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We don't do that, we just take turns paying (approximately - although I'm sure there are some couples who keep a diary ).

I get £20 back on £1000 with my Tesco Clubcard if that counts? I suspect it's a throwback to having moved to Germany right at the start of my "adult" life, they've been suspicious of credit there ever since the Weimar Republic. There's still tons of shops and restaurants that won't accept credit cards at all, so it never crossed my mind to get one.

Hadn't considered a joint credit card (it's a decent idea really), but then I don't have a credit card anyway. Is that weird?

Similar here (and we're effectively living "as married"). Utilities and rent come out of my account and he pays me half; he tends to pay for all the one-off stuff (holidays, stuff for the house etc.) and I'll pay him my half afterwards. It's a 30-second job on internet banking these days so it's not like it's a big imposition. I can see the point of a joint account if it's an additional account into which you both pay for covering (e.g.) utility bills and the like, while keeping your own separate accounts too. But only having a joint account and nowt else, particularly when we're both in gainful employment... nah. If I want to spend the whole day in the pub on a Suuuuper Sunday or he wants to blow silly money buying dodgy 1990s country CDs on eBay, we shouldn't have to worry about explaning the expense to each other afterwards. (For the record, he earns less than me, but then I did cradle-snatch him when he was 19.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10180552/Gay-marriage-clears-the-House-of-Lords.html Wey there we go.

http://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/14/Please-Send-Pizza/ CT, could be worth a try.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/essays/2013/deadly-triangle-afghanistan-pakistan-india-d?utm_expid=23328448-5 Sticking this in here for want of an obvious place for it. Long but very readable piece on the Afghanistan/Pakistan/India situation, past, present and future.

You shouldn't put yourself down like that. Some of them have nice arses too.

With Gay and Powell out and Gatlin hugely suspicious in light of his past bans (imo), technically James Dasaolu is the fastest man over 100 metres this year now.

Announced today that Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell have tested positive for banned substances. Rumours about Nesta Carter too. All buckling under the pressure of trying to catch up to Bolt, or...?

Our new central defensive partnership:

It's dull as fuck when the host nation wins any tournament really. (I realise that's not the point you're making. )

Shane on you.

Literature and fine art.

67.8%

So pretty much what Tom said then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZgzSwTW0Qs

Nah, this is beer-based. It's closer to shandy than to Two Dogs.

Which win of you is Simon Bord? You're a can't.