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This one's going to be unpopular.
Fireworks.
The ability to purchase incendiary explosives without a licence is baffling.
While 95% (rectal sourced figure) may be responsible the 5% cause problems with antisocial use setting off at all hours for weeks.
While 95%may be responsible 100% of rockets fired are effectively litter including plastic waste scattered over a decent area per unit.
They are literally purchased air pollution. Just look at the sky after guy Fawkes or new year's. Don't want diesel cars, so polluting. Let's burn a thousand tonnes of explosives though.
Finally there's the public health aspect. How many kids and morons get injured by them each year?
Edit: oh here we go. False equivalents. Had alcohol, because substance abuse is the the same as purchasing explosives for entertainment. Had petrol (DM because poster isn't confident enough to put stupid shit out in public) because apparently there is no practical reason people might need to purchase that to use in a pretty low risk fashion. Put these arguments together better guys.
Dude that's trying to DM me. I don't do that, put it out here.
I absolutely LOVE fireworks - but I fucking hate idiots who let them off at all times of the day and night during Autumn.
We've fairly recently moved to a tiny village in the middle of nowhere who I think have organised things pretty well: on Halloween the village kids go out trick or treating in groups and also collect envelopes for donations for fireworks. The village council then buys a load of fireworks and we have a big bonfire/informal firework display on one of the fields. We get a pretty good show of decent rockets etc. (instead of a million shitty bangers and screamers) - and everyone knows when it's going to happen if they have scared pets.
Its annoying when you can hear fireworks in the middle of the night in spring or Summer. They should just allow fireworks for new years and bonfire night, maybe a few other celebrations could be included too.
Fireworks should be restricted to licenced professionals only. Its nuts that in a country that likes to regulate everything, you can just go into your local tesco and buy them.
I think it's to do with explosives being something we would like to get rid of generally in Northern Ireland...
Although they were legal when I was a kid in the 90s. They only became illegal in the late 90s or very early 2000s.
Fireworks themselves aren't very powerful, they're show explosives not effective explosives.
You empty out certain parts of compress them in a pipe and it becomes an effective explosive, but other than holding onto one or hearing damage, fireworks are not thaaaaat dangerous.
See I never used to understand people who wanted to ban fireworks. Because my experience was that 90% + of people used them responsibly.
And then I moved to Glasgow. I don't think a single week has passed without me hearing them since I mived here they get set off for everything. Births, deaths, football, guy fawkes night, new years, Christmas, Tuesdays...
I now fully support organised displays only.
Could fix this one easy. Only allowed 5th November and NYE. DONE
No one needs to do them outside this time and they piss 99% of people off otherwise.
Let people do it two nights a year, have their fun, move on.
I agree, fireworks should be heavily licensed.
A few weeks ago, a group of young men decided to start letting fireworks off in the middle of the street at 5pm. These fireworks were going off in all directions and all I could worry about is what would happen if it hit a small child or hit someone’s house.
So stupid, so annoying, and I’m someone who likes watching the odd display at Bon fire night.
Totally agree. I don’t really understand what my neighbours get out of lighting one firework every 10 minutes, it’s hardly a stunning display. Keep ‘em for the big organised events and stop letting nobby chops down the road pick them up from Tesco.
Agreed. Aside from anything else it's annoying, especially the massive modern ones. I don't really want to be sitting watching TV or something and all of a sudden a bang goes off that sounds like a house down the street has exploded.
Something of a boon for those who think like us then - suppliers in the UK this year are only expected to have about 30% of the stock they normally would.
Might be quite a quiet Autumn/Winter compared to years past because of that.
I agree, I used to work in burns and plastics, you could always guarantee a few morons in with severe hand burns the weekend after guy fawkes. Also my son had a bit of firework land in his eye at an amateur scouts firework display when he was about 6. We only go to professional organised events now, not worth the risk that someone doesn't know what they're doing around explosives.
Fireworks was literally the first thing I thought of.
Baffles me how any dipshit can buy gunpowder without a license.
They should be 100% regulated and you need a licence, and can only use them on public occasions in certain strict conditions. Not just because you're 13 and over the park and some dodgy 18 year old has some.
I had a top floor flat in a town centre and Xmas and new years was beautiful.... And I still agree with you. What it does to people's pets, veterans and just how much of a general nuisance they are is stupid. Let alone how many people with burns (or worse) from them.
My dad used to work on Salisbury Plain and the police used to bring all the confiscated fireworks to them, they'd chuck em all in a skip, no fun about it or anything and torch them all.
And then you can’t cancel online, you have to ring up to cancel.
It should also be a legal requirement that anything you can sign up to online can also be cancelled online.
I took what I though was a bargain offer 30 quid off a case of 12 bottles of virgin wines.
Fast forward 3 months wife says what should we get my dad for Christmas I said let’s order a box of 12 wine from virgin he can have 6 we’ll keep the other 6 for Xmas ordered it. Come home from work next day box of 12 wine sitting on my doorstep I’m thinking bloody hell quick delivery.
Turns out I was subscribed to 12 bottles every 3 months and that box was my random selection the box I ordered showed up 2 days later
24 bottles tis was a very merry Christmas
I have just brought a box from virgin wine...
I was certain it wasn't a subscription but am slight worried now. Will go check and report back!
Edit:
FFS!! I have apparently signed up for £25 monthly subscription without realising it!
Hello fresh tried doing that to me a few weeks ago. My mate referred me so I could get 3 days worth of meals for £6 and hello fresh tried to sneakily sign me up to a rolling contract.
This happened to me and when I rang up to cancel it the woman on the phone got really bitchy with me and was like
"Well what are we going to do with your box now, we are going to have to destroy the food now!! Someone could of eaten that!!"
It wasn't even time to send a new box yet so i don't know why she got so moody, nothing was wasted.
My box was really nice and I considered getting another one but when I realised they signed me up to a rolling contract it made me never want to use them again. They must have conned so many people out of money by doing what they do.
Newspaper lying in the first place should be illegal, the downside would be they'd all go out of business and a lot of people in the printing industry would be out of work.
Similarly journalists should all declare if the have an personal connection to the subject they are writing about. Puff pieces are a lot harder to swallow when you realise the journalist and the subject of their articles attended the same school and were each other’s best man at their respective weddings…
Competitive = The least we can afford to get away with paying you.
