SUCCESS A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find a husband who makes more money than she can spend.

MONEY A man will pay €2 for a €1 item he wants. A woman will pay €1 for a €2 item that she doesn't want.

EATING OUT When the bill arrives, Mike, Charlie, Bob and John will each throw in £20, even though it's only for £32.50. None of them will have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want change back. When the women get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

Celebrity tutors who offer extracurricular help to failing students can earn up to $1.5 million a year in Hong Kong. The former British colony's tutoring industry is reportedly worth at least HK$400 million ($51 million), with official figures showing as many as half of secondary school seniors seek private tutoring after school. Some of these […]

Love them, or hate them, we all have to pay them:- Ambition is always rewarded . . . with high taxes. There is no tax on brains; the amount raised would be too small. The taxman takes up so much of your earnings to balance the budget that you just can't budget the balance. If […]

A McDonald's advert, which promotes the Pound Saver Menu, says, "the pound, also known as a bob". Since when? I mean I know inflation is on its way, but a bob is British slang term for a shilling, or five pence, and of far less value than a pound. If I went to McDonald's (which […]