It seems to be a popular subject, as this post has since become my second most hit on post ever, beaten only by the Ciggy Busters. Remember them? What fun we had.
It's started getting more hits and some new comments this past week because, I think, people are Googling 2011 census. Also, many bloggers have written posts about this intrusive piece of government data gathering.
The general theme seems to be, "how do we rebel?" "What do we do to shove this piece of nonsense up some collective butts"?
It was on my original post where I first saw the idea of putting your religion down as "Smoker".
Anonymous said...
I have it in mind to put my religion as "Smoker"
George Speller
20:20
That idea seems to have gained a lot of momentum and I'm sure there will be many "smokers" filling in this years census forms.
Having thought long and hard about it though, I have decided not to go down this route. There are many options open to us, however I am just not going to fill this one in. It will be in the bin straight from the doormat.
Longrider said...
Another method that was used during 2001, I believe, was to simply blame the post office for the forms going "missing". Yes, I sent it in. Prove otherwise...
17:19
Quite.
The fact is, I can't be bothered filling the whole thing in. I can't be bothered making up pages of misinformation, even if it does mean I can put smoker as my religion.
I just don't want to encourage the buggers.
I asked last week, if anyone knows how to put a poll in a blog post. That was for another post I have coming up, but for now, let's give it a little try:
Will you be completing the 2011 census?
11 Comments:
I won't hold my breath though as I asked how many records have been handed over under the following categories of the Statistics and Registration Services Act 2007
(e)is made in pursuance of an order of a court,
(f)is made for the purposes of a criminal investigation or criminal proceedings (whether or not in the United Kingdom),
(g)is made, in the interests of national security, to an Intelligence Service
I will be extremely surprised if they respond before this years census has been put to bed.
I guess what you have to ask yourself is "In a hundred years time when my great great grandchildren are reading it, do I want them to think I was a cunt?"
Difficult question! Of course, it's use in FH is basically to establish relationships, occupations and place of residence. Religion is secondary, but useful if you want to trace a left footer. The rest is just state sponsored spying.
I notice the 'No' campaign isn't saying "We need a census, not an alternative voting system"
Or a velodrome come to that, but I digress...
For information - the polls also appear to work from within Google's RSS reader.
I may "engineer" an online fail via a proxy.
Or I may just put it where I left my 5 sparkling new recycle bins that the council deemed privy to dump on my driveway: in the one large conventional black bin that I will continue to use.
Dioclese - Ok, it has one good use but I wonder, in these days of information services, is it really necessary for that purpose anymore? Besides, that doesn't justify the huge intrusion that the census has become.
As to the question of who thinks I'm a cunt in 100 years time, I really couldn't care less. Anyway, I'm not having any kids so my line ends here.
Beware of Geeks - 5 bins? Are they asking you to re-cycle your rubbish or file it?
AE - What are the questions like on your census?
But it is a "computer record" exercise. They go through all the local "registry offices" and "resident registration offices", and add them all up.
For what jobs people are doing etc, they use the tax records. Any other information is "sample gathered" by asking 1% of all households in Germany, to asnwer quetions put by an interviewer, who comes to the house.
But if you get a request, you can just tell them to piss off, and they have to go to the next on the list.
Just say no!
Olly
They wanted to know how many toilets you had in your house, and all sorts of other stupid, noisy questions. These basturds aren't entitled to know squat about us. We send in our tax money, that's all they need to know.
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