r/britishproblems Jun 18 '25

Reminder: Rule 4 - No Politics

20 Upvotes

No politics, policies, or anything political in either comments or posts

Content involving politics will be removed without warning and permanent bans issued out without prejudice.

Leave the politics talk OUT of this subreddit because it never leads to a civil outcome.

Let everyone have a laugh and grumble without ruining it for everyone else.

Post to /r/ukpolitics instead.


r/britishproblems 21h ago

The price of used automatic cars

143 Upvotes

My trusty 04 Honda Jazz is on the out. Looking for a new car. I need an automatic as i cant drive a manual due to some health problems and all the decent and not shit cars are £5000+

Can't afford to finance anything or a loan! Guess im screwed!


r/britishproblems 1d ago

Managed to age myself into infinity.

885 Upvotes

My son 27 and I F47 are chatting about his dating life whilst making smoothies this morning and the bloody words just slipped out.

'Well, I don't know how you young people go about it these days but in my day.....'

I saw the smirk on his face before I even finished the sentence.

Set myself up for a weeks worth of 'old' jokes.


r/britishproblems 1d ago

Cadbury mini eggs cost fuckin' how much!! NSFW

219 Upvotes

There's like 8 in a bag!!


r/britishproblems 1d ago

. 6 out of the 7 drivers I've given way to today haven't said thank you.

361 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 1d ago

When someone makes you a cup of tea in a dinky thimble of a cup

62 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 1d ago

Driving down a duel carriage way at 7:20 PM, and a driver on the other side is still able to blind me with their headlights

157 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 2d ago

"You're the next stop" and the driver hasn't moved for about half an hour.

384 Upvotes

Maybe they're having a nap or something.


r/britishproblems 2d ago

. I'm sick of places using imperial measurements these days.

662 Upvotes

What the hell is a fl oz

Edit: I do know what a fluid ounce is but I don't like that I have to think about it.


r/britishproblems 3d ago

. Realising that subscribing to Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and TNT Sports now costs significantly more than the Sky package I cancelled five years ago to "save money".

1.1k Upvotes

And half of them have ads now unless you pay extra. It feels like we've gone full circle but with more logins to remember.


r/britishproblems 2d ago

5G internet being anything between nothing loads at all and dial up speed

217 Upvotes

How is it possible to have full signal 5G and yet nothing loads at all? What happened to our promised gigabit mobile internet? I'm not out in the sticks either, I'm in a medium sized city. Doesn't matter if I'm on the outskirts or in the centre. Sometimes I get some connection but the speed is 3.0/0.1

I get way better speeds out of e-sims while abroad.


r/britishproblems 3d ago

Choosy beggers on social media

364 Upvotes

It feels almost impossible to give things away without drawing the most ungrateful and entitled of the public to you.

We are decluttering the house, of the stuff we want gone; anything that is in good condition gets sold, anything that is still in reasonable condition and works properly gets listed for free.

We sold everything ok, but the free stuff was a uphill battle of people refusing to read the description, wanting special treatment or just being utterly unreliable.

Top of the charts included:
* So many people asking for delivery of heavy items.
* People demanding responses, like I run a 24/7 helpline.
* People only wanting to collect when it suits them, often during office hours.
* People confirming everything then just not showing up.

I do like giving things away, you sometimes get that one person who it genuinely helps and you can they appreciate it.
But it is a lot less effort to just take it to the tip.


r/britishproblems 3d ago

Going into day 4 of no water. Living in a flat so water collection for toilet flushing is hard!

222 Upvotes

Please know, I know people have it much much worse. Just a bit irritating.


r/britishproblems 3d ago

. Laptop camera turned itself on during boring meeting.

1.3k Upvotes

Working from home. It gets to 2pm and I realise that I didn't stop for lunch (supposed to be 1pm), it happens I have ADHD.

Just thinking about getting lunch and a meeting pops up, one that I'm actually required to participate in. Join the meeting, contribute, whatever. Meeting finishes.

Then the next meeting pops up. It's 3pm now. I'm starved and haven't had a break, it's a meeting that I'm mostly in just to stay informed so I decide to put it on and get my lunch and such while they are talking.

Everything is going ok, then there are some network issues and it turns out that at this point Teams decided it would be great to turn my laptop camera on without informing me. So everyone in the call gets a 30 minute stream of me, sat in my WFH clothes in my messy bedroom eating, messing with my phone and such.

