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So that conversation barry and len have at iron heights, you know, "last time i was here i was visiting my dad" "yeah, me too." That one.

What if instead of talking about Lewis, like we all assumed, he was talking about Henry

"last time i was here i was visiting my dad" "yeah, me too."

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I want to follow him around like a cat and run in front of his feet and trip him

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I'm trying to train my colleague to feel more confident in Excel

(I am, and I'm not tooting my own horn here, extremely advanced at Excel. my formulae often run through 20+ clauses and autocalculate the entire sheet from one manually entered item. I knew this would be a challenge for me to calibrate because I have a tendency to assume everything I can do well is easy because I have low self esteem, so I was ready to start at the basics - maybe a quick single-clause IF function or a SUMIF if we were feeling fancy)

so I sat down with her yesterday too work through a model sheet I built her, and quickly found she didn't know:

what an = was for

that you could do a basic addition function (=A1+B1), and this delighted and impressed her

that you could click and drag or copy a cell and the formula will recalculate based on its relative position (I started to explain that you can stop it doing that if you want by using a $ in the cell reference and she said no, please stop I think that's too much for me)

and I'm not saying this to shame her because she's not stupid or unwilling to learn, it just threw me because I don't remember ever not having a knowledge of the basics of Excel. Like over the last 8 years I've learnt a LOT and I was very much doing basic mathematical functions on it when I started office work, I know I learnt a lot (and also that I have an instinctive aptitude for the specific logic that Excel uses), but I've always known what Excel is for.

anyway we were talking today and come to find out that she just. did not cover Excel at all in IT at school (we're the same age, btw, this isn't a generational thing)

then I was talking to Sam and it slowly dawned that actually I did an additional short-course GCSE (Business And Communications Studies, which was basically IT for administrators) that was mandatory in my school, so I assumed it was a national core subject like Maths or English or Science. Turns out no, my school were just stuffing their GCSEs (I did 16 GCSEs)

and now I'm reeling cause I'm like OH. OH FUCK. IS THAT WHY EVERYONE'S MICROSOFT SKILLS ARE SO UNBELIEVABLY BASIC????? because I truly did think that everyone my kind of age did at least a few years of Microsoft Office type ICT training in high school.

let me know in the tags how old you are and what country you went to school

(also substitute Numbers/Google Sheets if you don't use Microsoft, we're just talking about any spreadsheet programme)

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Just saw a post asking how tall people are and now I want to make it a poll. Apologies to people in the fringe height categories, you do not get specifics.

I had to consult a chart for this

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a funny thing about having a Problematic Blorbo is that you'll periodically come across a post along the lines of "um let's not forget that [Blorbo] is a bad person..." listing their various crimes, and if you have a modicum of intellectual honesty you find yourself nodding along and saying yeah it's true... but it's the greyness of their character that makes them so compelling... At the same time though you have a little Saul Goodman in your ear going "your honor in their defense: who cares like omfgggg who caresssssss like come onnnnnn"

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I'm trying to train my colleague to feel more confident in Excel

(I am, and I'm not tooting my own horn here, extremely advanced at Excel. my formulae often run through 20+ clauses and autocalculate the entire sheet from one manually entered item. I knew this would be a challenge for me to calibrate because I have a tendency to assume everything I can do well is easy because I have low self esteem, so I was ready to start at the basics - maybe a quick single-clause IF function or a SUMIF if we were feeling fancy)

so I sat down with her yesterday too work through a model sheet I built her, and quickly found she didn't know:

what an = was for

that you could do a basic addition function (=A1+B1), and this delighted and impressed her

that you could click and drag or copy a cell and the formula will recalculate based on its relative position (I started to explain that you can stop it doing that if you want by using a $ in the cell reference and she said no, please stop I think that's too much for me)

and I'm not saying this to shame her because she's not stupid or unwilling to learn, it just threw me because I don't remember ever not having a knowledge of the basics of Excel. Like over the last 8 years I've learnt a LOT and I was very much doing basic mathematical functions on it when I started office work, I know I learnt a lot (and also that I have an instinctive aptitude for the specific logic that Excel uses), but I've always known what Excel is for.

anyway we were talking today and come to find out that she just. did not cover Excel at all in IT at school (we're the same age, btw, this isn't a generational thing)

then I was talking to Sam and it slowly dawned that actually I did an additional short-course GCSE (Business And Communications Studies, which was basically IT for administrators) that was mandatory in my school, so I assumed it was a national core subject like Maths or English or Science. Turns out no, my school were just stuffing their GCSEs (I did 16 GCSEs)

and now I'm reeling cause I'm like OH. OH FUCK. IS THAT WHY EVERYONE'S MICROSOFT SKILLS ARE SO UNBELIEVABLY BASIC????? because I truly did think that everyone my kind of age did at least a few years of Microsoft Office type ICT training in high school.

let me know in the tags how old you are and what country you went to school

(also substitute Numbers/Google Sheets if you don't use Microsoft, we're just talking about any spreadsheet programme)

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Till death do us part? Yea no you’re not getting out of this that easily

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they made many terrible character choices after season one of the flash (ie making barry less bitchy and less nerdy, his two most beautiful traits) but truly the only good choice they made was recognizing the chemistry between carlos valdes and tom cavanagh and then kept inventing new versions of harrison wells for cisco to have sexual tension with. that was allyship

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something i dont think enough speedster media mentions is that the things around them take the same amount of time to do stuff, so you couldnt like super speed rapidly interact with most any kind of average modern machine. like on a phone you cant do that, on touch screens because it takes nanoseconds just to register your touch, and on button phones bc the buttons have to register being pressed down and then display the number on the screen and theyre even slower, so really you cant text much faster than the fastest an average human could text, which i think would kill me. the same principle applies to food which i think would be even more frustrating somehow. imagine being faster than anything on earth and STILL having to wait a minute for instant noodles, even if you can prepare and cool them in tiny fractions of a second. not being able to text at super speed would kill me but waiting for food to cook would make ME kill MYSELF

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what a beautiful man but☝️he could be beautifuller... guards! cover that man in blood

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No you can’t pull out, I have separation anxiety

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+ Lena's reaction

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pov:

Someone was mean to you but your best friend is a pyromaniac with a lighter.

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Mick + Dracula

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you know what im thinking about today? the conversation barry and len have at iron heights where barry says "last time i was here i was visiting my dad" and len says "yeah, me too."

like given that len's been in and out of iron heights (is that canon? i swear he had been in prison before barry put him away the first time—aside from juvie i mean) im assuming he wasn't talking about visiting as a child. so that presumably means an adult leonard snart visited his abusive father in prison at least once and i would LOVE to know how that conversation went. why did he go. what did they talk about? did he want to look his abuser in the eye with the safety of a glass partition between them and finally speak his mind without fear, or was he, at that point, still struggling to free himself of the sense of obligation and loyalty so many people feel for their parents, enough to still come when lewis called? i just have so many questions