wives just licked the envelope shut
do the panel consider that dna checks will be carried out on all envelopes recieved
wife says shes not afeared
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Who filled in the form?
Could cause confusion if they tie your name with her DNA......
Last edited by: VxFan on Sun 27 Mar 11 at 16:49
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no worries tony shes the main no 1 on the form
see mees clever
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The DNA answer is to do it online!
Pat
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Well - we won't be in our new house on census day and by the time they come calling at our present temporary address we won't be here either!
Escaped from it I hope!
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You won't be on your own 1 million people didn't fill one in last time and there was only 38 prosecutions. I've not got one yet so I probably won't have to fill one in anyway.
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There are so many illegals in the country the whole thing is a farce anyway.
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I hope this time that the rebels will be hunted down and confined in a Guantanamo Bay type facility in Slough.
Actually it occurred to me that if any of my descendants felt like doing some genealogical research in 100+ years it would be rather a let down for them to find no information, so I have filled it in fairly diligently - notwithstanding that I am am sceptical of its present day usefulness given half the people I talk to seem determined to screw it up.
I thought the said descendants might also be embarrassed to have an ancestor who claimed to be a Jedi knight, so I kept to the path of (non-religious) righteousness.
To be honest, I didn't find it onerous to do online. And any future researchers will be spared transcription errors.
The bit I found odd was about where I worked. The choices are something like "mainly from home/no fixed place/offshore installation/the address of a 'depot' " where you work. None of these applies to me because I don't work in a depot. On the basis that there is the odd day I don't go in to the office, I settled for "no fixed place".
I thought depots were for buses.
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I don't give a damn about my genealogy, so I feel similarly about any possible descendants giving a damn about it either!
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>> I don't give a damn about my genealogy, so I feel similarly about any possible
>> descendants giving a damn about it either!
Well, I've decided mine can make their own decision ;-)
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With the Dugong on this one. Not that difficult to spend an hour in every ten years on a civic duty.
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My Dad's got two census forms with slightly different addresses on each. I'm not sure which database is used to generate the forms - is it Register of Electors?
Which one does he fill in and will they come a knockin' when he fails to return the other?
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I don't like the question about central heating.
I'm in a lower council tax band than many of my neighbours, apparently because the council isn't aware I've got central heating. At least that's the conclusion myself and another neighbour have come to when comparing otherwise identical properties.
I've never been dishonest about it before now. I was once asked if I've fitted central heating and I honestly replied no. They family who owned it before did, perhaps they weren't asked.
Future generations might think I lived in abject poverty.
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>>I was once asked if I've fitted
>> central heating
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No, the heating engineer fitted it. :)
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We completed our 2001 Census form, and evidently forgot to post it, as we found it buried in a box of junk, in a cupboard, still in its sealed envelope when we were clearing out everything to move house in 2005. Nobody had ever chased it.
I didn't risk it this time, and did it online. Painless enough.
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>> I don't like the question about central heating.
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>> I'm in a lower council tax band than many of my neighbours,>>
Tax evasion eh, how long before one of them shops you?
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Thought about doing it online, then realised i'd doing someone out of a meaningful index linked job opening envelopes, so filled it in.
Not as bad as i thought, work questions were quite amusing...what job title? 'Truck Driver', what work do i perform? 'Drive trucks'.
The ethnicity questions weren't quite as bad as many i've refused to respond to in various forms, white people at least had the option of putting a note of their ethnicity on the bottom line (SWM Greek for example), unlike most forms where being white requires only a tick, but if you happen to be of other skin tone, they want to know the ins and outs of the cats behind...that's why i don't answer those unfair questions.
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>> job title? 'Truck Driver', what work do i perform? 'Drive trucks'
I thought about that one for a bit GB, I ended up answering the second question "Make general deliveries across the UK" or something like that. Not sure how/if that information will be used, mind.
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Not sure how/if that
>> information will be used, mind.
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It'll be used in history lessons, after some PC rewriting no doubt.;)
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GB said:
>> Thought about doing it online, then realised i'd doing someone out of a meaningful index
>> linked job opening envelopes, so filled it in.
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>> Not as bad as i thought, work questions were quite amusing...what job title? 'Truck Driver',
>> what work do i perform? 'Drive trucks'.