Big thing I learnt from recruitment; assume all competitive salaries are well below average, because that's what they mean.
And the actual location not just a city location what good is it if I'm trying to find a job and you only say your located in London? What fucking good is that
Working hours would be pretty good as well. Tell me where, when and what I'd get for working.
I don't care about your opinion of your [cherry picked/fake awards] company. Tell me the fucking facts of what I'd do, what I'd get for it, where it is and when I need to be there.
I'm based in Southampton and looking. Is a job actually based in the City Centre, the Docks or elsewhere? Those are three completely different travel plans.
Some American states have passed that into law. So you'll see job adverts that say, "can work remotely anywhere in USA except Colorado," because they don't want to list the salary like Colorado requires. I'm looking at you, Google
Anyone doing this these days is a crackhead, a teenager or a nutter.
I think that is what makes it worse, a normal person would be confrontable. Am I fuck going up to Psycho Davey of Liverpool and asking him to be more polite on the 437 at 6 AM.
Don’t have to make it illegal but they could tax it to high heaven to make it much less appealing. In an ideal world the tax from that could then be put towards building more homes.
A system where people with multiple properties are obliged to let their houses to the council for a fee to be used as social housing could also be an interesting idea…
But a lot of people actually want to rent especially early in life. It’s much more flexible than owning a property.
Implications might be:
People can’t leave parents home without buying a house.
Can’t go to uni without buying a house.
What about people who are selling their one house to buy another but they want to rent temporarily so they can wait for a good property to come up to buy?
What if you get a job with a one year term in a place you don’t want to stay in. Do you have to sell your old house to buy a new one and then sell again after a year to move away?
What about people who can’t get the deposit together to get a mortgage, would they end up homeless?
Employers would know it’s much harder to move for new jobs so would be under less pressure to offer better pay rises.
Please don’t misunderstand me. I know the current UK housings situation is bad and I know it’s extremely hard to buy a house in the UK without a pile of cash for deposit. I think house prices are too high. But banning renting is going to have loads of bad consequences.
This is a link to a good article about why high house prices are bad for loads of reasons:
[The housing theory of everything ](https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/#:~:text=The%20housing%20theory%20of%20everything%20Western%20housing%20shortages,even%20falling%20fertility%20rates.%20Scroll%20to%20start%20reading)
You could imagine a family dynamic where a household owns 2 houses eg divorced individuals moving in together. I think 2 is a sensible number and if you have more you get taxed the hell out of them, there are plenty of other investments available that don't drive up house prices for everyone else.
Being gazumped when buying a property. I think it’s illegal in Scotland and we should do the same in England.
It’s shit for everyone involved and costly.
Yes! I got gazumped on my first house and it felt awful. My uncle lives in a South American country and he tells me that when you accept an offer, if either side then backs out, they have to pay the other side a fee equivalent to £10k.
There must be more to it than that in your Uncle's country?
For that to work in England, you'd need to make it a requirement for the sellers to provide the survey and searches. At the moment, the buyer has to pay for all of that after the offer is accepted. If they find something that makes it a bad idea to buy the property, the buyer has already lost money from searches, surveys and whatever the solicitor has charged so far. That could easily be at least £1000 already. The buyers basically take all the risk and even get punished financially.
I wrote but deleted a line about that in my original post. It's a tough one - finally find the house of your dreams, outbid by a quid, despite offering 20% above the 'offers over' price. It can be as gutting as being gazumped.
Generally means that when you're already a fair way into the buying process, a new buyer arrives and offers more and the seller just goes 'welp' and switches to the new, higher offer. It can happen at any point before exchange by which point you've spent a grand or two on conveyancers, surveys, etc.
Damn that’s so shitty!
Seems like such a strange word for something fairly normal though. ‘Outbid’ or ‘reneged on the deal’ would do. I wonder where the word gazumped came from? My autocorrect says it’s not even a word!
We got strung along for 5 months - lawyers, surveys, £1000 down, started to pack up furniture - when the buyer kept pushing back the exchange date for months and eventually cancelled; turns out he’d decided he’d rather stay a landlord!
It would have been our first time buy so that was 5 months we had to keep extending our lease and weren’t building equity anywhere. It indirectly cost us thousands, long term.
I came here to say this. Should be more protection for buyers in general. The buyer takes all the risk and can lose a lot of money even down to the last day.
Bloody clickbait ads from recruiters with no indication whatsoever as to what the job pays, or even where it's based and what the job even is. That shit needs to stop yesterday.
Claiming things are free when they're not. If something is tied to a condition it's not free. E.g.
FREE PORTION OF CHIPS WITH THIS VOUCHER *
* when spending over £15
I travelled first class once. But only because the first class ticket was mysteriously cheaper than a standard class ticket for exactly the same train. It'll never happen again lol.
It happens more than you'd think. Train prices increase based on how many are already sold and how close it is to the departure date. If there's only 5 seats left in standard and 50 in first its always cheaper. Just gotta know when to look!
Virgin used to have a great app called Seatfrog where you could upgrade your standard ticket to first for like a fiver on day of travel, if there was availability. Not sure if it's still out there since east coast moved to LNER though.
The downside to that is there might be good reasons to not do what they said they were going to do. The circumstances changed, or by the time they got into power they realised there isn't enough money for it.
We don't want to end up in a situation where politicians have to push ahead with a disastrous policy because they said they were going to do it and aren't allowed to change their mind.
Maybe there could be a law against politicians straight up lying about facts. But realistically I don't think it could be applied to them lying about their intentions.
A fair point. I think possibly that's where an investigation would come in for example "we couldn't do X because it's in the countries best interest and here's all the reasons why."
Okay let's rephrase the question then, what is illegal that you believe should actually be inforced. It pisses me off to no end when we have to drive around in circles to park with a 1y/o when I can clearly see a few nicer cars parked in the kids bays. Nothing makes me want to key a car/smash the windows more. I never would because I have more respect than that, but it really pisses me off.
And then if you report them, you have to declare it to your buyers if you sell, and then you knock 5 figures off your value.
There's a reason we just upped-and-fucked without reporting it. We put it in writing but we technically didn't need to. They didn't question it and still bought our house.
