21 Brilliant British People Problems
Take a quick trip inside the terrifying world of the British psyche. Highlights from the politest and most apologetic subreddit of all time, /r/britishproblems.
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Marie Ball 4 months agoI accidently knocked a pillow off the bed one night and appologised to it before picking it up!
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hannahp11 4 months agoBought some wine yesterday. I was charged more than I expected as I thought the wine was on special offer. It went against everything I believe in to question the shopkeeper. I apologised profusely, even when it turned out to his mistake and I saved money. Still cringing.
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Mrs Poole 4 months ago
I am an American and my husband is British. We were at a restaurant in France and there were shards of glass in my meal. He urged me not to tell the waiter during the meal and make a big American scene so I didn’t. We had a debate during dinner about weather to say something to the waiter or not (I voted yes, he voted no). Finally we decided that it would be better to say something to protect people ordering the same dish that night (in case there was glass in the pot). Obviously I didn’t finish my plate, so at the end of the meal the waiter went to take the plate away and asked if everything was OK, since I left most of the food still on the plate. My husband motioned for him to come in really close so that nobody would hear and in a very embarrassed manner, my husband informed the waiter that there were shards of glass in my meal and pointed them out to him (I put them on the side of the dish). The waiter apologized, and when he brought the cheque with the entire amount for our meals on there (he didn’t deduct the dish with glass in it!), my husband paid the bill AND gave the waiter a tip for embarrassing him.
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johnlouismeeksj 4 months agoI do not believe in group sex. Too many thank you notes for my secretary to write for me…
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deaddrift 4 months agoDouglas Adams is worth mentioning here… “This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person is me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong. I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a packet of cookies. I went and sat at a table. I want you to picture the scene. It’s very important that you get this very clear in your mind. Here’s the table, newspaper, cup of coffee, packet of cookies. There’s a guy sitting opposite me, perfectly ordinary-looking guy wearing a business suit, carrying a briefcase. It didn’t look like he was going to do anything weird. What he did was this: he suddenly leaned across, picked up the packet of cookies, tore it open, took one out, and ate it. Now this, I have to say, is the sort of thing the British are very bad at dealing with. There’s nothing in our background, upbringing, or education that teaches you how to deal with someone who in broad daylight has just stolen your cookies. You know what would happen if this had been South Central Los Angeles. There would have very quickly been gunfire, helicopters coming in, CNN, you know… But in the end, I did what any red-blooded Englishman would do: I ignored it. And I stared at the newspaper, took a sip of coffee, tried to do a clue in the newspaper, couldn’t do anything, and thought, What am I going to do? In the end I thought Nothing for it, I’ll just have to go for it, and I tried very hard not to notice the fact that the packet was already mysteriously opened. I took out a cookie for myself. I thought, That settled him. But it hadn’t because a moment or two later he did it again. He took another cookie. Having not mentioned it the first time, it was somehow even harder to raise the subject the second time around. “Excuse me, I couldn’t help but notice…” I mean, it doesn’t really work. We went through the whole packet like this. When I say the whole packet, I mean there were only about eight cookies, but it felt like a lifetime. He took one, I took one, he took one, I took one. Finally, when we got to the end, he stood up and walked away. Well, we exchanged meaningful looks, then he walked away, and I breathed a sigh of relief and st back. A moment or two later the train was coming in, so I tossed back the rest of my coffee, stood up, picked up the newspaper, and underneath the newspaper were my cookies. The thing I like particularly about this story is the sensation that somewhere in England there has been wandering around for the last quarter-century a perfectly ordinary guy who’s had the same exact story, only he doesn’t have the punch line.”
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Holly Gofightly 4 months ago
I’ve had many, many people get legitimately mad at me for apologising for no reason. I must be British at heart.
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MrSwearword 4 months ago“I find myself explaining to others, that not every English person looks or vocalises like Russell Brand.” Additional British Person problems.
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rgrogers42 4 months ago
Number 21 I rang the doctors recently and said “Sorry to bother you but could I have an appointment with the doctor?”
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cherryaids 4 months ago15. I thought it was just me, never even admitted it to myself, but it’s true. Tea snobbery!
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davids113 4 months agoWhenever I’m asked for directions from a car in a strange town, rather than saying “Sorry I don’t live here”, I end up wasting 15 seconds pointing around and saying “Well … you could go that way … I mean …if that’s the M62 there’d be better taking the … well see, I’m not actually from here.”
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heatherh42 4 months agoStranger: ‘Have you got the time please?’ Me: *looks at wrist even though I haven’t worn a watch since I was ten* ‘No, sorry.’
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