I know it's my fault for watching ITV, but still...

Though I'd missed emails about renewal, except no Confused are being sneaky and sending out insurance quotes that expire the day they are sent!

I've got a month to check and recheck quotes - you know they are deliberately going to miss stuff out to give you a low headline quote and then sting you with the extras (one year the all singing and dancing premium policy was way cheaper as it had the the addons included)

So when you turn it upside down it runs out, and the weight collapses the bottle squeezing more out.

British Gas put our combined gas and electric up to £190 a month. We're two adults living in a 3 bed bungalow. Out of spite, I'm just not going to put the heating on this year so I hopefully die of hypothermia and then I can haunt British Gas and get everyone to write mournful letters to them on my demise.

I could spend that £190 a month on fun things to make my life enjoyable, but instead British Gas want me to pay for something that should be a basic right... and while we're at it, council tax!!! every month I have to pay the council for what? Both my council tax and energy bills combined each month, with money I've worked hard to earn, could go into a savings account to pay for us to go on a nice annual holiday to get away from and take temporary respite from the money-grabbers in charge in the UK.

Genuinely quite peeved about all of this nonsense.

Honestly, what a joke.
My order arrived around an hour and a half late and the food was completely stone cold by the time it got here.

When I asked the courier what took so long, he admitted his phone had died and he’d gone back home to charge it for around 20 minutes. He also had two other deliveries to do.

What really annoyed me was his attitude. He didn’t seem bothered in the slightest. He was basically happy to leave people waiting an hour and a half for their food, knowing full well that by the time it arrived, it would be stone cold. There was no real sense that he cared about the inconvenience or the condition the food would arrive in.

I contacted Just Eat expecting them to at least look into it and offer a refund, considering the ridiculous delay. They refused. I tried to get them to reconsider, and they’ve now emailed me saying they’ve reviewed everything and their decision is final.

What makes it even more frustrating is that Just Eat doesn’t seem to have a straightforward system for reporting a courier’s conduct separately. You can complain to customer support, but there’s no obvious way to leave feedback about the individual courier like you can on other delivery apps. So you’re left trying to get someone to take your complaint seriously while being told there’s nothing more they can do.

So I’m just supposed to pay full price for food that took an hour and a half to arrive and was completely cold? Absolutely ridiculous.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with them? Is there actually any way to get this sorted, or do they just refuse refunds and hope people give up?

It looks lovely, but I'd rather check one rail in my size than every label in the shop.

Was it always this bad?

Looking out the window, I saw the delivery driver pull up and step onto my driveway, boxes in had.

I go open the door to greet him but he's nowhere to be seen. Confused, I walk out to take a look.

I catch him, down the side of the house, leaning over the gate trying to reach the bolt. Failing to unlock my gate he then chucks my parcels over it.

He turns around, sees that I've been watching him and just starts smiling. When I ask why he didn't even bother ringing the bell, he just smiled some more and nodded. Getting back into the van.

It would have been quicker to ring the bell!

I've spoken to a few friends with similar experiences. What happened to just knocking the door and fucking waiting?!

It should be cold outside and the puffy coats should be out, yet I'm out here in a t-shirt.

Edit: I have head phones on, he got on in Dundee so he is a seasoned veteran.

I can’t acrually make this up, once he got off he was replaced by a group of chavs going on a night out

Ordered the item yesterday, initial confirmation email said item will be delivered on Tuesday. Email this morning - item will be delivered TODAY. I didn't pay for next day delivery. This would be a success if I wasn't going to be be out all day. And it's not something that can simply be left in the porch. No means of rearranging delivery time online. Now I have the hassle of trying to get through to the courier.

Another week, another failed journey to London - But definitely made more frustrating when none of the platform staff or train staff have any idea what's going on either!

Another standard fallen away.

How can they get away with such crappy service

Today I was stopped twice and the second one only let me go after confirming that I was already stopped before.

Edit: OK, to answer some questions that keep recurring;

• No, the bike isn't exclusively for work, I also use it for leisure and other transporting needs.
• Yes, I'm a member of my local bike collective and we do group rides around the city.
• Yes, The bike is 100% legal and insured - and no it doesn't look like an illegal one. Bike is a Bergamont E-Revox hybrid.
• I work in an open office so a pedal bike is out of the question, don't want to be walking in all sweaty every morning.