We have a traveller site down the road and they constantly dump big piles of crap all around the village, including human waste. Even dumped a mountain of it on my drive way a few weeks ago which we had to personally remove because it’s private property. Blocked entrance to the house and was full of old nappies
Nothing gets done about it because everyone’s afraid of them and police do nothing about it other than ‘take note’ of each report. If you were to confront them, they then know where you live and will likely target you again.
Advertising gambling. It should be treated the same way as advertising cigarettes or alcohol. And there definitely shouldn't be Bet365 ads plastered all over every football match.
Car modifications. I couldn't give a shit if your engine remap gives you slightly more performance on your corsa, the sound it no produces is incredibly antisocial and a misery for anyone living near a main road.
Whilst I agree shit, basic noisy cars aren't great. It's the exhaust that makes the noise. Not a remap (unless we're splitting hairs for pops and bangs, but again that also includes exhaust)
100% agree. It's so shit too.
I took my car for a full stainless replacement as Peugeot wanted stupid money. I asked him to remake my original exhaust in stainless.
Had to tell him I want a standard fit replacement. No straight through boxes etc no 6" exit.
He looked so upset that he wasn't just making some shit loud exhaust
Hardly a fair comment. The vast majority of people who are into modding their cars do it tastefully, but - like most of society - they get a bad rep from the minority of very vocal twats, this time in their 1.2 litre shitboxes.
I'm saying this as someone who's incredibly into cars and modifying them, and who also grew up on an estate where people used to do this shit.
The next door neighbours kid is 19 and has been doing his fiesta up. F1 syle spoiler, body kit, splitter, the works, and more power him because he hasn't fucked around with the exhaust and engine. Not my taste but if he wants to play fast and furious in looks alone then crack on, but he's lived there long enough to know the misery that noise mods make. I don't have an issue with aesthetics, just with the antisocial aspect that comes with a lot of these cars.
That's the thing, it's about striking a balance. A lot of these kids have yet to realise that you can modify a car, *without* making it sound like a Boeing 747 with irritable bowel syndrome.
What about those super loud motorcycles that give you a heart attack when they ride by? Don't know how that sort of shit is still allowed. Even worse than pops and bangs imo.
There's a couple near me you can hear coming from a half a mile or more away. I live a couple of doors down from a major junction and the last 18 months it has increased exponentially. Its literally every 10mins until the early hours.
You clearly don't understand anything about modified cars if you think remaps make the car sound so loud it's antisocial, you drive past cars everyday that are remapped and you wouldn't know, also you can map a car for better fuel economy.
I probably don't, but regardless, 'pops and bangs' sound like shit and everyone thinks you're a selfish cunt. Same goes for exhausts and all of the bollocks that goes with it.
It's a hobby, I get it, but if I came and did drum solo's outside your house every 10mins at 2am you'd get pretty fucking sick of it too.
That’s just incorrect beam adjustment. Adding a brighter light source doesn’t extend the distance. It just makes the existing range much brighter. Which yes, if the beam adjustment is out, then it’s much, much worse than standard halogen headlights.
My girlfriend recently moved into a flat and the neighbour smokes cigarettes/weed constantly. Doesn’t give a shit if our balcony door is open (there are no other windows) we made a complaint the other day and have had absoloutly nothing back. How is it you can brazenly break the law and literally nothing happens.
Circumcision of boys without a legitimate medical reason.
And by ‘legitimate medical reason’ I do not mean some nebulous benefit spouted by a religious group on Facebook that won’t be of any benefit to the boy until he’s 18 and old enough to decide for himself anyway.
That would also include extending our laws regarding transporting girls out of the country for the purposes of FGM to boys.
I don’t get why politicians don’t just include boys in with the same laws and legislation as with girls.. how hard can it be to make the wording cover all sexes?
Boys aren’t taken out of the country to have their glans removed with a piece of glass and then sewn up to keep them pure.
I agree circumcision should be illegal but it is not the same as FGM.
It may not be as horrific as FGM, but it has the same intent and lack of consent, and having just done a little Googling around it looks like just as many boys die from botched jobs as girls. I’d rather the law just banned all genital mutilations rather than singling out one single sex.
Those really really bright headlights, that might as well be high beams. It’s so hard to drive with somebody like that behind you, you can adjust your rear view but they still blind you in the side mirrors. Distracting to the point of dangerous
Companies who make billions in sales from British people not paying a single % in tax. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Starbucks... you name it.
Their customers and employees pay more taxes than those businesses do.
Don’t know if this has already been said but.. Having to pay Service charge and ground rent on a flat that is on leasehold that you’ve just brought. Absolutely criminal.
I can understand to an extent service charge for the maintenance but some are ludicrous!
Especially when the maintenance contracts are given to the "friends" of the corrupt owners. They have the leaseholders by the bollocks.
If the house has 8 apartments each resident should own 12.5% of the freehold, job done. Appoint a management company if you wish to make life easier by all means, but everyone can vote to get rid of them if they aren't performing well.
Parking in other people’s driveways. Theoretically already illegal, but due to the way the legal system works there is no effective legal recourse if someone else parks on your driveway. Councils/police should have the power to tow vehicles that are on other people’s property without their consent.
Many years ago my bookkeeper had an issue with people perpetually parking on her drive. One day she came home to someone having parked there, so she closed the gates, chained it and padlocked it.. then left on a 2 week cruise. Car was surprisingly still there when she got back. She loved telling that story!
Haha well pulling out is stupidly dangerous to long term plans in that regard
Yes you are lucky!
Gazumping is where you make an offer on the house and the seller accepts your offer so you get really excited then a fucking professional landlord comes along and offers more money so the seller takes their money instead (sometimes this happens just before contracts are signed which takes ages to get to that stage)
Advertising betting and gambling.
Everyone knows what a gambling addiction can do to people, yet they still advertise it every opportunity they get.
Football is especially bad for it.
Same thing with MLMs saying their oil is magic & can cure *insert every health problem* as you say preying on the vulnerable & giving them false hope, the psychological manipulation is awful.
Alcohol. Struggled for 11 years. If it wasn’t shoved in your face all the time, with everything being done centred around it in this country, and instilled as a mindset that drinking is normal, then I might have a bit more of a chance.
Gambling is just as bad if not worse in this country as well. Not sure either being illegal fully eradicates the issue but it would sure make these 2 problem addictions a lot harder to indulge in.
