Ex-Dons

[Shetland Don]

At the not quite vintage age of 62 I’m guessing, 57?

[57vintage]

I’m no doctor but do you think that may be connected in some way to your insomnia?

No, ruled out a decade and more ago, but thanks for the concern. I just manage it, mo caffeine after 4pm.

[57vintage]

At the not quite vintage age of 62 I’m guessing, 57?

Nearer 63, but you’d be right.

[donsdaft]

Nearer 63, but you’d be right.

Dottled auld b'astard.

You're 64 if you're a day.

[donsdaft]

I'll be able to retire .....if the doc gives me 3 months to live.

Even then only if I tell the government to stuff their repayments on the bounce back loan.

Actually, I'm ALWAYS on about retiring, but this would seem a dodgy time to do it.

INFLATION is the latest wolf at the door.

My folks sold their flat in Rosemount in 1969 for £950
They were hoping for £1000 but no chance, the lack of that £50 cause a lot of problems.

Still, before you think my rambling is getting worse.

If you had retired in 1969 with £1000 in the bank, you would have been forgiven for believing that that was enough to "see you oot".

The price of a flat in the bank.....today's equivalent must be around £150,000
If I had £150,000 in the bank I would certainly consider retirement.

Now, before long, that £1000, instead of being the nest egg you thought it would be, was not much more than a months wages.

I accept that Vintage is going to answer this with exact figures of average earnings but you get the general jist.

BEWARE INFLATION !

It's time to stay in the game, not pack it in.


As a small aside.

If and when I am found dead in the back shop, halfway through a particularly awkward rimless, don't let anyone tell you "it's how he would have wanted to go"

Because it f'uckin isn't.

[Shetland Don]

I'll be able to retire .....if the doc gives me 3 months to live.

Even then only if I tell the government to stuff their repayments on the bounce back loan.

Actually, I'm ALWAYS on about retiring, but this would seem a dodgy time to do it.

INFLATION is the latest wolf at the door.

My folks sold their flat in Rosemount in 1969 for £950
They were hoping for £1000 but no chance, the lack of that £50 cause a lot of problems.

Still, before you think my rambling is getting worse.

If you had retired in 1969 with £1000 in the bank, you would have been forgiven for believing that that was enough to "see you oot".

The price of a flat in the bank.....today's equivalent must be around £150,000
If I had £150,000 in the bank I would certainly consider retirement.

Now, before long, that £1000, instead of being the nest egg you thought it would be, was not much more than a months wages.

I accept that Vintage is going to answer this with exact figures of average earnings but you get the general jist.

BEWARE INFLATION !

It's time to stay in the game, not pack it in.


As a small aside.

If and when I am found dead in the back shop, halfway through a particularly awkward rimless, don't let anyone tell you "it's how he would have wanted to go"

Because it f'uckin isn't.

£150K wouldn’t be enough unless your expiry date is imminent so keep working so you can live rather than exist I’d say.

[57vintage]

Dottled auld b'astard.

You're 64 if you're a day.

I’ve been 64, I’m not now, and some of it was fun.

The holidays on the Isle of Wight, the birthday greetings and bottles of wine, although some of the postcards stating points of view were written in green ink, and obviously from zoomers, roasters, and wallopers. Oddly reminiscent of posts on here by zoomers, roasters, and wallopers somehow.

Vera, Chuck and Dave didn’t even send a birthday card though, the grippit little ****ers.

Born under a bad sign
I bin down ever since I began to crawl
If it wasn’t for bad luck
I wouldn’t have no luck at all

[InversneckieDob]

halfway through a particularly awkward rimless.

Eh hmmmm.....rules?

[donsdaft]

This one wouldn't be awkward, but it'll have to do.

[57vintage]

Foster in today's Scotsman: "Sectarian jibe sparked fan row, claims Foster.

Partick Thistle player Richard Foster has claimed a sectarian jibe prompted him to react angrily towards his own fans.
The 36-year-old former Rangers and Aberdeen defender had to be held back by team-mates after he was subjected to "outrageous" abuse while making his way towards the dressing-room at half-time of last Friday's match away to Ayr United.
Foster was unaware at the time of slurs about his singer wife, Amy Macdonald, which subsequently became apparent from video footage, but he explained that one fan in particular triggered his angry response with a sectarian dig.
Speaking on PLZ Soccer, he said: "It was stupid of me to react because that's exactly what they were doing, trying to get one of us to react.
"Some of the stuff – and not just directed at me, but the whole team – was outrageous, stuff you'd get arrested or battered for in the street.
"I heard a couple of things and thought, 'I'm not taking that from a Partick Thistle fan'.
"It was stupid from me to react but some of the stuff was ridiculous.
"I don't even know why you would think, 'I'm going to say that to one of my own players' and then expect me to come out for the second half and be like, 'Aw great, I can't wait for the second half and really try and play well now!' It's just a strange, strange mindset.
"First and foremost, I shouldn't have reacted,” added Foster, inset. "But people tend to know that I'm so passionate when I'm playing and when I'm getting beat, I'm not happy and I react probably more easily than I do when I'm winning.
"Some of the stuff he said. It was only after that I heard the stuff about Amy, but before that, I heard the sectarian stuff and that's what changed it.
"You can't see it in the video but I'm walking away from him, then I hear that. It was the wrong thing I heard at the wrong time and I just reacted to it.
"It wasn't and it's never nice to hear, particularly because it was said to me by one of my own fans. It wasn't a great evening."

Tut tut.

Prick.