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I put Jedi.

anyone else?


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 8:52 pm
 emsz
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Why?


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 8:55 pm
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I put the truth.

Jedi.

No, not really.


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 8:57 pm
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Didn't think kids were supposed to fill them in ? 🙂


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 8:58 pm
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You crazy muddafudda OP.


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:00 pm
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Doesn't putting Jedi and therefore confirming you are religious when you're obviously not, just mean that the government will allocate more money to religious loonies in your area?


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:00 pm
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when does it have to go back?


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:00 pm
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[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:01 pm
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Fisha earlier Today.

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:02 pm
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Fisha, seen earlier today;
[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:02 pm
 Drac
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High Five CFH!


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:03 pm
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"Pagan Cyclist"


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:03 pm
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😆


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:03 pm
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"Pagan Cyclist"

Now that's more like it.


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:04 pm
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you and 68 million others


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:04 pm
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Heh! I was just thinking the same thing, Drac and Flashy! 😆

Great minds....


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:04 pm
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tazzymtb,

The Yoda picture made me make a strange snorting noise. 😯


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:10 pm
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With your nose/mouth or with your bottom? 😐


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:32 pm
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well im putting jedi

and what will uk bikeskills- jedi be putting?


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:40 pm
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[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:46 pm
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No religion for me.

Putting Jedi is at best pointless, and at worst counter productive.

No offence to any actual Jedis, but those who put it as a 'protest' are idiots.

Oh, and those who do actually think they are Jedis are idiots too (cancel the bit about no offence).

Dave


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:52 pm
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you is all just jealous of my midiclurian count


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 9:55 pm
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Why?

I believe it's so that people 100 years in the future will be able to identify those who, 100 years in the past, would have been called 'feeble minded'... 🙄


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 10:05 pm
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the online census went quicker than expected!! no jedi nonsense here


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 10:17 pm
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well i just did it online and i filled it out for kimbers junior
we are both jedi - hes my young padawan


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 10:24 pm
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I was boring and stuck to the "No religion" option. Don't want to give religious types any extra help misrepresenting the stats.


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 11:30 pm
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All you Jedi's should listen to this:

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00zq87j/Saturday_Live_26_03_2011/ ]Yesterday's Saturday Live. [/url]

Contains an interview with the leader of your church, Mr Daniel Jones, or Morda Hehol as he prefers to be known.

More about him [url= http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2642956.ece ]here. [/url] and [url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/18/jedi-religion-tesco-hood-jones?commentpage=all#start-of-comments ]here. [/url]
Seems even the newest religions feel the need to whine about percieved
injustice 😀


 
Posted : 27/03/2011 11:51 pm
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No, but then I have a life.


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 7:30 am
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Notice of Conditional Acceptance and Request for Clarification

Dear Ms. Matheson,

I write in response to the Census form received on --/03/2011.

I must admit to being a little confused, it was my understanding that the census was instigated as a simple numerical count of the population; however, the information required in this census form far exceeds this mandate.

I am happy to complete this census form subject to receipt of clarification of the following points.

1. What law requires me to complete the census?
2. From where does the Office for National Statistics derive the lawful authority to demand private information?
3. Is there a limit to invasion of privacy?
4. Is the Office for National Statistics lawfully authorised to demand Private property?
5. How can we be penalised for failure to provide information
6. Are there any circumstances whereby security agencies may access census information?
7. Since census data be requested by law enforcement, can I not answer so as to not to incriminate myself?
8. Since every government database has been hacked, leaked, lost or compromised in some fashion, how can the Office for National Statistics claim data security with any confidence?
9. Is the Office for National Statistics responsible for mishandled data?
10. What evidence do you have that I am a United Kingdom Resident?
11. Can you confirm or deny that the census data will be handled by an American Arms Manufacturer Lockheed Martin?
12. Can you confirm or deny that all U.S. companies are subject to the Patriot Act which allows the U.S. Government full access to any data in that company’s possession?
13. Can you confirm or deny that the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 section 39 subsection 4 would allow disclosure of personal information to any and/or all o the following:

• The 56 geographical and 8 non-geographical UK Police Forces.
• The three UK Intelligence Agencies (MI5, MI6 and GCHQ).
• The Department for Work and Pensions.
• Private investigators working for the Department for Work and Pensions to hunt down “benefits cheats”.
• Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs tax investigators.
• “Approved” Insurance Industry “anti-fraud” investigators / private investigators.
• The Home Office Borders and Immigration Agency.
• The Serious Organised Crime Agency (either for domestic investigations into Serious Crimes, or for these and also for minor investigations if requested by a Foreign Law Enforcement agency under Mutual Legal Assistance treaties.
• Lawyers in civil Court Cases e.g. for Divorce or Libel or Copyright Infringement etc.
• Local Authority Trading Standards departments.
• Local Authority Environmental Health departments.

