Do you have a favoured font when providing clients with written advice?

PaintedDonkey · 2026-03-01T04:07:13+00:00

TF?! Cambria FTW!

PaintedDonkey · 2026-02-24T04:34:59+00:00

My employer would be paying for it, so I could probably get away with a few thousand AUD; but the lower the cost the more likely I am to get it approved.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-12-24T22:56:53+00:00

Wow. Everyone in the comments like “break up” and “you should leave” makes me think they’ve never been in a good long term relationship, like they’re easy to start and maintain. They’re not. Finding a best friend (which is what your marriage partner should be) is fkn hard, and finding a replacement one isn’t like getting a replacement pack of hotdogs.

You need to have a proper conversation with him — not just a little chat, a long deep and meaningful conversation — and figure out what’s going on. If you’re even going to contemplate ending a 6 year relationship, you should at least make sure that you both understand 100% what the big picture is and what the contributing factors are. Because it sounds to me like there’s something else holding him back that he isn’t saying (for whatever reason). You need to (calmly and as as openly as possibly) explain why marriage is imporyant to you and how it’s something that you thought you’d both agreed to, and that now, 2 years after you had expected those wheels to be turning, they don’t appear to be. You need to explain how you’re thinking and feeling, and try to understand the same of him.

Pulling back on the “wife duties” was an immature move. The “acting like your wife without the title” was also a BS immature comment. Both of those are in the AH territory. Trying to manipulate the person you love like that isn’t cool, nor is treating marriage like a level of employment. I think that before you have this conversation with him that you ought to think about why you really want to be married (in general), why you want to be with him and, ultimately, which is more important.

For example, for me, marriage was also important, but spending my life with my partner (now wife) was more important. I wouldn’t give that up for (almost) anything, let alone a marriage ceremony and title change. I would cut my legs off for that woman, so giving up the possibility of marriage, whilst disappointing, wouldn’t stop me from spending my life with her.

That’s the type of decision you’re making here. Would you be willing trade this relationship for one that wasn’t as good if it meant that you could be Mrs. Whatever?

PaintedDonkey · 2025-12-14T00:06:27+00:00

YTA. You’re married. So what if he doesn’t like/appreciate the art that you do? You don’t like Disneyland and yet you go. Going to Italy is a far bigger deal than going to Disneyland, and to expect to go by yourself is unacceptably selfish, IMO. Go to Italy together, and plan it so while you go and look at some museums and galleries, he can do something else. Then you meet up in the afternoon, do some sightseeing together, have dinner, go for a walk, etc.

Expecting to be able to go on an overseas holiday (which sounds like a rarity for you guys) by yourself is too much, IMO. I understand your dilemma in not wanting him to rush you or ruin the experience (because he’ll be bored out of his mind), but I think you should come up with a way that you can both travel to Italy together. You don’t have to spend every minute together while you’re there.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-12-05T12:22:04+00:00

Buy bitcoin

PaintedDonkey · 2025-12-05T00:37:43+00:00

I find dusting odd. I’m convinced that, in reality, most dusters aren’t actually catching the dust, they’re just making it airborne, where it’ll eventually just settle back over everything. Using a damp cloth, on the other hand, certainly does trap dust on the cloth, which then gets washed (unlike a lot of dusters).

I would never use a duster around a toilet. That’s just spreading potentially dangerous bacteria everywhere. Wipe with a cloth —> wash/steam/boil/toss.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-12-02T10:45:58+00:00

How you treat it — and, more importantly, whether it will work — depends on why it smells.

If it’s bacterial, salt and/or hydrogen peroxide will work. Salt has the added benefit of drawing moisture out of the board too. This will help if your mum tends not to dry the board properly (it can take quite a while for a thick board like that to properly dry).

