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1 hour ago, donmuang37 said:

My first career was in the military where I worked with both very high IQ people and very low IQ people.  As Peterson indicated, it is very difficult to teach complex tasks to people with low IQs. 

Something that has stuck in my mind over a couple of decades is that the British Army had an unofficial policy of never having the platoon commander possess more than 30 IQ points above the squadies in the platoon. 

The reasoning behind this is the commanders thinking would be so beyond the capacity of the squadies to comprehend that they would not trust in his commands. 

9 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

The Flynn Effect shows that, within one hundred years, the average IQ of the population could increase about one standard deviation

I fear across the world in all countries of mid-income and above we're going to see quite a rapid deterioration in IQ levels.

Put simply, the middle class are not having enough children, and lower classes are having children.

IQ tends to congregate among the middle class. If you have 10 children, and this continues through each generation, you end up with 1,000 great grandchildren. If you have 0.7 children, the average in South Korea, then in each generation the population shrinks by 35%.

The religious are also more likely to have children than the secular/atheist. The religious are likely to have a lower IQ.

Eventually, people will look back on General Prayuth as a veritable genius.

4 hours ago, retarius said:

. The main point that got me was the no jobs for people with IQs under 83

This is concerning because the reputed average IQ of Thailand is 85. 

The suspect looks like a sweet lad. He looks pretty nervous and confused.

50 minutes ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

they literally have metal detectors at every entrance - how was he able to enter with a gun?!

You sometimes have to pass through them for malls and public transportation, but they long ago actually stopped checking in your bags (4 years ago?)  or checking clothes. Every time I go through it bleeps and I have never been stopped.

After this incident, they'll briefly improve security, and then after around 6 months it will lapse back to nothing. 

In any event, it's well known that "security theatre" (the performance and visibility of security for public consumption) doesn't actually work, and that the only effective measure is a very proactive system of recognising threats using CCTV and well trained anti-terror guards.

25 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

Can you receive OTOP numbers from a UK bank using one of these?

Yes

Strictly speaking, codes from banks are not actually SMS messages. Even if you receive a regular SMS, you will not necessarily receive a bank one. It is immensely difficult to predict if you will receive an SMS over an international border.

I suggest creating a UK telephone number in Thailand, such as with giffgaff. This will work.

7 minutes ago, jcmj said:

Thank goodness the mosquitoes don’t like me

I have certainly noticed that the mosquitos like me. If there is a group of 10 of us, only I will get bitten. As soon as I walk 10 or so metres from the group, the others start to get bitten and want to go home.

It's not mentioned in this article but in other articles I've seen this year, almost all the deaths that occurred were after the person took aspirins or other anti-fever medicine. And the articles make the link.

When I went to hospital last year at the end of a dengue infection, one of the first things the doctor asked was whether I had taken aspirin or not. When I replied that I only took paracetamols, she was rather pleased.

Here is an example article:

"Health officials urge anyone who suspects that they are infected to seek medical treatment and avoid taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin and ibuprofen."

This desire to stop the fever is not only found among Thais, but they do have this urge more strongly than many Westerners. The fever for any infection is your body's attempt to fight the infection.

Stopping the fever is like shooting yourself in the foot. The exception to this is if the fever becomes completely out of control (roughly 42°C in adults).

I suggest contacting the Thai Language Station (TLS). They are a Japanese-Thai owned language school which offers Japanese language teaching and provides visas. Send them a message by LINE (Here is their website).

Their main business is teaching English and Thai to Japanese living in Thailand. But I am pretty confident they can deal with your need. They have several language schools in Bangkok and even one in Pattaya.

Their boss is a little bit famous in Japan having appeared on TV there to teach about Thailand.

To safeguard Chinese from... >checks notes< ... other Chinese.

Please delete if this is old news, but I just received a message by SMS announcing the scrapping of internet banking, leaving only the App for their banking services.

Here is a Google translation:

Visited it around 10 years ago. Well worth a visit. 

Two things are also worth adding to this conversation:

1. There is a lot of talk of malaria in this chat, but that is a rather low risk unless you are in a border zone. Here is a map provided by the British NHS to prove it:

2 . Besides dengue, there is a very real risk of two further infections by mosquitoes: Chikungunya and Zika. They are also very nasty and although they have different symptoms they are quite difficult to distinguish from dengue (before my blood test results came back with dengue, my doctor thought I had Chikungunya).

10 minutes ago, John Drake said:

The buy 1 get 1 free every month on the Mos Burgers should get new customers breaking down the door.

Right! I was thinking just how pitiful and vulgar that is.

It might be even worse than it seems; on the website, in contrast to that table, it actually says it will cost one privilege point to get this 'buy one get one free' deal.

23 hours ago, ewelve said:

My Thai wife of 30 years was told by her Amphur to change her name back to her maiden name or lose her land. she did and now i cant get marriage visa's because our names are not the same. 

Putting aside the issue of the phishing email, as an ex lawyer, I am deeply concerned about these two acts of administrators that have caused you harm.

The first act appears to be a clear case of misfeasance. The second administrator's act is a further harm from the first act.

My understanding of Thai law is that you have 90 days to use the administrative courts to compel the public officials to carry out their lawful duties. Act now. Seek out a lawyer.