BS: Census day

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: JHW
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 06:16 AM

I was always told whether you put jam on your scone first or cream depended on whether you were CofE or Methodist. (other faiths are available).
Personally prefer just scone + spread. No jam or cream.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 06:09 AM

Doug: Save them for later. At least you won't get cream stains on your clothes.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 05:52 AM


or Do you eat it with nothing on?

No. The crumbs get in my belly button.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 05:46 AM

Both.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 05:42 AM

"Do you put jam and cream on a scone?

or Do you eat it with nothing on?

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 05:15 AM

Those could have been interesting, if controversial, questions.

"When putting jam and cream on a scone do you:

    put the jam on first ?

    do it the wrong way round ?

    I don't eat scones."


"When pronouncing scone, do you:
   
    rhyme it with gone ?

    pronounce it incorrectly ?"


Or, the most controversial:-

"When eating a boiled egg, do you put it in the egg cup:

    blunt end up ?

    upside down?

    I don't eat boiled eggs"

"When opening the egg, do you:

    slice ?

    smash and waste time picking off all the bits of shell ?

    the butler does it"


I don't think that there is any benefit to asking about people's preference for putting milk in before or after although the dairy industry might be interested in how many choose lemon or, indeed, nothing at all.

These should be serious considerations for 2031 and beyond.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: DMcG
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 05:10 AM

"How to pronounce scone"

As a student in my flat were two Northerners and one Southerner. I remember going into a bakery after such a discussion and the Southerner ordering "Two 'scon's and a 'scown', please."

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 04:24 AM

A great opportunity missed to answer some of life’s great questions: milk in first? Cream or jam first on a scone? How to pronounce scone? What is the definition of ‘folk’?

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 04:17 AM

I did it online several days ago, on behalf of myself and husband. I translated every question for him so he could answer for himself. But he couldn't for the life of him understand the sexual orientation questions. He just kept repeating "Mais, je suis HOMME!!!" ever more angrily, so I just tried to figure it all out myself for him and filled it in appropriately. (He's not LGBTphobic, just confused!)
I do see that the Census helps the government to assess the numbers and location of many types of people - ethnicity, sexual self-identity, languages spoken and so on, in order to provide facilities, cater for needs and so on.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Murpholly
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 03:42 AM

Apparently I don't exist. I did not get a leter about the census (the one that gives an identification number) and I still have not received a form from the powers that be. My poor descendents will have problems tracing me!

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 01:39 PM

Done, took about 10 minutes each.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 12:23 PM

Excellent Joe.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 12:13 PM

One wouldn't think a census would be controversial, but It certainly was so in the US in 2020. The Trump Administration did what it could to suppress the counting of immigrants and minorities. Tweaking census results was a big part of the Republican strategy to get more power in legislative bodies. I worked on a campaign to register as many Latinos as we could. We did pretty well.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: DMcG
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 10:52 AM

Jos: You are right the first census was 1801. I just haven't had occasion to refer to information back that far yet. When I have gone to that date, it has usually been following other threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Jos
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 10:27 AM

RE: "Hadn't worked out that paper was an option"

Not everyone has an internet connection, so paper has to be an option if those not online are to be included.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 10:01 AM

Or about professional qualifications.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Jos
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 10:00 AM

DMcG - Shouldn't 1881 be 1801?

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Raggytash
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 09:53 AM

I was a tad surprised that questions were asked about education below degree level but none were asked about degree level and above.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: DMcG
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 09:39 AM

I filled in the online system earlier today. It doesn't greatly bother me and I have made a lot of use of the data from earlier census data for family tree research. In a way, it feels like paying back a debt to these people from 1881 onwards to provide similar information for people to come.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 09:37 AM

Ahhhh. So now we know the real reason for this thread :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 08:13 AM

Equally daft questions about "gender identity"!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 07:41 AM

Daft questions about where I "usually" live. I don't "usually" live here. I live here, and have done for 34 years!

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: JHW
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 07:36 AM

Hadn't worked out that paper was an option (though News broadcasts say 'form')

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 04:33 PM

Yes paranoid.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Jos
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 04:30 PM

I sent for a paper census. I'm probably being paranoid but I didn't want to enter so much personal information online.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: JHW
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 03:26 PM

Done mine already. If I peg out meanwhile I'll not be worrying. Scared with it being online it would be overloaded on the day.
(That happened with booking my jab I assume. Loading thingy went round forever. I rang 119 and got my jab that way.)

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 01:32 PM

In theory I would have been allowed to enter my nationality as Cornish. I've been here for 35 years, after all. But after consulting locals who were actually born in Cornwall I was told that incomers can regard themselves as Cornish only after they've been in the churchyard for 20 years...

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 01:11 PM

North American yes, not South American by any means!!

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 12:44 PM

"Our society" "the government".
I remember some years ago when people occasionally objected to Americans assuming everything was American. The tides have turned, haven't they? (I'm not incensed, but it *is* ironic. Maybe in the Alanis Morrisette way.)
We finished ours last fall. Remember the hoopla about the citizenship question? People who live here who aren't "official" citizens are still living here.

I really don't know how that ended, and what results they might have had, although they're probably still compiling data. Ours does all the things yours does, and I think it has to do with voting and apportionment. We don't get treacle pudding, though. :(

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 12:01 PM

The census asks questions about you, your household and your home. In doing so, it helps to build a detailed snapshot of our society. Information from the census helps the government and local authorities to plan and fund local services, such as education, doctors’ surgeries and roads.

It is of course, as we all know, a conspiracy to find out the likely consumption of treacle pudding & custard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 11:37 AM

I'm amazed at the important things people decide to share with the entire population of the planet with an internet connection. Wow. A census.

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Geoff Wallis
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 11:35 AM

Why don't you use a pen like everybody else, Bonzo?

Subject: RE: BS: Census day
From: Raggytash
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 11:28 AM

Another attempt to create discord perhaps?

I shall complete it because I am obliged to.

Subject: BS: Census day
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 11:12 AM

Looking forward to completing the 2021 census form with my wife tomorrow!!