Most Simple IQ Predictor in Existence… Identifies Persons with 140+ IQ

If the image below appears to “move” as you look at it - then you have been identified as having an IQ over 140 according to researchers at Princeton in New Jersey. They created this image to work only with persons whose brain processing power is beyond about 140 IQ points plus or minus 3.

Again, if the image is moving for you - it is 98.3% assured that you have an IQ greater than 140 - which is genius level. If the image is not moving for you then you fall into the < 140 IQ range. Sorry, the test only identifies this level and isn't good for much else...

If you have been tested before with the WAIS-R, Shipley, or other validated IQ test in the past and you are absolutely SURE you don’t have a 140+ IQ then the only other possibility - which researchers have allowed for and found to have some validity… is that you have the IQ of a nothing less than…. a common squirrel as is the case for 1.7% of persons viewing the test.

The nuts trigger a subconscious reaction in some that appears to short-circuit the brain, causing chatter among the neurons and rendering a still image is impossible amongst the chatter. Thus the image appears to also move for squirrels and for those that have the IQ level of a squirrel.

So, you are either a squirrel or you have an IQ over 140.

Which one?

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Thailand’s Police face the ULTIMATE Degradation…

Thailand’s police have been subject to the most sinister of humiliations… in a time when the police, the military, the country is struggling for some respect this comes as a deadly blow to the country.

Thailand’s police caught not following the rules… loitering… parking in no parking zones and such… (shooting people that spit on them?) will be

Is this SICK and twisted or am I just a macho expat that couldn’t conceive of this happening to members of my own policeforce ?

Do they have to carry these guns now?

Bad TUM ROO-UT! Bad boy!

Here’s the blog that broke the incredible news…

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Burma’s Ruling Military needs to Fall…

Where in the world is the USA when there are overt, on camera human rights violations… killings? The US prefers to wage wars on the basis of intelligence that is hidden from the rest of the world - and in some cases, perhaps doesn’t even exist (weapons of mass destruction in Iraq)… If the USA is going to police the world - it can go to Burma too - yes? No oil in Burma? Shite! Ok, leave them to themselves then… they’ll get it sorted out…

Burma’s controlling military needs to fall or be helped to fall. How long would it take to topple them and let the people rule? 20 minutes tops. The people are irate… if they let this uprising die down and gradually “mai bpen rai” it like Thais’ might - they might not get another chance for a long time…

Here are some YouTube videos that show the recent violence against monks, foreign journalists, and anyone that happened to be in the streets.

Search youtube “burma violence” and you should get just about everything they have. Some links are not embeddable - which means that you can only see them at Youtube - so, if you have a chance go take a look.

Sick stuff…

Everyone is Asking about "The Book"…

I’ve received a lot of email lately asking about what the book I’m writing is about… I’ll try to explain it here.

I think most regular readers know that I’ve been writing a book over the last couple months that originally was to be about my time in Thailand. I have had some nutty experiences, due to my own nature and curiousity about life… Also due to some mistakes, some grave, that I made both here and abroad.

If I can say one thing about my life, I’ve lived it my way. I’ve done what I wanted to do… I’m not held back by tradition, by guilt, by fear of getting caught. I love to experience new things - and while I don’t consider myself an adrenaline junky, I do think I have this weird desire to always be finding something new going on - to get into, to find out about… to experience.

After I’ve been friends with someone for a while and I’ve opened up a bit about my life and shared some of the experiences I’ve had the person will usually at some point say something like,

“Holy shite, you’ve done more in your life than anyone I’ve ever known…”
or
“You’ve had such an interesting life…”

or something like that. Now, when I heard these things over the years I didn’t really give them much credence. I thought - yeah, everyone has a life kind of similar to mine… we’ve all done things that were a little outrageous, different, odd… we’ve all experienced things just in the course of our lives that were fun, cool, and worth telling others about.

I’ve only recently come to believe that I’ve experienced more of these things than the average person…

Couple that with this uncanny ability to remember like a movie rolling in my head, situations that were funny or fun and I think I might have what it takes to write an interesting book about my life.

So, this book started out as a “vern’s last 3 years of misadventure in thailand” type book. It is now more like,

“Vern’s last 41 years of misadventure…”

Highlights of the book…

- As a 13 year old sitting in a forest for 12 hours in 18 degree (Fahrenheit) windy, snowy weather in Northern Pennsylvania with no food, no way back to the camper… my uncles had forgotten where they dropped me off at 4:30 am that day as we began the first day of doe hunting season.

