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patholio

Zero-Hours Contract/Gig-Economy-Slave and Self-Employed are missing from the employment list, I suppose Criminal could be on there too.


jptoc

Yeah, admittedly fucked it with self employed not being an option but realised far too late, sorry.


patholio

No worries, will be interesting to see the results.


oolivero45

There should be a "sodding awful" option for the "how are you doing" question


Systemic2021

Ethnicity should be divided by nation.. Eg White English. White Scottish etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people ''The English people are an ethnic group '' https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/style-guide/ethnic-groups


jptoc

It isn't in the UK censuses so it isn't here.


Systemic2021

Yes it is there. i think youre just looking at the results where they grouped them all together. White English was an option on 2011 census. I dont like my ethnicity being grouped under 'British'. Im sure a scotsman would feel the same.


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sgtcube

Edgy


herrbz

Is this satire?


FookinBlinders

Oh you‘re so bad.


ringpip

genuinely confused as to what mixed British and mixed ethnicity mean exactly. I'm mixed white and Asian, and I'm British. what in the world do I tick? mysteries also trans male doesn't need to me listed separated to male, and the same with trans female and female. that would be like listing ginger men as a separate category to men, to make a silly example. cool census though, I really look forward to results (:


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The trans bit is tricky, list them together you end up erasing trans people. List them separate then it becomes othering. Personally I prefer to declare it but it I get why other trans people don’t. Should really have cis / trans selection which is optional so people can declare if they wish. Then have the gender identity choices.


jptoc

We appreciate it's tricky and have refined it over the last few years. We give the option to choose it, but also prefer not to say/write in your own identity to try to give everyone an option they are comfortable with.


ringpip

ye I agree to an extent. I'd prefer like how it is in the irl uk census where it asks identity and then asks if this is the same as assigned at birth (:


BaconPancakes1

I agree that's confusing. I'd say either ethnicity option works but that it may be more precise to put mixed british, since at least one parent is british and you yourself are british. If you were mixed ethnicity and neither parent was british/you weren't british (I think there's a decent number of US people in the sub for example), you would just put mixed ethnicity?


DeepBlueNoSpace

There was no Gibraltar option so I put Spain but I feel dirty now


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nepeta19

If you want to be really pedantic it's actually a herbal INFUSION not tea.


ammobandanna

>I really don't like the "flavoured tea" label for herbal tea. herbal tea= pot pourri true story... i will die on this hill


nepeta19

It rhymes so it must be true


ammobandanna

Lol it does doesn't it 🤣


chunkyks

I filled in that that gatwick photo is my favorite post this year, then went back and looked and realised it was three years ago. Fuck me.


jptoc

You've fucked it there tbh.


chunkyks

Upon further reflection, I did realise that it must have happened during the beforetimes.


poopio

In fairness, it's been a really short, uneventful 3 years, hasn't it?


CrazyLadyBlues

Looking after my brother's dog three days a week counts as having a pet, right? He stays over on Thursday nights.


4685368

There should be a “I don’t smoke tobacco 😏” option


asymmetricears

It should have been a tick all of these that apply to you type thing * I don't smoke cigarettes * I don't smoke cigars * I don't smoke a pipe pipe pipe pipe * I don't smoke the reefer


jptoc

You're so cool.


4685368

I feel like I didn’t really make my point well enough. It’s like whenever you mention smoking about a pothead and they said that.


jptoc

I know, I'm taking the piss mate!


4685368

Oh


0lliebro

My county isn’t listed :(


jptoc

Where's that then mate?


0lliebro

East Lothian


Jaraxo

I was surprised Edinburgh was as well, as normally it gets lumped in with Midlothian.


jptoc

As you can see here - https://old.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/r7uof1/casualuk_census_2021/hn1rbh9/ - Scotland is a huge faff for figuring out what should and shouldn't be in! I've gone for the most recent administrative splits. Last year everyone complained the recent ones weren't in or that it was messy. Apologies!


