# What can you not believe we still have to deal with in 2019? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Chat\ **Created:** [3 February 2019 00:06 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307 "2019-02-03T00:06:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon99402360](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@anon99402360](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon99402360)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 00:06 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/1 "2019-02-03T00:06:36Z")
Saw this thread on AskReddit this evening and it was generating some funny (and some troubling) answers! Mine is taxes. The government seems to have all of the information it needs about us to calculate returns itself and yet still makes us write it down on paper and send it to them. What mildly irritating thing, can you not believe we still have to deal with in 2019? ---
**Author:** ![glasgow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@glasgow](https://community.monzo.com/u/glasgow)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 00:17 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/2 "2019-02-03T00:17:21Z")
Sectarianism ---
**Author:** ![simonf](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/simonf/32/31374_2.png) [@simonf](https://community.monzo.com/u/simonf)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 00:38 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/3 "2019-02-03T00:38:55Z")
Car tax still being full months. ---
**Author:** ![Rat\_au\_van](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/rat_au_van/32/49103_2.png) [@Rat\_au\_van](https://community.monzo.com/u/Rat_au_van)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 00:59 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/4 "2019-02-03T00:59:19Z")
Tea bags. If they can do powdered coffee then why not powdered tea? ---
**Author:** ![jasonyau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@jasonyau](https://community.monzo.com/u/jasonyau)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 01:20 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/5 "2019-02-03T01:20:39Z")
They do - it’s used in drinks vending machines. It’s bad. ---
**Author:** ![jwhiterz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jwhiterz](https://community.monzo.com/u/jwhiterz)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 01:32 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/6 "2019-02-03T01:32:27Z")
Trust me it’s vile [https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/256263198](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/256263198) ---
**Author:** ![Rat\_au\_van](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/rat_au_van/32/49103_2.png) [@Rat\_au\_van](https://community.monzo.com/u/Rat_au_van)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 01:33 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/7 "2019-02-03T01:33:07Z")
Fine. Then that but that tastes nice 😁 ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCarver](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/holdencarver/32/32425_2.png) [@HoldenCarver](https://community.monzo.com/u/HoldenCarver)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 01:40 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/8 "2019-02-03T01:40:50Z")
[Instant tea is a powder in which water is added, in order to reconstitute it into a cup of tea. The earliest form of instant tea was developed in the United Kingdom in 1885](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_tea). I can only presume, therefore, that one of two things is the case; it’s not a cost-effective way of selling tea, or the end result tastes like ass. ISTR seeing a TV documentary last year where someone had invented instant tea which was a concentrate that you poured a little of into a cup and then added hot water too. It seemed to taste alright from the reactions of the presenters, but I don’t believe the product has made it to market yet. ---
**Author:** ![MrArkadin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/mrarkadin/32/14378_2.png) [@MrArkadin](https://community.monzo.com/u/MrArkadin)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 01:49 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/9 "2019-02-03T01:49:03Z")
Brexit ---
**Author:** ![SouthseaOne](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/southseaone/32/87138_2.png) [@SouthseaOne](https://community.monzo.com/u/SouthseaOne)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 02:21 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/10 "2019-02-03T02:21:00Z")
Having to phone someone up to cancel something you started online is still a right pain. Get with the program people! ---
**Author:** ![Chapuys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chapuys](https://community.monzo.com/u/Chapuys)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 06:55 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/11 "2019-02-03T06:55:04Z")
Being charged to deposit money in a bank. ---
**Author:** ![anon99402360](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@anon99402360](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon99402360)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 08:53 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/12 "2019-02-03T08:53:07Z")
How have we not invented a see through toaster? So you can see when your toast is done. ---
**Author:** ![anon99402360](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@anon99402360](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon99402360)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 09:01 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/13 "2019-02-03T09:01:21Z")
Also refunds, why can’t they be instant? ---
**Author:** ![glasgow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@glasgow](https://community.monzo.com/u/glasgow)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 09:05 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/14 "2019-02-03T09:05:37Z")
For the exact same reason that payments aren’t instant. The retailer doesn’t receive the money in to their account as soon as you make payments. It’s just removed immediately from your available balance until all the batch processes move the money across the payment networks to the retailers account. The exact same is happening in reverse for refunds ---
**Author:** ![Chapuys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chapuys](https://community.monzo.com/u/Chapuys)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 09:05 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/15 "2019-02-03T09:05:41Z")
> [@anon99402360](#): > > How have we not invented a see through toaster? So you can see when your toast is done. Thats already been invented, in 2010 😉 . Just not widespread ☹ . > **[Transparent toaster sees end of burnt toast](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6931661/Transparent-toaster-sees-end-of-burnt-toast.html)** > > The end of burnt toast is in sight after the world's first transparent toaster went on sale. ---
**Author:** ![Ordog](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/ordog/32/22446_2.png) [@Ordog](https://community.monzo.com/u/Ordog)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 09:08 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/17 "2019-02-03T09:08:59Z")
BBC TV licence. I have Sky and can’t remember the last time I watched something on one of their channels/online etc. ---
**Author:** ![warriner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/warriner/32/39318_2.png) [@warriner](https://community.monzo.com/u/warriner)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 09:24 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/18 "2019-02-03T09:24:29Z")
Communal locker/shower rooms in gyms with no private cubicles. I can’t be the only person that feels _really_ uncomfortable in those environments? ---
**Author:** ![anon72173902](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@anon72173902](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon72173902)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 09:26 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/19 "2019-02-03T09:26:10Z")
Kay Burley ---
**Author:** ![krr13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d26b3c/32.png) [@krr13](https://community.monzo.com/u/krr13)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 10:13 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/20 "2019-02-03T10:13:31Z")
Love this ---
**Author:** ![krr13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d26b3c/32.png) [@krr13](https://community.monzo.com/u/krr13)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2019 10:14 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307/21 "2019-02-03T10:14:17Z")
> [@anon72173902](#): > > Kay Burley My favourite on this thread so far. Damn she has to be the most annoying thing on TV. [Next page](https://community.monzo.com/t/what-can-you-not-believe-we-still-have-to-deal-with-in-2019/59307.md?page=2)