[headdie]

Randomly browsing the web and wikipedia I came across this I had heard of this before but I didn't realise how wide spread it was, this in perticular made me lol

England and Wales
In England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as Jedi on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the countries.[8] In the 2001 Census 2.6% of the population of Brighton claimed to be Jedi...

...Jedi was assigned its own code in the United Kingdom for census processing, the number 896.[13] Officials from the Office for National Statistics pointed out that this merely means that it has been registered as a common answer to the "religion" question...

...In June 2005, Jamie Reed, newly-elected Labour Member of Parliament for Copeland in Cumbria, declared himself to be the first Jedi Member of Parliament...

...On November 16, 2006, two Jedi delivered a protest letter to UN officials in recognition of the International Day for Tolerance. They requested that it be renamed the "UN Interstellar Day of Tolerance" and cited the 2001 Census showing 390,000 Jedi in England and Wales.

[BloodEagle]

I would like to say that that is, in fact, awesome beyond words.

In before religion bash.

[Flipside]

I think we do it partly because of a dislike of the Government sticking their nose into our business, and partly because there's an inbuilt hatred of bureaucracy in the UK. I think many people are getting more and more tired of concessions and arguments over religious faith, this is a polite way of holding a mirror up to it.

[sayoqod]

It's almost as if the British and Welsh population is trolling all the others :3

[Flipside]

We troll ourselves as well

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7360871.stm

[sayoqod]

Wow.....

Even I, who have never seen Star Wars, am amazed.

[Mikes]

Only it would be so much awesomer if someone went back in time and made sure the Phantom Menace never existed!

[iamzack]

Wow.....

Even I, who have never seen Star Wars, am amazed.

lucky

[Black Wolf]

Wow.....

Even I, who have never seen Star Wars, am amazed.

Seriously? This automatically invalidates pretty much everything you might ever say, ever, you know. You might have a PhD in political science, or evolutionary biology or physics or geniusness, or whatever, and bust out some insightful **** on some debate thread down the line some day, the kind of **** which, for anybody else, would get them elected president for life of planet earth,  or the nobel prize or whatever but all anyone'll be able to think will be 'Well, be that ar it may, but this guy has never even seen Star Wars, so what could he know?'. And them we'll just dismiss you out of hand.

So yeah. See Star Wars. Or you'll never who that nobel prize.

[General Battuta]

but this guy has never even seen Star Wars, so what could he

girl

she

not that this matters, just for future reference

[iamzack]

star wars is ****

[Ravenholme]

but this guy has never even seen Star Wars, so what could he

girl

she

not that this matters, just for future reference

Internet, you just use "he" as a catch all term because we have no gender neutral terms to indicate the person you are talking which are not offensive (Calling someone an 'it' for an example), and you know nothing about the person's gender, unless it is shared with you.

[SpardaSon21]

star wars is ****

And here I was hoping you would tie your roommate to a chair and make her watch the movies.  The original three movies that is, not the prequel trilogy.

[sayoqod]

star wars is ****

And here I was hoping you would tie your roommate to a chair and make her watch the movies.  The original three movies that is, not the prequel trilogy.

I've had several friends threaten to kidnap me and make me watch all 6. None of them have followed through.

but this guy has never even seen Star Wars, so what could he

girl

she

not that this matters, just for future reference

Fanks

[StarSlayer]

star wars is ****

And here I was hoping you would tie your roommate to a chair and make her watch the movies.  The original three movies that is, not the prequel trilogy.

I've had several friends threaten to kidnap me and make me watch all 6. None of them have followed through.

but this guy has never even seen Star Wars, so what could he

girl

she

not that this matters, just for future reference

Fanks

Friends don't let friends watch the prequels. 

[Mongoose]

Movie posturing aside, I just want to know if those people who listed "Jedi" as their religion can actually use the Force, and if the bastards have been holding out on the rest of us.  This is essential information, guys!

[Rodo]

Movie posturing aside, I just want to know if those people who listed "Jedi" as their religion can actually use the Force

YES, if not it's a deal breaker.... that's why I joined 

[Davros]

I follow the teachings of the P.C Gaming Gods

[iamzack]

star wars is ****

And here I was hoping you would tie your roommate to a chair and make her watch the movies.  The original three movies that is, not the prequel trilogy.

hell no

they are all ****

[ShadowWolf_IH]

from now on on the census i am going to claim Hammer of Light.