Why can't Siam Sam accept correction?

[septimus]

I admit I have an inexplicable anti-social compulsion to correct errors. And I admit that incorrect claims that I am mistaken infuriate me irrationally. Dopers don’t even know my true name, and it wouldn’t matter if they did … Why my irrational need to have my truths validated? I’ve often thought a BBQ Pit thread should be directed against me and my perversion.

I don’t know how this perversion developed. Even at age 7 I was aware that I was more knowledgeable than some adults on some subjects, yet I remained an almost-autistic social misfit well into adulthood. Many Dopers are aware of this perverse obsession of mine. It also manifests in real life. But there is a Jekyll side to my Hyde: Some people have called me the most patient person they’ve met :smack: and our happy family here is the envy of our friends and neighbors.

There are plenty of Dopers who infuriate me besides Siam Sam, but I will reiterate why I find him irritating. (BTW, the claim that the “fart” confusion might be a dialectal variation is absurd. Sam and I are both used to the Central Thai dialect. His conflation of ‘d’ with ‘t’, by the way, rather confirms his lack of Thai language knowledge.)

Recently we had an argument about the requirement to open a bank account in Thailand. Despite that I personally know a dozen foreigners who have opened an account without a work permit, and he knows one (himself) who was supposedly asked for a permit, he’s insisted on replying “work permits are generally required” about five times now. Rationally this shouldn’t infuriate me, but it does. Here’s my final post on that topic from the other thread:

@septimus

I apologize to Dopers tired of this question, but placing the truth on record is a fetish of mine.

@Siam_Sam

Technically, you need to be employed or on a retirement visa to open an account …

I’m glad you’ve put me on Ignore, Sam, so I can finally correct this without you re-posting this mistake yet again.

All that a foreigner needs to open a bank account in Thailand is a non-I visa. I know about a dozen foreigners who’ve done so and only one (you) who’s been asked for a work permit. Why you are asked for the work permit I don’t know. My best guess is a conversation like
Sam, opening an account: “Would you like to see my work permit?”
Bank officer: “Uhh, OK. Why not?”

That your claim is absurd is logically clear as I explained earlier: Most people with retirement visas open bank accounts at least two months before they apply for the retirement visa, to satisfy the “financial proof” requirement for the visa, and retirees are not permitted to have work permits. (I notice you’ve added “retirement” to your claim but the retiree is never asked to return to the bank to validate his account!)

All that a foreigner needs to open a bank account in Thailand is a non-I visa. One foreigner (Sam) was, supposedly asked for his work permit. I wish he would say “I had to show my permit” rather than the false statement “permits are ‘technically’ or ‘generally’ required.”