r/britishproblems 4d ago

Hearing someone say the Red Arrows are an acrobatic team when they mean aerobatic.

66 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 5d ago

My late-night additions to the Ocado shop didn't save, so now I've got no sweet treats coming

105 Upvotes

Genuinely tempted to book a whole second delivery and load up the £40 minimum spend with absolute garbage food before I lose it completely


r/britishproblems 5d ago

. People whinging about free bus travel for the disabled + others

681 Upvotes

If you're disabled and get a bus pass there's no reason to restrict it at all. I understand for elderly folk it's to keep buses free for regular commuters but the change is good considering disabled people are inherently t@xed for ***everything.***

Want to get somewhere that isn't immediately accessible via your wheelchair/scooter/walker? That's either a bus (haha, I've seen a few mums whinging about folding their prams to let wheelchair users on) or a taxi if you don't have a car.

Want shopping in? Deliveries cost extra and you might not get the best quality as staff chuck random crap in, even stuff that's expiring that day or already going mouldy.

Wheelchairs and other equipment the LA won't supply you? Couple hundred at a minimum, otherwise you get shoddy gear that won't be consistently maintained.

All this while having to keep up with regular bills and expenses.

And if you have a partner who works and makes over a certain income, you can't claim the U C element meaning said disabled person has well short of £900 a month to covee their costs. Which isn't fair since our current world requires both partners to have income, so you're putting the disabled person at a financial disadvantage to potentially abusive partners, and putting an unfair load on the working partner.

Source: I am a working partner for a disabled person, have deliberately restricted my career so I can work from home and double as her carer. It annoys me that she gets so little despite having been wheelchair bound her whole life due to negligence from a professional as a baby. And having to overhear know nothing know it alls griping about the cost on the txpayer.


r/britishproblems 5d ago

A can of beans fell out of my rucksack while I was walking home and is now lost.

215 Upvotes

I thought I zipped it up but the receipt does indeed confirm I bought 4 and now have 3..

Gotta go out and search for my missing beans.


r/britishproblems 5d ago

Camping somewhere I get to see Osprey doing training exercises, but camping somewhere they buzz you at u00 at half past midnight

45 Upvotes

They've been coming over in pairs and setting car alarms off, hovering over the MOD airfield that's a mile away, then repeating

Edit: 700ft, I'm tired 😮‍💨


r/britishproblems 5d ago

Typical. Doesn't rain at all for three months, the day I'm heading off camping for the bank holiday weekend - Thunderstorms.

761 Upvotes

Anxiously watching multiple weather sites right now to see what the chances of having to pitch up my tent in the rain are going to be. None of them agree with each other as to what time the downpour is supposed to be happening so I can't plan my arrival. Why did today of all days have to be the one where the drought decided to end?


r/britishproblems 5d ago

The M25 may as well be in mainland Europe given how everyone seems to be driving in the right-most lane.

432 Upvotes

I can actually get to motorway speeds in the left-most lane because no one else is bloody in it.


r/britishproblems 5d ago

Absolutely delighted that we've got heavy rain and lightning/thunder after such a long dry and hot period, but we've just lost power to the house. Bloody weather.

156 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 6d ago

Hospitals should dump parking charges and implement smoking fines instead, they'd make way more

709 Upvotes

Being impossible to leave a hospital without a lungful of smoke wouldn't even be quite so bad if there weren't signs for free treatment of smoking cravings plastered everywhere.


r/britishproblems 6d ago

Making sure I don't look when someone is trying to show off their loud motor so I won't give them the satisfaction of the attention they want.

393 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 6d ago

Sitting in a queue at the petrol station just to see someone walking back to the pump with a bag of fast food

336 Upvotes

If you want to grab a Subway, Greggs etc. after filling your car then pull into one of the parking spots in front of the shop, don't leave it at the pump.

I don't know if i'm just incredibly unlucky but it seems like almost every time I have to go I end up behind the car belonging to the person that's done this.

It's even worse when it's peak busy times like weekends and you're doing this.


r/britishproblems 6d ago

Having to mentally prepare to fend off at least three electric/gas salespeople before walking into Morrisons

221 Upvotes

Why always Morrisons!?


r/britishproblems 4d ago

Pub charged me 3.80 for a blackcurrant soda, what a fucking joke

0 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 6d ago

Sorting office closing at 10am

110 Upvotes

Guess who got there at 10:01 after a 2 mile walk. Had no idea it closed at that time. Should have checked so that's on me. Still, at least I got some decent exercise.