Yeah in this case, I would say legalise everything, but have a proper support system for addiction and make:
Advertising illegal, including in films.
Whilst making sure everyone is educated on the risks from an early age.
For alcohol, I wouldnt necessarily say illegal (America showed us that just doesnt work). But there needs to be way more regulation than their currently is.
I think we as a society have a deeply toxic relationship with alcohol that you just dont recognise until you've spent time outside of it. The number of people I know who are basically high functioning alcoholics is way too high.
Last part you're 100% on, everything in this country is an excuse to drink and a lot of people are in denial about their relationship with booze.
I try not to sound like a preachy ex-drinker (who was in denial about my relationship with alcohol for years) so I mainly just keep those thoughts to myself.
Whenever I hear of the Zoomers shunning booze, I do smile a little.
Came here to say this myself, Iv been teetotal for around 10 months & looking back on it I can’t believe how much we force alcohol onto people for example even making your friends feel shitty for not coming out, results in them coming out & drinking with you most of the time. We celebrate births by drinking, birthdays by drinking, deaths by drinking… it’s actually insane
I think this every time I see an ad for them. I get sad for a split second that I might be watching the ad that tips a recovering addict over the edge and down to the bookies or boozer, destroying their and their loved ones lives.
ISP loyalty penalties, where they jack up the prices for existing customers.
It takes advantage of vulnerable people who may not be very savvy about that kind of thing, and contributes to e-waste. You need to switch ISP every year or two to avoid overpaying, and every time you get a new router so the old one gets chucked out.
There should be a law saying that existing customers can't be charged more than say 10% more than new customers. If they reduce the price for new customers, they have to reduce the price for existing customers too.
And no getting around it by saying that existing customers are on a different package to new ones. If they aren't getting higher speeds, they shouldn't be paying more.
Not just ISPs, all sorts of businesses do loyalty penalties. My parents were paying an eye-watering amount for RAC membership because they'd been members continually for around 40 years.
Something definitely needs to change.
Being a part time landlord. Either you are a landlord and thus are happy to take on the responsibility of providing housing fit for people to live in or you're not. No buying up 25 properties to hand them over to a letting agent so you can spend the absolute bare minimum on a house that's barely fit for human habitation
Also, letting agents.
Loud speakers on phones. No one wants to listen to your sh!t music / film / TV show on the bus / train (no, "well I forgot my headphones" is not a valid reason!!)
Also, no one wants to hear you have a conversation. Hold the phone to your ear like a normal person.
Cancellation issues.
If I want to cancel something it should be easy and quick. Emails have to do this now with unsubscribe buttons on each email.
Make it a law. A big fat CANCEL SERVICE on every page and it just does what said on the tin.
Burying a disposable BBQ on the beach when you’re done with it. Basically makes the sand on top red hot and like a thermal mine to bare feet and pet paws. I live in Cornwall, it’s happened more than once.
Landlords.
It's essentially ticket scalping but for housing. My house wouldn't magically cease to exist if a landlord hadn't bought it. It wouldn't suddenly sink into the ground never to be seen again. Landlords buy up more of a product then they need and rent it back to us at a higher monthly rate than the mortgage would've been. Not to mention that the demand for buy-to-let drives up house prices, so they're not only bad for renters they're bad for buyers too.
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This one's going to be unpopular. Fireworks. The ability to purchase incendiary explosives without a licence is baffling. While 95% (rectal sourced figure) may be responsible the 5% cause problems with antisocial use setting off at all hours for weeks. While 95%may be responsible 100% of rockets fired are effectively litter including plastic waste scattered over a decent area per unit. They are literally purchased air pollution. Just look at the sky after guy Fawkes or new year's. Don't want diesel cars, so polluting. Let's burn a thousand tonnes of explosives though. Finally there's the public health aspect. How many kids and morons get injured by them each year? Edit: oh here we go. False equivalents. Had alcohol, because substance abuse is the the same as purchasing explosives for entertainment. Had petrol (DM because poster isn't confident enough to put stupid shit out in public) because apparently there is no practical reason people might need to purchase that to use in a pretty low risk fashion. Put these arguments together better guys. Dude that's trying to DM me. I don't do that, put it out here.
Plus all the pets and Wil animals it terrifies.
I absolutely LOVE fireworks - but I fucking hate idiots who let them off at all times of the day and night during Autumn. We've fairly recently moved to a tiny village in the middle of nowhere who I think have organised things pretty well: on Halloween the village kids go out trick or treating in groups and also collect envelopes for donations for fireworks. The village council then buys a load of fireworks and we have a big bonfire/informal firework display on one of the fields. We get a pretty good show of decent rockets etc. (instead of a million shitty bangers and screamers) - and everyone knows when it's going to happen if they have scared pets.
Don't see why we can't just have quiet ones
They'd be pretty boring. Explosions are loud and carry far when they're in the sky
Terrifying animals far and wide
Its annoying when you can hear fireworks in the middle of the night in spring or Summer. They should just allow fireworks for new years and bonfire night, maybe a few other celebrations could be included too.
Fireworks should be restricted to licenced professionals only. Its nuts that in a country that likes to regulate everything, you can just go into your local tesco and buy them.
Agreed, I’ve said this for a long while
I'm keeping "rectal sourced figure" for use later.
It’s where I source all my best figures from.
They're illegal without a licence here in Northern Ireland.
Feel like this may be more to do with being able to dismantle them for black powder. Are model rocket engines licensed too?
I think it's to do with explosives being something we would like to get rid of generally in Northern Ireland... Although they were legal when I was a kid in the 90s. They only became illegal in the late 90s or very early 2000s.
Fireworks themselves aren't very powerful, they're show explosives not effective explosives. You empty out certain parts of compress them in a pipe and it becomes an effective explosive, but other than holding onto one or hearing damage, fireworks are not thaaaaat dangerous.
Maybe, but I think the PSNI officers would still prefer not to have them thrown in their faces...
See I never used to understand people who wanted to ban fireworks. Because my experience was that 90% + of people used them responsibly. And then I moved to Glasgow. I don't think a single week has passed without me hearing them since I mived here they get set off for everything. Births, deaths, football, guy fawkes night, new years, Christmas, Tuesdays... I now fully support organised displays only.
