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bombur · 10-21-2002, 11:36 AM

In British census I heard that thousands of people marked jedi for their religion. The guardian or the Times, whichever, made a story of it and I red it through the net.

(Finnish news is rather unreliable. Language group of 5 milion is very reliant on the comercial news services, they are all US based, politics comes to play... well anyways, I read the guardian and the Times.)

The paper put a good headline to the news "Ask a stupid question..." It seems to me that the Russian census is also getting rather stupid anwsers [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Sometimes I think it is sad that Finnish government does not do things like this. Nationality is only asked in the school for for the purpose of native language and b-foreign language classes in school. Religion only matters to know whether your records are in the census bureau or in church archive. (Though religious communities get tax exemption... few friends of mine tried once to apply for registration of cult of the great Cthulhu to the internal ministry. They almost made it.)

It seems we are missing a lot of fun for not having nosy gov. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Giving stupid anwsers to stupid questions is about the most fun thing there is.

Janne Harju

10-21-2002, 11:36 AM	#28
bombur Wight Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: finland Posts: 126	In British census I heard that thousands of people marked jedi for their religion. The guardian or the Times, whichever, made a story of it and I red it through the net. (Finnish news is rather unreliable. Language group of 5 milion is very reliant on the comercial news services, they are all US based, politics comes to play... well anyways, I read the guardian and the Times.) The paper put a good headline to the news "Ask a stupid question..." It seems to me that the Russian census is also getting rather stupid anwsers [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Sometimes I think it is sad that Finnish government does not do things like this. Nationality is only asked in the school for for the purpose of native language and b-foreign language classes in school. Religion only matters to know whether your records are in the census bureau or in church archive. (Though religious communities get tax exemption... few friends of mine tried once to apply for registration of cult of the great Cthulhu to the internal ministry. They almost made it.) It seems we are missing a lot of fun for not having nosy gov. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Giving stupid anwsers to stupid questions is about the most fun thing there is. Janne Harju