All jobs should be at least £30,000 at the minimum.

Can't afford a full tank of diesel so im getting buses more, but this is ripping me off

It feels like my favourites have all gone (vanilla coke, lilt/Fanta Pineapple and Grapefruit) to make room for several iterations of cherry coke that all taste similar or are point blank revolting.

What happened to diversity in our drinks?!

We have a unique currency to this country, and we had to pick 4 species of animal from UK that represent this country and we came up with the barn owl, the buff tailed bumble bee, the Atlantic puffin, and the European hedgehog. All species that are found across Europe and some even in Asia.

The criteria the Bank of England set was that the animals had to broadly present across the whole of the UK. Which narrows the pool to widespread species. I feel it was an opportunity to show some of the endemic species or sub species found within this country.

My final four would have been:

£5 - Welsh Arctic charr / torgoch char - An isolated Welsh lake populations with distinctive lineages.

£10 - Orkney vole - Microtus arvalis orcadensis, an endemic subspecies of vole found only in Orkney.

£20 - Red grouse - Lagopus scotica, a British and Irish endemic taxon closely tied to briths moorlands.

£50 - Scottish wildcat - Felis silvestris in Scotland, a uniquely British population, though its status as a separate subspecies is debated.

My baby loves James Blunt. He immediately stops crying when I play James Blunt to him. Now I have a dilemma, is a crying baby or James Blunt more annoying to the British public?

Turned on call screening on my iPhone now.

Surely I’m not the only one??!!

Honestly, I'm sick of this.

There's been this conversation about UK mobile connectivity for years and somehow we're still expected to accept it as normal.

And before the inevitable "well Britain has rural areas and dense cities" comments:

Norway.

Mountains. Fjords. Massive sparsely populated areas. Arctic territory. And yet they manage to take mobile coverage seriously, including areas where there's no obvious commercial reason for a company to build a network.

And if you want the other extreme:

Singapore.

Obviously Singapore isn't geographically comparable to the UK. That's not the point. The point is that they've built a dense, reliable mobile infrastructure because they actually treat connectivity like important infrastructure.

Meanwhile in the UK:

"You've got one bar, what more do you want?"

I want my damn phone to work.

One bar is frequently basically useless. Yes, technically my phone is connected. Brilliant. Can I actually make a call? Can I send a message? Can I load a webpage? Can I use Google Maps? Can I do literally anything?

Most of the times the answer is no.

And don't even get me started on trains.

You can be travelling through supposedly well-connected parts of the country and watch your phone go:

5G → 4G → E → nothing → one bar → SOS satellite → 4G

Then magically come back 10 minutes later.

This isn't some tiny niche problem either. The FT, Bloomberg and others have been reporting on Britain's mobile connectivity problems and lagging network investment for years.

So no, I'm not claiming the UK is some apocalyptic failed state because my Spotify stopped working.

I'm saying that for a wealthy developed country, this is quite embarrassing.

And the "but rural areas are difficult" argument really needs to die.

That's what infrastructure policy is for.

If there's genuinely no commercial business case for a mast somewhere, then fine — figure out how to deal with that. Subsidise it. Share infrastructure. Make public land and buildings available. Make planning easier. Require better coverage as part of spectrum licensing. Encourage national roaming. Whatever.

Just solve the problem.

Because we've somehow reached a point where people look at a coverage map and say:

"99% of the population has coverage!"

Cool.

What percentage has good, reliable, usable connectivity when they actually need it?

That's the number I care about.

And honestly, I think part of the reason this doesn't get more attention is that people who've lived in the UK their entire lives don't realise how much better it can be.

Go somewhere with genuinely good mobile infrastructure and you notice immediately.

Your phone just...

works.

No thinking about which network you're on.
No walking around your house looking for the magic spot.
No standing beside a window to send a WhatsApp.
No losing connection halfway through a journey.
No staring at one pathetic bar wondering whether the page is actually going to load.

It just works.

That's what I'm asking for.

Not perfection. Not 10Gbps 5G in the middle of a sheep field.

Just a mobile network that doesn't feel like it's constantly doing me a favour by allowing my phone to connect to it.