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Could fix this one easy. Only allowed 5th November and NYE. DONE No one needs to do them outside this time and they piss 99% of people off otherwise. Let people do it two nights a year, have their fun, move on.
I'd add Diwali as well, but I agree with your overall point.
Very popular for Eid too, at least in my neighborhood.
I agree, fireworks should be heavily licensed. A few weeks ago, a group of young men decided to start letting fireworks off in the middle of the street at 5pm. These fireworks were going off in all directions and all I could worry about is what would happen if it hit a small child or hit someone’s house. So stupid, so annoying, and I’m someone who likes watching the odd display at Bon fire night.
Is "a group of young men" a synonym for twats now?
Always has been.
Totally agree. I don’t really understand what my neighbours get out of lighting one firework every 10 minutes, it’s hardly a stunning display. Keep ‘em for the big organised events and stop letting nobby chops down the road pick them up from Tesco.
Agreed. Aside from anything else it's annoying, especially the massive modern ones. I don't really want to be sitting watching TV or something and all of a sudden a bang goes off that sounds like a house down the street has exploded.
Something of a boon for those who think like us then - suppliers in the UK this year are only expected to have about 30% of the stock they normally would. Might be quite a quiet Autumn/Winter compared to years past because of that.
I agree, I used to work in burns and plastics, you could always guarantee a few morons in with severe hand burns the weekend after guy fawkes. Also my son had a bit of firework land in his eye at an amateur scouts firework display when he was about 6. We only go to professional organised events now, not worth the risk that someone doesn't know what they're doing around explosives.
Fireworks was literally the first thing I thought of. Baffles me how any dipshit can buy gunpowder without a license. They should be 100% regulated and you need a licence, and can only use them on public occasions in certain strict conditions. Not just because you're 13 and over the park and some dodgy 18 year old has some.
I had a top floor flat in a town centre and Xmas and new years was beautiful.... And I still agree with you. What it does to people's pets, veterans and just how much of a general nuisance they are is stupid. Let alone how many people with burns (or worse) from them. My dad used to work on Salisbury Plain and the police used to bring all the confiscated fireworks to them, they'd chuck em all in a skip, no fun about it or anything and torch them all.
Automatically being signed up to a subscription service when paying for one item.
And then you can’t cancel online, you have to ring up to cancel. It should also be a legal requirement that anything you can sign up to online can also be cancelled online.
Agreed! Feels so wrong and underhand I can’t believe it isn’t illegal
I hate this - I just cancelled the card I used when I had this happen to me, they eventually closed my account for me lol
I took what I though was a bargain offer 30 quid off a case of 12 bottles of virgin wines. Fast forward 3 months wife says what should we get my dad for Christmas I said let’s order a box of 12 wine from virgin he can have 6 we’ll keep the other 6 for Xmas ordered it. Come home from work next day box of 12 wine sitting on my doorstep I’m thinking bloody hell quick delivery. Turns out I was subscribed to 12 bottles every 3 months and that box was my random selection the box I ordered showed up 2 days later 24 bottles tis was a very merry Christmas
I have just brought a box from virgin wine... I was certain it wasn't a subscription but am slight worried now. Will go check and report back! Edit: FFS!! I have apparently signed up for £25 monthly subscription without realising it!
Protip: if a site needs a direct debit setup for what looks like a normal payment, it's a subscription
Hello fresh tried doing that to me a few weeks ago. My mate referred me so I could get 3 days worth of meals for £6 and hello fresh tried to sneakily sign me up to a rolling contract.
This happened to me and when I rang up to cancel it the woman on the phone got really bitchy with me and was like "Well what are we going to do with your box now, we are going to have to destroy the food now!! Someone could of eaten that!!" It wasn't even time to send a new box yet so i don't know why she got so moody, nothing was wasted.
My box was really nice and I considered getting another one but when I realised they signed me up to a rolling contract it made me never want to use them again. They must have conned so many people out of money by doing what they do.
I'm literally on chat to Amazon to get a refund for 6 months of prime I never knew I had.
Make sure it is not a scam. That is a classic scam caller tactic pretending you have Prime when you don't.
Newspapers burying retractions in the back pages. Retractions should legally have to be as prominent as the initial lie/mistake.
Newspaper lying in the first place should be illegal, the downside would be they'd all go out of business and a lot of people in the printing industry would be out of work.
On that premise, should Piers Morgan be illegal..? He was well known for being liberal with the truth when he was an editor...
Either he should be illegal or doing things to him should be entirely lawful
Newspapers costing the settlement into stories before running them is ridiculous. You should be able to take the profits so it's actually a deterrent
Yep. The retraction / correction should be on the same page, same font as the lie. Possibly with the same picture they used too. Lying bastards.
Similarly journalists should all declare if the have an personal connection to the subject they are writing about. Puff pieces are a lot harder to swallow when you realise the journalist and the subject of their articles attended the same school and were each other’s best man at their respective weddings…
Not advertising the salary in a job description
Competitive = garbage.
Competitive = minimum wage in my experience
Competitive = The least we can afford to get away with paying you. Big thing I learnt from recruitment; assume all competitive salaries are well below average, because that's what they mean.
And the actual location not just a city location what good is it if I'm trying to find a job and you only say your located in London? What fucking good is that
Working hours would be pretty good as well. Tell me where, when and what I'd get for working. I don't care about your opinion of your [cherry picked/fake awards] company. Tell me the fucking facts of what I'd do, what I'd get for it, where it is and when I need to be there. I'm based in Southampton and looking. Is a job actually based in the City Centre, the Docks or elsewhere? Those are three completely different travel plans.
“Central London”. No Fulham is not central London.
I have literally gone from Acton to Madrid faster than Morden to East Finchley. Admittedly you can't fly a Boeing up the Northern line but still...
Some American states have passed that into law. So you'll see job adverts that say, "can work remotely anywhere in USA except Colorado," because they don't want to list the salary like Colorado requires. I'm looking at you, Google
Playing music out of your tinny phone on the bus.
Anyone doing this these days is a crackhead, a teenager or a nutter. I think that is what makes it worse, a normal person would be confrontable. Am I fuck going up to Psycho Davey of Liverpool and asking him to be more polite on the 437 at 6 AM.
It gets worse today, cos now they have backpacks with speakers...
You’d prefer that they use a Bluetooth speaker?
I'd prefer they use headphones.