- Details of my two near death experiences at the hands of Oahu’s wicked surf, once on the North Shore and once on the tamer south shore.

- Marrying a Canadian supermodel, moving from Honolulu to NYC and becoming a Paparazzi photographer.

- Giving 80 year old men with elephantitus of the bollocks in an old folks home anal temperatures… cleaning colostomy bags and rubbing medication on a 94 year old woman’s vaginal lips that were red and chaffed.

- A shark grabbed a large trout I caught while wade-fishing in Florida. I had wrapped the stringer line around my then girlfriend who was pulled by her neck into me as the shark knocked me sideways pulling us both. We were just able to get the stringer off her neck in time…

- Losing a poisonous copperhead snake in mom’s yard.

- Driving in the Presidential motorcade.

- Bizarre meditation experiences in which I thought there was a very distinct possibility that I was losing my mind… (later found out I was losing my mind, my ego… but that it was a good thing - not a bad thing…)

- Drinking underneath the kitchen of a very popular bar in my small hometown with my team mates from my soccer club. We ordered steak sandwiches, french fries and drank quarts of beer on a tab… This had been going on for scores of years before we got there. Oh - I was 13 years old.

- Stealing garbage bags full of pot (marijuana) from a local dealer, cutting down each plant with a pocket knife and stuffing it into the hefty garbage bag.

- Riding across a bridge full of holes on my bmx bike as it was under contstruction and closed to all traffic, falling and slicing my hand open, requiring many stitches.

- Having a knife held to my throat as a 7 year old that wouldn’t give one of the local bullies a ride on my bike.

- Stealing the family car, crashing it, fixing it and getting it back home before anyone knew what happened.

- Stealing a case of Molson Golden from a neighbor’s porch, drinking it and getting violently ill (at 12 yrs).

- Being threatened by Woody Allen as my friend homed in on us with his zoom lens from across the street (New York City, East side)

- Finding a dead man in the alley close to where I lived in New York.

- Being interviewed by the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations as a possible spy for Russia.

- Losing 250,000 Thai baht in Thailand as a result of extortion from various officials - don’t want to say more for now…

- Eating what was supposed to be a thoroughly COOKED scorpion and ending up in the hospital with breathing and heart problems.

- Dying on the floor of my apartment in St. Petersburg, Florida after an allergic reaction to Aunt Jemima’s pancake syrup caused my usually absent asthma to kick into high gear, leaving me passed out on the doorstep of the apartment clutching the phone as the 911 operator tried to get more information…

- Talking to John F. Kennedy, Jr.

- Being threatened by Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgewick

- Publishing photos in NY Daily News, New York Post, People and Globe Magazines…

- Seeing Iman’s new breasts at a photo shoot. Other insight into top model’s lives…

- Meeting David Byrne in Central Park

- Meeting Robin Williams in Central Park

- Arriving just after an elderly man pushed his wife out of the way of a NYC bus and, in doing so was run over and decapitated by the bus…

- Doing a photo shoot with Miss America

- Dinner with Bruce Willis

- Winning the Stock Market Game as a high school senior and flying to NYC first class to have a tour of Wall Street and the Stock Exchange.

Stuff like this. I’ve left out maybe 50 more things that are in the book that make it nice reading as well. I try hard not to put stories in the book that are only funny to me and my family, because I have LOTS of those and you’d bore of them eventually.

Most biographies have a general underlying theme about the life of the person being chronicled… for this book, the general theme is the variety of experiences that I’ve had over the course of my life. Some happened to me and some happened because of me.

I think it will be a really good read… I’ve got 120,000 words finished now and I still haven’t written about my time working in the mental health system with a woman that drown her 2 kids, the young guy that had over 200 personalities that killed his landlord and his wife with a hatchet and burned their house down… the guy who was reliving killing himself over and over and over… my schizophrenic aunt that told me jesus was on her left shoulder and the devil on her right and they were both giving her advice…

I didn’t write about the time I was trapped in my office with two teenage boys with major mental health issues that wanted to avenge some wrong they felt I caused them… I was searching the office for weapons I could use to put through their eyes before they killed me.