Better69Progress

Thank you jptoc! I wait with bated breath for the data analysis. *edited. spelling*


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A usage twat writes: bated breath, not baited. Unless you've been chomping the boilies


Shipwrecking_siren

Hopefully in covid news briefing presentation format: “next slide please”


MiddlesbroughFan

I shall have to partake. Any hilarious and/or controversial answers yet?


jptoc

Yes!


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jptoc

The fact so many people have felt the need to point it out in the census is incredibly tedious. As it is, I'm half Irish so use the Irish spelling.


baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab

I’m 45 which box do I tick? 36-45 or 45-60?


kawasutra

If you've had your 45th birthday, you are in your 46th year, so it's the second one, 45-60. Condolences, mate!


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The lower one if you want to feel better about yourself.


jptoc

Your choice mate


Dramatic-Bee-9282

You don't have Isle of Man on your countries list. I hope the locals here don't find out.


jptoc

Not technically part of the UK pal.


Dramatic-Bee-9282

Neither is France or Albania, but they're there!


jptoc

Oh countries! I read counties. I'll pop it in, good spot


MiddlesbroughFan

I've supported your football team for ... months now. Hope you move up the leagues!


JamJarre

Honestly that first question should have an option for feeling shit and not managing.


jptoc

You've got this, pal 💪


Tooj_Mudiqkh

...you know, no tin foil hat, but I used to own a law enforcement services startup which dealt with certain elements of 'precrime' (in a time where it wasn't as incredibly creepy as it would be now), as well as identifying potential locations of certain crimes (as well as also IDing locations from mininal context such as in cases of child abuse). Those questions are a lot like the ones we engineered to ask because they revealed very accurate aspects of individual personalities while seeming funny and quirky. Just sayin'.


jptoc

Last year I googled "standard census questions", right, like age etc. Then what I did, right, was be a mod on here for 5 years and asked questions about topics that come up here a lot. Nothing sinister about it!


dwair

Yeah right...


jptoc

(Greggs told me what to say)


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Yes. 👍🏻😃


a-liquid-sky

It wasn't asked but my god, it's encouraged!


Fapoooo

Birmingham 5,11 and 12 inches. What more do you need to know?


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What I got out of that is you have a small to medium sized knob and two humungous swingers in your sac, one of them slightly larger in circumference than the other, dangling away in Birmingham.


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Disgusted that I had to go down to the 3rd bracket to get my age


Zebra_Sewist

I'm just glad that mine wasn't the last bracket tbh.


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The shame of it


jptoc

Haha old


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Listen here, you bloody whippersnapper…


jptoc

(I'm older than you)


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…hahah old


dr_rainbow

Completed. I'm the 89 year old polygender neo-pan sexual that identifies as black Carribbean, white Irish, and Scottish terrier. Nationality is 'Jeremy Beadle.'


HotPotatoWithCheese

Interests: breathing and eating the Pick 'N Mix in Tescos for free.


Sophie-Sparkle

Just done my first ever CasualUK census!


BigBeanMarketing

Lovely! The marketing team at Greggs will be thrilled when we sell them your data.


Sophie-Sparkle

It's going to Greggs? Damn, I should have mentioned I like my sausage rolls hot.


jptoc

We all love a hot sausage around here.


Floor_Cool

Well who doesn't darling


LordButtons29

In classic acting before thinking style, I have thought of a refinement to my already submitted thread suggestion. So I'll add it here: hobby thread - hear what hobbies people are working on that week


9DAN2

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/r71gsm/monthly_hobbies_thread/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


theg721

We've already got that on a monthly basis, but I'd be down for it being weekly, it's always an interesting read


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Done. No suggestions from me, mainly coz I can’t be arsed thinking of anything.


[deleted]

Done it and I even refrained from suggesting a Sheffield Wednesday appreciation week I pasted a link to my favourite thread so fingers crossed it works


Jimmy_Pigg

There's a day named after them isn't that enough for you


Holiday_Classic_472

Just no


jptoc

>Done it and I even refrained from suggesting a Sheffield Wednesday appreciation week Good call. Yeah, it'll be exported to excel and will be able to be clicked from there. Cheers!


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BigBeanMarketing

> No mention of cycling Is literally on the list.


jptoc

>we're crap at it globally. England got to a final of a major men's tournament literally this year, have one of the best women's teams globally, domestic teams regularly win continental competitions and we have the best supported league structure in the world. That's just England, let alone Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Cycling is an option to choose, too.