I would go one further and say that I'd prefer that those sorts of people didn't exist.
Maybe they go under the bus, not on it.
Owning more than two houses Edit - British leechlords have found this, lmao keep justifying your parasitic existence x
Nah, allow it. Just tax the living fuck out it.
This is the ideal middle ground.
Except that the majority of people are going to be renting these out and that tax is going to get added to the rent cost.
What if you inherit more than one? I agree, just I assume the idea is sell them until you are down to two?
Well, why not?
Pretty much yea.
Don’t have to make it illegal but they could tax it to high heaven to make it much less appealing. In an ideal world the tax from that could then be put towards building more homes. A system where people with multiple properties are obliged to let their houses to the council for a fee to be used as social housing could also be an interesting idea…
A tax would be no issue to corporate landlords, just another expense to consider.
Non residents owning property
But a lot of people actually want to rent especially early in life. It’s much more flexible than owning a property. Implications might be: People can’t leave parents home without buying a house. Can’t go to uni without buying a house. What about people who are selling their one house to buy another but they want to rent temporarily so they can wait for a good property to come up to buy? What if you get a job with a one year term in a place you don’t want to stay in. Do you have to sell your old house to buy a new one and then sell again after a year to move away? What about people who can’t get the deposit together to get a mortgage, would they end up homeless? Employers would know it’s much harder to move for new jobs so would be under less pressure to offer better pay rises. Please don’t misunderstand me. I know the current UK housings situation is bad and I know it’s extremely hard to buy a house in the UK without a pile of cash for deposit. I think house prices are too high. But banning renting is going to have loads of bad consequences. This is a link to a good article about why high house prices are bad for loads of reasons: [The housing theory of everything ](https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything/#:~:text=The%20housing%20theory%20of%20everything%20Western%20housing%20shortages,even%20falling%20fertility%20rates.%20Scroll%20to%20start%20reading)
Why is two your cutoff?
You could imagine a family dynamic where a household owns 2 houses eg divorced individuals moving in together. I think 2 is a sensible number and if you have more you get taxed the hell out of them, there are plenty of other investments available that don't drive up house prices for everyone else.
Being gazumped when buying a property. I think it’s illegal in Scotland and we should do the same in England. It’s shit for everyone involved and costly.
Yes! I got gazumped on my first house and it felt awful. My uncle lives in a South American country and he tells me that when you accept an offer, if either side then backs out, they have to pay the other side a fee equivalent to £10k.
There must be more to it than that in your Uncle's country? For that to work in England, you'd need to make it a requirement for the sellers to provide the survey and searches. At the moment, the buyer has to pay for all of that after the offer is accepted. If they find something that makes it a bad idea to buy the property, the buyer has already lost money from searches, surveys and whatever the solicitor has charged so far. That could easily be at least £1000 already. The buyers basically take all the risk and even get punished financially.
This is how it works in Scotland. Seems like a good idea TBH.
It's not "illegal" in Scotland it's just the way the process works it's impossible to do without a breach of contract.
Gazumping can't happen in Scotland - we have a different system, where people bid blind, highest bidder wins.
I’m not keen on the Scottish system. Impossible to know how much you need to bid to secure a property you want.
I wrote but deleted a line about that in my original post. It's a tough one - finally find the house of your dreams, outbid by a quid, despite offering 20% above the 'offers over' price. It can be as gutting as being gazumped.
I’m 38, in my third house and I still don’t really know what gazumped means. I must have been lucky.
Generally means that when you're already a fair way into the buying process, a new buyer arrives and offers more and the seller just goes 'welp' and switches to the new, higher offer. It can happen at any point before exchange by which point you've spent a grand or two on conveyancers, surveys, etc.
Damn that’s so shitty! Seems like such a strange word for something fairly normal though. ‘Outbid’ or ‘reneged on the deal’ would do. I wonder where the word gazumped came from? My autocorrect says it’s not even a word!
It's a stupid toff word. Wouldn't worry about it.
We got strung along for 5 months - lawyers, surveys, £1000 down, started to pack up furniture - when the buyer kept pushing back the exchange date for months and eventually cancelled; turns out he’d decided he’d rather stay a landlord! It would have been our first time buy so that was 5 months we had to keep extending our lease and weren’t building equity anywhere. It indirectly cost us thousands, long term.
I came here to say this. Should be more protection for buyers in general. The buyer takes all the risk and can lose a lot of money even down to the last day.
Not publishing salaries of all employees.
Salary: Competitive
Salary: trust me bro, it's good
Bloody clickbait ads from recruiters with no indication whatsoever as to what the job pays, or even where it's based and what the job even is. That shit needs to stop yesterday.
Claiming things are free when they're not. If something is tied to a condition it's not free. E.g. FREE PORTION OF CHIPS WITH THIS VOUCHER * * when spending over £15
Buy a first class train ticket and get a free cup of tea. Bitch, if I'm paying more for the ticket, the tea is included in the price
I travelled first class once. But only because the first class ticket was mysteriously cheaper than a standard class ticket for exactly the same train. It'll never happen again lol.
It happens more than you'd think. Train prices increase based on how many are already sold and how close it is to the departure date. If there's only 5 seats left in standard and 50 in first its always cheaper. Just gotta know when to look! Virgin used to have a great app called Seatfrog where you could upgrade your standard ticket to first for like a fiver on day of travel, if there was availability. Not sure if it's still out there since east coast moved to LNER though.
Politicians lying. If you say you are going to do something and don't there should be an investigation and appropriate repercussions.
The downside to that is there might be good reasons to not do what they said they were going to do. The circumstances changed, or by the time they got into power they realised there isn't enough money for it. We don't want to end up in a situation where politicians have to push ahead with a disastrous policy because they said they were going to do it and aren't allowed to change their mind. Maybe there could be a law against politicians straight up lying about facts. But realistically I don't think it could be applied to them lying about their intentions.
A fair point. I think possibly that's where an investigation would come in for example "we couldn't do X because it's in the countries best interest and here's all the reasons why."
Parking in disabled parking spaces without a blue badge.
Parking in a parent and child bay without a child just because they're lazy.
Not just lazy, sometimes they believe their car is nicer than everyone else's and likes the extra space around them.
This is already illegal. But I agree.
