Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

That's a rather simplistic view.

Indeed it would be, should it encompass the full extent of someone’s view.

I'm not saying there is no indoctrination at all within any faith school, but then each school will vary.

Is your child being taught that a certain, or any, religion is truth? If so, that’s quite literally indoctrination. Of course, some faith schools might leave out the faith part and focus on instilling their own ethics and morality into their pupils. That is different from the typical faith school I have encountered.

I'd stopped using Office when it was still xls. When did they add the extra x and why?

I'd stopped using Office when it was still xls. When did they add the extra x and why?

xls is a proprietary file format
xlsx is xml (but still contains a load of proprietary nonsense).

I'm fine with an increase in council tax. I don't want any of my money going on religious teaching.

I'd stopped using Office when it was still xls. When did they add the extra x and why?

For EXTREME. 64k rows is pretty extreme.

N00bsauce.

I've just opened one and it looks like it's zipped. Not a very friendly XML doc if it's compressed.

Is your child being taught that a certain, or any, religion is truth? If so, that’s quite literally indoctrination.

She's being taught about many religions (Sikhism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, etc) alongside Christianity. There's certainly no implication that any one is more correct or wrong than any other.

Religion and faith are quite different things.

All I know is their online spreadsheet is still shit and I've had to go back to google numerous times because o365 was unusable.

online spreadsheet

Found your problem....

xlsb is the future.

I did Home Eco for 4 years though so I could eat something at the end of a class

Good to see that some things don't change.

I don't have any "Office" software installed.

Can we start a schools thread for all of this shit? I just want to read humble brags about classic cars and 40k kitchens.

Ha! It is all a bit worthy isn't it?

I just want to ... humble brag about classic cars and 40k kitchens

Out of context altered quotes is the standard for the thread right?

Religion and faith are quite different things.

They can be, sure. Esoteric faith without religion is a step in the right direction imo. I don’t have an issue with anyone believing in whatever they want; the problems are when they force their opinions on others (be it society writ large or their own underage children) or when they leverage adherents’ faith or religious beliefs to obtain their uncritical obedience.

xlsb is the future.

That's what I thought until I found that even a load of MS stuff doesn't play nicely with xlsb files.

Slightly better than class warfare and spreadsheet chat.

Well, yes, it's a collection of xml files in a zip file. That's pretty standard shit nowadays and on the other side uncompressed verbose file formats are quite rare.

Sorry, "files" are a little bit too 2015 for me. I'm just a bot in the cloud now didn't you know?

Tales from the school yard

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/343376/

Can we start a schools thread for all of this shit? I just want to read humble brags about classic cars and 40k kitchens.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/230525/

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/283320/

I'm not picking on you @Brommers but are you sure about this?

Some parts yes, others, not at all.

Knowing what job you do, do you really think not think your private education helped you get there?

I'm sure it helped. Just not in the overt Old Boys' networking kind of way.

You also seem to have lived a life (from what I can gather from your posts) which suggests a degree of inate self confidence - racing cars, flying to Europe to regularly ride up and down mountains etc.

It's impossible to say, so I can't be sure whether my school gave me self-confidence I wouldn't have had otherwise. I don't feel I have the overweening self-confidence that alumni from the major public schools seem to possess - looking back I had a major case of imposter syndrome when I started at the Bar - but it may seem different on the outside.

There's a big difference between confidence and assertiveness. A lot of people who are very assertive have very little confidence, and vice versa. Assertiveness is projected to the outside, whereas confidence is inside and comes from factors such as your 'basic/original trust' ("Urvertrauen"(link in German, sorry, can't find a good reference in English right now)). Ideally, both are in balance, but in many people they are not. In my experience, people who went to 'posh' schools tend to have more assertiveness than confidence.

It's excruciating. Does anyone genuinely give a flying fuck about anyone else's school experience?