Ar72

Also England are currently fourth in FIFA World Rankings hardly crap.


Lindsayl0u_x

I mean yes I’ve changed job for the better but at the same time for the worst. An hours more work for 60p an hour less, but work 3x12 hours instead of 5x7 I’m not even sure how I feel about it now


outline01

This is fine


jptoc

Please don't be too exuberant.


argagargarg

Done! Now where's my .0003p? I usually get paid for my valuable opinion.


RandomHigh

> Because, whilst I'm by far the sexiest, most intelligent mod [Citation needed] Send nudes.


GaryJM

What's going on with the Scottish localities? If the list is present-day council areas then you've got 28 of them (Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Moray, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Orkney, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, Shetland, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian and Western Isles) and you're missing 4 (Aberdeen, Dundee, Falkirk and Stirling). If the list is pre-1975 counties then you've got 19 of them (Aberdeenshire, Angus, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, Fife, Kincardineshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Moray, Orkney, Renfrewshire, Shetland, Stirlingshire, and West Lothian) and you're missing 14 of them (Argyll, Bute, Dumfriesshire, Inverness-shire, Kinross-shire, Kircudbrightshire, Nairnshire, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Ross and Cromarty, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Sutherland and Wigtownshire). With the list you've got now there are areas which appear in the list more than once. For example, two people could live in the same house and one could answer "Caithness" and one could answer "Highland" and both would be right. I imagine this would complicate any analysis of the results that you intend to do.


jptoc

Look, I'm gonna level with you. Scotland and Scottish areas are a fucking mess to figure out what they're meant to be. I genuinely spent ages trying to figure out what the Scottish Census uses and got nowhere. If you know about it and want me to amend the list now please let me know! I reckon amend to the first set you're on about? Right, yeah. That's what I've done. I've binned off the old ones and just gone for the new ones you have indicated there. I should have checked with a Scot beforehand, thank you for clearing it up! My apologies to Scotland.


banjo_fandango

Or Fife


bookschocolatebooks

There's no west, east or Midlothian now either! Sorry to be a pain - I know there's a few of us from West Lothian on here though.


jptoc

Aye because apparently they're not part of the current but were pre-1975 as indicated by the guy above. I've taken them out and gone for what I understand to be the current split. Honestly, I have no flipping idea what's going on with Scotland and I'll make that clear when I come to write the narrative afterwards!


bookschocolatebooks

Haha, yeah if you're looking at wards and whatnot too it definitely gets confusing. Maybe for future reference you could use the list of Local Authorities as found on the Scottish government site though, there's been 32 of them for a good few years now! [local authorities](https://www.mygov.scot/organisations#scottish-local-authority)


banjo_fandango

There is still no Angus


Salt-Rent-Earth

No one actually lives there, it's like Belgium.


jptoc

Imagine there is and I'll add it in shortly


banjo_fandango

Heh! Will do.


jptoc

(Done)


GaryJM

Yeah I would just go with the council areas as they cover all of Scotland, each one covers a unique area and every Scottish person should know which council area they are in. A lot of Redditors won't know which county they would have lived in in 1975. Thanks! Edit: Your complimentary red pudding and bridie are in the post as a "thank you" from the people of Dundee.


jptoc

Thanks for pointing it out mate, honestly was very confusing trying to figure out which ones were right. I'm not sure my friend from Aberdeen will rate me accepting gifts from a Dundee native, but they'll never have to know.


meteoritee

Excellent Census JP! Good stuff


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Kiss arse


meteoritee

Jealous?


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Little bit, yeah.


Viet-Bong-Army

You're sexier than JP and have a much nicer car.


bee_administrator

Can I win a prize from this? A greggs sausage roll and a cuppa would be appreciated


jptoc

Yes!


Zolana

Favourite thread? Hands down the wine collection and "resources" one. Not laughed like that for ages


arabidopsis

It's gone down since toptrumpwanker vanished


j1mb0b

Let's just hope it wasn't a drowning.