Please provide your response in the form of a Statement of Truth, sworn under penalty of perjury and upon your full commercial liability within seven (7) days of receipt of this notice, I respectfully return your census form until such time as these conditions are met.

If I do not receive such a response conforming to the above criteria within, it will be deemed a tacit agreement by your acquiescence that this census is unlawful and that I have no obligation to participate.

Sincerely without malice, ill will, vexation or frivolity


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 11:20 am
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Ooh i like that.


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 11:29 am
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Someone has too much time on their hands.


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 11:42 am
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That's great. Wish I hadn't filled mine in now.


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 11:44 am
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I scrawled all over mine........included what a fantastic full moon night ride I had had over the Duddon Fells!!!

I'm expecting a rewrite.

There were no questions on "magnificence".....

To quote The Clash

"they told me it would be out here somewhere

out on this road"

and it was...on an old pack horse track at 21.30 under moonlight.

I thought it was important that they understood that but they hadn't had the foresight to ask.

Nor was there a question anywhere on Henry Weston's Vintage Cider.

Who writes these things?


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 11:47 am
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lawmanmx

can you post the reply if/when you get it please 😀


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 12:19 pm
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Sincerely without malice, ill will, vexation or frivolity

That bit's wrong, you need to fix it.


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 12:24 pm
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Notice of Conditional Acceptance and Request for
Clarification

Does anyone know where this originated?


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 12:43 pm
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it was my understanding that the census was instigated as a simple numerical count of the population; however, the information required in this census form far exceeds this mandate.

Which census was that then?

[url= http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8860 ]The 1851 census[/url] had questions about jobs, place of birth, marital status and "Whether blind, deaf, or idiot".

And the 1086 Domesday Book census was to determine [i]"What, or how much, each man had, who was an occupier of land in England, either in land or in stock, and how much money it were worth."[/i]

Or do you mean an earlier one? 🙂

1. What law requires me to complete the census?

Mainly the 1920 Census Act, but knock yourself out:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/census/2011-census/2011-census-project/legislation


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 12:45 pm
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Lawmanmx - Member
Notice of Conditional Acceptance and Request for Clarification

etc etc etc

So, what's your (or rather the person who wrote this letter) objection then?

You voluntarily choose to live in this country controlled by a government. They supply services and allow you to live here, the freedom to work any job, spend your earned (or unearned) money as you see fit, procreate, etc etc, so why shouldn't that same government be entitled to ask each of their citizens this set of questions?

If you don't agree with it, or the level of 'intrusion' and prefer a more private life, then haul ass to Siberia, or some sub-Saharan African country where you can live out the remainder of your life in total privacy?


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 12:59 pm
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Yeah! Love it or leave it buddy!


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 1:03 pm
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Kit, please tell me you're not serious.
Have... to... resist... the troll...


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 2:21 pm
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I'm curious as to why peope have a problem with filling out the census?


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 2:59 pm
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What census?


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 3:04 pm
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chose to Kit???? i was born here (where's the choice in that) i just Like to have the "choice" to fill or not fill in any correspondence, and not to be THREATENED with confiscation of funds if i dont comply.
is that so very wrong of me in this "so called" free country of ours?


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 3:09 pm
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Kit, please tell me you're not serious.

I am being serious!

Everyone here has, at some point, had a bank account, had an employer, used the NHS, paid the taxman, and perhaps even made a purchase with a bank or credit card. And all of us are using the internet.

Therefore we have all, at some point, volunteered personal information to one organisation or another. Have you, at any point, told them to stuff it? Have you questioned their legal right to take that information, and what they will do with it? I very much doubt it, so why is there a problem telling the government the same information?

Or am I being horrendously naive? And if so, then I will gladly be enlightened because at the moment I do have absolutely no problem with the government knowing what they feel they need to about me.

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chose to Kit????

Yeah, go live somewhere else if it's a problem.


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 3:12 pm
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I've to fill out a form once every ten years to confirm that I'm me, I live here, I've not spontaneously turned Afro-Caribbean and I still have a limb at each corner. Meh, I've had bigger hardships.


 
Posted : 28/03/2011 3:13 pm
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