Scarlet Pimple

Kanaka----you know, IHE, where all the mooses are? Mice are very small and mooses are VERY big. I think they weigh in at about 2000 lbs........ Ideal for a centre half for us. If you are interested in hiring one fer Caley Thistle just send me a PM and I will see what I can do. Will cost you though--them thar big ' uns don't come cheap.One look at their spread (antlers) would even frighten the French let alone a chirpy centre forward.

And Canada Bob--where art thow now?

So, in which country were you actually born, Oddquine? The United States or Scotland?

De-motivator--- or just not able to motivate? The latter can only come from the heart not the wallet!

Ominous enough to spoil his weekend for sure.

Stark's Park, Kirkcaldy is a really cute venue. Cozy atmosphere I would imagine?

So, Laurence...and your point is.....?

YOGI : ? Means ......."You Oll getting It?" Yep, we get that you need a break so you can come back fresh as paint and twice as energetic and ready for .. more success! Forget the naysayers and their ilk and set your goals high by getting us high on goals. And don't forget to consult the oracle -- the one and only IHE. He's ITCHING to gooooo as well.

WOOOOOH! Chas--better forget that you also are a human being as well as a journalist with a right to your opinion on here as much as anyone else.

And I would be absolutely devastated if he signed for Aberdeen for ....30,000 pounds. They think that because he is young that offering such a low figure is good , speculative business. Kenny, give him another few years and, if he can keep healthy, he should be seen not only as a very valuable team member but an investment for the future.

Welcome from Canada , Dale 94. Best football in the north here at ICT. Glad to have you on board. Fasten yoyur seat belt though!!

Stanton is young and therefore "saveable" and able to be tutored without too many bad influences or memories of his stay under T B. By the way, he is NO relation to the former great Pat Stanton who entertained the Pimple on many a blustery Saturday afternoon at Easter Road long, long ago. In these days, never in my wildest dreams would I hav thought that Hibs would one day be relegated and by the infamous former manager of the team I really love - ICT. If only we knew what lay ahead of us...eh? Reminds me of the old saw."Wad the guid Lord the gift tae gie us to see oorselves as ithers see us". Holey Moley--all I need to do is look in the mirror daily and that tells me all I want to know aboot masel'..... Eh, IHE.?

Gypsies are Muslims????........... Stone the bleedin' crows. Why not read www.destiniesinmotion.com for a revealing look at Gypsies in their true forest habitat. Dancing in colourful,, costumes, consuming quaffs of this and that, always willing to stand by and help a known friend and stealing what they can from whom they can because they can. And are much smarter than what we " tink" they are.

Thanks, Oddquine, for that summary going back donkeys' years. "Who would have thunk it?" is my response but, frankly, my eyes glazed over after reading the first paragraph. You are right--do even the lawyers understand it. However, I will send your comments to the main office of the CABP and maybe they can glean enough material from this to strengthen their case. The research you have done is amazing. Keeping this thread running to this point is also incredible. Let's face it, a rose by any other name smells the same so the crux of the issue is that over the years the British Government has used every excuse under the sun to NOT pay us pensioners living in Ex-Commonwealth countries and only public opinion and an about face in Whitehall will change their attitude it seems. A ton of thanks for going out of your way to dig this deep.

You know it never occurred to me that Lennon might go, eventually, to Hibs but if things don't improve there then who knows? But I don't think that will appeal to Neil though--first of all, Rod Petrie will be severely disinclined to pay Neil what he thinks he will be worth and in England he can hide a wee bit and maybe make it really BIG. Eventually, he may come back to Scotland but he is on record as having stated clearly that he wants to manage in England.

"Enter Willie Collum as the referee." Ha! ha! The tension will be so great the authorities felt a more relaxed approach was necessary and then Hibs would also relax and win. You see, that would be important because Easter Road can pack in over 20,000 fans whereas the other team can't. So which team is more important to the Authorities? Heh! many a word spoken in jest ... Them guys are D E V I O U S .

No, Alex. The non- uprating references relate only to the DSS pension paid into my RBS bank account in Scotland monthly. My Royal Bank pension in pounds is a very small one indeed because I only worked for them for 19 years and the bank uprates it annually by about 2-3% but with an upper limit of 3%. Since inflation has been so low in the last few years they have never failed to pay the annual increase that matches British inflation rates within their policy that I can recall. So, in general, it matches the reduction in the value of the pound in real spending terms. On the other hand, the British Government Dept. of Social Services pension, which is supposed to be directly related to the past contributions you paid to them when you worked in Britain, is also paid into my Scottish bank account in pounds but the amount of the monthly deposit is exactly the same as what it was when I received the first payment some 11 years ago at age 65 when I reached retirement age. i.e. inflation has eroded it's buying power steadily because it has never been adjusted (uprated) to counter the annual devaluation in spending terms. So far, as a rough guess, my DSS pension is now at least 22%% less in value in real spending terms than it was on the day I started getting it some 11 years ago, despite the fact that I paid exactly the same amount of contributions as any other employee during my working life in Britain. And that is why the Canadian Alliance of British pensioners is so upset because we have found that one pensioner living alone in Toronto is trying to survive on five pounds a week and the longer he lives the worse it gets. The only way he can eak out even a meagre living is to go to the Canadian Government and apply for the old age supplements for those on, or below, the poverty line. So, naturally, the Canadian Government has been contributing to our cause to have this policy of non-uprating reversed and abandoned because it's costing the Canadian taxpayer money to subsidise the British pensions paid to ex-pats who live in Canada, S. Africa, Australia and New Zealand. But, by way of contrast, all residents in Britain or in any other country other than ex-commonwealth ones get an annual uprating to their British pensions. Go figure.

