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TragicMonkey said:
"Jedi" as a religion is absolute nonsense. The Sith have a much more practical philosophy. Peace is a lie, there is only passion! Tell me that isn't both a kickass theological tenet and the tagline for a sultry primetime soap opera!
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Well you have four and a half years to recruit....
 
catsmate said:
No.
Not in Ireland anyway, and not in the UK either I believe, they are counted as a separate religion just like any other group with thirty or more adherents. State agencies have no role in determining what is a "real" religion.
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Have you checked the actual processing guidelines? I worked on the Australian Census in 2016 and that was the rule - anything that wasn't on a specific list was to be recorded as "none".
 
arthwollipot said:
Have you checked the actual processing guidelines? I worked on the Australian Census in 2016 and that was the rule - anything that wasn't on a specific list was to be recorded as "none".
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Ireland
In a May 2012 review of the 2011 census, the Dáil Public Accounts Committee asked the Central Statistics Office about the reliability of self-reported answers, instancing people listing Jedi as their religion. The response was "We could probably tell you the number of people who have declared themselves as such, but we don't publish it". The 2016 census results list all religions receiving more than 30 responses, including 2,050 (0.085%) under "Jedi Knight". As of the 2022 census, there are 1,800 Jedi knights, a decrease of 250 since the 2016 census results.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon
 
arthwollipot said:
Have you checked the actual processing guidelines? I worked on the Australian Census in 2016 and that was the rule - anything that wasn't on a specific list was to be recorded as "none".
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Yes. Australia is not Ireland.
 
catsmate said:
No.
Not in Ireland anyway, and not in the UK either I believe, they are counted as a separate religion just like any other group with thirty or more adherents. State agencies have no role in determining what is a "real" religion.
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Sort of...

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/culture-society/jexit-jedi-knights-wiped-out-in-uk-2021-census

...The latest results show that England and Wales’s Jedi order fell from 176,000 a decade ago to below 1,600, leading to “Jedi Knight” being aggregated into a “No religion” category....​

(Strange source for the story - the actual Bloomberg report is behind a paywall.)
 
catsmate said:
Census data has been released, https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/...o-religion-and-hinduism-climb-in-latest-data/


Catholicism is down, especially in Dublin, Islam, Orthodox and Hinduism are up. Nearly as many Sikhs as Jews, more Satanists than Scientologists, Quakers and Hare Krishnas. But more Jedi Knights than the last four combined.
'No Religion' is up 67%.
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Given the 700,000 that explicitly state no religion and the further 300,000 plus that didn't answer the question, the irreligious over here are likely north of 20% just on census numbers alone.

And the numbers for catholics is probably an overestimate, given that it's significantly higher than consistent polling data. But that can be attributed to factors such as parents marking their adult children as catholic and the number of people who will mark themselves catholic since they were baptised, even though they openly don't believe
 
TragicMonkey said:
I can only imagine the accent that would result from a fusion of Australia and Ireland.
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It's not the accent you need to worry about. It's the fact that they'd be drunken criminals.

Oh, wait, they're both already like that. :duck:
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
Given the 700,000 that explicitly state no religion and the further 300,000 plus that didn't answer the question, the irreligious over here are likely north of 20% just on census numbers alone.

And the numbers for catholics is probably an overestimate, given that it's significantly higher than consistent polling data. But that can be attributed to factors such as parents marking their adult children as catholic and the number of people who will mark themselves catholic since they were baptised, even though they openly don't believe
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True.
On a related note a colleague of mine is hoping to have the Sith recognised in '27.

TragicMonkey said:
I can only imagine the accent that would result from a fusion of Australia and Ireland.
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Plenty of examples out there......
 
In local news former dual GAA Cork star Teddy McCarthy, the only man to win football and hurling All-Irelands in the one year died earlier in the week. I knew the funeral would be big, but I didn't realise it would be absolutely massive until I sat talking with two Inspectors this morning.
 
Not that local, but this was a hell of a crash:

Multiple people in hospital after Queensland crash involving truck carrying US Abrams tank

Emergency crews arrive to find three vehicles on fire and four others badly damaged on Bruce Highway near Rockhampton


Six people are in hospital after a fiery multi-vehicle crash involving a truck that was carrying an army tank in central Queensland.

Police set up a large exclusion zone after the collision on the Bruce Highway near Rockhampton on Wednesday morning.

Emergency crews arrived to find three vehicles on fire and four others badly damaged, police said.

The vehicles included a B-double truck, a semi-trailer carrying a military tank, a flatbed truck carrying two caravans, three cars, and a 4WD towing a caravan.
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Followup:

Bruce Highway partially reopens after multi-vehicle crash involving US tank

One lane has reopened on the Bruce Highway this morning as investigators piece together the chain of events that led to a fiery multi-vehicle crash involving a US military tank in central Queensland.

The seven-vehicle crash happened near Bajool, south of Rockhampton, yesterday morning.

It involved multiple caravans, a B-double truck and a semi-trailer carrying a US army tank en route to a military exercise.

Three of the vehicles were on fire when police arrived.

Six people were taken to hospital.

Two remain in stable conditions and others have been discharged.

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Inspector Carroll said police were still piecing together the cause of the crash but initial investigations suggest a passenger vehicle failed to stop for an escort vehicle accompanying the semi-trailer carrying the tank, causing a domino effect.

The tank was being transported from Gladstone port to the Shoalwater Bay training area for Exercise Talisman Sabre, a biennial training event involving Australian and US troops.

"That's our initial understanding … our crash investigators are still piecing it together," Inspector Carroll said.

"We were absolutely flabbergasted that no-one was killed out of that crash.

"[That] was the most pleasing thing, because it was an absolute mess."
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This I could have posted in a number of sub-fora but seems to fit nicely here:

Investor who lost $740K to Ontario's Crypto King among 5 men charged with kidnapping him

A Toronto investor who lost thousands to Ontario's self-proclaimed Crypto King is one of five men facing charges connected to the alleged kidnapping, forcible confinement and assault of Aiden Pleterski last December, CBC Toronto has learned.

CBC Toronto previously reported details of Pleterski's alleged kidnapping based on a report from ongoing bankruptcy proceedings against the 24-year-old. In the bankruptcy, investors have been working for nearly a year to try and track down more than $40 million given to Pleterski to invest in crypto currency and foreign exchange.

Akil Heywood has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping Pleterski and for threatening the administrator overseeing the bankruptcy in an attempt to get $2 million in crypto currency, according to court records.
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If I had invested in crypto and lost big, I would want my money back, too. But I did not and prefer to let the police and courts do their work rather than engage in vigilantism. :(
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
This I could have posted in a number of sub-fora but seems to fit nicely here:

Investor who lost $740K to Ontario's Crypto King among 5 men charged with kidnapping him



If I had invested in crypto and lost big, I would want my money back, too. But I did not and prefer to let the police and courts do their work rather than engage in vigilantism. :(
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Do I read that right, and after all that the kidnapper wanted his two million in cryptocurrency? Slow learner!
 
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Hartlepool mum's mobile phone fury after being 'left with no service for SIX days' on O2 network

A Hartlepool resident says she has endured six days of no mobile phone service after issues with the O2 network.

The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said she was told the issue was down to a nearby phone mast that wasn't working, leaving her to rely solely on Wi-Fi networks. She blasted the situation as an "absolute joke"
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"I rang up to complain and asked for a refund because why should I be paying for this service that I am not receiving? I wonder if anyone else is receiving this issue. They have knocked £6 off my next bill, it is the least they could do."
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https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/...kCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
 
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