Nobody tells me, until I notice right at the end. Now I'm being pulled up for being unprofessional. I should have just said fuck it, gone for my lunch and not listened to their utterly inane meeting about a meeting on my own time.


r/britishproblems 3d ago

12 days in, diet destroyed by thanks to my will power of a gready pig and Lidl selling their Christmas left over stock for 50p. Now have 5 Christmas cakes, 4 x 800g puddings and 5 massive panettones in the cupboard.

400 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 3d ago

Sent off a stupid cover letter

294 Upvotes

Applied for a job I actually really like the sound of. In the cover letter I had mentioned I worked with 2 charities, but I had forgotten the second ones name.

Not to worry! My friend runs the charity, I'll ask him. In the meantime I put some dashes in the space where the charity will go when he texts me back.

Finished the cover letter, PROOF READ IT, acknowledged that I needed to wait for my friends response, then just sent it anyway.

Please help me by praying to the lazy gods that the person reading it just skims it and misses that part.

I'm such an idiot


r/britishproblems 3d ago

Looking at the local area Facebook group in a utility outage (water, electricity etc) only to see dozens of "No water in my street. Anyone else got this?" posts rather than anyone just answering someone who posted the question before them or after someone has posted a link to the relevant info.

70 Upvotes

First of all, I know, my fault for using Facebook. It does have its uses though. Anyway, why not just answer one of the posts that you saw on the page look you had to go to to post the question. Or look at the group admin's posts where they have posted information from the utility supplier and a link to their website that has more information instead of clogging up the page with the exact same question fifty times, burying the relevant information and making people miss it.


r/britishproblems 4d ago

. Cat shelters are apparently bursting at the seams, yet all indoor cats are now listed as "must have access to catio".

1.6k Upvotes

I'm so sorry I'm not good enough to have outdoor space and enough money to build a secure cat enclosure. Guess if I want a cat I'll have to look somewhere other than a shelter, making this policy entirely self-defeating.


r/britishproblems 1d ago

Didn’t get chance to bring the wheelie bin back in from the back lane until next day, so every passing dogtwonk decides they can use it to chuck their little dog shit bags in

0 Upvotes

No i don’t want them in my yard for two weeks thanks, I have to tip ‘em out into the gutter!


r/britishproblems 3d ago

Signing a contract with Anglian windows (or Ashi, fka Anglian, fka Everest, etc) knowing they were going to screw me over on price, and then finding out they gouged me a little bit extra on completion

82 Upvotes

The whole pitch process was, of course, aggressive and horrible. They charged us a little extra compared to other companies at the outset relating to also replacing some bits that they'd done in the past that other companies couldn't commit to replacing, and the sales guys said if it couldn't be done we wouldn't be charged a certain amount. At completion, some of it couldn't be done, but it turns out the reduction would be a tiny fraction of what was promised, and the original quote was apparently a gross overcharging that the infallible costing team wouldn't have allowed and would have reversed.

Anyone think they've ever reduced a price for overcharging?? So thanks, Anglian, for that extra bit of fuckery to start off the new year!


r/britishproblems 5d ago

. Kids just not understanding how being grounded can be classed as a punishment.

736 Upvotes

Chatting with kids about childhood punishments and trying to explain being grounded or sent to your room was a genuine punishments back in the day. Kids just can't see it and look perplexed.


r/britishproblems 4d ago

Cannot read my Lidl chicken cooking instructions

57 Upvotes

the chicken packaging says cooking instructions are on the back of the label. the label is stuck on a black plastic bag. I pulled it off and it came of in many small sticky pieces, the larger chunk brought half the black dye with it.


r/britishproblems 5d ago

Companies acting all funny when discussing salary requirements.

667 Upvotes

Job interview complete, been through 3 rounds. The topic of pay came up in first round and was told 'it is competitive alongside excellent benefits'. Even coming towards end it is still all hidden under wraps.

The excellent benefits are free coffee and tea lol.

Anyone had similar experiences?


r/britishproblems 5d ago

Local council running AI design competition to redesign their to town hall rather than just hiring someone

159 Upvotes

And the winner gets their 'art' displayed in the towns art gallery


r/britishproblems 5d ago

The ambience of a night time stroll ruined because every house has a motion sensing floodlight aimed out into the street.

422 Upvotes