Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod (Post 892411)

Don't see what all the fuss is about , the same info about you can no doubt be geaned from various other sources, mine's filled in. Think about the Domesday Book and all the info that people have learned from that, it was essentially the same thing, and if you are of a religious bent, wasn't the census the reason that Joseph and Mary had to travel to Bethlehem?
Been around a good long while.:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 892414)

Yes, it would be a pain, if we had a biblical style census, and had to return to the place of our birth.

No way am I spending a March night in a hedgerow on Wiswell Lane, because there's no room at Bramley Meade.

:D

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 892419)

I think I might well heed what Margaret R posted.

"This questionnaire has been completed to the best of my knowledge and belief."

At the time I fill in the more nosey bits, I'll do it in the belief that I'm a simpleton.

I might even have pulled an imaginary friend that night.

:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 892502)

Mine was addressed to the Occupier, I take it they are all labelled the same?

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 892582)

I think it's all part of the control of it's people attitude the UK's government seems to want over everything. The last time anything in this vein happened in Germany was in 1987 & that was after reassessing the outcry of the public against proposed surveys planned for 1980 & 1983.

There is apparently something planned for May this year & it is to involve a random selection of the populace. The reliance on records & information already held will be the main content of the census here & nowhere near as impertinent, invasive or intrusive as the UK Census looks to be.

http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&source...vvP5mA&cad=rja

Originally Posted by mick (Post 893632)

https://onlinemb1.census.gov.uk/questionnaire/login.do

If you went to this site less it is secure note the httpS:

if you went to any other site then i just hope you did not give too much info away:D

Originally Posted by heth (Post 894203)

Filled mine in, took ten mins and wasnt bad at all.
Had to fill the t'other halfs details in aswell in the "Person 2" bit as he couldnt be bothered!!

Typical bloke :D

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 894230)

Took me about 15 minutes for 5 of us. Hardly rocket science stuff is it

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 894234)

Don't know what all the fuse was about really:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 894244)

i been counted on the spugsters as a visitor... and now that im home ... im going to fill mine in ... counted twice ... once in scotland and once in england ...

Originally Posted by heth (Post 894260)

:eek: What you had to count your fuse's??!!! :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 894268)

Hey:confused::confused::confused::confused:

Originally Posted by Benipete (Post 894272)

Another one of your famous typo's you wrote fuse instead of fuss.:)

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 894280)

Beni that wasn't a typo I just spelt it wrong:D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 894267)

:eek::eek::eek::eek:Two Jens, bloody hell:D:D:D

Originally Posted by heth (Post 894289)

:rofl38: How old are you and you cant spell fuss??!!

Originally Posted by heth (Post 894289)

:rofl38: How old are you and you cant spell fuss??!!

Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 894309)

tis scary aint it jaysay!!!! :D:D:D

Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 894311)

something like 9 in dog years heth .... :D:D:D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 894355)

That's nothing heth you should have seen my english 30 years ago, why do you think I became a joiner when I left school instead of an author:D ya don't need english the cut wood or knock nails in:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Restless (Post 897562)

i wonder how many people wrote 'jedi' or 'dudeism' this time in the religion section :D

Originally Posted by accyman (Post 897575)

a woman came round our way today knocking on doors for the census forms.

i was out on the street talking to a neigbour when she knocked on my door so i just shouted over that i had nipped out .She then had a natter with me and my neighbour while she waited for me to get back but gave up after 5 mins when i didnt end up getting back as soon as we thought i would.

i didnt fancy telling her i accidently threw the form away with all the other junk mail that gets shoved through my door:)

at least the poor lass got a 5 min breather as its been too nice today to go around knocking on doors :)

Originally Posted by ***Mr D*** (Post 903365)

So has anyone NOT filled in the Census?

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 903558)

No (what a bloody silly question):D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 903558)

No (what a bloody silly question):D

Originally Posted by ***Mr D*** (Post 903605)

Why is it a bloody silly question?

Originally Posted by ***Mr D*** (Post 903605)

Why is it a bloody silly question?

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 903658)

Well you posed it:D

Originally Posted by ***Mr D*** (Post 903667)

Not as Silly as the responce though.;):D

Can you not answer the question without a one line comment?

Originally Posted by katex (Post 903676)

I am interested in Mr. D's question too ... and whether they will be prosecuted.

Originally Posted by katex (Post 903676)

I am interested in Mr. D's question too ... and whether they will be prosecuted.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 903672)

I find it very hard work to use a full line to answer you;) usually two words will do the second one being off:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by ***Mr D*** (Post 903685)

Such a friendly chap arnt you.

Why dont you just put me on your ignore list instead of spamming my posts with one line (noting to do with the thred) comments.:confused:

Originally Posted by ***Mr D*** (Post 903682)

I will let you know.;)

They cant prosecute a house and its only if you refuse to complete it so there letters say.

If they come knocking you are not obliged to talk to them or give them any details.;)

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 903841)

So you took a conscious decision, not to fill it in?

Keep us informed what happens. Will be interesting.

When researching their family tree, I bet your great-great-great-grandchildren will wonder why you aren't on what's supposedly the last ever census. Until one remembers that he heard that you were bloody minded sod.

