gersuk Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Going to be at least double this time , i say don't fill it in. Lost in post! Simples. Census Rebellion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sp@@k Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Arrived today, Torn between just filling it in in Binary/Hex/ or putting it through google translator for some obscure language - or with all the letters upside down and back to front. Nosey Sods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 I have received my form to complete this morning and it says: You should use black or blue ink to answer There is also a leaflet with it, to explain in about 50 languages how you can get a form in another language. Sounds good - what colour ink to use, what other langauges you can get the questions in, but nothing about what language it needs to be filled in in, or with what characters (so could write in English using Greek letters). Edit: I suppose blue or black ink rules out Braille Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HPC001 Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 43 questions, everything from name to whether you turned down a job in the last 2 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Of course you could go the other way and add ficticious names to panic the government into thinking there are far more people here than there really are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Woods? Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 43 questions, everything from name to whether you turned down a job in the last 2 weeks. This is unacceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Of course you could go the other way and add ficticious names to panic the government into thinking there are far more people here than there really are. Since I'm being compelled to fill this in in my own free time, can I send them an invoice for 3.5hrs of my life? eight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ologhai Jones Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Since I'm being compelled to fill this in in my own free time, can I send them an invoice for 3.5hrs of my life? Damned good question! (Damned sad answer: I suspect not.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Since I'm being compelled to fill this in in my own free time, can I send them an invoice for 3.5hrs of my life? Since the very fact of unavoidable compulsion is already sticking two fingers up at you, then I suspect not. It's nearly as bad as tax returns from that point of view - "Spend your time to tell us how much money to give us" (conveniently ignoring the refund I got from the last one). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Since the very fact of unavoidable compulsion is already sticking two fingers up at you, then I suspect not. It's nearly as bad as tax returns from that point of view - "Spend your time to tell us how much money to give us" (conveniently ignoring the refund I got from the last one). I wouldn't begrudge them ten minutes for a census[1] or even an hour for a tax return (at least up to the point where you need to contact them over something that's unclear and start on a nightmare). The really frightening one is jury service. [1] though I would say mindyourowneffingbusiness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Just got my forms. There is no way many of the sheeple are going to properly fill these in. Waste of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 There is no way many of the sheeple are going to properly fill these in. You mean the sheeple are likely to ignorantly split their infinitives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 I wouldn't begrudge them ten minutes for a census[1] or even an hour for a tax return (at least up to the point where you need to contact them over something that's unclear and start on a nightmare). The really frightening one is jury service. [1] though I would say mindyourowneffingbusiness. I've nearly been stuffed with that one. Got called up for jury service but then a couple of weeks before it was supposed to happen they phoned up and said they'd got enough people anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ologhai Jones Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 You mean the sheeple are likely to ignorantly split their infinitives? He must've meant to say 'There is no way many of the sheeple are going properly in these to fill.' Anyway, there's no such thing as a split infinitive. The beauty of having the verb 'to be' as two words is so that you can squeeze other words in between. Especially 'boldly'... This isn't Latin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HPC001 Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Just as well no humans will see the raw forms, they're being scanned in bulk and data aggregrated by software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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