Census forms...

[Pelicanbill]

My wife is a statistician! I'm happy to let my wife do the form filling. She will take absolutely ages making sure she puts a tick in the box that most closely agrees with her understanding of the question. She will agonise and purse her lips and suck her pen and I will help.

I will make her cups of tea and I will turn the pages and I will be altogether attentive. All this I will do because she is determined to keep my blood pressure down ... it's called

I'm all in favour of the census

[TonyN]

I tend to agree with Ross in general, if you want to participate and get society to work you need to fill it in.

How many cars you own is at the DVLA, and how many extentions and sheds you've built is easily countable by looking on google earth.

Get pro-active when the dumb laws are preposed rather than just try and hide what you have is the best way, look at the recent climb downs on selling of the forests and other stuff, due to public pressure. This is only way to work the system and if they ignore you a good march down Whitehall always helps.

Having said that, persoanlly, we'll see what gets filled in when I get one....

[Paul1566]

I'm gunna fill it in so when my relatives look me up for thier family tree they will think great great great great uncle paul was a jedi master
who drove a delorean and lived in a stately home on a council estate...............

[Hawaii]

think I've been a bit naughty as i filled mine in on line and also returned the paper copy.

Does that mean i'm now 2 people with 2 wives with 4 kids & 6 cars living in 2 houses?????????

hawaii

[POPEYE]

I neither aggree or disaggree with anyone, i used to be so indesicive but now i'm not so sure
however regarding this form, i do find it a bit of a nonsence, theres nothing in there that they couldn't find out by actually getting off their arses and doing some legwork, god knows thers enough of em, there's a bl00dy great "census" office complex near here at segensworth estate, i've done plumbing there and often wondered what the hell they all do, like the inland revenue they want us to do their job for em, any information gleened from these forms is totally reliant on "honest" answers, can you see abdul putting down his fifty "cousins" who are here on visitors visas (or non at all) and work for f##kall in his resturant? and illeagle entrants wont get a form in the first place, i'll fill it in and prob miss many of the questions i think they have no need asking, anyway it's only every five years so bo biggie, they could have the decency to address it to me and my wife as opposed to "occupier" tho, so impersonal,

[flounderbout]

I've changed my mind. I am going to answer question 17 only.

[Rustinho]

I've changed my mind. I am going to answer question 17 only.

This amused me about Q.17

"Census question 17 is actually a secret test of our creativity and should not be left blank. Draw a cock in this box"

[schrodingers-cat]

This amused me about Q.17

Thanx, for a minute there i thought i`d have to open the envelope to find out what question 17 was

[JUDWAK]

its needs filling in
like many things in this world
i can think of a few that need filling in

[Sancho]

You're all weird. I filled it in online. It took five minutes. 'They' haven't come after me yet.

[JUDWAK]

last time i threw mine in the bin
there was a bloke at my door a few week later with loads of them forms
i was told to fill it in or he would summons me
so i filled it in there and then

so your better off filling it in
its only every 10 years and its for history records too so i dont mind that much about it
it is a bit fekin noisey tho

[slobodan]

We had one here in 2002 I think.
But they came in your house and they asked the questions and filled in the form.
At the end they asked to fingerprint all the adults in the household.
I politely refused that, and I was spared the gulag.

[MWS]

There's an easy way to deal with all of this. Amuse yourselves! Fill it in, telling them what you want them to know, and then, lie about everything else. You could invent a whole new fictitious persona. (think Lukenemma).....Have fun, kids!....Mick.

[schrodingers-cat]

last time i threw mine in the bin
there was a bloke at my door a few week later with loads of them forms
i was told to fill it in or he would summons me
so i filled it in there and then

so your better off filling it in
its only every 10 years and its for history records too so i dont mind that much about it
it is a bit fekin noisey tho

Ignored it last time, ignored the man at the door, they go away eventually this time its got the added incentive of i refuse to take part in something thats being run by an american arms company

[schrodingers-cat]

I`m much more concerned about This