Oh. and I don't understand your references to the Canadian Government paying upratings in line with U K rates. ? Firstly the rate of inflation in Britain has historically been virtually the same as that in Canada on a yearly basis--eerily so. But this similarity is meaningless unless each Governemnet pays an inflation-related uprating on an annual basis to their ex-pat pensioners living abroad. Canada , but not the U K , pays an annual uprating to all their pensioners, no matter where they live in the world, that is directly linked to the prevailing rate of inflation each year.

Because, Pull My Finger, the reciprocal agreement to which you refer is a Tax Agreement not one that relates to the payment of pensions. Many of us in the Canadian Alliance of British Pensioners have heard successive British persons attempt to allude to this as an excuse for not paying the uprating but here is what the Agreement with Canada is all about: When I receive my pension from the Royal Bank of Scotland it is paid into my Scottish bank account without any British tax being deducted at source because the TAX AGREEMENT with Canada refers specifically to what is a reciprocal Government policy which cuts both ways for each country. But I have to declare the Canadian dollar equivalent of the total annual pounds pension income at tax Return time to the Canadian Government .i.e the total dollars received by me when the pension cheques have been cashed at the Canadian Bank must be declared on my tax return each year. As to your comment about the double edged sword , sorry, but I don't know what you mean. If an ex-Canadian, naturalised U K resident who lives in the U K cashes a Canadian dollar cheque in the U K for his or her pensions, it may be that they have to also declare that income to the British Government but not to the Canadian Government. That's what is meant by reciprocity--what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Well, I have just replied and when I clicked on the Backspace button to do a spelling error correction the whole thing disappeared. This frequently happens whenever I am posting on this forum and I can't figure out why? The advice I was given was to either use the copy and paste function or use Ctl V functioin but neither worked to transfer the text to the webpage . No, I don't post on other Forums and simply browse. To post you have to register which is time consuming and posting is likely to be a very rare event so this would be a waste of time; so I just browse. Scotty, it is not as if this is a critical issue for me and if it will cause a real challenge for you then I don't expect you to do anything at this time. --especially since a low percentage of people on here use I E 11 it seems. All I was searching for was advice and thought that it might be a simple matter of copying and pasting as formerly so what could be the error of my ways? I also found out recently that the reason according to Shaw Cable to my dilemma that I could not open their pdf billing was that they had approached Microsoft to change their coding for I.E.to allow for this and M/S refused to co-operate.....so they say? This sounds absolutely bizarre but that's what they say. But Firefox works fine to open the bill every time.

That's strange because I don't have the issue on other webpages or sites with I.E. 11. And I wonder why you now offer three selections for pasting when we used to be able to just copy and select paste from our own right-click drop-down menu?

Alex I have had a similar problem for half the season. When I try to copy and paste anything, nothing happens when I get back to the webpage where I want to paste. There has been a change I think on the website for this function and we are now offered three choices from which to select to paste--but none of them work . And simply selecting "paste"from our own right-click drop-down menu also doesn't work. I contacted TMFTJob but was unable to completely follow the instructions or maybe I did follow them correctly but that didn't work either. The typing is generally O.K. but often I lose the whole typed post without any reason that I can fathom--just suddenly evaporates. I would really like help with the pasting thing though!! I run IE 11 on Windows 7.

The prices shown here are remarkable, horrific even. For me , on a pension for income, they would not be affordable. Huge salaries for players need to be pared down in order to ensure a reduction in prices. Will it happen?--Very unlikely IMHO. But if fans refuse to appear through the gates there is a possibility that sanity will prevail. With the large teams in England packing the stadiums weekly, just think of the enormous sums of money pouring in to their coffers. Why would they reduce prices ?

As I think I mentioned previously, the total cost of any uprating is infinitesimal in terms of the percentage of the overall pensions' budget. From the figures quoted by the Can. Alliance of British Pensioners it's about 0.5%. All these politicians think about is money in their pocket and whether or not they can persuade the great unwashed public to vote for them. After so many years (5 in Canada) a pollytishin gets a pension and , of course, it's based on their salaries. When the CABP, along with the other Australian supporters, took the case to the High Court in London the learned Judge was sharing Cheri Blair's chambers so, naturally, the case was turned down - not on merit but due to alliances within the Judiciary--bearing in mind that Cheri Blair (that's Tony's wife) is a lawyer and probably a Barrister as well in Chambers. What a farce and how infuriating is that? The whole thing is a disgrace to so-called British Fair Play and justice itself. So how do the Bits know who lives where? Because all the Governments are in cahoots, that's how. The Canadian Government shares information on the financial affairs of it's citizens with the British Government and vice versa, for the precise reason that they do not want any tax evasions to go unnoticed. And if I lived in Israel or the U.S. then I would not be worrying about not getting an increase because I would already have had an annual increase from the time I reached the age of 65. You are dead right Oddquine. It's totally about saving money for the British Government and, what is worse, they unashamedly admit it. They cry the blues and then allow their M P's to clean out their moats on the public purse. Did you ever see the top politicians in London at any time in your life, swan around without a chauffeur in anything but a splendid and highly polished very expensive car? I will quit whilst I'm ahead but , to turn a phrase, they are hypocrites and readily find the money for their lavish spending don't they.

Maybe ICT should showcase their Irish Lads against some good Irish teams--will win friends and influence people and ensure a continuous stream of good, young prospects for the future. AND it's :smile:not far to fly to.,