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... but then I've been doing it all my life, so I suppose I can't really imagine whether it'd be also fun for someone who's never done it before

I agree on the comfort thing, but I think you're underestimating how much fun writing music is in itself. Same with learning an instrument, especially if you're playing with other people - it's more akin to getting fit playing 5-a-side than getting fit on your own on a treadmill

That's type 2 fun - doing something unpleasant and difficult because the "achievement" makes it all worthwhile Not for me

I think the big pro for joint accounts is easy access to money when one of you dies, as @Cornu Ammonis said.

Hahaha indeed. Don't think we ever had a surprise weekend. Before kids we had no money, and now every weekend is scheduled months in advance. If I had a surprise weekend planned I'd have to deflect countless attempts to put something into the calendar clashing with it, which would mean it was no...

We always shared money cos it seemed fairer that way. Why should I have more money cos I happen to work in tech and Mrs. egg_ works in wildlife conservation? ... but yeah, we have individual accounts as I said, though we may as well have a joint one. I stopped trying to surprise her with...

you'd wonder what led them to have to specify those particular things ..

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Yeah, actually made a will just a couple of weeks ago and the lawyer raised this. You can't just add someone to an existing account though, and it's a massive pain in the hole to change bank accounts (or at least it was fo me when Ulster Bank closed ... probably we should have opened a joint...

Well I get paid approx 4x what Mrs. egg_ gets paid, so they're never even (or rather - only even-ish at the end of the month when the money is all spent or saved for various things). We've been through phases when she was the main earner too, but that was pre-kids and unlikely to happen again. I...

We have been together since we were 18, so we were obvs too young for a joint account then, and I guess maybe there was never a time when it was obvious we should change. We treat everything we own as "ours" though, and kinda always have.

Taking notes as you go can be really helpful when you're trying to figure out how something works Maybe when I was younger I had a larger working memory and didn't need to do this, and that's why I'm only discovering it now?

I just feel like the song really plays into a certain sense of Irish victimhood

I find a room full of people from tge republic of Ireland singing "you'll never kill our will to be free" a bit nauseating. The Brits left a hundred years ago.

If I ask then I make it obvious that my kid has outed them to me

Hey I love Tom Waits too, and Damo when I manage to ignore nonsense like "Colony"

There's a friend of one of my kids who's identifying as a girl to her inner circle but a boy to everyone else. I dunno what to call the kid, who hasn't explicitly "come out" to me and whose parents are pretty freaked out about the whole thing, so I just avoid talking to him/her

I always thought Kae Tempest sounded like a preachy stoned 25 year old doing my head in

Today I learned that it's a lot harder to get the bathroom sink clean when you're wearing your glasses

... which is a pain in the hole when you're dealing with yanks or brits, cos they don't know what it means but don't ask.