Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

Given what's been happening in this thread the last couple of days... yes.

Probably about as much as anyone cares about your suboptimal consumer experience shared elsewhere on the forum recently...

Er nothing to see here.

Having met @brokenbetty and @ltc I’m a bit disappointed we didn’t immediately recognise each other as part of the Public School Plutocracy.

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

I'm genuinely puzzled by this post. I appreciate you went to school in another country and that you don't have kids but, given the issues you post so passionately about, I'm surprised that your two comments on the issue have been so dismissive. There are very few things that lead to social injustice and inequality, or the ongoing control a minority exert over our lives, more than an education system that gives the children of those that can afford it a huge leg-up in life and limits the chances of those who most need it. It's something I thought you would care about.

Perhaps you don't like the way the conversation is going, but it's reasonable and inevitable that people will be talking from their own experiences. If you don't care or don't like it, put it on ignore and go and shout about something else.

Raymond Chandler also

If you don't care or don't like it, put it on ignore and go and shout about something else.

fairynuff.

Don't you remeber the handshake?

Hate to think what a “Public School Handshake” is.....

Hello folks, is this the golf bar they've been raving about on Lufguss?

Wait, did I come at a bad time..?

Sorry. It's invitation only.

Sorry Sir, that's the wrong tie.

first things first. what school did you go to

Would rep

Girl, I want to take you to a golf bar.
Golf bar.
Golf
bar.

first things first. what school did you go to

No. The way to ask it is "Where were you at school?" The difference is that your construction presumes a day school; using "at" presumes a boarding school.

Ooh thanks, Richard Beard is wonderful, I will sit down with a cup of tea and devour that shortly.

His book about the drowning of his brother (The day that went missing) is incredible, it stayed with me for a long time.

It is also - it has to be said - not a great advert for private schools.

Flew out to Corsica on Sunday. Half the seats on the plane were business class.

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

Tom Brown's Schooldays
St Trinians
The Dead Poets Society
Numerous US High School movies
Jennings
Billy Bunter
Goodbye Mr Chips
The Browning Version
Lord of the Flies
If

Yes, it seems that for many years people have been fascinated by the traumas of other people's education.

Flew out to Corsica on Sunday. Half the seats on the plane were business class.

How could you tell. Did you stand up and look back at the people in the cheap seats?

Nailed it!

Girl, I want to take you to a golf bar.
Golf bar.
Golf
bar.

But I can't because ladies are only allowed in the bar on Thursday afternoons and must be accompanied by a gentleman member (ahem)

I was asked to drive the van for Electric Six's support band for their UK tour in 2005 but it clashed with my finals. Apparently it was pretty wild. If only I'd gone to Oxbridge.

Saw them in Manchester on that tour, great gig

ha, nice! Im glad someone enjoyed it :'-(