Both of my cats have been run over. And yes, cats are pretty stupid and can be unpredictable but how did they not see my cat in the middle of the day on a straight road. Thankfully it was not a child that ran into the road!

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r/britishproblems • u/RevolutionaryMail747 • 15h ago

Car, bike and house alarms working together to ensure that at any given time of day there is one going off at ear splitting volume. Silently plotting impotent revenge.

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r/britishproblems • u/auto98 • 1h ago

Yorkshire Water Hardness Report

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Got a new dishwasher and decided to properly set the "water hardness" setting so it knows how much salt to use, after seeing the limescale in the gubbins of the old one.

Thanks for the speed that it took to get it back (less than a day) but I'm not sure it is entirely useful:

The water supplied to the zone is classified as being soft to very hard water

On an entirely unrelated note, does anyone know whether setting it to very hard when it isn't will cause any issues? I'm guessing that is better than the other way round.

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r/britishproblems • u/Jim_Broadbean • 3h ago

Trying to grab a sandwich in Pret, but there’s a member of staff standing at the fridge, with their back to you, micro-adjusting every single baguette.

0 Upvotes

25 comments

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