50 “Very British Problems” That Even The King Can Laugh About (New Pics)

As my life progresses towards the end, I just don't have time to waste on foolishness and filtering my remarks. One of my favorite little sayings is a paraphrased bible verse: I don't suffer fools gladly, but I do gladly make fools suffer.

Thank you for re assuring me this growing intolerance it a part of the aging process. I am so glad I am not alone!

I find myself blocking more and more people for just being idiots. My patience is totally gone, and I can no longer put up with those who speak or write before they think it through. Here is my new rule for online communication: if it's a good thought to share, I can wait 5 minutes to share it!

THIS. This should be higher.

I add a variation, 'these apartments used to be an _______ factory '.

I avoid going to places I love because they are unrecognizable. I constantly think/sing the lyrics to the Beatles song (Rubber Soul, 1965) In My Life. The song absolutely suits me.

I’ve been saying that since around the time I became a teenager because a neighbors family has them dispute over whether to sell their ancestral farmland after their parents died. Most of the kids opted to sell it to a housing development. I still get sad thinking about it more than 20 years after the fact.

Just a couple of miles from us, what was green belt land has been bought up by developers to build houses. It was fields and some woodland, you could see owls, rabbits, foxes, sometimes deer, now it will be houses. Makes me sad.

I'm 46 and have been saying this since I was in my 20s. I barely recognise the area I grew up in for all the new housing estates.

Yes, I can attest to this being true. Trump gets elected, “well, that’s less than ideal” as he wreaks havoc on the global stage.

We want to complain, but must maintain the stiff upper lip.

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We're not really very good at self-deprecating and understatement.

When my construction team called at 2 in the morning with "desaster to happen": Just stay in bed. Portaphone in project shack cracks during the day "Eh, we have some sort of situation here": Call 112, then don your PPE and run to the site

The British ability to understate things is legendary!

How many people tidy up before their house cleaner comes? (I don't have one but three in my street do)

Come in, sit down, relax, converse / The house doesn't always look like this / Most days it's even worse.

You have to invite people over occasionally, because that forces you to clean your house.

That's me, but most of the time I get unexpected visitors when the house looks like a tornado has ripped through it, never when it's all nice and tidy.

another one that is a universal thing

What are its preferred pronouns?

I love British humour!

Albert Hammond?

Sounds like I would be getting all "assaulty" over the day and could be brought up on charges

Carpe diem

I like to let it air before remaking. Which leaves Mr Auntriarch and me finding ever more unlikely and unnecessary chores to do before bedtime in the hope that the other one will have made up the bed by the time one is finished.

Oh yes, and it's usually when I'm already super tired or it's way past bed time.

I've done this, and I will NOT admit to just laying the fitted sheet on the bed, and sleeping on it like that. Not gonna risk my sleepiness fighting with a sheet with corners.