I quite like the (I think?) Jewish curse: "may your laundry never dry". That would suck wearing clothes that are always slightly damp.
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Calm down Satan!
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.
Every set of stairs has one step that is slightly taller than the rest
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.
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.
You know how you sometimes get a pebble stuck under your shoe and walking just feels weird until you remove it?
That, but thereβs no actual pebble.
Bell ringing sound every time you get an erection
That could be deafening in certain public spaces.
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 :)
You lose the ability to differentiate between a fart and a poo.
Crohns and colitis say hi
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...
Eyelids become translucent. In other words, you can still see anything and everything when your eyes are closed.
Remove the ability to remember if you turned something off.
Joke's on you, I already can't.
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.
Any time you use something powered by a fossil fuel your pinkies ache about as much as a lightly stubbed toe.
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.
You never hear someone the first couple times they try to pay you a compliment
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
Iβd say reading is back to normal after 2-3 days tops for most people.
I used to tutor math at a company that insisted that we write upside down so the page was always facing the students. It really did only take like 3 days for it to feel natural.
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.
It always takes three rotations to plug in a USB cable.
OP said you have to change something, not describe the world like it is
Telepathy for everyone. Instant chaos.
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."
This'd likely a bit more than inconvenience, but honestly, to the degree that it would be more than that (or more accurately to the people to whom it would be more than that), I just don't give a shit.
Make it literally impossible to knowingly lie. Full stop.
everytime you are going to sit, you have to declare it out loud