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Forgot about this, and Darkplace as well. Must give both another spin. Recently listened to Armando Ianucci's Charm Offensive repeated on Radio 4Extra and On the Hour. Both brilliant

I have to admit I'm a big terry Riley fan, but never had much time for Phillip glass

Haha. It's gets pretty oily around there! But I love it, too. Was especially strange era there when the Finsbury mosque was still radicalized and publicly linked to terrorism -- on Fridays, the men would come out in prayer shirts, often seeming pretty angry, mixed up with Arsenal fans. You should have seen the looks of both social groups as a man in a villa top would walk past on a matchday. Utter confusion.

It's complicated though. I used to live in Finsbury Park and match days at Highbury got pretty damn proletariat from what I could see, but the seats were very expensive and often filled with media types -- so, higher prices, but London wages are higher -- but so is CoL -- but, but, but, etc. It's complicated. No way are Arsenal traditionally a middle-class club. Finsbury Park and Blackstock Road remain pretty humble even now. Indeed. Lived right next to this, just a short walk to the Emirates. My cat used to go prowling here at night. He was less afraid than I was ... That particular estate is still not particularly nice. Like most London estates though, the surrounding townhouses are worth £700-1m. The marquess estate is equally an arsenal bastion, but that has been cleaned up since the 90s. Some of the surrounding pubs round seven sisters road and Finsbury are still horrible boozers though.

Going to Wembley for this. It's on my birthday.

'House of Jealous Lovers', THE ULTIMATE indie disco floor filler at the end of the night.

I think I've got what I'm going to do. I'm going to create my own middleware to capture the records, get PHP to chuck it all into arrays and explode them then throw them in a PostgreSQL db. I figured if there's no middleware, I might as well force it myself!

Well, it would be fine if I could use middleware to get Python, Ruby or PHP onto it to transform it, but alas- no platform to do it with.

OK. The functions and packages/stored procedures are all written in PL/SQL, obviously. But, being read only from my end, I can't write any PL/SQL. So yes, just SQL to query it.

The worst at VP I've ever heard has to be Wigan. They might as well have not turned up. Best, probs Rapid Vienna. My god they made a racket. The worst home crowd I've experienced is Fulham. But kudos to them, the rattled their matchday programmes in sync and give a whole stand to the away fans. It feels like a home game every trip.

Can I have your sarcasm in English? Are you asking why I'm not using a programming language to do this, despite saying I have to do it in SQL?

Going through database hell, if any of the Villatalk developers fancy throwing a few ideas around. I need a dataset for an Analytics package - the package can execute Oracle PL/SQL, talking directly to the Oracle database through JDBC. The dataset has to be exactly correct - by that, I mean what the analytics package expects as the correct form of dataset to build a chart from. Data looks like this: RequestID RequestDate TypeofData 21315115 01/03/2015 001,010,011,002,005 21345477 04/03/2015 001,006,014 What is needed out of this requires a monster amount of processing, with no temp tables, no procedures - just pure SELECT goodness. By using WITH x AS nesting, the latter parts of the processing are fine, it's just the beginning bit. TypeofData needs to be split, with new rows per comma seperated value. So, we get this: RequestID RequestDate TypeofData 21315115 01/03/2015 001 21315115 01/03/2015 010 21315115 01/03/2015 011 21315115 01/03/2015 002 21315115 01/03/2015 005 21345477 04/03/2015 001 21345477 04/03/2015 006 21345477 04/03/2015 014 I won't bore anyone with the transposing and month grouping, as that's pretty much in hand. Just to pre-empt anyone: I have no access to this database to write functions, procedures, create new tables....the only thing I have to manipulate the data is JavaScript functions, and that happens only after the fetch. Long, boring post, apologies. ANY pointers would be awesome....

You absolutely must turn up at her house naked, with a rose stuck up your arse singing her name. Women LOVE that shit. Really? I'll have to ask where she lives then first. At this stage that would probably render the same response as the rose up my arse

These 'games' are the first time I've encountered any of this nonsense. I'm too old now to be gambowling around with "2 day rules" or any of that cack. I don't get it...if you like me, you like me, surely that's all there is to it? I'll ask how the week is going tomorrow or something.

Well, not to go into finer detail but its pretty certain she's interested in me, so I dunno. I'll wait till tomorrow, then send if nothing comes. It could have been a fob off, which would be pretty disappointing.

When you are told "I'll text you" after a successful but brief date on Thursday, and nothing up to Tuesday, are girls being actually correct when they say, "I'll text you" or do they mean "I'll keep you waiting until you debate whether to text me instead, and it makes you look too clingy?" Because for all these tactics and etiquette, I can't fathom for the life of me why we do it.

The atmosphere is flat at most of these new stadiums...god I've been to a sell out emirates, and that was 60,000. Arsenal were winning 6-0 against coventry and you could still hear a pin drop. I understand it's your opinion, of course, it's just not one I agree with. What they are doing with the cash is spending it more wisely than you think- these deals with overseas clubs, the money pumped into marketing them worldwide and the groundsroots schemes they have in the north west are cementing their place at the top end of English football. There's a reason that if you pick any sports retailer around the world to shop in, you can now buy a Man City shirt. These oil sheikhs were not in it for the short run.

Kryten poacher special haha, nice one Joe

What does that last sentence mean? It makes no sense to me. Are you saying that because they've fluffed the champions league and title race this year, the owners picked the wrong club? Because...you know they've picked up the league title twice in the past few years, the first one for 44 years, qualify for the champions league and have a large new stadium that is packed every week because of said owners, right?

I have known or know three compulsive liars in my lifetime. I Honestly feel very sorry for them, it's pretty embarrassing when you are aren't aware of people's perceptions of what you're saying.

I've heard the Inuits are all Sky 4 gloryhunters...

That has made my day

Born: 4.3 miles (Queen Liz Hospital, Harborne) Grew up: 3.2 miles (Edgbaston) Currently and for the foreseeable future: 98 miles (Landan tahn me ol china etc)

Not quite the coolest cat here chris, I regularly buy records...studio one and soul jazz stuff too so nyah! (waiting for get back to growing your beard and talking about coffee you hipster filth comment)

If you haven't already, check out his debut, Brand New Second Hand. Played that album to death, in what I sometimes refer to as "the weed years", At the risk of mirth at my expense considering I am a middle class white boy living in Highgate, North London: that album is totes sick bruv.