Little fighter is a Little Einstein - four year old Thai joins Mensa

[Get Real]

10 minutes ago, KiwiKiwi said:

You say he is wrong with some certainty. I suspect you *think* he's wrong, which isn't the same thing. He's entitled to an opinion based on his experience with Thais, and a quick survey on these forums suggests that his opinion (which is more or less the same as mine), is by far the more widespread. In other words, friend, you appear to be in a small minority. Happy no doubt it is, but small.

 

I would not say that all Thais are corrupt, merely that I think most are corrupt, and that it would therefore be sensible to assume they're all corrupt as a strategy to mitigate the risk of being thieved from or otherwise preyed upon.

 

If you think most or all Thais are honest as the day is long and wouldn't ever lie to you, cheat you or steal from you, then good luck, but I suspect you've got a hard lesson coming. Good luck, I think you'll be needing it.

You are talking to a person that lived 18 years in Thailand, and you are wishing me good luck because you think I need it???? As you clearly can see, your are the one thinking to much.

[KiwiKiwi]

9 minutes ago, Get Real said:

You are talking to a person that lived 18 years in Thailand, and you are wishing me good luck because you think I need it???? As you clearly can see, your are the one thinking to much.

 

Yes.

 

And despite what you may have been told, you can't think too much, that's just a sop to make people feel better who can't or won't think enough.

 

I'm sure that doesn't apply to you, but I'm also quite sure that if, as you say, you've been here 18 years and never been ripped off by a Thai, then you're either lying or you lacked the wit to notice it when it happened.

 

Sorry my friend, but leopards don't change their spots, not ever. Better start listening to people who seem to be wiser, but that's only a recommendation.

Edited May 18, 2018 by KiwiKiwi

[Get Real]

45 minutes ago, KiwiKiwi said:

Better start listening to people who seem to be wiser, but that's only a recommendation

And that would be you??? 

No I have not been ripped of, and I am not lying or lack to notice when things happens. Guess that actually makes me smarter than you.

Just stop now little boy, before you dig yourself so deep with your little plastic sand shovel, so you have a hard time getting up. So, so! Go back in the play pin.

[namatjira]

Fair to say most Thai visa members by their comments would 

Not have IQs into 3 digits......

[KiwiKiwi]

1 hour ago, Get Real said:

And that would be you??? 

No I have not been ripped of, and I am not lying or lack to notice when things happens. Guess that actually makes me smarter than you.

Just stop now little boy, before you dig yourself so deep with your little plastic sand shovel, so you have a hard time getting up. So, so! Go back in the play pin.

 

"Guess that actually makes me smarter than you."

 

Guess it does. Have a great day...

[happy chappie]

20 hours ago, YTP said:

Quite the positive thinker you are.

Since you know all the teachers here are idiots with IQs of 85, yours must be so much higher.

 

Are your vivid predictions a reflection of your own childhood or what?  

I base my knowledge on the what farang teachers have told of their experiences and the what sort of standard of education these pupils leave school at.there two sides to this coin.either thais are very thick and can't learn or theachers aren't capable of teaching.which do you choose.

 

19 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

I think they all start out at 135, and then they get educated.

Lmao,you couldn't of put it better than that.i suspect some of the TV members have children being educated here and can't face the facts of Thai life of poor education and corruption.lets face the facts that most farang would want their children educated in their own countries if they could and a fair few do.this also includes Thais who can afford to do so.

[KiwiKiwi]

16 hours ago, Eligius said:

I agree with your sentiments wholeheartedly, Stanleycoin.

 

But sadly I have noticed that very often in life intelligence is pressed into the service of selfishness.

 

Here in Thailand, for example, it is often the better educated Thais who support the dinosaurs and dinosaurship here. Only today I was appalled when talking to a Thai Ph.D. (gained his doctorate in America), an intelligent (in the conventional sense) university lecturer, who responded with ridicule and sneering sarcasm and denial when I said that critical thinking is not encouraged in Thailand. He claimed that all kinds of thinking are allowed here. I responded: 'Maybe so. But not expressing those thoughts if they don't support the views of the dear Leaders'. The Thai lecturer said: 'Really?!!! ' (in a most sarcastic tone), topping it with, 'You can say anything you want'.  I was stunned and said, somewhat rudely, perhaps: 'Are you living in the same Thailand as me? Or have you been living on the moon these past few years? Have you never heard of Attitude Adjustment?'   The Thai Ph.D. lecturer then indicated some kind of support for AA.

 

At that point, I could not stomach any more of him. I walked away in revulsion, fury and disgust. The guy is either a complete idiot (despite his Ph.D.) - or a fully-fledged fascist. I am pretty sure which of the two he is (actually - both!).

 

I understand your frustration. Talking to a few Thai lawyers ought to drive that point home pretty well.

 

Still, as they say, a pig wearing lipstick is still a pig. Some years ago I saw a quote which is still in usage today. It went " you can dress a monkey in silk but it's still a monkey" [sic]. That's not to say Thais are monkeys, clearly they're not, it isn't perjorative, it's just a quotation and it's how it was quoted.

 

True though. Lots of Thais go to overseas universities and that's sometimes held up as proof that Thais are not under-intelligent. I think your experience probably shot down that argument quite elegantly.

 

Increasingly, academic qualifications do not reflect intellect; they reflect an ability to say what the examiners require. When I did my PhD, it was a big deal but not so much now - I has a work colleague who got a BA in the music of Abba at some degree mill in UK which used to be a technical college - a complete nonsense. Handing out degrees for money to foreign students might be slightly better than getting one at Khaosan Road, but it's not much better. 

 

IMHO.

Edited May 19, 2018 by KiwiKiwi