JamesPhuket10

I worked for General Dynamics on the F-16 and A-10 developing the head-up display system, Marconi Avionics in the UK, AT&T in New Jersey, and was head of testing the new GSM mobile phone system the USA was about to introduce into the county. Lots of other projects and countries for which they paid lots of money for my brains, but I never came across any geniuses, there were lots of bright people though.

The topic is not about genius, which was never mentioned, there are only a very limited number of geniuses now or before, Einstein for example, we are unlikely to ever come across a real genius in person. I wonder how many of those Aboriginal people realised living in the bush is not at all interesting and left to do something a bit more demanding. I suppose we could take that idea over thousands of years, we all started In Africa, then some groups would have said, "I wonder what is on the other side of that mountain", so they moved, over thousands of years, Europeans, Japanese societies were created for example, they contain the brains and the less intelligent remain in Africa still.

I think my property is safe in the UK from anyone in Thailand. But my partner here already owns nine houses in Thailand, seven are for rental income. She bought them over time with her income from her own Thai Tour agency.

But Rambo, we live in the real world, not in a Hollywood movie. But I do get your drift, I had to go through rigorous training to be able to open the door of my house, get into my aircon car, drive it to Lotus for example, and walk across to the aircon building to do my shopping. Phuket and many other cities as so dangerous, for example, what would I do if I had forgotten my wallet, ah I have had training for that scenario too.😃 Paper degrees? Would you go and see a doctor if he only had a paper degree and not a degree in imagination like a lot of people seem to have? Would you get on an aeroplane built by people who are not qualified to build it?

Just look at how many patents are granted each year in the various regions of the world, Nobel Peace Prizes in science, the origination of top-end science projects, I could go on.

Yep, smarter than the average Thai, American, and European. I have a master's degree in software engineering from Oxford University (Trinity). I won't list the other qualifications. I was a freelance software engineer for thirty years and worked for many large international companies in Germany, the USA, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, and the UK. In addition, I had a large 200-seat Thai Restaurant near London for 27 years. I also had properties developed which was a good business. I did start a few years late after leaving school at fifteen years old, it is called the "university of life" by some, I realised how crap such a 'university' is so I went back to school, then to a real university and never looked back. Even now I still write commercial iPhone apps from my computer set up at home in Thailand. I am not saying this to show off, but if I claim like many others that I consider myself more intelligent than the average Thai then I have to show why I think that.

Which point are you refrering to, what has a law firm got to do with it? This is not a sarcastic reply but I am just a bit confused.

I knew it was a mistake to comment on this subject, it seems the majority of comments come from people who have only ever met girls from bars. I will leave it there.

You seem to be super dim, 50% ? Even more dim, that is millions of women. So when you see a doctor, dentist, or bank clerk you think they were prostitutes at one time, I would go and see a doctor if I had the same mindset as you have. I remember talking to a guy from the Middle East many years ago, he hung around in the expensive hotels in central London, went to clubs, and paid for so-called "high-class" prostitutes, he thought all Western women were prostitutes. Was your mother one? I say this as you are saying the same thing about Thai women. It seems you only hang around with low-class prostitutes and that is why you have such a stupid attitude. I am glad I do not come across low-life people like you in person.

It took me just a few hours to realise how crap Pattaya is and the people who go there so I left. I went back ten years later just to see if it had improved, it was worse. I will give it a try ten years from now.

Do blow-up dolls need paying, you seem to be an expert on the subject, how much do you give to your blow-up doll every month? 😄

That is the sort of attitude guys who have only ever met bar girls have, there is a big world outside of those places you know, and if you do not know that women other than bar girls can also be pretty then it shows your stupidity. I gladly avoid such people.

My only cost concerning my girlfriend was a pump I bought a year ago, she is generally OK for a week or so until she goes flat or has an air leak, she is cheap to transport as well as I can carry her everywhere in my suitcase.

Can you tell me where in the world is anyone welcome if they do not have money, oh I know the Salvation Army.

It has been that way since I first came here in 1987, you turn up, get a stamp in your passport and then you are on your way.