2021 Census

wibble · March 6

Anyone filling theirs in early?

Also is putting Jedi (or Heavy Metal) as a religion still a thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon

Nitefly · March 6

I might go for Pastafarian...

JerkMoans · March 6

Dudeism

And 'European', for racial origin.

not_the_dj · March 6

https://humanism.org.uk/census-2021/

If you’re not religious say so, don’t say you are as a joke.

Sassafras · March 6

I can't prove anything either way.
Is there an agnostics check box?

DefaultM · March 6

Came in the post today so did it straight away before it got lost.

relic245 · March 6

Done mine too

DefaultM · March 6

Well I lie actually, I put it in my wife's place on the sofa and when she came in the room I pointed at it and said "that looks important".

axisus · March 6

Jedi? What a bunch of absolute twats.

WiresDreamDisasters · March 6

I'm going to be Catholic, and English, and cross out all references to British.

rlw · March 6

It's all very well doing it early but that's not what you're supposed to do, although obvs a lot of the information won't change.

And WTF is the point of making stuff up; that's about as stupid as not getting the vaccine.

prowla · March 6

Another bloody census??

SPECTRUM001 · March 6

prowla said:

Another bloody census??

That’s what I said - feels like we already did one quite recently.

Perhaps that was a bill...

Gizmo · March 6

Nitefly said:

I might go for Pastafarian...

Arr

Jazzthat · March 6

I pay taxes and I don't want to be disturb any more than that !

koneguitarist · March 6

Is there any options for Male Female?

That could be interesting

Stratavarious · March 7

Done it...

Tempted by Jedi but I did not want to help create the impression that barmy belief systems had more foothold and therefore rights, in the country.

Cols · March 7

koneguitarist said:

Is there any options for Male Female?
That could be interesting

Yes. There’s a mandatory question on “What is your sex?” and an optional question on “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?”

p90fool · March 7

axisus said:

Jedi? What a bunch of absolute twats.

Yep, cringey as fuck.

Sassafras · March 7

It's an interesting experiment.
Tell people to declare they're Jedi and they'll do it, like the vacuous unimaginative sheep they are.

Headphones · March 7

p90fool said:

axisus said:

Jedi? What a bunch of absolute twats.

Yep, cringey as fuck.

You'd have thought that they'd know how to spell "Geordie" properly by now...

usedtobe · March 15

The wife filled it in, online, for us both, yesterday.. I'm assuming she represented me fairly and correctly..

dano · March 15

I've been wondering if this year we'll see a lot of the Covid denier, brexit voter, anti BLM, anti Vax brigade coming out as anti-census.

BahHumbug · March 15

I’ve done mine already, mainly because (unusually for me) I didn’t read the instructions. No matter, the results wouldn’t be any different if I’d waited until the 21st.

thecolourbox · March 15

prowla said:

Another bloody census??

I know, why can't we just respect the result of the last one?

ennspek · March 15

Got mine out of the way online. Only took a few minutes.

boogieman · March 16

WiresDreamDisasters said:

I'm going to be Catholic, and English, and cross out all references to British.

I’m putting English. I’m not one of those rabid Brexiters who has a St George flag in the front garden but I think it’s a legitimate right to have the country of your birth down on the census. People are perfectly happy with folk identifying as Scottish Welsh or Irish, so why not.

The Jedi thing.... meh, it was funny for five minutes, now it’s just looks childish. There’s an option box for “no religion” anyway.

suspiciousminds · March 16

My mom used to get really angry about the Census,in particular the 1980/81 census.
Not a religious person,no strong political views etc, but as soon as the Census bloke tapped the door (they came and filled it in with you back in the day) she would completely go off on one as she thought it was state control.
she had to fill it in tho when after about 5 separate attempts the census man bought a policeman with him.
It was rather like Micky Flanagans sketch with the woman at the door flinging a cup of piss over unwanted callers.

usedtobe · March 16

We don’t feel defined by where we were born or live. I’ve no idea what British or English ‘feels’ like. I know a lot of people do, but we just don’t..
The wife put British in the end, as we figured it fitted best, out of the available options.
She put us down as having no religion, which we don’t..

skay · March 16

I put down both English and British, seeing as it allowed me to choose both, as I feel British when we’re winning medals in the Olympics (go Team GB!) but English when the football is on (fewer medals in this second one)

boogieman · March 16

usedtobe said:

We don’t feel defined by where we were born or live. I’ve no idea what British or English ‘feels’ like. I know a lot of people do, but we just don’t..
The wife put British in the end, as we figured it fitted best, out of the available options.
She put us down as having no religion, which we don’t..

I’ve no idea how it feels to be English as against British either. I’m not trying to be jingoistic or doing all that “we’re claiming our country back” crap. I was born in England, don’t see why I shouldn’t say that I'm English, that’s all. My passport says I’m British and I’m equally proud of that too.

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