It's the Vole's ambition always to be a week late in discussing the news, so: the Census. How was it for you?
I refused to answer some of the questions this year. I don't think it is any business of the State to ask me what my state of health is at the moment (how do they know someone isn't just being a hypochondirac or a stoic?) and I fail to see the relevance of the question asking to describe what you do in your job, so I left them blank.
One of my colleagues decided it was best to be honest and put the answer: "Wasting time surfing the internet and bitching about my workmates."
Another, a sub-editor, suggested: "Making people better paid than me look as if they can write."
A letter appeared in The Times on Thursday from someone who had been a Census enumerator in 1981 that revealed a wonderfully eccentric and existential answer. Someone had given their occupation as "sculptor of stone lions" and then, when asked to describe his work, wrote: "I chip away all the bits of stone that are not lion."
I refused to answer some of the questions this year. I don't think it is any business of the State to ask me what my state of health is at the moment (how do they know someone isn't just being a hypochondirac or a stoic?) and I fail to see the relevance of the question asking to describe what you do in your job, so I left them blank.
One of my colleagues decided it was best to be honest and put the answer: "Wasting time surfing the internet and bitching about my workmates."
Another, a sub-editor, suggested: "Making people better paid than me look as if they can write."
A letter appeared in The Times on Thursday from someone who had been a Census enumerator in 1981 that revealed a wonderfully eccentric and existential answer. Someone had given their occupation as "sculptor of stone lions" and then, when asked to describe his work, wrote: "I chip away all the bits of stone that are not lion."
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never mind all that; how's your diet going?
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