Edit: decided to make the trip again as it was clear blue sky. Turned out to be a bloody letter which I had to pay postage on! Damn their eyes! Words will be had with the sender.


r/britishproblems 6d ago

Somebody at BBC Breakfast needs to go in the settings and turn off Demo Mode coz these colours are insane

71 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 7d ago

. Got huffed at for being a holiday maker in Cornwall. Where I’ve lived all my life.

532 Upvotes

After the lady’s kid shouted BEEP BEEP because she wanted the same supermarket item I was browsing. I’m pretty sure I’d have been told not to be rude at that age, not laughed with!


r/britishproblems 7d ago

. Spider mating season is upon us.

227 Upvotes

Just had my first huge indoor spider since late winter. They are definitely on the prowl now. Make of it what you will.


r/britishproblems 5d ago

Eating too quickly so we have to leave before heading the end of the absolute saga going on at the next table

0 Upvotes

We were too hungry to linger over the food, and the waiter has pointedly brought us the bill AND the card machine.

If anyone knows how the Rauhit and Anita story ends, please DM me.


r/britishproblems 5d ago

Holidaying in the UK and the water is different and tea tastes awful.

0 Upvotes

Normally on a bout 5 cups of tea a day at home, had enough after my morning brew on holiday. Will have to bring a big 10 litre water carrier from next year, but its just more to pack. I'm gasping.


r/britishproblems 7d ago

. The rise in "dog friendly" holiday lets that don't actually want you to bring your dog

891 Upvotes

We have two dogs and we've been recently looking for a getaway in the UK to take them somewhere new, and it's beyond a hassle with how many of these places advertise as dog friendly until you read the conditions.

Most places only allow one dog so that immediately rules them out, which is fine, but then so many have rules like no dogs on the furniture and no dogs upstairs. Some even state things like they can only sleep in the kitchen or they must be on a lead in the garden. So basically you're only happy if the dog does nothing but sleeps on the floor? And you're advertising as dog friendly?

If you don't want a dog in your holiday home then that's completely fine, but stop trying to entice dog owners when you clearly don't actually want dogs!


r/britishproblems 7d ago

Losing the pub quiz by 2 points because the other team got points for funniest name and play your cards right.

442 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 7d ago

Just got beeped and jeered at for not instantly walking the pedestrian crossing as soon as the walk light went green

61 Upvotes

Small Heath during peak time. Worst, angriest driving I’ve ever seen.


r/britishproblems 8d ago

. Aggro when using air machines at petrol stations

1.4k Upvotes

This has happened to me multiple times now to the point that I’m genuinely curious what is going on. I use the air machine at my local shell and as I drive off, another car typically hurls in at 100mph to an emergency stop and a person sprints out to use the last few minutes of the pump for free. It costs a full £2.

Yesterday I paid for the pump and when I finished I sat in the car with the windows down for a split second only to be told to hurry up and leave by a lady in her car opposite me. She was very Karen about it huffing and puffing to use the air. I told her I was re-setting the pressures on my screen(bullshit) and then got back out to “check” the pressure one last time. Once the machine stopped I got in to reverse and drive off but she drove off in front of me! She literally only wanted to use it if it was free. To save a grand total of £2.

Why did it make me feel so wonderful that she didn’t get to use the machine for free I will never know.

Edit: this was entertaining but going to bed now - curious how many people will crack the “that’s inflation for you” joke by the morning.


r/britishproblems 8d ago

Cinema Adverts... Ive just been to the cinema to watch The End of Oak Street and of course had to sit through the obligatory 4 and a half days of adverts first. My specific gripe today is that those adverts included mobile network ads by Sky, O2, Vodafone AND Three.

126 Upvotes

They could just agree amongst themselves that none of them will advertise. They'll save millions, and I'll only have to sit through 4 days of pre-film ads.


r/britishproblems 8d ago

Footy scores on the thumbnails of the highlights. Thanks for ruining it

104 Upvotes

Also, why don't they show the times for when the highlights is happening? What weird gatekeeping nonsense is that about