Everyone in the UK - May the force be with you!

**HarryW** · Apr 5th, 2001, 06:09 PM

Okay I got some more spam but this is a bloody fantastic idea, read on:

> As some of you may know there is a census coming around on August the 7th
> [UK Only].
>
> For those who don't know, a census is where the government collates
general
> information about its residents (number of people living in your house,
> religion, etc)
>
> If there are enough people, who put down a religion that isn't mentioned
on
> the census form it becomes a fully recognised and legal religion.
> It usually takes about 10,000 people to nominate the same religion.
> It is for this reason that it has been suggested that anyone who does
> not have a dominant religion to put "Jedi" as their religion.
> Send this on to all your friends and tell them to put down "Jedi" on
> their census form. And remember ......If you are a member of the Jedi
> religion
> then you are by default a 'Jedi Knight'.
>
> So if this has been your dream since you were 4 years old.... Do it
because
> you love Star Wars, If not........... then just do it to annoy people.
>
> "May the Force be with you!"
>

Go on, you know you want to! I'm definitely going to, if I remember

**parksie** · Apr 5th, 2001, 06:14 PM

Hehe

I might just try that!

**kedaman** · Apr 5th, 2001, 06:36 PM

annoy people? maybe, but i sadly enought don't live in UK

**Jamagei** · Apr 6th, 2001, 02:54 AM

Coool,

**Mark Sreeves** · Apr 6th, 2001, 07:36 AM

I suspect that's a load of b o l l o c k s anyway!
I heard that a few weeks ago on Radio 4 (UK's serious speech radio station) but it was referring to New Zealand I suspect someone just decided to change it to UK because of the imminent census

**HarryW** · Apr 6th, 2001, 06:32 PM

An unbeliever!

chenko · Apr 6th, 2001, 06:37 PM

I'm up for it

**HarryW** · Apr 6th, 2001, 06:56 PM

I notice you've become a bit of a Slipknot fan Si

Heard Kittie? They're pretty similar. Best song is probably 'Brackish'. I think Mudvayne is a bit the same too, although I haven't heard much so I can't say for sure. Got their latest album 'L.D. 50' in the post from Amazon along with a load of other CDs though, so I guess I'll soon find out. Popular song at the moment seems to be 'Dig'.

chenko · Apr 6th, 2001, 06:59 PM

Been listening to SlipKnot for quite a while now!
Yep ive heard Kittie, dont think to much of em thou!

**jjortiz** · Apr 6th, 2001, 09:11 PM

I think since everyone in the states wants to vote Florida out of the Union i think that we can have another census and right down religion = Jedi.

**zmerlinz** · Apr 7th, 2001, 01:04 PM

We got our census this morning, so Jedi here we come, what about Kedimanism ??

**Pix** · Apr 8th, 2001, 02:55 PM

OK I'll write it down just to annoy people

Don't mind Star Wars though

ricmitch_uk · Apr 9th, 2001, 12:30 PM

I'd do it if I were old enough. I'm only 15, I'm not an official adult yet, I'd like to be officially a Jedi. You were typing about music earlier. I like
Green Day
Blink 182
The Bloodhound Gang
Linkin Park
Limp Bizkit
Papa Roach
I recommend everyone to download at least one of their tracks from Napster.

matthewralston · Apr 16th, 2001, 03:47 PM

Well I considered putting down that religion is futile and that the church would be assimilated but I couldn't be arsed. So I just put Jedi.

Did read the info on the front page first tho...seems safe but if I get fined i might just be putting down the dark side in ten years time!!

billfaceuk · Apr 16th, 2001, 04:24 PM

I put down Jedi

**parksie** · Apr 16th, 2001, 04:29 PM

Erm...you're a little early!

matthewralston · Apr 16th, 2001, 04:33 PM

I can guess what job I'll be doing etc...

lord_dude · Apr 22nd, 2001, 06:18 AM

I was going to go along with this and put jedi until i read this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/18429.html

billfaceuk · Apr 22nd, 2001, 07:04 AM

What about the people who do actually follow the religion of 'Jedi'. Are they to be fined for their beliefs???

wossname · Apr 22nd, 2001, 07:04 AM

Hang on a sec, the Census forms are supposed to be filled in on 28 April (or thereabouts), where did you get August from?

