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  1. Conscious Bob

    Random happenings/thoughts

    My Dad was reading genuine sad comments from a popular newspaper's website regarding Father's Day aloud. When he finished he pointed to his chest and said: 'What you're looking at here is f*****g normality boy'. Respect to good dads everywhere.
  2. Conscious Bob

    Your source format of choice

    CD, I'm old school.
  3. Conscious Bob

    The Illiterate Messiah of Illiterate Literature Puking a Poem at You

    Unique WolfLarsen, definitely unique.
  4. Conscious Bob

    The Illiterate Messiah of Illiterate Literature Puking a Poem at You

    Published on a church wall, sprayed in 10000 litres of semen pumped from his mighty phallus or something like it no doubt.
  5. Conscious Bob

    Random Question..Keep posting

    Bar and not necessarily the venue bar. Gigs, small and intimate or big and noisy?
  6. Conscious Bob

    What makes a good sci-fi story?

    For me it's the opposite, Arthur C Clarke, Brian Aldiss and Iain M. Banks amongst others minimise the human content and emphasise universe building. I like to be transported.
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    Fat Suit and Hidden Orchestra. Do you watch the support act or go to the bar?
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    Real Racing 3, Twitter's good too. Been to any good gigs or concerts lately?
  9. Conscious Bob

    Help with comprehension

    Western philosophy started in ancient Greece which was a male dominated society. I'm presuming this is what the writer is alluding to.
  10. Conscious Bob

    Help with comprehension

    I would leave it as it is, the sentence is quite truncated and the inclusion of 'was' makes it rather clumsy. If you must include this unnecessary verb give it its own sentence - Logical Positivism was expounded in the Vienna Circle in the 1920s and 1930s. You wouldn't know what any reference...
  11. Conscious Bob

    Help with comprehension

    It's not faulty it's fine, without knowing what the empirical project is in this context the function of the first part of your sentence is to provide a conclusion. The verb 'expounded' is in past tense because it's used in reference to two past time periods - 1920s and 1930s.
  12. Conscious Bob

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    Hoh yes, a very civilised way of getting out of your head. Anyone like alcohol free beer?
  13. Conscious Bob

    Help with comprehension

    As sentences they make sense, it's not a question of knowing instantly what 'logical positivism' and 'disinterested objectivity' is or who Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein were. The point is to understand these sentences contain reference points.
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    Because you were online, bad move when you're after shuteye. Ever bought a drink just to get out of the rain?
  15. Conscious Bob

    Help with comprehension

    Give us an example.
  16. Conscious Bob

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    Regret by Everything Everything. Do you run up stairs?
  17. Conscious Bob

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    As it's over the three hours I have to ask did you and your co-worker get it on?
  18. Conscious Bob

    Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

    Susanna Clarke's three volume story gets proper room with a seven part series. Just seen episode one and it is good.
  19. Conscious Bob

    So next week Scotland votes for independence from the UK

    The first evidence of Mr Cameron's intentions toward Scotland it would appear has been the appointment of Andrew Dunlop as a Scottish Office Minister. Andrew Dunlop was one of the main architects of the Poll Tax in Margaret Thatcher's government. In fairness he might be a fox but the SNP ain't...
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    No Country For Old Men. Do you have a film that isn't Star Wars you can watch more than once?
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