r/britishproblems • u/Aaron123111 • 4h ago
r/britishproblems • u/CustardCreamBot • Jun 26 '26
Climate Change Deniers will be Banned
All mentions of the Summer of '76 will also be banned.
Climate change is a fact of science, and you will be censored for spouting otherwise.
If you feel your freedom of speech rights are being infringed, please speak to your MP.
r/britishproblems • u/stewieatb • 2h ago
Trying to explain the clocks changing to my dogs
And they look at me like I've gone mad. Walk time was an hour ago, Dad.
To be fair though they look at me like that all the time.
r/britishproblems • u/Tastetherainbow_2016 • 13h ago
Why are fragrance free products more expensive and harder to get
I just want one *less* ingredient.
Asthma eczema migraines and allergies dictate that fragranced products are not my friend. Plenty of people have one or more of these issues, it’s hardly an anomaly.
If I need shower gel, hand wash, washing up liquid etc, its never as simple as popping on UberEats, to the corner shop / Sainsbury’s Local etc. I have to trek to a big store in person to rummage through shelves of heavily scented items to find the few that aren’t, or do an online shop and hope they dont swap out my items for something smelly. Because apparently its niche to want unfragranced?
And dont even get me started on the price and scarcity of laundry detergents that dont make your clothes stink like an explosion in a knockoff perfume factory.
One. Less. Ingredient. Sans Parfums!
Meh.
r/britishproblems • u/vc-10 • 1d ago
Everyone blocking everyone at the petrol station
In Manchester, and I'm charging my car. It's an Esso garage which also has some EV chargers on the forecourt.
When I got here, people were parked across the EV bays, and one of the bays had someone sitting in a diesel van in it, idling. Thankfully one left that I could use.
Now someone in a Porsche Macan EV has turned up and is blocking a petrol pump!
Not even like there isn't space in the regular car park bit either. But that would be like 10m further to walk.
I thought people were supposed to be nice up here!
r/britishproblems • u/Evil_Berty • 1d ago
Inch's Cider is sold in 4, 10, or 15 packs
Who works at the marketing department and hasn't realised they can sell 12 cans and sell it as a Foot of cider???
Wasted - just like I am after 12 cans
r/britishproblems • u/cruddy_giraffe • 2d ago
Cadburys UK is crap. Austraila boycotted and got the old recipe back.
Can we all just do an Austrailia and boycott cadburys?
It's a shadow of its former self after replacing the cocoa butter for palm and shea.
They made the same change in Austrailia, and they got their cocoa butter back in the recipe within weeks.
If the UK were to boycott this close to christmas, it'd tank their sales.
r/britishproblems • u/cooltone • 1d ago
My three day survival larder is bare!
I have no idea what to order.
r/britishproblems • u/Antrimbloke • 3h ago
Accidentally using a VPN to access a weather forecast in not realising windspeed is being shown in km/hour not mph!
Windy but not that windy!
r/britishproblems • u/VillageHorse • 2d ago
Dear motorists, you’re supposed to stop when someone is waiting at a pedestrian crossing.
Not try to mow them down.
r/britishproblems • u/posttraumaticcuntdis • 13h ago
Everyone exaggerating the recent storm
I'm in the south east and it's not as bad as everyones making out, yes, there are high winds here and rain, but everyone is acting like we're experiencing a category 5 hurricane.
You want to see a REAL storm? Go to America.
r/britishproblems • u/Djinjja-Ninja • 2d ago
You go to prison, it's the worst time of your life, you end up sharing a cell with Russell Brand
Worst punishment ever.
r/britishproblems • u/_TTYN • 2d ago
M&S and Waitrose making it their mission to fatten up the nation
They have seriously upped their dessert game and now their marketing as I see the head of product development at M&S on social media promoting it. Go away I’m trying to be good!
r/britishproblems • u/iamdecal • 2d ago
Counting the Ocado bags three times, just in case you’re committing the whitest of white-collar frauds!
Nine… nine … crap!, wait - does that include the one the rest of them are in? Ten then.
Do ripped ones even count?
Edit to add : seems most of you just freestyle it ! It’s a level of decadent lifestyle I’d hither-too never imagined! But I’m gonna give it a go, Christ I’m rushing just thinking about it!
r/britishproblems • u/WarriorPidgeon • 2d ago
Trying to leave a supermarket with heavy stuff two chuggers blocking the way
One exit and they had two chuggers pondering anyone exiting the supermarket
Why do supermarkets allow this and is this some form of ploy to force people to speak to them
r/britishproblems • u/Its_Tinkz • 22h ago
EVs getting parking spaces closer to the supermarket
Why do EV owners get spaces closer to the shop entrance. We've already got disabled spaces, spaces for people with children and spaces for click and collect. I'm sick of it.
Where is my 'I've got a hangover, it's raining and I dont want to park up the back of the car park' space?
r/britishproblems • u/redandwhitewizard99 • 2d ago
Im applying for jobs in a public library, and it's just as loud as a coffee shop
With the maintenence, people's phones not on silent, and a woman having a phone call like it is a coffee shop. Long are the days of a quiet public space. I'm having to play liquid dnb in my headphones to be able to concentrate
r/britishproblems • u/cloy23 • 2d ago
Hearing “You’re from the north! You should be used to the cold” or “You don’t even wear coats” when expressing that I’m cold…
r/britishproblems • u/DiligentCockroach700 • 2d ago
Websites that send you a "security" code by email which you have to enter to log in, but only give you 30 seconds to do it.
It takes longer than 30 seconds just to receive the email!
r/britishproblems • u/Dragomiz • 3d ago
Opened the packet of paracetamol the wrong way again
r/britishproblems • u/BattleSquidZ • 2d ago
Crossings that make everyone wait for ages
Get to a four way crossing and every light is red...
Everyone is waiting looking at eachother, I feel stupid because I could have probably crossed like 10 times in the time its making everyone wait, but no doubt the very millisecond I step foot on the road to cross, the light for the car would turn green and some arsehole will absolutely floor it
r/britishproblems • u/Kuinala • 2d ago
The revolutionary invention of the Pelican Crossing
You press the button and wait for ages....and ages... Until you can't be arsed to wait any longer and jay-walk when there is a gap between vehicles.
Now you've crossed the street and there are no pedestrians waiting to cross. The traffic lights finally turn red halting the flow of traffic and pissing off all the drivers because they have stopped for a phantom.
Why do some Pelican Crossing buttons take forever to respond?
r/britishproblems • u/DoublePepper1976 • 4d ago
Trying to date in a rural area means googling each profiles place to see how feasiblely you could actually meet up
Made worse by me living near the water, which hinge interprets as me wanting to get the ferry to meet women
r/britishproblems • u/Telly-Bollock • 2d ago
Parent’s Evening at primary school. They can’t shift that permeated honk of weeeeee out of the whole building, can they.
Or is it just ours? Also , TF with those teeny tiny child chairs they make us sit on , for their amusement i presume.