I didn’t write about the time the chair came flying through the window of the office in the early morning hours (2 am?) as I relaxed for what was supposed to be a quiet night at the supervised apartments facility for mentally challenged individuals.

I didn’t yet write about working with a spam king to help him send 3 billion emails per month.

I didn’t write about the mentally insane guy in New York that was telling me he was Jesus Christ and who had burned stigmata into his feet with a lighter I guess… Years later I saw his photo in a newspaper as having pushed a woman to her death in front of a NYC subway train.

There are many things that won’t get told, but the ones that I do share in the book should make the book interesting and hopefully successful on some level.

I’ll try find a publisher in NYC or Chicago and see how that goes.

If I can’t find a publisher for the book I’ll release it as an ebook - for free on this site and the www.thaipulse.com site and I’ll make it interactive with photos, maps, videos, everything possible so you can see the background media to get a better idea what each story is about…

Books are SO limited in what they can give… most give just words. Word stories are nice, but having it backed up with color photos, wav clips, Videos, Google Maps, Google Earth shots, songs, whatever, would make the stories come alive a lot more.

So, I’ll try for a book publishing first and if just nobody interested, I’ll go the online route…

So, that’s what the book is about…

I’ve got so many stories that I’m trying to pick and choose which to keep in the book and which to toss.

If anyone knows someone that can edit a book (American preferably) and would like to do it just to get the credit in the book once it’s published - please let me know. I don’t have $ to pay an editor unfortunately and if I don’t find one I’ll rely on my sister to do it… she has a degree in English Lit - she can edit a book, yes? Lol - we’ll see…

Bank Accounts for Expats or Visitors in Thailand… (Heads up)

A few problems with banks in Thailand.

We get a check from Citibank in Bangkok… (my girlfriend and I). It’s made out to her. It’s drawn on Citbank in Bangkok. It’s a “Manager’s Check” which, a translation for us Americans would be a cashier’s check or a bank check I think.

This means the check is good anywhere. Citibank is roughly 1000 times larger than any Thai bank in existence. A bank employee just SEEING one of these checks should replace it with the exact amount in cash or gold bullion on the spot. Here’s what happened…

We went to Tesco / Lotus to their after hours Bangkok bank branch since my girlfriend doesn’t get off work until after the one in own is closed. They told us, “Yyou’ll have to come before 7 pm to deposit that check into your account.”

Hmm. They were open, but they don’t take checks after 7.

We returned tonight, my girlfriend getting off work early so we could bust tail to arrive by 7 pm. No matter because, as it turns out - that branch doesn’t accept checks. We’d need to fill out a deposit slip and I could run by the bank in town to deposit it because the Tesco branch doesn’t deposit checks.

We decide, hmm, we’ll open a Siam Commercial bank account tonight and deposit the check now. We go to Siam Commercial. They tell us that because the bank is Citibank they will need to deposit the check for 2 weeks before we’re able to get the funds. There IS no city bank anywhere other than Chiang Mai and Bangkok in Thailand they say.

But, they can’t deposit the check because at the Tesco branch because they don’t deposit checks.

We go back to ask the Bangkok bank branch a question. They now say that our Bangkok Citibank check cannot be cashed unless we open a Bangkok bank account locally. Apparently when we opened the account at Bangkok bank in Ubon Ratchathani THAT is where we have to do our banking at…

THE BANKS ARE NOT LINKED IN THAILAND. IF you opened your account in Ubon and you want to deposit a check from Bangkok Citibank you must GO TO UBON to deposit it.

OR you must open another Bangkok bank account locally and deposit it!

IF you lose your ATM card for your Ubon Bank account, or wherever in Thailand that you opened your account- you

MUST GO TO THAT CITY TO GET YOUR BANK ATM CARD REPLACED!

YES! Seriously. There are many Bangkok Banks all over Thailand, but they can do VERY LITTLE for you unless you’re at the exact same branch that you opened your account at. No joke. It’s stupidity squared.

One more reason nobody has anything to worry about. Thailand is NOT taking over the world in this or the next millenium.

Rest easy…

Thailand Newspapers, Magazines, Ad Agencies… Some STANDARDS Please?

I was reading a story in the Nation that was just atrocious… some Thai kids 16 and under kidnapped a 14 year old girl, gang-raped her and murdered her.

