merry christmas to all visitors and members

its 10 days to christmas day

so its time to wish every visitor and member at respectful benefits a merry christmas

have a nice time and a merry christmas to all

Merry Christmas and happy new year to you all too.

Merry Xmas and a good new year in 2020   . Thanks for all the help and support I have received from this forum. And an especially a big thank you @Admin, for keeping this forum going.  


And well it is Xmas:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOEsjRGK_ck

Also I wonder if some at the staff at the DWP will be visited by the 'Ghost of Universal Credit' past this year....

Sorry @Admin, at my age you might need to translate this posting????  

Merry xmas to everyone here at respectful benefits and guests perhaps in the spirit of the season some of you might be able to put the past behind us and move on (i'm sure some wont) and wish everyone peace and goodwill to all men/women.



A Politically Correct Christmas Poem

Twas the night before Christmas and Santa's a wreck...
How to live in a world that's politically correct?
His workers no longer would answer to "Elves",
"Vertically Challenged" they were calling themselves.
And labor conditions at the North Pole,
were alleged by the union, to stifle the soul.

Four reindeer had vanished without much propriety,
released to the wilds, by the Humane Society.
And equal employment had made it quite clear,
that Santa had better not use just reindeer.
So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid,
were replaced with 4 pigs, and you know that looked stupid!

The runners had been removed from his beautiful sleigh,
because the ruts were deemed dangerous by the EPA,
And millions of people were calling the Cops,
when they heard sled noises upon their roof tops.
Second-hand smoke from his pipe, had his workers quite frightened,
and his fur trimmed red suit was called "unenlightened".

To show you the strangeness of today's ebbs and flows,
Rudolf was suing over unauthorized use of his nose.
He went to Geraldo, in front of the Nation,
demanding millions in over-due workers compensation.

So...half of the reindeer were gone, and his wife
who suddenly said she'd had enough of this life,
joined a self help group, packed and left in a whiz,
demanding from now on that her title was Ms.

And as for gifts...why, he'd never had the notion
that making a choice could cause such commotion.
Nothing of leather, nothing of fur...
Which meant nothing for him or nothing for her.
Nothing to aim, Nothing to shoot,
Nothing that clamored or made lots of noise.
Nothing for just girls and nothing for just boys.
Nothing that claimed to be gender specific,
Nothing that's warlike or non-pacifistic.

No candy or sweets...they were bad for the tooth.
Nothing that seemed to embellish upon the truth.
And fairy tales...while not yet forbidden,
were like Ken and Barbie, better off hidden,
for they raised the hackles of those psychological,
who claimed the only good gift was one ecological.

No baseball, no football...someone might get hurt,
besides - playing sports exposed kids to dirt.
Dolls were said to be sexist and should be passe.
and Nintendo would rot your entire brain away.

So Santa just stood there, disheveled and perplexed,
he just couldn't figure out what to do next?
He tried to be merry he tried to be gay,
but you must have to admit he was having a very bad day.
His sack was quite empty, it was flat on the ground,
nothing fully acceptable was anywhere to be found.

Something special was needed, a gift that he might,
give to us all, without angering the left or the right.
A gift that would satisfy - with no indecision,
each group of people in every religion.
Every race, every hue,
everyone, everywhere...even you!
So here is that gift, it's price beyond worth...

"MAY YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES, ENJOY PEACE ON EARTH"

Pintel wrote:Also I wonder if some at the staff at the DWP will be visited by the 'Ghost of Universal Credit' past this year....

dwp being   by the ghost of universal credit

“Ring Out, Wild Bells” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (from In Memoriam)

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die…

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.


Merry Christmas to all.

Admin wrote:Also I wonder if some at the staff at the DWP will be visited by the 'Ghost of Universal Credit' past this year....

dwp being   by the ghost of universal credit

Thanks @Admin, I am not used to reading “Hieroglyphic’s”. Maybe I could go on a DWP course on how to read "emojis"...  

Hi, I’m new here. I used to post in the Welfare Central forum but that has mysteriously disappeared without any warning to its members.

I’m still mystified at the election result. Yet another instance of turkeys voting or Christmas.

Seasons greetings to all here, despite nothing to really celebrate.

Nice one Brutus. Pic looks like me today recovering from too many beers.

Merry Christmas,

Jobber