Well, if you are a Top Gear fan, you could always try this one:
Job title: Truck driver.
Work performed: Murdering prostitutes.
Probably not the place for humour though.
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BT, there is no possibilty of the council (or the valuation office which actually undertook the 1991 CT valuations) being able to access and act on individual data in the census.
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>> BT, there is no possibilty of the council (or the valuation office which actually undertook
>> the 1991 CT valuations) being able to access and act on individual data in the
>> census.
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You mean in the same way as no-one can see how an individual voted at an election?
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>> You mean in the same way as no-one can see how an individual voted at
>> an election?
There's an audit trail for voting slips for the investigation/prosecution of electoral malpractice and fraud. It's about things like personation, multiple votes etc not about finding if ST is a socialist or a tory.
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>> >> You mean in the same way as no-one can see how an individual voted
>> at
>> >> an election?
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>> There's an audit trail for voting slips for the investigation/prosecution of electoral malpractice and fraud.
>> It's about things like personation, multiple votes etc not about finding if ST is a
>> socialist or a tory.
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Maybe not... BUT the audit trail IS there - and COULD be used to discover the way an individual votes....
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>> BT, there is no possibilty of the council (or the valuation office which actually undertook
>> the 1991 CT valuations) being able to access and act on individual data in the
>> census.
I presume that the detailed information is restricted access, with proper safeguards, and that the anonymised information is the stuff that gets passed around to councils et al.
I suspect some people might have fears that it is used by the police, to investigate tax evasion, illegal immigration, or whatever.
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It will be processed in America or India, or someone will leave the master disc in a briefcase on the tube.
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or a USB stick on the bus somewhere.
Still at least Lockeed Martin are processing all of the survey results so we are in good hands there (sarcasm indeed).
I can't wait till the next census.
I bet they will want to know frequency of bowel movements and how long the last toilet visit was.
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Once a day.
No more than five minutes - the seat was cold this morning.
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>>I bet they will want to know frequency of bowel movements and how long the last toilet visit was.
Reminds me, I got a letter about bowel cancer screening. It's not a procedure I'm looking forward to and I haven't worked out how I'm going to do it.
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>> Reminds me, I got a letter about bowel cancer screening. It's not a procedure I'm
>> looking forward to and I haven't worked out how I'm going to do it.
I have a couple of friends whose family history requires this indignity on an annual basis. Quite a bit of re-assuring stuff on Lynne Faulds-Wood's charity site.
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Not THAT unpleasant BT! I was put on a funny hydrailically movable table which rotated me around, after I had drunk a very big glass of some barium glurp. The insertion was no worse than experienced at a fee paying school in the 60s ISTR and is a lot less hassle the the big C itself, trust me!
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Hahaha you've made me laugh out loudly !
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Correcting typo "Less hassle THAN the Big C", didn't correct the hydraulic thing cos I can't spell. Alf Garnett once said in a moment of great political incorrectness that he reckoned that peopl who liked the back door should have their lower backs tattooed "This is an exit - not an entrance"
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Nothing that invasive!
I understand it's all done by mail - I haven't received it yet
Here you are: tinyurl.com/6djjgzy
Pop a poo in the post!
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I am not too sure BT. It is called a screening because they put a TV camera in your poo chute and then the experts look at the pictures on a screen! Or perhaps you have got it right. If you have I can't quite see what you are not looking forward to!
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The Welsh Assembly were promoting this as an initiative - it definitely meant putting a jobbie sample in the post ! Mingingly gross.
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>> The Welsh Assembly were promoting this as an initiative - it definitely meant putting a
>> jobbie sample in the post ! Mingingly gross.
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Surely only if there's a dodgy postie stealing and opening parcels.......
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>> >> The Welsh Assembly were promoting this as an initiative - it definitely meant putting
>> a
>> >> jobbie sample in the post ! Mingingly gross.
>> >>
>> Surely only if there's a dodgy postie stealing and opening parcels.......
Hilarious! I recommend marking the parcel "Contains valuable jewellery" and placing the poo is inside an opaque container.
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If your census form turns up after the 27th March, and you were in someone else house that night do you still have to fill it in?
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Census envelope - swiss tony
