3 hours ago, Somjot said:

As suggested, I asked him the questions mentioned above about Fleming and Ohm.

 

He just answered, FARANG DING DONG.

 

So, they think WE are the crazy ones?

Maybe so....

 

 

                            16 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:    Not EXACTLY! As you can see from this image:     Also, let's not forget FLUX!          Nitwits.....   Or, in my view....   FLUX NITWITS....              Yea Gods' man, you can certainly natter on. 

Nearly one million years ago I used to teach electromagnetic theory.

 

The other day I was working on my speed boat.

 

The son of the Thai guy who owns the boat birthed next to mine was there cleaning it.

 

I knew from previous discussion with his dad that this lad was in his final year of study and training to be an electrician.

 

The father has done a good job on this lad.  He is a nice and polite boy and not a kratom drinking hammock swinger like most of the youth around here.

 

I speak good Thai and so I started to chat with the lad about his studies and his plans once he is finished.

 

I also mentioned that I used to teach lads like him back in my home country.

 

I started to scratch ohms law in the wet sand next to our boats, and transpositions of it, and he had never seen it.  More over, he knew what Volts were, but had no idea regarding Amps or Watts.

 

But that is obviously not a problem.  Because electricity here is different from the electricity in Farangland.

 

 

 

41 minutes ago, Adumbration said:

Nearly one million years ago I used to teach electromagnetic theory.

 

The other day I was working on my speed boat.

 

The son of the Thai guy who owns the boat birthed next to mine was there cleaning it.

 

I knew from previous discussion with his dad that this lad was in his final year of study and training to be an electrician.

 

The father has done a good job on this lad.  He is a nice and polite boy and not a kratom drinking hammock swinger like most of the youth around here.

 

I speak good Thai and so I started to chat with the lad about his studies and his plans once he is finished.

 

I also mentioned that I used to teach lads like him back in my home country.

 

I started to scratch ohms law in the wet sand next to our boats, and transpositions of it, and he had never seen it.  More over, he knew what Volts were, but had no idea regarding Amps or Watts.

 

But that is obviously not a problem.  Because electricity here is different from the electricity in Farangland.

 

 

 

 

This is exactly what I am talking about.

Education is not fit to train the electricians that are needed.

They seem to know nothing, and do not care that they know nothing about Physics or electricity.

Weird!

16 hours ago, Dr Jon said:

Time travel.

I'll get back to you on that................

11 hours ago, Adumbration said:

But that is obviously not a problem.  Because electricity here is different from the electricity in Farangland.

And so is Gravity. On a side note, I once had an automatic car, and the battery went flat, 3 Thai guys insisted on trying to bump start it.   🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

21 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

So, they think WE are the crazy ones?

Maybe so....

 

 

 

Actually, this is an interesting subject on which I had a few aha moments:

 

1. Many years ago my brother-in-law introduced me to his 15-year-old son claiming that he was the best pupil in his English class.

I said, let me hear something and the son started talking. At first I was impressed; perfect grammar, perfect pronunciation, at least as far as I could tell, being a non-native speaker myself.

Then I asked a few very easy questions in context to what he just had said and he was lost. He had no idea what I was talking about. I repeated the questions in Thai language and he could not answer in English.

 

All they do at school is memorizing.

 

2. A few years ago I was invited to the international Congress of implantologists in Chiang Mai where different specialists give lectures about new inventions, new materials or new  surgery techniques for dental implants.

 

Normally those lectures are about 15 to 20 minutes long and afterwards you can ask questions.

Well, in our countries, manners and politeness dictate that the listeners at least ask a few questions, no matter how boring the lecture was, to show interest because the poor guy has probably spent a couple of weeks of his free time to prepare it.

 

Not in Thailand.

 

Some professor from a Thai university gave his lecture and then told the audience to ask questions if they have any.

The room was quiet; you could hear a pin drop.

I felt terribly sorry for the professor, so I started asking questions - obviously to his surprise.

And not only his, but the entire audience was also surprised looking at me as if I had just farted.

 

In Thailand you don't question your teacher.

 

By asking questions about a subject he just has taught, you are practically telling him that he didn't teach you well as otherwise you wouldn't have those questions, or you are proving that you are just dumb.

No matter what, someone has to lose his face.

 

Personally, I think these are huge obstacles in education but then again somehow this country seems to do well.

 

I mean, look at their economy and compare it to ours.

 

Or look at Pattaya; there are guys with huge knowledge about physics, chemistry, you name it, or have been running a huge company with hundreds of employees where they had to make difficult decisions after watching and analyzing the market and despite all of that they get ripped off by some bar girl with no education, who is too stupid to open the child proof lock of a medicine bottle.

 

It is always our money that ends up in their pockets - never the other way round.

 

Who are we to tell them what to learn or how to live?

 

 

6 minutes ago, Somjot said:

Actually, this is an interesting subject on which I had a few aha moments:

 

Correct.

 

By now, you should have realized that I post ONLY interesting topics on TV.

 

And, your eureka moments must come few and far between, is my guess.

 

Still, a few are better than none.

 

 

10 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

By now, you should have realized that I post ONLY interesting topics

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Ask a potential refrigeration mechanic about Archimedes principal, Boyles law, Charles's law and Dalton's law.

If they can answer correctly, they are either a refrigeration mechanic or a scuba diver.

On 1/27/2024 at 9:47 AM, TroubleandGrumpy said:

no one is that crazy

 

Not true:

 

This guy wrote PULP FICTION....very, VERY Crazy!

 

 

There is crazy.

 

And, then....there is...

 

CRAZY!

 

 

On 1/27/2024 at 10:16 PM, RocketDog said:

                            16 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:    Not EXACTLY! As you can see from this image:     Also, let's not forget FLUX!          Nitwits.....   Or, in my view....   FLUX NITWITS....              Yea Gods' man, you can certainly natter on. 

That guy is very sick 

10 hours ago, still kicking said:

That guy is very sick 

My guess is that's he's lonely and bored out of his gourd.

It happens to most of us here sooner or later.

On 1/27/2024 at 9:31 PM, brianthainess said:

And so is Gravity. On a side note, I once had an automatic car, and the battery went flat, 3 Thai guys insisted on trying to bump start it.   🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

In my lifetime, I have only seen one car, with an automatic transmission, a generator, and a dead battery, started by pushing it.   But it was pushed to 40 miles per hour speed, before it started up.  

 

On 1/27/2024 at 3:46 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I will use this.

 

But what kind of diploma?

From where?

 

The kind they get from a tech school /Uni.   when they pass the practical and theory tests. 

https://edurank.org/engineering/electrical/th/

On 1/27/2024 at 6:46 PM, Bday Prang said:

and if they have , they may well feel insulted and just disappear, or they may just inflate your bill out of spite,   in matters of air conditioning especially in the hot season we need them more than they need us,  Personal recommendation from others you know is the way forward, along with treating the guy well when he arrives, I always give them a chance and have never been disappointed 

It's a normal Question when you want a Real Tradesman to come and do a job.

I ask the Electrician for his Qualifications when building our house here down in Songkhla and he was Ok with that . If they Offended that shows that they are No good. Even the builder/ Engineer had his papers from a Uni in Bangkok.