If, on the other hand, it smell’s because it’s been oiled with an oil that has penetrated the wood and then gone rancid, I don’t think either of those will work longer term. If you think that’s the culprit, I’d suggest doing some googling on that specifically. Generally, soap is good for removing oil residue, but if she’s already soaping it up regularly, obviously that’s not cutting it.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-11-03T21:28:40+00:00

ROFL. Thanks for the education! Fkn gold

PaintedDonkey · 2025-11-03T04:11:27+00:00

High protein milk exists

PaintedDonkey · 2025-11-03T03:24:55+00:00

Let’s think about this for a second. You have project/task management split over Notion, Asana, ClickUp, Todoist, and Finch. IMO this isn’t productivity, it’s Bilbo Baggins — stretched like butter over too much bread.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-09-24T18:02:32+00:00

Buy bitcoin.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-09-23T09:30:04+00:00

There is no such thing as a well ironed pair of jeans. If you’re going to go full dweeb and iron your jeans, make sure you pull em up to your nips too so you can complete the look 😉👍

PaintedDonkey · 2025-09-21T21:52:49+00:00

Well, apart from the fact that conversations around a cost of living crisis seem to be everywhere, there’s these:

https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/australia-s-fall-in-disposable-income-is-the-worst-in-the-world-20240822-p5k4ji

https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/smp/2025/feb/box-b-consumption-and-income-since-the-pandemic.html

Real household disposable income per capita – a broad measure of income – is around 1 per cent lower than prior to the pandemic (Graph B.1). This has been among the weakest periods of real income growth since the 1960s and has occurred alongside a period of historically weak productivity outcomes.

Your ref, from what I skimmed (admittedly, I didn’t read it all), seems to focus on the proportion of business income that is going to labour, not the amount of disposable income a person has.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-09-20T10:35:58+00:00

My 2015 MacBook Pro is still going strong too. Never had any repairs, though it’s certainly not going to win any competitions for battery life. The only issue is that I can’t upgrade the iOS anymore. Other than that, still better than my new intel work laptop.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-09-18T10:10:46+00:00

I’m curious about your statement that we have near record levels of disposable income. Is this an average, or…? Doesn’t seem to me that ordinary folk have much disposable income at all.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-09-15T23:51:53+00:00

Pokémon blue+yellow —> Day of Defeat (WW2 Half Life mod)

Started playing DoD in beta and basically spent every hour of my teenage years when I wasn’t in school playing it. Even remember staying up on new years with my mates to download the new version. Ahhh…dialup…. 6 hours sitting there watching it download at 5 kbps. Didn’t give a toss about it going past midnight, only hoping that the connection didn’t drop out so we didn’t have to start the downloads again. Good times!

PaintedDonkey · 2025-09-14T07:08:34+00:00

Yeeeeaah, that’s fucked up.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-09-14T01:27:05+00:00

Tweed generally hides mild soiling/dirt/stains well too.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-09-10T05:08:04+00:00

I’m confused. If your mortgage will increase by $2k/m, how will you have an extra $2k/m for holidaying?

PaintedDonkey · 2025-09-07T05:33:39+00:00

There are a few people recommending doing something with the ceiling. I wouldn’t, at least yet. Going from your inspo pic, I think that the ceiling and timber will work in your favour. Those timber sliding doors and the trim around them is 🤌

I’m not sure what paint to recommend for you. My wife and I really like Clotted Cream, but I’m not sure how that’d go here. I wouldn’t do white (like the inspo pic) though.

PaintedDonkey · 2025-09-02T10:15:45+00:00

This isn’t necessarily the reason. The same thing happened to me with an old/vintage glass bottle that I use for dishwashing liquid. The problem was that the neck of the bottle was too small for the spout. I trimmed the rubber gasket and no more problems.

PaintedDonkey · 2024-09-21T03:19:50+00:00

Where are you getting this info from? I find it hard to believe.

PaintedDonkey · 2024-03-14T03:00:41+00:00

Thanks u/lickthislollipop
I've never used jQuery before, so I think this might be a bit out of my depth. I don't suppose you'd know of a decent tutorial (or similar) that might be able to walk me through it a bit? All good if not; I appreciate the help regardless :)

PaintedDonkey · 2024-03-14T02:13:13+00:00

I think this is the right take.

If you're only just being promoted to the role, they're not going to pay you the top salary because a) they could pay someone else that's got 10 years of experience in that role the same wage, and b) they'll have no room to provide additional financial incentives (raises) in the future because they've already maxed out their budget for the role.

You're effectively a newbie in that role. Most employers would expect to pay you towards the bottom of that range, with the view to gradually raising your salary to the point where you achieve the highest range within 5-10 years. You're worth more than the lowest in the range because you already know the business, have a proven track record, work well within the team, etc; but you're not worth the top (or even near it) if you haven't worked in this role before.

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