I'm listening to Mobb Deep at the moment, real sh*t, sh*t to make you feel sh*t!

billfaceuk · Apr 22nd, 2001, 07:19 AM

August 7th is in oz not uk

**HarryW** · Apr 22nd, 2001, 12:15 PM

I had no idea about the date, I was just posting my spam. Nobody is liable for the question on religion anyway, it says so on the form. My mum filled it in and sent it off before I could do it though

**CiberTHuG** · Oct 9th, 2001, 12:31 PM

It appears that this campaign was somewhat successful.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/22113.html

ricmitch_uk · Oct 9th, 2001, 01:15 PM

Update
An official from the National Statistics office had called us up to complain about the story. Apparently they've been getting a load of phone calls asking if Jedi Knight is officially a religion.

This is the official line: the Census does not provide recognition to any religion in the official statistics nor does it attempt to define religion. The list that you can see by checking out the pdf file above is merely a list of possible answers that people have been known to put in the box marked religion.

As such, Jedi Knight is not officially recognised as a religion.

However, looking at it another way, neither is any other religion. We imagine there are a few followers of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism but the National Statistics office will not provide recognition of them officially. It's job is simply to identify the number of people in the UK that have given a particular answer to a particular question.

The spokeswoman that clarified the situation for us was one Ms Knight (no relation but some irony).

PDF file contianing religion lists: Download!

**chrisjk** · Oct 9th, 2001, 01:20 PM

That article is a load of bollox. Office of National Stats said before the census that it doesn't matter how many people put "Jedi, it would not be make it an official religion

**Pix** · Oct 9th, 2001, 01:23 PM

I wanna be a Jedi

ricmitch_uk · Oct 9th, 2001, 01:37 PM

I just wanna chop people up with a light sabre

**Pix** · Oct 9th, 2001, 01:38 PM

Not me I hope

ricmitch_uk · Oct 9th, 2001, 01:54 PM

No

That honour(

) is reserved for Nukem

**Beacon** · Oct 9th, 2001, 07:44 PM

Umm we had our census not 3-4 months ago and that same email got sent to me about 4 times!

You poms cant beat us at sport now your trying to steal our comedy! geeeeez!!

Another goodie was: In the column where it says "how you get to work" put Bicycle!
Why?

Well if lots of ppl say they ride to work they will spend more money on constructing footpaths and bike ways to the cities instead of so much on roads! People will then get fed up with the traffic and start riding to work and then in turn helping the global environment!

Well thats the theory!

Jethro · Oct 9th, 2001, 08:31 PM

Put down the Church of Wallace & Grommit for religon. Expecting the Police to come around any day now.

Told em to Get Stuffed on the future release thing. Cannot be too careful with the Government they have down here.

lord_dude · Oct 10th, 2001, 06:26 AM

Originally posted by Beacon

Another goodie was: In the column where it says "how you get to work" put Bicycle!
Why?

Well if lots of ppl say they ride to work they will spend more money on constructing footpaths and bike ways to the cities instead of so much on roads! People will then get fed up with the traffic and start riding to work and then in turn helping the global environment!

Well thats the theory!

Wouldt work. The uk government has tryed everything to stop people driving. Tons of tax on petrol, not bothering to fix roads, loads of fine with speed cameras everywhere. But it doest deter most people. They just put up with it.

and ps, ur not better than us at sport. Maybe some of those rubbish sports that only you and us play, but not real sports.

**Beacon** · Oct 10th, 2001, 10:23 PM

"Maybe some of those rubbish sports that only you and us play, but not real sports"

No we havent beaten you in soccer thats the only ribbish sport i know of!

Yeah bring it on gaffer!

lord_dude · Oct 11th, 2001, 06:44 AM

'Soccer' or Football as the rest of the world (apart from US) calls it, is the one sport that is played EVERYWHERE. It is the main sport in just about every EU country, and most of the southen american countries, but to name a few.

**Beacon** · Oct 11th, 2001, 08:13 PM

"US i just know they have some game a bit like rugby but with tons of padding and they call it football. "

Yeah i agree there thats almost as ***** a soccer!
I thought it was called Grid Iron!!!

"Here is a few coutries i can name very easily off the top of my head that play english football as their primary sport and call it football not soccer.

UK
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Brazil
Portutugal
Belgium
Holland "

AND??????
And in a land mass of what? about the size of my back yard!
Hang on i decalare all the states of australia and then divide the big ones i.e WA and QLD into smaller ones and call them countries does that count?
It's not my fault we arent split up into small little countries or backyards!
Yeah ok i know piss poor arguement!