That’s not the point of this story, I don’t cover news all that much, but this kind of thing is happening OFTEN in Thailand. Kids are raping and murdering quite often it appears. Do these types of crimes happen MORE often than in the USA even?

It seems like it to me, and the reason is that I rarely read the online newspapers like The Nation or BKK Post… but, whenever I do there is always something like this as a headline. My girlfriend reads me the Thai newspapers when she gets them every couple of days and there are frequently headlines about gang murders and rapes by kids under 18.

Does Thailand release stats for this kind of thing? Or, could we believe them if they did? I think it must be a serious problem here… anyone have any insight?

The point of this post was to be that even at Nationally syndicated newspapers… (are they globally syndicated?) like the Nation, they can’t find someone that can PROOFREAD THEIR FRICKIN’ ARTICLES? Man, it’s just something that gets my goat… I can almost expect it from Pattaya Mail news or some less than serious newspaper… but, man, this is THE NATION. Aren’t they trying to be taken seriously there?

I’ll cut and paste the article… see how many mistakes you can find in this VERY short article. And, WHY is it so short? Aren’t there a whole mess of details that would be nice to have included about this very serious crime?

It really is no wonder at all that Thai people in general, despite MANY years of education learning English, can’t speak it… It isn’t just newspapers, it’s everyone…. it’s the people that put English signs up on their store and they’re ridulous, they make no sense… and to me shows that they didn’t care enough about their business to get it right. I wonder if this is the way Thais’ are in general about writing… is there just less attention and emphasis placed on getting it correct grammatically? Spelling?

Many Thai people have told me how difficult it is to really learn their language at a high level… Is that true? If it is, does that mean that the majority of the population, though they are literate, cannot properly form sentences consistently even in Thai?

Five boys arrested for allegedly gang-raping and murdering girl

AYUTTHAYA - Police Tuesday arrested five youngsters who allegedly gang raped and killed a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Muang Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district, eight days after the attack. Police is hunting for a 15yearold suspect who was still at large.

The youngsters aged 14 to 16 had reportedly snatched the victim - Chonthicha Wimolpreuk - while she was waiting in front of Ayutthaya Grand Ville Housing Estate for a bus to her school on September 10 early morning. The girl’s body was found two days later in a rice field behind a hospital in Nakhon Luang district.

The Nation

P,S: If i’ve to made eny grammetikel or speling air-ors in this post, pleas sendme a private email so i as don’t to loose face.

This is SO Wrong, but, I Must Post it…

This was what I saw in my Google reader this morning, courtesy of Thamawat in Denmark… She’s a Thai -Danish girl that grew up in Denmark…

She’s got a great blog post this morning, that’s a find on YouTube…

Talented sketch artist… complete with foreign language music in the background… no idea what it is…

this is WORTH watching… and keep watching because it’s not what you think initially…

Thamawat’s Blog from Denmark…

Check Your Email Inbox Carefully for Thai Friends’ Email…

If you know a lot of Thai people that have your email address you probably will want to spend some time checking the mail that comes in rather closely… I’m amazed sometimes at the subject lines I get from past students… Here is one from today…

“ATC Mr.Nakarin QA Sect.” was the person that sent it.

“an Alumnus” was the subject line.

This was from an engineering student that I taught in Ubon Ratchathani for 10 classes so he could do well on his interviews in Bangkok for engineering positions. He wrote me to tell me he got a job and the interview went well… He was able to get a lot more money than friends who weren’t prepared for the English part of the inteview. I thought that was cool. Finally - i see some personal satisfaction from all that teaching!

Typically email from Thai students from the past comes across as a series of nonsense characters in the “from” address - as they use thai characters and when I’m in Yahoo on my FireFox browser it just shows as crud that can’t be made sense of. I used to trash those automatically. God knows how many students letters I’ve trashed in the first year of being in Thailand.

You should check your spam and trash folders before deleting for good also because sometimes the spam filters grabs them and tosses them there before they even make it to your inbox.

Ok, that’s it - got a lot of writin’ to do…

14,000 words yesterday! Book 1 is now at 99,000 words and growing.

Ok, stay out of the air and keep it in your pants….

look both ways…

Even MORE Thailand videos at YouTube - posted today

Buddhist donation machine

Buddhist fortune teller machine

Songkran - proper attire, proper application of powder to face, safe squirting, squirter tubes

See ThaiPulse video Channel at Youtube >

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