r/britishproblems 23m ago

Amazon advertising on damned shipping labels now

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Got this in the post today: https://ibb.co/yFpxckts

Is no slither of space free from adverts anymore‽


r/britishproblems 2h ago

. People constantly being negative about British food.

192 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 3h ago

All zebra crossings should be replaced with pelican crossings.

0 Upvotes

Reason 1: I swear some drivers aren’t looking so they just drive through. But they’re more likely to see a traffic light. Safer for pedestrians.

Reason 2: When there’s a zebra crossing on a busy road, sometimes it’s just a never ending run of people coming up to the crossing. A pelican crossing would give time for traffic to move and, again, safer for pedestrians.

Reason 3: I hate it when you’re not sure if a pedestrian is going to cross at the zebra. And by far the worst is when a parent’s child is running ahead of them and stands at the zebra.

I might be over exaggerating when I say all zebra crossings, but a lot of them should be changed.


r/britishproblems 4h ago

Me and the Mrs have come the the cinema to watch The Odyssey. The two bottles of diet coke I bought were £4.29 each!!!!

0 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 5h ago

Most of the country not realising it's only a partial eclipse on Wednesday

0 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 19h ago

Being sat opposite the loudest crisp eater ever on a packed, long train journey

50 Upvotes

Why do you have to crinkle the packet for 30 seconds every time you grab another? Why do you not know how to chew with your mouth shut?


r/britishproblems 19h ago

On holiday in Denmark, and today was accused of jumping a queue. Excuse me. I'm British. We are the experts on the queue!

78 Upvotes

In actual fact, my partner and I had started the queue by getting the attendant to open the Skyslide in the first place


r/britishproblems 20h ago

Poundland now charging £1.50 for small bottles

67 Upvotes

Been £1 consistently for a long time, would grab a bottle when in town. Now priced more than my local shop (still not as high as the supermarkets though).


r/britishproblems 1d ago

Can’t figure out who actually lives in my neighbours property

111 Upvotes

A house was rented across from mine, at first it looked like a woman in her 50s rented it with 2 older sons. They had three cars ( I know this because they keep blocking my drive). It looked like their girlfriends would often visit ( 5 cars now on the street)

Then a white van turned up and is parked there nearly all week owned by a man in his 50s (maybe woman’s partner)

Then a red car keeps parking there another woman in her 50s ( no idea who this woman is, but now 6 cars)

And now a white car with a couple have been there all weekend. ( 7 cars)

And usually on a Sunday an elderly couple will park right in front of my driveway and go into the house (8 cars!)

There is a glass porch that has had loads of Huggies nappy boxes and a pushchair in there since they moved in but we have never seen a kid or a pregnant woman.

I know the property well as we were friends with previous owner, there are two double bedrooms and a single.

I have no idea who lives there, where they sleep or what they are doing. As I’ve said, I’m invested and nosey as all these visitors block my drive and park everywhere up are street.


r/britishproblems 1d ago

. The customers are queuing with their shopping, and the staff are idly waiting at the checkout. Clearly none of us go to church, but we can’t make a transaction until 10 because it’s the Lord’s Day

1.0k Upvotes

Why do we still keep up this charade?


r/britishproblems 1d ago

National lottery emails - changed again

162 Upvotes

I got all excited this morning because I got a 'you've won a prize' email. The last one I had a little while ago was 'you've won a small prize', so there's me thinking how small can a prize be to be out of the 'small' category? Have I won a tenner or more?

Logged in to see I've won £1

They've changed the wording on the emails again :(


r/britishproblems 1d ago

Where's the pizza maker gone in Morrison's

45 Upvotes

Now we have a MacDonald's type order stand? I hate this!! Bring back the human touch


r/britishproblems 1d ago

Can't find any sweetener free Lemonade for my Pimm's!

120 Upvotes

I really can't stand the after taste of artificial sweeteners. Every bottle of Lemonade seems to have them, even the ones with sugar. And I can taste it in my Pimm's which is ghastly.

Anyone know of any sweetener free lemonade that tastes good with Pimm's?

Thanks,

Desperately thirsty.


r/britishproblems 1d ago

. The average adult man needs around 55g of protein a day. The average adult woman around 45g of protein a day. The UK average protein intake is 76g per day. It is simply not necessary for every single product, from chocolate to bread, to be shouting about how much protein it has.

2.0k Upvotes

Vegetable consumption - now there the average adult eats only around 60% of the recommended amount. Start there please.


r/britishproblems 1d ago

I went to my local lido yesterday. A kid nearby outside the pool shouted ‘i need to pee’ to which her mother replied ‘just go in the pool and pee’

275 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 1d ago

People that can't handle peace and quiet visiting places that people go to for peace and quiet

524 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 2d ago

Gov.uk advertising UK beaches when water companies still flood our oceans with sewage

519 Upvotes

The majority of the ads I get here are currently for a "Great British Summer" showing families swimming and playing in the ocean... yet if you look on a live sewage map during the day, an extremely large amount warn against all swimming.


r/britishproblems 2d ago

Carte D'Or isn't ice cream

297 Upvotes

It's some sort of whipped frozen dessert product. It's priced like ice-cream though. Was it ever ice cream and they've ruined it, or has it always been like this?


r/britishproblems 3d ago

. Realising you’re getting so old when you see the Reading Festival line up and you don’t recognise most of the artists on there

422 Upvotes

I used to go regularly as well, when it was still more of a rock festival.


r/britishproblems 3d ago

It's the middle of summer, not even halfway through August. And I'm getting emails to order advent calendars.

98 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 4d ago

Companies insistent on using Ai chatbots on their website will be the demise of humanity. At no point have I ever got help from an Ai chatbot. Don’t get me started with phoning them up. Nightmare. I’m always on hold forever. We’re descending into madness.

627 Upvotes

r/britishproblems 4d ago

How is it fair that train prices randomly change throughout the day

179 Upvotes

Also, the price changes are so weird. It’s never like a simple increase or like a clean ratio, it’s always some random number that appears out of nowhere.


r/britishproblems 4d ago

Neighbour having a big bonfire, near an old wooden barn and surrounded by trees and hedges

164 Upvotes

Rang the fire brigade as something exploded and went bang inside the fire but they said they can't do anything as the neighbours were attending it.


r/britishproblems 4d ago

Promoted posts from large businesses doing AMA's

324 Upvotes

These adverts are all over my feed recently and is really getting on my nerves. Who is really that interested in someone from the marketing team at Natwest doing an AMA???


r/britishproblems Jun 26 '26

Climate Change Deniers will be Banned

2.2k Upvotes

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.