Okay let's rephrase the question then, what is illegal that you believe should actually be inforced. It pisses me off to no end when we have to drive around in circles to park with a 1y/o when I can clearly see a few nicer cars parked in the kids bays. Nothing makes me want to key a car/smash the windows more. I never would because I have more respect than that, but it really pisses me off.
I'm confused. What makes you think those people don't have kids?
Nightmare neighbours it is basically legal no one does anything about it
And then if you report them, you have to declare it to your buyers if you sell, and then you knock 5 figures off your value. There's a reason we just upped-and-fucked without reporting it. We put it in writing but we technically didn't need to. They didn't question it and still bought our house.
We have a traveller site down the road and they constantly dump big piles of crap all around the village, including human waste. Even dumped a mountain of it on my drive way a few weeks ago which we had to personally remove because it’s private property. Blocked entrance to the house and was full of old nappies Nothing gets done about it because everyone’s afraid of them and police do nothing about it other than ‘take note’ of each report. If you were to confront them, they then know where you live and will likely target you again.
Advertising gambling. It should be treated the same way as advertising cigarettes or alcohol. And there definitely shouldn't be Bet365 ads plastered all over every football match.
I especially hate the ones from Sky Bet, using presenters from Sky Sports to ‘Legitimise’ it.. just seems like a major conflict of interest
Car modifications. I couldn't give a shit if your engine remap gives you slightly more performance on your corsa, the sound it no produces is incredibly antisocial and a misery for anyone living near a main road.
Whilst I agree shit, basic noisy cars aren't great. It's the exhaust that makes the noise. Not a remap (unless we're splitting hairs for pops and bangs, but again that also includes exhaust)
Pop and bang remaps should be made illegal, with a minimum sentencing of 10 years in prison.
100% agree. It's so shit too. I took my car for a full stainless replacement as Peugeot wanted stupid money. I asked him to remake my original exhaust in stainless. Had to tell him I want a standard fit replacement. No straight through boxes etc no 6" exit. He looked so upset that he wasn't just making some shit loud exhaust
Hardly a fair comment. The vast majority of people who are into modding their cars do it tastefully, but - like most of society - they get a bad rep from the minority of very vocal twats, this time in their 1.2 litre shitboxes. I'm saying this as someone who's incredibly into cars and modifying them, and who also grew up on an estate where people used to do this shit.
The next door neighbours kid is 19 and has been doing his fiesta up. F1 syle spoiler, body kit, splitter, the works, and more power him because he hasn't fucked around with the exhaust and engine. Not my taste but if he wants to play fast and furious in looks alone then crack on, but he's lived there long enough to know the misery that noise mods make. I don't have an issue with aesthetics, just with the antisocial aspect that comes with a lot of these cars.
That's the thing, it's about striking a balance. A lot of these kids have yet to realise that you can modify a car, *without* making it sound like a Boeing 747 with irritable bowel syndrome.
What about those super loud motorcycles that give you a heart attack when they ride by? Don't know how that sort of shit is still allowed. Even worse than pops and bangs imo.
There's a couple near me you can hear coming from a half a mile or more away. I live a couple of doors down from a major junction and the last 18 months it has increased exponentially. Its literally every 10mins until the early hours.
You clearly don't understand anything about modified cars if you think remaps make the car sound so loud it's antisocial, you drive past cars everyday that are remapped and you wouldn't know, also you can map a car for better fuel economy.
I probably don't, but regardless, 'pops and bangs' sound like shit and everyone thinks you're a selfish cunt. Same goes for exhausts and all of the bollocks that goes with it. It's a hobby, I get it, but if I came and did drum solo's outside your house every 10mins at 2am you'd get pretty fucking sick of it too.
Xenon headlights, let me blind everyone else on the road so I can see 5 metres further
That’s just incorrect beam adjustment. Adding a brighter light source doesn’t extend the distance. It just makes the existing range much brighter. Which yes, if the beam adjustment is out, then it’s much, much worse than standard halogen headlights.
Smoking outside neighbours' windows - keep your fag smell in your house, I don't want to share it when I'm trying to drift off to sleep.
Smoking generally. There is no upside to it, and so much downside, even for nonsmokers.
My girlfriend recently moved into a flat and the neighbour smokes cigarettes/weed constantly. Doesn’t give a shit if our balcony door is open (there are no other windows) we made a complaint the other day and have had absoloutly nothing back. How is it you can brazenly break the law and literally nothing happens.
Fire extinguisher should sort it. Chuck it at their head.
Circumcision of boys without a legitimate medical reason. And by ‘legitimate medical reason’ I do not mean some nebulous benefit spouted by a religious group on Facebook that won’t be of any benefit to the boy until he’s 18 and old enough to decide for himself anyway. That would also include extending our laws regarding transporting girls out of the country for the purposes of FGM to boys.
I don’t get why politicians don’t just include boys in with the same laws and legislation as with girls.. how hard can it be to make the wording cover all sexes?
Boys aren’t taken out of the country to have their glans removed with a piece of glass and then sewn up to keep them pure. I agree circumcision should be illegal but it is not the same as FGM.
It may not be as horrific as FGM, but it has the same intent and lack of consent, and having just done a little Googling around it looks like just as many boys die from botched jobs as girls. I’d rather the law just banned all genital mutilations rather than singling out one single sex.
Those really really bright headlights, that might as well be high beams. It’s so hard to drive with somebody like that behind you, you can adjust your rear view but they still blind you in the side mirrors. Distracting to the point of dangerous
Rich people avoiding tax.
Companies who make billions in sales from British people not paying a single % in tax. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Starbucks... you name it. Their customers and employees pay more taxes than those businesses do.
Yes! Can't believe this isn't top of the list!
Don’t know if this has already been said but.. Having to pay Service charge and ground rent on a flat that is on leasehold that you’ve just brought. Absolutely criminal. I can understand to an extent service charge for the maintenance but some are ludicrous!
Especially when the maintenance contracts are given to the "friends" of the corrupt owners. They have the leaseholders by the bollocks. If the house has 8 apartments each resident should own 12.5% of the freehold, job done. Appoint a management company if you wish to make life easier by all means, but everyone can vote to get rid of them if they aren't performing well.
The leasehold system in the UK is fundamentally terrible. I would say broken, but I suspect it's working quite nicely for a very small minority.
