This afternoon.
Government Buildings. Dublin 2.
Taoiseach Micheal Martin launching Census 2022 which will take place on Sunday evening, April 3, after it was postponed last year due to the rona.
There is a ‘legal requirement’ for everyone in the country on the night of April 3 to have their information recorded on a census form.
*theatrical wink*
Meanwhile…
When people are asked about their religious beliefs, ‘no religion‘ will be the first choice on the form followed by Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Islam, Orthodox Christian, Presbyterian and Other.
In 2016, no religion was last on that list.
On the question of people’s ethnic group or background, there is now a separate box for the Roma Community in Ireland to identify themselves.
For the first time, the form will include a “Time Capsule”, enabling members of the public to write a voluntary and confidential message of their choice which will be securely stored for 100 years.
Covid-delayed Census to take place on 3 April (RTE)
Just the devils advocate
You cannot lie on your census form so if you are Muslim and say you have no religion you are lying
The fact a bar code is on the form means you are identified
I will never fill in a census form full stop
Some Shīʿites would argue that taqiyyah covers certain circumstances.
Language.
It’s the same if you were baptised Catholic.
Are you afraid the CSO will tell your imam?
The CSO certainly needs to tell somebody that the poster has been role-playing Shayṭān.
It’s against the law to lie on your census
Not my doing and ask anyone in Ireland about the troubles
Religion is a private matter and I am being devils advocate
Also I did not say I was Muslim said if you were Muslim that goes for being a Jew Catholic proddy Hindu
And now on BS, it’s time to pick a fight with the census…
Looking back at old census (censi, censuses?) results is fantastic and incredibly important for historical research… but obviously the it’s more likely that the process will be used to put you in a death camp, or kill the first born Herod-style…
Also, this year you can include a message for the future… some of these will not age well!!!
Also, enumerators will be trained to jab the unvaccinated….
“And now on BS, it’s time to pick a fight with the census…”
Broadsheet have covered the Census in the past. So pretty true to form.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2017/08/10/out-of-our-census/
The last time BS covered a much more serious issue – homelessness.
Talking about homeless people bet they are left out for the census
I wonder where will their forms be delivered or are they not citizens?
homeless people are not left out of the census. each homeless facility is obliged to include them in a return.
The whole thing is funded by Schwab and Soros, you know. I saw a tiktok about it.
The census has always been fake news:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_Quirinius
No one had the right to demand off me what religion I am and no religion
Means you are an atheist
Religion has been the cause of 800 years of division in our country
you don’t have to fill that section in…. it’s not like it’s Russia
“Soz about the environment” is pretty much guaranteed to be relevant then. If there’s anyone around to read it that is.
So, David is back on the site?
I just can’t abide his oul’ shiitte
He posts like he speaks
It might take me weeks
To wade through the fart gas he writes
Shouldn’t the headline be “Finally, we’ve come to our census!”
OK, maybe not.
hehehehehe. Much better.
Very good!
Also, the message for the future option might be a useful exercise in unburdening oneself without fear of recriminations.
For example; I was riding the neighbour’s wife for years and nobody ever copped!
not even the neighbors wife ! ;)
Hah, there’s an elephant/mouse joke that ties in with that!
ha, at least someone could make head and tails of it ;)
There sure is Paulus and only to be delivered by a competent wit
Careful now … Belfast Tapes/Boston College …
“a voluntary and confidential message”
Voluntary perhaps, but if the census is still outsourced to a US organisation, I’d be very doubtful about the “confidential” bit.
I’d sort of expect that the messages would be read, sorry, screened, by the NSA or some such body.
”For the first time, the form will include a “Time Capsule”, enabling members of the public to write a voluntary and confidential message of their choice which will be securely stored for 100 years.”
I’d write ”for the record, not everyone back in this era was a lunatic, most, but not all.”
‘I hope there’s people still around to read these.’
Stoppit Nigel!
I am torn between a return to 80’s paranoia about the bomb and a secret hope I get a Pip boy and a kick bottom doggy to roam the wasteland and have adventures with.
I feel like that section is going to be a little lurid and very dark…
“Young people. Get out of this place while you still can.”
Doubt that one would date badly even after a hundred years.
Time for a song then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGi490LmaP8