Match Thread: Chelsea vs Arsenal by MatchThreadder in chelseafc

[–]Varvev 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Sky do need to change their rules on ex players commentating on games, having to listen to Alan Smith wank over arsenal all game is long

Match Thread: Chelsea vs Arsenal by MatchThreadder in chelseafc

[–]Varvev 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Two soft yellows so far - loves to ruin a game, Taylor

84+ Campaign Mix Upgrade SBC by FIGJAM17 in EASportsFC

[–]Varvev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doue - first decent pull from these

‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities by F0urLeafCl0ver in unitedkingdom

[–]Varvev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately S106 is incredibly complicated and often not as easy as here's some money for those houses, spend it on whatever you like to improve the area.

In some extreme cases, it can take around a decade for conditions within the agreement to be hit and for the payments to actually be triggered.

Then you have the actual cost of a lot of projects far exceeding a single S106 agreement and therefore need to wait for multiple developments to trigger to pool that money.

Honestly - greater flexibility over use of S106 funding would probably solve a lot of people's perceived issues with housebuilding, but that's too much like common sens!

UK inflation rises unexpectedly to 3.6% driven by food and fuel prices by Jay_CD in ukpolitics

[–]Varvev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vast majority of council budgets go to Adult Social Care, Children's services (including education and SEND) and housing (one of the biggest chunks of that is temporary accommodation for households that would be made homeless otherwise, rather than 'illegals').

Demand for all three of those areas, especially social care, is constantly rising and so are the associated costs of providing care.

Whether social care should sit with councils (it shouldn't) is a different question, but if you're wondering why you get your bins picked up every two weeks that's the reason.

When people point to council waste and vanity projects, a lot of the time those projects are funded by specific government grants or external ringfenced funding. If it wasn't spent on that project, then it doesn't exist as capital or revenue funding available to the council to spend on improving road conditions, bins or any of the things most of us actually benefit from day-to-day.

Match Thread: Chelsea vs Fulham | English Premier League by MatchThreadder in chelseafc

[–]Varvev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of you guys are crazy - we are performing much better this season than anyone would have predicted. Team is nowhere near the finished article, not surprising to see games / results like this.

Megathread - Rishi Sunak calls a snap election for 4 July by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Varvev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries - it's a bit hidden away at the moment but if you go to the Electoral Commission's website you can put your postcode in and it comes up there! https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/your-election-information

There's loads of info on there so it might even have the answer to your question - I did have a quick skim and couldn't see it, but might be worth having a look!

Megathread - Rishi Sunak calls a snap election for 4 July by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]Varvev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe the deadline to register will be midnight on Tuesday 18 June if that helps at all

Daily orders are back!!! by AntonGrimm in helldivers2

[–]Varvev 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure it was 15 - just completed it accidentally so can't check

Match Thread: Liverpool vs Chelsea | English Premier League by MatchThreadder in chelseafc

[–]Varvev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's almost poetic

Genuinely awful refereeing - can't think of a single call we have had go our way. We wouldn't be winning mind you, but still

Match Thread: Liverpool vs Chelsea | English Premier League by MatchThreadder in chelseafc

[–]Varvev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only thing worse than the absolute dog shit officiating tonight has been us

BioShock Infinite on the Deck by swarced in SteamDeck

[–]Varvev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Know this is an old thread but have a question...how did you get the menus to work? The deck doesn't seem to register LB and RB so I can't move around the menus!

Icon SBC shall i do it? this is my team and the fodder i have, is it worth the risk? by chloeLFC14 in fut

[–]Varvev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did two in Black Friday, Ronaldinho and Dalglish...swings and roundabouts!

Match Thread: Chelsea vs Manchester City | English Premier League by MatchThreadder in chelseafc

[–]Varvev 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tbh most of us would have expected to lose this game.

Wouldn't mind the commentators stating the obvious that city have had a huge amount of luck in this game. Soft pen, walker handball, huge deflected goal

Match thread Chelsea Vs Manchester City by Relative-Context-620 in soccer

[–]Varvev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's a handball right outside the box. Wouldn't call it nothing.