Who’d have thought filling out a form could be such fun?
In normal circumstances it wouldn’t, of course, but there’s a novelty in filling out a document that we only have to fill out once every five years and that applies to every single member of the population.
There’s a vulnerability about having to reveal personal information about a wide range of topics, from your religious preference to your ability to speak our native language.
Not to mention that the requirement to declare exactly where you’re staying on one particular night of the year led to plenty of easy jokes about the reasons why one might not be at home.
Here are some of the best tweets from #Census2016.
In the end, chickened out and dropped down to Ordinary Level Census. Piece of piss. #Census2016
— Colm O'Regan (@colmoregan) April 24, 2016
If you pull tonight remember to ask them at some point to fill out the census #Census2016
— Seán Defoe (@SeanDefoe) April 24, 2016
Imagine this is the one night married people don't stay over in their secret lovers' houses!!!! #Census2016 #census pic.twitter.com/mHQRnMKysS
— Ciamhie Mc Digital (@CiamhieMc) April 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/seanearley/status/724352903029334018
'Does your home contain a personal computer? If you answered "Yes" then fuck off back to 1997." #Census2016
— Colm Tobin (@colmtobin) April 24, 2016
Census: "Can you speak Irish?"
My first and only thought: "An bhfuil cad agam dul dtí an leithreas?"
*Confidently marks 'yes'*#Census2016— Paddy McKenna (@PaddyMcKenna) April 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/LeanIago/status/724326561961381889
https://twitter.com/markohalloran/status/724324038076719104
https://twitter.com/Jim_Sheridan/status/724389033225379841
I'd say Jay-Z & beyonce are filling in the 'marital status' of the #Census2016 right now.
And it's really awkward pic.twitter.com/eR0V8ROjD7
— Ryan Cullen (@RyanCullen90) April 24, 2016
D'ya reckon Mary and Joseph ended up marking themselves down as Christian just to make sure Jesus would get into a school too? #Census2016
— Paddy Duffy (@PaddyDuffy) April 24, 2016
Q11. "What did the priest talk about at Mass?"
Some of these #Census2016 questions seem a little dated…
— Shane Hegarty (@shanehegarty) April 24, 2016
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