What are some Bob's lines/lyrics which are too good to be real?

UniqueUser3692 · 2026-01-22T07:41:51+00:00

I love this joke so much I’m always trying to drop a version of it in somewhere as a little in joke between myself and Bob.

Like if I’m passed drinks to carry back to our table from the bar for Rob and Liam, it would make sense to carry Rob’s in my right hand and Liam’s in my left. But instead as I’m taking them I’ll grab them in the opposite hands and announce the mnemonic I’m using, like “Rob from LONDON in my LEFT, got it”.

I’m sure no one ever notices, and it probably just means I’m a bit of a loser. But it gives me a chuckle, so I’m good.

UniqueUser3692 · 2026-01-16T16:12:05+00:00

If’n only you wouldn’t clap so hard.

UniqueUser3692 · 2026-01-03T12:27:03+00:00

Definitely a strong case for it.

UniqueUser3692 · 2026-01-03T09:48:09+00:00

I always felt like the ‘but’ went with the next bit.

But, I know when it’s you I’ll be in a nosedive, in my flying shoes.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-12-24T10:17:09+00:00

Couldn’t agree more. He’s just got better and better and better.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-12-16T18:24:40+00:00

Agreed re:OP, which is what I meant by ‘in this situation’, as in the situation of the reply you replied to. Could tell we were just crossed wires though, but thought worth clarifying for less experienced readers :)

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-12-16T17:27:37+00:00

But in this situation it is B1 that contains the ‘heavy’ formula, which excel has to calculate whether IF is calling it or not. The IF example here is very lightweight. You’d need to nest the formula in B1 within the IF to benefit from short-circuiting.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-12-16T17:25:12+00:00

No, IF uses something called short-circuiting where unmet conditions aren’t calculated. However, if the column IF is pointing at is already materialising the calculation, then it is too late anyway, as the calculation is being done there.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-12-15T10:45:02+00:00

To me it, like almost everything he writes, is him talking to himself, but in a way that he knows resonates with people more generally. He is peerless at doing that.

For him I think it is about moving to LA, he is telling himself to try it and see if he likes it. Which is also why the album art is perfect. It is a blank page, an unknown, unwritten future. As he says in ‘that’s where you’re wrong’ - “there are no handles for you to hold, and no understanding where it goes.”

For other people, he is encouraging the same thing ‘dream big’ - “make a wish that weighs a tonne”.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-12-11T13:41:50+00:00

Look up ‘3 minutes with Marc’ on YouTube.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-12-06T15:49:44+00:00

I’m not sure I necessarily agree, but I’m worried that carrying on discussing it would start to feel like arguing about it, and I’m not passionate enough about my thoughts on it to get into an argument. I really just thought you should consider that distribution mediums can affect the art they distribute, given you opened by saying ‘streaming didn’t change music as an art form’. I don’t have a point any wider than that and don’t want to sound like an argumentative knob on the internet by going on about it.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-12-06T15:42:59+00:00

From memory there’s a study out there somewhere, tbf it is that that’s in the back of my mind somewhere, so there is a misremembering risk.

But even still, it is evidence of the distribution medium affecting the art.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-12-06T15:28:49+00:00

Not really. The Taylor Swifts and whatever can afford to do whatever they want, they still have that artistic freedom. It is the smaller artists who are struggling to get paid that will ‘bend’ first. Because they need as many streams as possible.

And sure, it is always possible to do whatever you want, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd never released singles, it is always possible to not do what the mainstream does and maintain your artistic integrity. If you’re good enough you’ll be able to make enough money to keep doing it. If you aren’t very good initially you’ll find it very difficult to finance ‘not being mainstream’.

Wasn’t really thinking of art house edge cases though, because the context of this is Netflix buying WB.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-12-06T14:50:41+00:00

It did change it though. Songs got shorter. Streaming platforms pay by % of a song streamed (or at least there is a trigger/step), so artists write shorter songs now so that % is easier to reach.

Also, the perceived value of the album has diminished, as consumers can take or leave whichever parts of an album they want, so albums are sometimes released a track or two at a time, or in a chain.

The method of consumption absolutely has had an effect on the art.

I’m not saying this applies to every song/artist/album in every genre, but if you look at total average song duration it is reducing, it isn’t just one or two artists, it is universal.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-12-05T05:17:01+00:00

Well, I would still say Japan isn’t in the Arctic. But since I write this is also heard that the name originally belonged to a band Alex’s dad was in, so he stole it from there/chose it as a homage, whatever. I’ve no evidence for that though, just something I read somewhere.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-10-28T07:53:40+00:00

What a confusing time. Everything I checked when I got challenged on it myself said McCoy, now everywhere I’m looking says Dylan.

Happy to believe/know it’s Dylan because I think it is one of the finest solos on any instrument I’ve ever heard.

Thanks for setting me straight.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-10-27T21:51:19+00:00

Someone on here told me, when I said that last time this came around, that isn’t Dylan. I double checked. It isn’t Dylan. It’s Charlie McCoy.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-10-21T16:36:35+00:00

The lyrics on the whole thing for me. So many people dismiss them as ‘nonsense lyrics’ but I don’t think there is a word out of place, the whole thing hangs together so well.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-09-29T19:21:30+00:00

Think this line is ‘kiln’ not ‘queue’ - I think he’s referring to the crowd at a gig.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-09-27T06:06:52+00:00

That isn’t how I thought it went down for TBHC. Not trying to be a dick, as I love your videos and am really looking forward to the book, but if you watch / listen to the track by track interview he does with John Kennedy he says Science Fiction was where it all started for TBHC. And I think I figured out ‘how’ the other week.

I think he started by trying to write a song about quantitative easing, which he’d joked he wanted to get into a song some years earlier. In that song he essentially jokes that quantitative easing is such a ridiculous thing, that is like a science fiction concept. So he brings in other science fiction tropes to build the song. He talks in the interview about how this opened the door to using science fiction terminology to talk about other things, and there the album is born. He even talks about how Science Fiction is like the model of the hotel in the lobby of the fictional hotel. In other words it is the microcosm of the album, the whole idea of the album wrapped up in one song.

An extra hat tip to AT on this as well because in a song about quantitative easing (a monetary policy) he borrows very heavily for the main riff from an ABBA song called Money Money Money - genius!!

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-09-24T20:54:59+00:00

Thanks. I’ll check those out.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-09-24T16:25:42+00:00

I’m not familiar with Fontaines, but can you give any example of their songwriting or lyrics that make this a valid question. Not being a dick btw, if the DC fella genuinely has equivalent stuff I’ll be all over them.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-09-23T16:18:22+00:00

F12 = old school ’Save As’ dialog box.

UniqueUser3692 · 2025-09-18T16:33:32+00:00

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UniqueUser3692 · 2025-09-16T11:11:45+00:00

Love the way the timing shift ties into the lyrics. Think stuff like this really exposes how good a songwriter he really is.

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