"And i would hardly call that big desert heaven. "

which one? Which desert!
I dont live in a desert?
I live a 2 minute walk down the road to crystal clear blue water, mostly soft breezes(accept winter), sun shines 70% of the time, looking out my window i cant see any signs of litter nor pollution in fact though i live 45-60 mins away from the city of perth i can still see it clear as day!

"heartless people"
My god!! I good go off my nut!
THEY ARE NOT REFUGEE'S!!
These ppl are not the people who are living on the border of pakistan and afghanistan in tents wiltering away. Are not the poeple in afica or the middle east dying of hunger and diesease.
These people are people who can afford 10's of thousands of $$$$ to catch a boat to indonesia then to australia!
They are the rich people in a crap society but are in no means refuegee's!
Then sink thier own boat and throw the children over-board!
We bare all costs by these people, our navy picks them up and we ask neighbouring countries to house them and feed them and proccess them and we'll bare all the costs!

Jethro · Oct 11th, 2001, 09:25 PM

All those countries play soccer, cause their not good enough to play aussie rules

*Jehtro hunkers down in the bunker*

New Zealand currently

World Sevens Champions

Hold the Americas Cup

Female Cricket and Rugby World Champions

Ran a close second to England in the Sheep Shagging Competition.

**Gaffer** · Oct 12th, 2001, 05:09 AM

Originally posted by Beacon
"Maybe some of those rubbish sports that only you and us play, but not real sports"

No we havent beaten you in soccer thats the only ribbish sport i know of!
Yeah bring it on gaffer!

This is getting boring now. Get off yer high horse mate and learn a little modesty. Your country hasn't even got the balls to separate from a country a twentieth of the size, and, in your opinion, "aren't good at anything". Fall back on your sporting heroics mate - it doesn't last long....

**Jamagei** · Oct 12th, 2001, 06:44 AM

Well, for a start Oz might be a huge country yes, but It has a smaller population than the UK itself, so the landmass doesn't really count. The people in it do.

And as for the close second to England in the sheep shagging, It's Wales that's tops for sheep shagging (well, apart from NZ anyway)

lord_dude · Oct 12th, 2001, 06:56 AM

Originally posted by Beacon
"US i just know they have some game a bit like rugby but with tons of padding and they call it football. "

Yeah i agree there thats almost as ***** a soccer!
I thought it was called Grid Iron!!!

"Here is a few coutries i can name very easily off the top of my head that play english football as their primary sport and call it football not soccer.

UK
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Brazil
Portutugal
Belgium
Holland "

AND??????
And in a land mass of what? about the size of my back yard!
Hang on i decalare all the states of australia and then divide the big ones i.e WA and QLD into smaller ones and call them countries does that count?
It's not my fault we arent split up into small little countries or backyards!
Yeah ok i know piss poor arguement!

"And i would hardly call that big desert heaven. "

which one? Which desert!
I dont live in a desert?
I live a 2 minute walk down the road to crystal clear blue water, mostly soft breezes(accept winter), sun shines 70% of the time, looking out my window i cant see any signs of litter nor pollution in fact though i live 45-60 mins away from the city of perth i can still see it clear as day!

"heartless people"
My god!! I good go off my nut!
THEY ARE NOT REFUGEE'S!!
These ppl are not the people who are living on the border of pakistan and afghanistan in tents wiltering away. Are not the poeple in afica or the middle east dying of hunger and diesease.
These people are people who can afford 10's of thousands of $$$$ to catch a boat to indonesia then to australia!
They are the rich people in a crap society but are in no means refuegee's!
Then sink thier own boat and throw the children over-board!
We bare all costs by these people, our navy picks them up and we ask neighbouring countries to house them and feed them and proccess them and we'll bare all the costs!

As someone else said, landmass has FA to do with anything. But, if you want to talk landmass, south america is quite big and mostly plays football. And the reason you 'heaven' is not polluted is because you have one of the biggest countries in the world, with a tiny lttle population so all the co2 and sulphur you pump into the atmosphe is diluted so much. But im sure Oz still does its fair share of hacking away the o zone layer and the rainforst (so do we).

**Gaffer** · Oct 12th, 2001, 07:43 AM

Originally posted by Jamagei
Well, for a start Oz might be a huge country yes, but It has a smaller population than the UK itself, so the landmass doesn't really count. The people in it do.

Yeah, OK.... rewritten

This is getting boring now. Get off yer high horse mate and learn a little modesty. Your country hasn't even got the balls to separate from a country you have no respect for, and, in your opinion, "aren't good at anything". Fall back on your sporting heroics mate - it doesn't last long....

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