:D

Originally Posted by ***Mr D*** (Post 903365)

So has anyone NOT filled in the Census?

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 903558)

no (what a bloody silly question):d

Originally Posted by AccyChris (Post 904252)

jaysay i've a 1word answer for you my friend.....bahhhhh

Originally Posted by AccyChris (Post 904245)

hello Mr D i've not filled in my cencus i wrote on the envelope NO CONTRACT RETURN TO SENDER...i've had 3 visits from cencus employees saying its compulsery by law to fill it and i MAY be fined when to my understanding it falls under the cencus act which is only given the force of law by concent of the governed..all 3 time they've been sent packing with there tails between there legs im now awaiting the non conpliance officer knocking at my door and im sure he'll be doing the same :)

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 904261)

i'm not your friend:p

Originally Posted by ***Mr D*** (Post 904266)

I know, I wondered if you would post on here.;)

As you know I go by the fact there is no law that says I have to answer my front door.

It says if you refuse you COULD be fined, well I wont be refusing anything.

Originally Posted by AccyChris (Post 904272)

I think you should grow a pair and stand up for your rights Mr D rather than hiding under the bed when the cencus employees come knocking lol

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 903841)

....When researching their family tree, I bet your great-great-great-grandchildren will wonder why you aren't on what's supposedly the last ever census......

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 904286)

It wont be a problem as the chem trails will stop all white Christian British people from breeding so he wont have great-great-grandchildren :rolleyes::D

Originally Posted by ***Mr D*** (Post 904294)

Is thats what they are all about, any video's to back this claim, and how racist is that then.:D (Please post them in my Chem thred, dont want to thred wander)

Good job my kids arnt christians then.

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 904296)

White British Christians are not classed as a race which is why no one ever appears to get in trouble for being prejudice against us :D:D

Originally Posted by AccyChris (Post 904268)

thats ok with me my fellow human being

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 904444)

I would have loved to have chucked it in the bin...but himself didn't really want to be forking out £1000 for a fine.......however, as head of the household he should have filled it in....but filling in forms is just not his forte.....so I was 'volunteered' for the job........I might have been truthful, then again I might not.(I haven't outgrown all of my teen rebelliousness - and some of the questions seemed not to have any relevance to what future generations of genealogists will want to know about me)

1 million households did not fill in the census form at the last census.....I don't recall hearing of anyone being fined.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 904520)

I have no problem with filling in forms, I have been doing it for a large part of my life.....and it wasn't the time angle of the filling in which was the problem, after all if I could find time to go to work, then I could find time to fill in this form.

It had more questions on it than previous years forms and some of them seemed to have little or no relevance to anything.
Now don't go asking me which ones they were because I have deleted them from my hard drive(my brain).....and if they pull up my form for some of the (maybe) less than truthful answers, then I will deny all knowledge of them........anyway it was himself who signed the front page.....and HE didn't check my answers.

They say that this may be the last census, but I'm not sure it will, and I feel we are constantly being told to do things, by governments, that will be good for us, because it will let them know what we as a society need!
Don't be daft....they know we need jobs, then know we need medical and social care, they know we need towns and cities with suitable infrastructure to support those needs.

And.....this is the crux, they should know how many of us there are in this country.
You have to register births, marriages and deaths. Marriages do not matter much, since many people these days do not bother with such a formality.

The problem for governments arose when they stopped checking who was coming into the country....illegal immigrants, but it is still going to be a problem because such like these folk won't have filled in a census form will they.

I was taught to be questioning, to seek out information and not take everything on face value....that many people have their own agenda when asking you to do something, and that they might tell you it was to improve things for myself if I did what they wanted......this is especially true of government(whatever persuasion), their agenda is always different to what they would have us believe.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 904623)

No, John....I didn't sign it and I didn't put him down as a Jedi Knight........I put him down as a druid priest :)

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 904623)

No, John....I didn't sign it and I didn't put him down as a Jedi Knight........I put him down as a druid priest :)

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 904635)

He can go if he wants, but I'm not going......there's just nowhere to sit.......and I'm too old to be sitting on damp grass....them days are long gone.:)

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 904638)

Anyway, it was just a figbox of my imagination........can't imagine him wearing the headgear though.




Hey, we're going to be getting done for thread wandering!!!

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 904714)

Grassmarks are hellish to get off those long white robes too.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 904760)

some of the young ladys i took to such areas used to graze on the green stuff.:hidewall:

Originally Posted by katex (Post 904762)

I understood that bestiality was illegal ?:confused:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 904713)

John you'd make a good mod, your interpretations of the threads are so broad you'd need binoculars to see to the other side. :D

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 904764)

Thats cruel i never called em beasts, cows yeh but never beasts.:eek:

Originally Posted by walkinman221 (Post 904758)

There speaks the voice of experience:D:D

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 904862)

Yes...but only in the context of getting the stains out of the long robes:D:D

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 904954)

Would I lie to you John?
I have told you I led a very sheltered life.
I never was a 'grass stain girl'..........well, only perhaps once, and I'm married to him. (wink wink)