailand isolated internationally, without help, to produce everything for themselves as an experiment and see where they end up in 30 years. Thst way no foreigner would be taking any jobs from these superior beings and advanced race of such pure descent.  Maybe open a zoo in 2050 for children to view the results of the experiment.

 

 

On a smaller scale, the idea of nil, or limited foreigners in industry, was practiced in the aviation industry....and that went pear shaped very quickly.

[JSixpack]

13 hours ago, Chookie said:

Reaction above has been predictable, and the posters are right to be scornful. But this is another line written on the wall, for foreigners in Thailand. Yet one more line. In addition to all the others.

 

Sensory acuity is the ability to notice what's going on around you. and to infer significance to those things. Without it, you are liable to believe whatever bullcrap people tell you, and to simply not see the punches that life is getting ready to spring on you. It pays to have as much sensory acuity as you can, not as little as you can get away with.

 

Chook.

 

Your sensory acuity would be a lot more impressive if most of our posters here weren't also blessed with it in such abundance. Check out any farang death thread.

 

 

[Retiredandhappyhere]

Had this tower been built by a Thai, it might be falling down in a few years' time.  As it is now, it only LOOKS as if it might fall down .................at any moment.

[klauskunkel]

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 As head of his own group called the “Safeguarding the Constitution Organization,” Srisuwan

Which of the 20+ constitutions have you been safeguarding, Mr. Srisuwan?

[Misterwhisper]

Someone please have that man's IQ tested. It seems to be dangerously low.