All video content is in a language you don’t fully understand and with slightly unsynched subtitles.
People always mispronounce your name.
All interior floors and walls are covered in dirty carpeting with burn marks.
Chairs creak when you move.
Ingrown nails.
Light psoriasis.
Windows Vista is the only available operating system. Phones use the regular UI. Computers are locked using the Windows 8.0 UI.
All touchscreens function as if you were using thin gloves.
Keyboards have a 10% chance to repeat or ignore the last character you typed.
Computers crash whenever you’re progressing writing an essay.
Randomly organized huge everything stores.
Frequent houseflies that walk all over you.
You have to make phonecalls. The sound randomly interrupts and a few times when you try to repeat.
All pens are cheap ballpoints with ink issues.
Tinnitus.
Dead pixels on screens.
Conv calls always have someone with speakers and a malfunctioning microphone that lets you hear a garbled version of what you just said with a one second delay.
Code documentation was never invented. Your job is to pay technical debt on random projects.
An annoying relative is narrating your life.
Stereo sound fluctuates in intensity between both sides.
Slightly stale American bread is the only kind available.
When showering the water temperature fluctuates while never being unbearable. Shared old bar soap.
Nails grow a centimeter a day.
Shared kitchen with teenagers.
Raspy toilet paper. No bidets. American doors.
Towels are magically constantly damp.
Random unexplainable crunch in food.
All stairs have an irregular awkward step.
People always answer half your questions.
Nonsensical infrastructure works that do nothing and constantly perturb road and foot traffic.
Neverending dry mouth.
Every charging cord is a bit old and randomly disconnects. You then have to fiddle with it for it to work again.
Shoelaces have very low friction.
Achy joints.
Payments work with a set of three debit cards. There is only one that works at a given time. Nobody remembers their pin. You have to get it on a buggy app.
Random bouts of akathisia (uncontrollable muscular restlessness) in the evening.
USB-A sockets are now star shapped with 18 possible orientations.
Internet uses old modems. Someone frequently uses the landline without notification.
I have so many ideas!
Constant slight cheese and urea smell.
One of your nostrils is always stuffed. They switch regularly.
The only available tea is British. (sorry I hate bland black tea and bergamot)
No hot meals.
All cuttlery is either sporks or Korean chopsticks.
All cooking knives are dull.
The only available cooking methods are microwaves with dead zones and induction stoves with long cycles.
Spices are forbidden.
Everyone is left handed with specifically right handed tools.
Everyone has ADHD. Medication is unavailable.
Light itch that moves.
Everyone needs glasses. They’re always greasy and the correction is slightly off.
Everyone has a small bladder and there are always queues in front of restrooms. That might explain the smell.
Everyone is on a sliding/rolling schedule.
Non skipable ads are backed in physical objects.
Shoes are all a size off.
Here we go again.
All video content is in a language you don’t fully understand and with slightly unsynched subtitles.
People always mispronounce your name.
All interior floors and walls are covered in dirty carpeting with burn marks.
Chairs creak when you move.
Ingrown nails.
Light psoriasis.
Windows Vista is the only available operating system. Phones use the regular UI. Computers are locked using the Windows 8.0 UI.
All touchscreens function as if you were using thin gloves.
Keyboards have a 10% chance to repeat or ignore the last character you typed.
Computers crash whenever you’re progressing writing an essay.
Randomly organized huge everything stores.
Frequent houseflies that walk all over you.
You have to make phonecalls. The sound randomly interrupts and a few times when you try to repeat.
All pens are cheap ballpoints with ink issues.
Tinnitus.
Dead pixels on screens.
Conv calls always have someone with speakers and a malfunctioning microphone that lets you hear a garbled version of what you just said with a one second delay.
Code documentation was never invented. Your job is to pay technical debt on random projects.
An annoying relative is narrating your life.
Stereo sound fluctuates in intensity between both sides.
Slightly stale American bread is the only kind available.
Some more?
When showering the water temperature fluctuates while never being unbearable. Shared old bar soap.
Nails grow a centimeter a day.
Shared kitchen with teenagers.
Raspy toilet paper. No bidets. American doors.
Towels are magically constantly damp.
Random unexplainable crunch in food.
All stairs have an irregular awkward step.
People always answer half your questions.
Nonsensical infrastructure works that do nothing and constantly perturb road and foot traffic.
Neverending dry mouth.
Every charging cord is a bit old and randomly disconnects. You then have to fiddle with it for it to work again.
Shoelaces have very low friction.
Achy joints.
Payments work with a set of three debit cards. There is only one that works at a given time. Nobody remembers their pin. You have to get it on a buggy app.
Random bouts of akathisia (uncontrollable muscular restlessness) in the evening.
USB-A sockets are now star shapped with 18 possible orientations.
Internet uses old modems. Someone frequently uses the landline without notification.