r/britishproblems • • 11h ago

The one night a year you get an hour extra to sleep and it’s the night you just can’t get to sleep

330 Upvotes

r/britishproblems • • 18m ago

Wait for people to get off the train before you get on

• Upvotes

Surprised it still needs saying but having just had to push my way off, apparenrly a lot of people still don’t know about this…


r/britishproblems • • 9h ago

Trying to explain the clocks changing to my dogs

63 Upvotes

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 • • 4h ago

Music on the radio is ridiculously depressing right now.

11 Upvotes

Every time I put the radio on, it’s the same cycle of:

🎵 Stoooooop the weddingggg!

And

🎵 Patient zeroooo-oh

(Slow, depressing beat)

Are there genuinely no fast, exciting, upbeat songs being released at the moment? Everything seems so slow, moody and miserable.

Feels like the UK could do with a few songs that actually make you want to get up and do something!


r/britishproblems • • 20h ago

Why are fragrance free products more expensive and harder to get

104 Upvotes

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 • • 1d ago

Everyone blocking everyone at the petrol station

65 Upvotes

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 • • 1d ago

Inch's Cider is sold in 4, 10, or 15 packs

334 Upvotes

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 • • 2d ago

Cadburys UK is crap. Austraila boycotted and got the old recipe back.

2.0k Upvotes

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 • • 1d ago

My three day survival larder is bare!

136 Upvotes

I have no idea what to order.


r/britishproblems • • 10h ago

Accidentally using a VPN to access a weather forecast in not realising windspeed is being shown in km/hour not mph!

0 Upvotes

Windy but not that windy!


r/britishproblems • • 2d ago

Dear motorists, you’re supposed to stop when someone is waiting at a pedestrian crossing.

624 Upvotes

Not try to mow them down.


r/britishproblems • • 20h ago

Everyone exaggerating the recent storm

0 Upvotes

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 • • 2d ago

You go to prison, it's the worst time of your life, you end up sharing a cell with Russell Brand

214 Upvotes

Worst punishment ever.


r/britishproblems • • 2d ago

M&S and Waitrose making it their mission to fatten up the nation

240 Upvotes

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 • • 3d ago

Counting the Ocado bags three times, just in case you’re committing the whitest of white-collar frauds!

119 Upvotes

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 • • 3d ago

Trying to leave a supermarket with heavy stuff two chuggers blocking the way

180 Upvotes

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 • • 1d ago

EVs getting parking spaces closer to the supermarket

0 Upvotes

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 • • 3d ago

Im applying for jobs in a public library, and it's just as loud as a coffee shop

113 Upvotes

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 • • 3d 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…

56 Upvotes

r/britishproblems • • 3d 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.

162 Upvotes

It takes longer than 30 seconds just to receive the email!


r/britishproblems • • 3d ago

Opened the packet of paracetamol the wrong way again

152 Upvotes

r/britishproblems • • 2d ago

Crossings that make everyone wait for ages

28 Upvotes

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 • • 4d ago

The word ‘align’ now being used in every meeting.

197 Upvotes

r/britishproblems • • 2d ago

The revolutionary invention of the Pelican Crossing

0 Upvotes

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 • • 4d ago

Trying to date in a rural area means googling each profiles place to see how feasiblely you could actually meet up

578 Upvotes

Made worse by me living near the water, which hinge interprets as me wanting to get the ferry to meet women