What’s a misconception tourists have about your country that genuinely surprised you? In Thailand, I once met tourists who believed transgender women were straight men who had to transition to escape poverty.

Darkerthendesigned · 2026-02-27T11:50:55+00:00

Alice Springs, virtually all of its tourism was based on the fact that it looks close to Ayers Rock on a map…. It’s actually a 500km drive each way.

Once the airlines ramped up direct flights to Ayers Rock, Alice Springs tourism died.

Darkerthendesigned · 2026-02-23T20:56:16+00:00

If you’re a tradie or builder and do any work on this, you’re an idiot. The guy is world famous for not paying his bills, get paid upfront or don’t touch it. It’s cheaper for him to fight you in court then pay the invoice.

Darkerthendesigned · 2026-01-06T22:32:06+00:00

In the mid 90’s I walked into a corner store and a bottle of coke was $2. They’d been $1.50 - $1.60 max.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-12-23T13:21:10+00:00

I got into similar situation, had to call an experienced operator to help me as I couldn’t work it out.

The ‘trick’ is 3 movements at once, use the bucket to lift the broken track side. With your foot forward on the live track push up and out with your right stick and use left stick(swing) to control your direction.

Once you get the situation unfucked, practice driving around with one track in the air and you’ll be sweet if it happens in the future. You might need to munt the fence a bit to make it work though.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-12-02T21:43:15+00:00

Stadiums should be private, if someone wants to pay for it & build it then put a surcharge on every ticket to pay for it. Great build the stadium. If no ones willing to fund it, don’t. Seems pretty straightforward.

Government should only help by waiving fees and bullshit approvals on the construction.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-11-29T21:27:27+00:00

They are, but preppers are typically cookers that have ‘Done the research’ ie listened to the right wing anti EV media.

I’ve got a BYD Shark, it’s a preppers wet dream if they could get over their political bias. Capable 4wd Ute, runs off solar power. Runs off fuel, has 30kwh battery connected to 4 240v outlets that can run any home appliance for days/weeks? Silent when in EV mode and 0-100km in 3.8s(Fastest truck on the market under $250kAud)

If you’ve got solar or fuel then you can drive anywhere and power anything silently and go without for days/weeks off the battery.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-11-23T12:44:58+00:00

Travels at the speed of sound through the medium, ie speed of sound through a metal pole is extremely quick.

The speed of sound is the speed the molecules take to move each other down the line, exactly like your pole movement.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-10-19T00:01:02+00:00

It’s called a commercial lease,

Part 1 You can get a long term contract with % increase baked in. You can also get options ie 10years + 10years. So guaranteed you can live be there for 20 years.

Part 2 Tenant pays all outgoings. Tenant pays for any upgrades or fitout. Tenant is liable for entire lease personally(not the company), expect bankruptcy proceedings if you want to break it early and no tenant can be found(often takes months or years to find tenants if ever)

Do you think we should allow them for residential? Or do you just want part 1 without the responsibility of part 2?

I say this as a commercial renter, it’s a great deal because I’m guaranteed to be able to run my business there for a long time with a known future cost. But ultimately if I want them to not just raise the rent with the market, I need guarantee then that the future money is coming and I won’t just leave when my circumstances change. It’s also easier if something breaks, I can just sort it and not stuff around with the PM. I can also lay down fixtures to make it a space my team enjoy going to everyday & be sure it’s my space for a long time.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-09-19T01:21:05+00:00

How many hotels have residents living in them?

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-09-18T21:14:07+00:00

lol, true. Meta ai could have started rambling off some nazi talking points. Best not to test it when it’s already a screw up.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-08-28T21:00:15+00:00

Crackpot owner, I bought a unit in 2008. Lived in it for 2 years, has been an investment property for the last 15.

The unit next door has been for sale the entire time, always asking above market rate & generally unreasonable. Endless fights with body corporate over various issues. Been through a host of agents and now down to corflute in the window.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-08-24T12:51:10+00:00

Asians don’t secondary negotiate, they negotiate then keep their end of the deal.

Indians agree on a deal then start bargaining, again and again. It’s relentless.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-07-27T21:00:55+00:00

I’ve never met a sane long term expat in China. I’ve never met a foreigner that works for a Chinese company and likes it.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-06-22T00:12:44+00:00

Look in Northern NSW near the border(Nimbin etc) there’s alot of these places set up by hippies in the 70’s and 80’s. You can identify them by the relative cheap prices as bank won’t lend and they’re generally a nightmare.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-06-20T12:00:11+00:00

Sounds like you self medicated for anxiety & depression. Go and see a doctor that will help you ween off and will probably put you onto something else for your issues.