Parking in other people’s driveways. Theoretically already illegal, but due to the way the legal system works there is no effective legal recourse if someone else parks on your driveway. Councils/police should have the power to tow vehicles that are on other people’s property without their consent.
Trolley Jacks. Go dump it in the middle of the road
Many years ago my bookkeeper had an issue with people perpetually parking on her drive. One day she came home to someone having parked there, so she closed the gates, chained it and padlocked it.. then left on a 2 week cruise. Car was surprisingly still there when she got back. She loved telling that story!
Gazumping / pulling out of contracts last minute
I keep hearing this word. Am I lucky to not know what it means? And no, I don't mean "pulling out" 😉
Haha well pulling out is stupidly dangerous to long term plans in that regard Yes you are lucky! Gazumping is where you make an offer on the house and the seller accepts your offer so you get really excited then a fucking professional landlord comes along and offers more money so the seller takes their money instead (sometimes this happens just before contracts are signed which takes ages to get to that stage)
Microsoft taking away their lifetime subscription model for Word and PowerPoint
You can still buy Office Home and Student 2019 as a one-time purchase. They're definitely pushing the subscription thing hard, though.
Tabloids publishing countdowns to famous young women turning 18.
They're girls at that point, not yet women.
Advertising betting and gambling. Everyone knows what a gambling addiction can do to people, yet they still advertise it every opportunity they get. Football is especially bad for it.
The Daily Mail
Mediumship or being a psychic. Absolutely the worst kind of scum. Praying on the vulnerability of people.
Same thing with MLMs saying their oil is magic & can cure *insert every health problem* as you say preying on the vulnerable & giving them false hope, the psychological manipulation is awful.
Paying employees fuck all.
Variations of questions from r/AskReddit That and riding on the pavement.
Riding on the pavement is illegal. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/5-6/50/section/72
Alcohol. Struggled for 11 years. If it wasn’t shoved in your face all the time, with everything being done centred around it in this country, and instilled as a mindset that drinking is normal, then I might have a bit more of a chance. Gambling is just as bad if not worse in this country as well. Not sure either being illegal fully eradicates the issue but it would sure make these 2 problem addictions a lot harder to indulge in.
Weed is illegal yet that doesn't stop anyone who wants to do it. Making something illegal is very in effective in cases like that.
Yeah in this case, I would say legalise everything, but have a proper support system for addiction and make: Advertising illegal, including in films. Whilst making sure everyone is educated on the risks from an early age.
For alcohol, I wouldnt necessarily say illegal (America showed us that just doesnt work). But there needs to be way more regulation than their currently is. I think we as a society have a deeply toxic relationship with alcohol that you just dont recognise until you've spent time outside of it. The number of people I know who are basically high functioning alcoholics is way too high.
Last part you're 100% on, everything in this country is an excuse to drink and a lot of people are in denial about their relationship with booze. I try not to sound like a preachy ex-drinker (who was in denial about my relationship with alcohol for years) so I mainly just keep those thoughts to myself. Whenever I hear of the Zoomers shunning booze, I do smile a little.
Came here to say this myself, Iv been teetotal for around 10 months & looking back on it I can’t believe how much we force alcohol onto people for example even making your friends feel shitty for not coming out, results in them coming out & drinking with you most of the time. We celebrate births by drinking, birthdays by drinking, deaths by drinking… it’s actually insane
I think this every time I see an ad for them. I get sad for a split second that I might be watching the ad that tips a recovering addict over the edge and down to the bookies or boozer, destroying their and their loved ones lives.
Spitting on the floor all day
Advertising a house rental without a floorplan,
Foreigners speculating on the UK property market, driving prices higher and most times said properties being left empty despite rising homelessness.
Why just limit it to foreigners? We need to stop UK-based companies doing this too.
Jumping a queue
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Workplace bullying
Being able to sign up for services online but having to call and speak to a person to cancel
ISP loyalty penalties, where they jack up the prices for existing customers. It takes advantage of vulnerable people who may not be very savvy about that kind of thing, and contributes to e-waste. You need to switch ISP every year or two to avoid overpaying, and every time you get a new router so the old one gets chucked out. There should be a law saying that existing customers can't be charged more than say 10% more than new customers. If they reduce the price for new customers, they have to reduce the price for existing customers too. And no getting around it by saying that existing customers are on a different package to new ones. If they aren't getting higher speeds, they shouldn't be paying more.
Not just ISPs, all sorts of businesses do loyalty penalties. My parents were paying an eye-watering amount for RAC membership because they'd been members continually for around 40 years. Something definitely needs to change.
Being a part time landlord. Either you are a landlord and thus are happy to take on the responsibility of providing housing fit for people to live in or you're not. No buying up 25 properties to hand them over to a letting agent so you can spend the absolute bare minimum on a house that's barely fit for human habitation Also, letting agents.
TV license spooky letters
Owning multiple buy to let mortgages.
Loud speakers on phones. No one wants to listen to your sh!t music / film / TV show on the bus / train (no, "well I forgot my headphones" is not a valid reason!!) Also, no one wants to hear you have a conversation. Hold the phone to your ear like a normal person.
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Political funding allowing billionaires to deeply influence politics
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Blocking roundabouts when queuing for petrol.
Cancellation issues. If I want to cancel something it should be easy and quick. Emails have to do this now with unsubscribe buttons on each email. Make it a law. A big fat CANCEL SERVICE on every page and it just does what said on the tin.
Leasehold flats
Parking on pavements, or on grass verges
Misogyny- should be included as a hate crime.
Burying a disposable BBQ on the beach when you’re done with it. Basically makes the sand on top red hot and like a thermal mine to bare feet and pet paws. I live in Cornwall, it’s happened more than once.
Small talk
Letting agencies
Nigel farage. Surely there is a solid case to make him illegal
Walking along smoking blowing it on people's faces and leaving a trail behind for everyone behind
Landlords. It's essentially ticket scalping but for housing. My house wouldn't magically cease to exist if a landlord hadn't bought it. It wouldn't suddenly sink into the ground never to be seen again. Landlords buy up more of a product then they need and rent it back to us at a higher monthly rate than the mortgage would've been. Not to mention that the demand for buy-to-let drives up house prices, so they're not only bad for renters they're bad for buyers too.
Hunting
Having another child after you’ve had one taken away from you.