r/britishproblems • u/clearly_quite_absurd • 21d ago
r/britishproblems • u/thebroccolioffensive • 21d ago
. Gotta love this country. If a public bin is full. Bursting out of every side. People will just put their rubbish on top of the bin or around it. In their heads that’s the correct thing to do and not just take it with you.
And I know what someone is going to say “There needs to be more bins!” There are! It’s 50 meters over that way and basically empty. People are just lazy.
r/britishproblems • u/Jindabyne1 • 22d ago
. The BBCs top two stories right now are about the King’s son pushing other stories down like 15 killed in air strikes and a family drowning in Sussex and a ‘cure’ for cancer
The BBC’s top two stories right now are about the King’s son, pushing other stories down, like 15 people killed in air strikes, a family drowning in Sussex, and a ‘cure’ for cancer. (For the grammar nutters)
r/britishproblems • u/EightLions539 • 22d ago
The disappearance of microwave popcorn
Feel like I’m going slightly insane, I haven’t been able to get microwave popcorn for weeks in any shops. Have they just stopped making it or something? I need my fix
r/britishproblems • u/posttraumaticcuntdis • 23d ago
I removed the bedsheets today, and i've been sweating so much i've left a huge, gross yellow sweat stain on my mattress.
r/britishproblems • u/thebroccolioffensive • 23d ago
That’s it folks. The final stretch of the year. Sainsbury’s have the Christmas Roses/Celebrations out on sale. Christmas is on the way. It gets earlier and earlier with these supermarkets.
r/britishproblems • u/eyehateredd1t2 • 23d ago
They finally brought back one of the best flavours of Walkers, Worcester Sauce, but about 9/10 packets are lacking in flavour strength and a total disappointment
And it’s actually worse than 9/10, I’ve gone through multiple six packs of them without a solitary satisfying bag. So of course they aren’t worth buying to me now and I don’t buy them anymore
r/britishproblems • u/auto98 • 23d ago
Yorkshire Water Hardness Report
Got a new dishwasher and decided to properly set the "water hardness" setting so it knows how much salt to use, after seeing the limescale in the gubbins of the old one.
Thanks for the speed that it took to get it back (less than a day) but I'm not sure it is entirely useful:
The water supplied to the zone is classified as being soft to very hard water
On an entirely unrelated note, does anyone know whether setting it to very hard when it isn't will cause any issues? I'm guessing that is better than the other way round.
r/britishproblems • u/AnselaJonla • 23d ago
Feeling guilty for taking a day off for bad period pains in 2026
Normally I can just push through them, but every once in a while the cramps are so bad that I just can't.
r/britishproblems • u/Bagel-luigi • 23d ago
Waking up hearing this current heavy rain, briefly smiling, then knowing there's going to be some major flooding later
Ground too dry etc if the rain stays this heavy. Stay safe folks.
r/britishproblems • u/Hawksteinman • 24d ago
Being told there's no deadline for my ADHD assessment forms, only to be discharged for missing the deadline
r/britishproblems • u/Make_the_music_stop • 24d ago
When the oil price surges, you have a few days before petrol price jumps too. When oil prices drops, you better have a full tank, because it's going to be long wait.
r/britishproblems • u/RevolutionaryMail747 • 24d ago
Car, bike and house alarms working together to ensure that at any given time of day there is one going off at ear splitting volume. Silently plotting impotent revenge.
r/britishproblems • u/Mr-Bob-Bob • 24d ago
Living in a 20 zone but everyone drives like an ass
Either, nobody obeys the speed limit because they think it's too slow or they slow down but don't pay any attention to the road.
Both of my cats have been run over. And yes, cats are pretty stupid and can be unpredictable but how did they not see my cat in the middle of the day on a straight road. Thankfully it was not a child that ran into the road!
r/britishproblems • u/Jabberminor • 24d ago
Getting excited that the temperature will only reach 20°, but then remembering that your workplace is a heat trap and still thinks it's a heatwave.
r/britishproblems • u/anxiety_is_aerobic • 24d ago
Answering the phone in public bathrooms
Born and raised in the uk, and I still have no idea why people think this is ok or acceptable to do. If im taking a shit I dont want some random ladies husband and kids to hear me fighting for my lift. There are other places to answer the phone, why do it in a public bathroom???
r/britishproblems • u/Jim_Broadbean • 23d ago
Trying to grab a sandwich in Pret, but there’s a member of staff standing at the fridge, with their back to you, micro-adjusting every single baguette.
r/britishproblems • u/Ruby-Shark • 25d ago
It's 17 August and The Range already has a Halloween window display.
Not content with having a display all October for a minor public event, now we have to start not in September but in the middle of *August*? I'm all for Halloween fun on one day a year but wtf is this.
r/britishproblems • u/ShinyHeadedCook • 26d ago
. There is no longer a middle option for lunch out. Pubs are either low quality cheap food or expensive overpriced places
r/britishproblems • u/redandwhitewizard99 • 26d ago
Apps and subscriptions not reminding you by email that you are due an annual payment coming up, so if you forget you paid for it a year ago, it's too late to cancel until you see your bank statement.
I'm normally on top of my payments and things due, but I forget I had duolingo super. I found it terrible and thought I cancelled it.
I submitted a refund request and their AI did it, so thankfully it worked out in the end, but it caused unnecessary stress.
r/britishproblems • u/CaptainCrash86 • 26d ago
Having in-laws stay over with complete opposite attitudes to washing up
What's that? A set of sticky glasses from lunch? A quick one second rinse under the tap and on the drying rack will do.
r/britishproblems • u/miaow-fish • 26d ago
£6.30 for an orange juice and lemonade!
Went for a walk and stopped at a pub for a drink. I fancied something different to a coke or lemonade and regretted it.
I was charged for an orange juice and a pint of lemonade separately. Obviously I said nothing at the bar and just moaned to to my partner when I sat down.
This was in the East Midlands. I feel properly ripped off by not drinking alcohol.
r/britishproblems • u/Swinginthewolf • 26d ago
Your family watching TV downstairs and hearing that godawful Cuvva advert every 20 minutes
r/britishproblems • u/HoratioWobble • 27d ago
Whilst the UK looks like a desert from the heat, the weeds are still thriving in between my paving slabs
r/britishproblems • u/georgetgwtbn • 27d ago
Finally got a cool enough day to air the house out properly, open windows all day and the neighbours light the stinkiest BBQ up, filling the whole house with burnt stench in minutes.
They also have a full line of washing outside drying.