You know you're single as fuck when your remote has it's own side of the bed

Shout out to all the single as fuck people who are in bed before 10pm on a weekend, eating snacks, watching Netflix, and scrolling through reels while wondering where it all went wrong and whether you're going to die alone with 10 cats. My kind of people.

Does anyone else keep all of their money in their savings account and transfer money over when needed so you don't get done over by Netflix, Amazon or Apple are anyone else unexpectedly taking the last of your money?

How the fuck are people on minimum wage in the UK supposed to survive on their own? The numbers just don't add up. Working a 37.5-hour week (because unpaid breaks seem to be the norm now) leaves you with roughly £1,700 a month after tax, National Insurance and pension deductions. Rent for somewhere on the cheaper end is around £800 if you're lucky, then you've got £120 council tax, roughly £350 in utilities, and at least £70 a week on food. By the time you've covered the basics, you're left with around £150 for the entire month and that's before paying for transport, dealing with emergencies, or buying anything unexpected. Minimum wage simply isn't enough to cover the cost of living anymore.

Only in the UK can the roads be melting one week and flooding the next.

Me coming over to X to check if Facebook is actually down or if it's just me

A typical day of UK weather: 10am - Sunny 12pm - Cloudy and windy 1pm - Rain 2pm - Sunny and hot 3pm - freezing 4pm - Thunder storms 5pm - Sunny 6pm - Hailstone and freezing 7pm- Sunny again 8pm - wind and heavy rain

A £25,000 a year salary in 1990 would have the same buying power as £75,000 in today's money. A £25,000 a year salary in 2026 would be equivalent to around £8,500 in 1990. Tell me again how we have it easy?

Countries all around the World are now normalising working full time and still being broke. You do everything right. You show up. You work hard. You work extra hours. You budget where you can. But it's just not enough in this economy. Rent wipes out the majority of your paycheck, bill, food and transport take the rest. It shouldn't be like this. We spend most of our life working, just to exist. Payday comes and within a week or 2 there's nothing left. Just covering the basics. There's absolutely no getting ahead. Then we get told by people who could could afford to buy a house and raise a family on a factory wages that we have it easy. We have it harder than any of the generations before us and anyone who doesn't agree really doesn't have a clue about this economy and the World right now.

Dear employers, Stop asking people for experience and qualifications when the job is minimum wage and absolutely anybody can do it.

Being single isn't the issue, the cost of existing in this economy alone is. One income, full rent, full bills, full responsibility, no backup. Then you get told to "budget better" by people who've never had to carry 100% of the load on their own. The system didn't break, it just stopped accounting for anyone doing it solo.

The UK is run by the kind of people who wouldn't give you your ball back if it accidentally landed in their garden when you were a kid.

Two weeks ago the entire UK was sunbathing, buying fans, and slapping on factor 30 like we were abroad. Today it's raining that much my gardens flooded and I'm expecting to see Noah float by in his ark. This country's weather makes no sense.

One more day of rain like this and I'm going to buy a boat off Facebook marketplace to get to work.

One more fuel increase and I'm cutting a hole in the bottom of my car and using my feet to drive it around like Fred Flintstone.

Working full time in the UK: Work hard. Do overtime. Get paid. Pay rent. Pay bills. Do a food shop. Then spend the next three weeks absolutely broke wondering where the fuck all of your money went.

"How come you're single?" Because apparently I just foster people until they find their forever home.