I’d make it so that liquid soap dispensers sounded like they were struggling to nut quietly each time you pressed down.
Thumb and ring finger change places. Opposable ring fingers.
Make everyone listen to 10 hours of cow sounds on repeat.
Everyone has to skip instead of walking.
For whatever reason, your comment made me think of that scene in Big, where Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia dance on the floor piano.
Not sure why. Probably the thought of people doing something moderately wacky and fun in everyday life.
Everyone is ever so slightly telepathic, functionally making a web of felt emotions with no thoughts connecting them so what you feel from this is basically a summary of the people in the area around you.
Example: Everyone could be focused at work, nothing major going on, until someone thinks about their significant other and all of a sudden there’s a tiny bit of horny thrown in the mix, everyone knows its there, and no one knows who put it there.
Women are already scarce in IT.
Every set of stairs has one step that is slightly taller than the rest
That was actually a thing in castle design. There’d be one step just high enough compared to the others that an assassin chasing the king would hopefully stumble on it, and the king could turn around and stab the assassin.
I’m sure you mean all the heights are a little different, but I’m envisioning where every step has to be taller than the previous one and the shenanery that would happen to make long stair cases navigable. Start with teeny tiny steps to end with uncomfortably large ones.
Don’t bother with steps that are each different — making steps the wrong height/length is enough. If you ever walked up/down stairs that felt really weird it’s probably because the builder ignored the international standards on that topic and built steps that are a couple centimeters off.
You monster.
All doors you try to open actually open the opposite direction
What’s new here?
Pocket doors would be a euclidean nightmare
Clothing sleeves, pant (trouser) legs, underwear garments, socks, etc. all have one side slightly longer than the other
Joke’s on you, I’m asymmetrical
Both of these are my moms ideas.
First your cars never start.
Or the other option
We no longer have cell phones, we have to go back to land lines.
The second really isn’t much of an issue after an adjustment period. Might even improve our lives by killing off social media
Unless it just means that we can’t make phone calls on our smart phones - in which case it doesn’t change much.
You never hear someone the first couple times they try to pay you a compliment
From now on, you get static shocked every time you touch anything.
Welcome to Antarctica, friend! The buildings at Scott base are all fitted out with handrails that the occupants use to ground themselves periodically while walking around, because static buildup is such a serious issue down there.
life in winter anyways
Someone told me once that slapping something metal and grounded will discharge the energy and not hurt as much (you’re expecting the impact of hitting it, so the electric shock comes with it; this is in contrast to gently brushing something and getting shocked unexpectedly). I’ve found it useful.
such a good trick. Used it for years.
All mouthwash turns to orange juice after brushing your teeth
One of your socks is always wet
evil
I’ll just keep a sock in my pocket so that one can be wet instead of one on my foot
“Is that a wet sock in your pocket or are you incontinent?”
Both, actually!
Everyone’s butt hole could be anywhere on their body. Everyone needs a different kind of toilet to properly position themselves. Everyone starts aligning themselves as friends based on the location of their butt hole. “Oh sorry I can’t stay too long. My butthole is in my armpit.”
You sir, are worse than satan.
Any time you try to get tape off a roll, it rips halfway through and turns into a mess. The same with toilet paper
USB-C now has the same connector directionality problem that USB-A does
Id like to think it would still work both ways mechanically, but would be one sided electrically.
That’s way worse.
Funnily enough, there are cases where that occurs. The Zed Mini is a great example, where the orientation of the cable affects it’s ability to fully utilise USB bandwidth. I don’t recall the reason off the top of my head, but I have shared stories with a number of people in the computer vision sector who have torn their hair out over those cameras only to discover that they don’t work properly when the cable is “upside down”
Depending on the device side connector and how the PCB is designed it actually can be orientation-dependent.