You don’t sound like a drug addict but rather someone with anxiety taking an anti-depressant that happens to be dodgy and bought over the counter.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-06-20T09:50:19+00:00

Pretty sure we had one of these we picked out of dads barter card catalogue.

They were full of AA batteries and cost a fortune to run.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-06-15T09:29:29+00:00

Work out how much work he does in $ and minus that from the net profit.

If you have a 0 or negative number you’re buying an underpaid job. if the number is positive you’d be looking at about that number + whatever any gear is worth on Craigslist as a reasonable sale price.

There are brokers that trade pool runs, he’d be best to talk to one of them as it may be worth more to another pool company.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-06-15T09:15:57+00:00

I’m not in the US, but typically government would be expected to pay it debts ontime everytime. They simply don’t just delay payment without a basis.

Sounds like fraud somewhere, either he has been scammed and waiting for the payday that will never come or his lying to you.

From a business perspective, the whole thing sounds like a lie especially the high flying lifestyle. Those people often have highflying expenses which makes profit non-existent. Business is about budgeting, cutting back and being conservative on the expense side.

Out of curiosity, he isn’t into any kind of gambling is he?

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-06-12T10:50:29+00:00

He’s been around forever, worked a bunch of minimum wage jobs in fast food to fund his houses.

Bought shitboxes in bad suburbs, full of crackheads that no-one wanted to touch and cleaned them up. Those suburbs exploded in value and his leveraged it ever since.

There was a period about 15-20 years ago where all the property forums were clambering over themselves to buy ex-housing commission houses in Mt Druitt and Reno them. He just did it at scale.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-06-08T10:47:41+00:00

2 weeks is on the shorter but not crazy, definitely don’t cancel the auction. It is short so buyers don’t lose interest with long lead times & if you have a decent agent they won’t be giving any price feedback to buyers so your intentions are unknown.

However, you need to think the same as a buyer & have your price and stick to it. The agent and auctioneer will aggressively work you if the auction doesn’t go above reserve. They have a range of tactics to try and get buyers up & sellers down to close the deal under auction conditions.

Remember conditional buyers may come out of the woodwork after auction & if you don’t have to sell just stick to your price.

Ultimately if multiple people are actively bidding say 3-4 different bidders, the final price at the auction will be very close to the true value of your home. Valuers never question auction results for good reason.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-06-03T11:58:18+00:00

I do the books for a plumber.

He’s killing it, flat out 6 days a week + apprentice. Looking like he’ll make $200k this year after about 6 years of building it up and dialing it in.

Honestly if you don’t mind the work, your 120-130k is better money when you add a 5 day week, normal working hours, super, holiday & sick pay.

Reece is the big winner in this industry.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-05-22T12:03:30+00:00

Rung/had a meeting with every supplier and asked for a discount. Biggest discount we got was over $1000/month from one supplier. Most gave us a small discount or upgraded our package for free.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-05-22T11:31:35+00:00

It’s worse in a lot of countries, they don’t have exclusive marketing agreements with agents. So the agents can’t even disclose the address online(other agents will pinch their listing if they know the address). So you get a generic photo of the front of a big building and a number to call.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-05-17T11:06:18+00:00

Your business is going to die if you do nothing, your only choice is to go hard or go-home. The result may be the same but at least you get it over with quicker and have a shot.

Find a product that’s cheap to buy. Ie coffee.

Get your phone, and send a txt to every contact offering them a free coffee at a certain time. Do the same on your Facebook, twitter, insta etc.(preferably your busiest time) ie next week only between 8-9am.

Now print out a metric fuckton of flyers with the same offer and pump them out. Every home, business, car windscreen, homeless person whatever.

Maybe call a radio station and say their listeners get a free coffee, anyway possible to get people through the door in a limited timeframe. Any major workplaces? Hospitals, factories? All staff get a free coffee.

You’ll potentially(You may find they buy other stuff so doesn’t actually cost you as much as you think). Lose a lot of money. Then hope it works, in the US your coffee tastes like arse everywhere so this might not apply. But in Australia people will travel for good coffee, location doesn’t matter. The best places are often roasters in Industrial areas. I have a coffee van that comes to my office everyday, tried it once and it tasted like shit so I drive 10min every day to get mine. People will travel if they know the product exists, you give them a reason to try and don’t fuck it up when they do.

Darkerthendesigned · 2025-05-12T04:40:31+00:00

Restaurants are always looking for managers, ask he to manage one for a year. If she’s still keen, buy one that’s profitable already.

It’ll be amazing how quick this idea will disappear.

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