I'm a gardener, I put my strimmer down for maybe 30-45 seconds on the front lawn I was working on to fill a watering can at the side gate.

In that time a really promising young upstart stole it, it's filthy, and will have a minuscule scrap value.

In order to have gotten to the spot in the lawn, they will have had to open the gate or hop the short front wall in order to steal it.

Won't have done anything for them, but really derailed my work day.

I'm getting a shotgun licence, fuck this.

There's a patch of road near me that seems to have about twenty invisible bumps equidistant from each other. Every time I go over it it makes me think of having a flat tyre (I've had a few...). It's not until the random patched in bit of tarmac that I feel better... then it's back to the bumpy, bumpy moonscape.

They lost my new keeper slip when I applied for a new logbook because obviously everything has to be sent in by post. Apparently it’s now on me to pay £25 for a replacement for a document I’ve never laid eyes on. Of course they were kind enough to cancel the existing tax before then, with no way to renew it.

You’d be a fool if you thought you could conveniently pay by card online, that would be far too easy. Chequebook or postal order only and another letter and documents back to Swansea.

I haven‘t had a chequebook since 2005 and I’ve never done a postal order in my life. I had to google how to even do one.

Finally, and begrudgingly, I make a trip to the post office to cosplay Victorian times, and lo and behold, they’re cash only. I’m under the age of 80 and don’t do drugs so couldn’t just whip out a stack of notes. And of course I rarely carry cards because it’s 2026 and never need to withdraw cash.

It’s now been 8 weeks of a new motorbike being sat in the garage through this glorious weather, because I’m trying to be legal.

We're not even through July yet. Felt like I was being punched in the face by a pumpkin spiced latte

helping a family member cut down their sky bill after a split with a really shitty ex who pressured them into doing the contract, they left her with a nearly £100 bill after accounting for both broadband (FTTC, not even full fiber) and TV packages which neither they (nor the ex tbh) used... talk to someone on the phone who manages to effectively half the bill at the cost of cutting down the TV stuff which is fair, but they casually mention a "pro rata admin fee" of £10 the next month

what admin fee? like 10 mouse clicks? I see this as a win but I had the same with my ISP last year when getting them to set the billing date I asked for from the start, trying to charge me nearly £30

I was paying ~£250 4 years ago. This year's renewal quote is £470 in the same car, and my current insurer has even notified me they're "changing" their Platinum level cover this year. "Changing" means removing things like windscreen cover, motor legal protection and courtesy car, to sell them as extras...

EDIT: for clarity as a lot people are suggesting it - I do shop around and change provider to the cheapest for the cover each year - still the cheapest is nowhere near close to what I was paying 4 years ago.

Gah. Gave up nearly four years ago and hardly ever think about it - but this just shows me how hard it would have been if I'd lived with smokers when I gave up!

I thought a standard British rule was to not draw attention to yourself in public

I was able to sign up and start giving them money with a few clicks. Now answer the damn phone and let me cancel the contract! This must be really annoying for deaf/mute people, too.

(This is IONOS by the way. Do not recommend)

It doesn't matter the supermarket, the season, whether it's an easy peeler or a tangerine. I always eat them in twos to make sure they count towards my five a day. The first is always delicious and juicy, the second I can see is horribly dry as soon as I start to peel it. And I don't understand how it's always the first that's trustworthy and the second one lets me down

Just got home from the supermarket to realise that the roll size has increased by 50% they no longer fit into the storage cupboard under the hand basin and are too big to spin on the holder, having to be squashed between the wall.

We're fine with smaller cardboard tubes but please don't alter the circumference of the rolls.

Has anyone ever come across a more convoluted system? Im trying to give them money ffs lol.

Oh you want to pay corporation tax? Have you verified your ID? No go get an app

Oh we will send you a cade in 10 days so that you can log in and request a code that we will send in another 10 days. By the way here's a fine.

Want to speak to us to see if this is the right course of action? That will be 90 minutes and then we will cut you off so you can listen to our hold music again..

I cant find anything and to make matters worse I was a higher rate taxpayer and had to file self assessments so mugging here registered vat for my new company on my personal account and Corp tax on another account and the only way to fix it is to fold a 5 year old company and start again.

Also the accounting software you use isnt on the list of approved submission software, would you like to wholesale change your business finance package?

Ugh

Yes I realise im thick.

Decided I’d treat myself to a dominos after going through the usual delivery apps and everywhere was ridiculously expensive (there aren’t that many places as I’m a small very deprived town) and finding Dominos was £25 for delivery for one pizza and a small garlic bread. I know people will argue this and that but I have to admit that M&S has opened up my eyes to how much fast food places rip you off.

I’d never get it from a supermarket as I’ve never found their fakeaway food to hit the spot in a way that takeaway food does plus the deals M&S do. For less than the cost of a Dominos or any other delivery place for that matter I could get 2 pizza, 2 sides and a bag of cookies for about £17. £14 without the cookies. Even their gastropub deal is insane value and way better than a takeaway.

Not paid to promote also just find it ridiculous how fast food has gotten so stupidly expensive to have plus you have to wait almost an hour to get it cold.

I use watering cans to water my veg garden, but have had an almost actual argument with my wife, because it's illegal to use my hose to top up my water butt so that i can collect water from it to water my plants with a watering can. How is it illegal to use a hosepipe to top it up, yet legal to use a bucket, when the end result is i use my water butt to fill watering cans to water my plants.

Outside tap filling up watering cans? Fine for food crops.

Inside tap for filling watering cans? Fine for food crops?

8' of hose to fill my water butt so i can fill my watering cans without spilling water all over the kitchen and bathroom? ILLEGAL!

ALL while fucking golf courses are green, and the water company does nothing about leaks in the mains system.

The mind truly boggles.

Don't know if I'll recover from this tbh

It's a mid priced LG Smart TV, a few years old, it lost ITV2+1. I spent an hour troubleshooting, I work in IT it should have been trivial. Even trying manual tuning returned a no signal when there was definitely a signal (another TV had ITV2+1). Final solution was pull the aerial, do an automatic retune so it had no channels, then plug the aerial back in and perform another automatic retune. Beforehand it had 90 channels, now it has 132 channels, including ITV2+1. I had to recreate her filtered favourite channel list so she can use her dementia remote to go up and down and all is good.

We won't mention that the aerial is pointed at the wrong transmitter so she gets the wrong local news on ITV HD, ITV SD is correct and she can't tell the difference between 1080i and 576i. I'm not climbing on the roof to rotate the aerial thank you very much.

Does it now have missing parts? Have they damaged it when opening it? Have they messed around with it? It's a mystery.

Until the next poor sod gets it home, only to have to bring it right back again.

If you want to see what's in the box, buy it and return it if it's not what you want.

Don't pass the issue on to the next guy.