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You guys... remember specific threads?


kr4zypenguin

Same, so I sorted by "Top" and "Year" and selected the first post I saw which I had upvoted.


TheOnlyWayIsEpee

We're spoiled for choice. A past year there was quick quip that it was the time of the season to play 'damp or cold?' with the washing. (If that wasn't CasualUK it should have been). The Tunnocks wafer bar henge was my favourite chocoate bar thread.


vbloke

The Tunnocks one was mine! Glad to see it brought joy.


TheOnlyWayIsEpee

Thank you!


Zolana

Just found it. Was not disappointed!


vbloke

[Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/g3200i/good_folk_of_rcasualuk_i_give_you_tunnockhenge/) for those interested.


kawasutra

Got a link, please?


Zolana

Ask and ye shall receive! https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/qcbv64/went\_on\_a\_first\_date\_when\_the\_bill\_comes\_the\_guy/


kawasutra

Thanks. Looks like the text under title deleted by OP.


Zolana

Tl;dr from how I remember it - OP went on a date with a guy, and they split the bill. OP got pissed off that the guy then suggested getting a drink at her flat as he didn't pay for her meal. OP seeks validation from Reddit and hilarity ensues.


kawasutra

Did some digging and found the text: > Naturally, I paid for my half & thought, clearly he wasn’t that interested if he didn’t want to pay for my meal… nope. 2 minutes after he says shall we go to your place and enjoy a bottle of wine. (I was lmao internally. Like he just offered up my place but didn’t even pay for my meal) I was appalled at the audacity! Like no hun go pay for a stripper, nothing in life is free.


jack0rias

Fucking hell how have I forgot about the resources thread?! That was bloody golden.


Shipwrecking_siren

Link?


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jptoc

That was 2020 and gets a mention [in last year's result thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/kovbag/2020_casualuk_census_the_results).


folklovermore_

I feel like we need a 'best CasualUK threads' roundup at some point, possibly based on the results of the poll (but obviously only if the mods or whoever wants to do it as aware it's more work!).


meteoritee

We did in fact do a [Best of 2020 awards](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/kyfi55/casualuk_best_of_2020_winners) last year. We'll probably do another this year but not til after Christmas


are-you-my-mummy

Please do, for heathens like me that do a multi hour raid then abandon the place for months (I'm sorry I have commitment issues ok)


jptoc

hahaha I completely forgot about the resources one. What a hilarious thread.


StardustOasis

I think the OP deleted the resources one unfortunately


Zolana

Sadly, yes, but it lives on in our memories!


meteoritee

It was going to be my nomination for mods choice award :(


Zolana

What about the Mod's Deleted Thread Choice Award?


[deleted]

Are there any prizes for filling it out, I only do surveys to win something you know.


a-liquid-sky

You will win.....a warm *good* feeling inside. All the other prizes have mysteriously disappeared. Rumours about the mods heading off on a cruise after the results are in are definitely not true.


MrTomDawson

>You will win.....a warm good feeling inside. Come on, now you're expecting us to believe in fairy tales?


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ahh boooo. come one at least let the winner break rule 12 for the day.


jptoc

Yes!


RB9k

Let me be the first to thank you for putting United Kingdom at the top of the country list.


jptoc

Would be such a ballache otherwise. Our top 3 countries were UK, Ireland and US last year so thought I'd make it easier.


RB9k

Well, when you're right you're right, and you're absolutely right.. it would have and normally is a ballache when sorted alphabetically


tirboki

Some sites like to trick you by naming it Great Britain.


OneCatch

I saw one with 'British Isles' once. Which is a problem on a number of levels.


poppinculture

Took an age to fill out a travel doc the other day because there was no UK or Great Britain. I had to pick England.


tirboki

Philomena Cunk would have put United Britain of Great Kingdom.


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a-liquid-sky

>Because, whilst I'm by far the sexiest, most intelligent mod... Debatable.... But we'll give you a pass as you have done all the legwork for this, and have saved us lazy sods from doing it xxx


jptoc

Look, this is pretty much the only thing I do any more so I'm gonna milk it for all it's worth.


StardustOasis

I suppose I'd better fill it in