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I'd make it so that liquid soap dispensers sounded like they were struggling to nut quietly each time you pressed down.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I quite like the (I think?) Jewish curse: "may your laundry never dry". That would suck wearing clothes that are always slightly damp.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know you jest, but the more you think about it, the nastier a curse it is. For example, your crack would always be itchy. You'd never be able to put your clothes away because mold would devour them. And so on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could never wear socks because your feet would get diseased.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Every set of stairs has one step that is slightly taller than the rest

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Don't bother with steps that are each different β€” 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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You know how you sometimes get a pebble stuck under your shoe and walking just feels weird until you remove it?

That, but there’s no actual pebble.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You lose the ability to differentiate between a fart and a poo.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Crohns and colitis say hi

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everytime you open a door it moans with pleasure.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This answer is brought to you by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bell ringing sound every time you get an erection

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

That could be deafening in certain public spaces.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No matter how hard one squeezes, there’s ALWAYS three or four drops of pee leftover, poised to strike after one finishes their business.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

IT WAS YOU!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Make it so that when you arrive home you're never allowed to put your keys in the same place more than once.

Forgot something in the car and have to go back out? Time to find a new spot...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh hey, it's like ADHD for everyone!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wind makes everyone ticklish

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All doors you try to open actually open the opposite direction

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Eyelids become translucent. In other words, you can still see anything and everything when your eyes are closed.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You must greet everyone you meet with a handshake and ten seconds of uninterrupted eye contact. Forced smiles and a serious talk about how you really are doing are also mandatory.
Pretty awkward if you ask me :)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

USB-C now has the same connector directionality problem that USB-A does

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Id like to think it would still work both ways mechanically, but would be one sided electrically.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

switch locations of penis and anus

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any time you use something powered by a fossil fuel your pinkies ache about as much as a lightly stubbed toe.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

You never hear someone the first couple times they try to pay you a compliment

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mirror every object. You don't realize how many things are designed with a right-handed assumption unless you aren't right handed. Also, most people can't read well anymore because it's all backwards

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Remove the ability to remember if you turned something off.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Joke's on you, I already can't.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sneezing is excessively messy.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Telepathy for everyone. Instant chaos.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about telepathy for half the people. That's even more chaotic.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It always takes three rotations to plug in a USB cable.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

OP said you have to change something, not describe the world like it is

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

From now on, you get static shocked every time you touch anything.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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."

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

This is apocalyptic-level inconvenience

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

One of your socks is always wet

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's impossible to determine the charge level of phone batteries. It's now up to you to keep track or your activities and estimate when you'll need to charge, otherwise it will just turn off on its own when the battery runs out.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GregorGizeh 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The second really isn’t much of an issue after an adjustment period. Might even improve our lives by killing off social media

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd make every scissor a little bit loose so whatever it's cutting turns sideways and gets stuck near the end.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what being left handed is like.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whenever you say anything to anyone the other person always knows exactly what your thinking is behind what you are saying.

That would make it nearly impossible to lie, cheat or deceive others, even for the smallest thing.

So that way when your girlfriend asks you if you would still love her if she were a worm, even though you would say, "Of course my love!" She would know you actually mean "what the fuck are you talking about?" And you would know she actually meant "my emotional batteries are running dry and I want you to recharge them"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Any time you try to get tape off a roll, it rips halfway through and turns into a mess. The same with toilet paper

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