Last night, the people of Ireland came together to fill in their census forms, just like the polite lady on the census radio ad told us to do.
And, as you’d imagine, Irish Twitter was suitably lit with unique submissions for the time capsule, from the lyrics of Maniac 2000 to a Barry’s tea stain.
Here’s a round up of our favourites:
Here’s Karen’s extremely relatable pondering to get us started – does anyone actually know what we were supposed to write?
I'm mortified but I don't understand the Time Capsule on the census. Am I supposed to write: 'There's a war in Ukraine and Covid is rampant and here's the news of the day' OR is it supposed to be 'The child lost two teeth this week and we're getting the patio done'?
— Karen Mulreid (@beatingblog) April 3, 2022
Next up, the lyrics of THE song our descendants simply need to know (incase it’s still not on Spotify by then).
They need to know how good we had it #timecapsule #Census2022 #Census pic.twitter.com/NhSQGYkRuy
— Simon Murdoch 📻📱🎧 (@Simon_Murdoch) April 3, 2022
From the sporting world, the question on everyone’s lips – is the Mayo team still cursed?
If you have the opportunity what will you write in the #census time capsule? #CensusTimeCapsule #Census2022 pic.twitter.com/ynJXotDlec
— #Think32 (@Think32_) April 1, 2022
The adult version of when you paint your primary school history project with old teabags to make it look like an artefact:
#timecapsule #Census2022
My accidental tea cup ring …. Not wasted ! pic.twitter.com/jIhXcSrX9M— Mick Flynn (@mickflynn22) April 3, 2022
Naturally, many of us were wondering if 100 years would be enough time to improve the RTÉ Player:
Filled out the time capsule on the census #Census2022 pic.twitter.com/xkgzFb7hvp
— Graham Patchell (@GrahamPatchell) April 3, 2022
And of course, the Facebook mams were out in full force with their cryptic musings on who can and can’t be trusted.
My mam just wrote ‘don’t trust anybody’ on the time capsule part of the census and I’d just like to know who pissed her off enough for that
— Amy (@amylwx) April 3, 2022
For this Twitter user, it was important for our descendants to know how to make yourself the coolest kid in class as a 9 year old:
Adding the single greatest life lesson of all to the Time Capsule section of the #Census2022 pic.twitter.com/wVVwoE2fbs
— Mark Durnin (@MarkDurnin) April 3, 2022
Seeing as the Lotto has to be won these days, you’d hope this lad will get lucky before 2122.
#Census2022 #timecapsule great crack reading some of the time capsule bits 😂 pic.twitter.com/drBT5GpshI
— Brendan Kelly (@Bren_Kelly30) April 3, 2022
And after the roaring success of And Just Like That, here’s the time capsule, Mr Big style.
https://twitter.com/AoifeLOL/status/1510742815525023744?s=20&t=0u_q0-fxH3H5mgekWn7S0g
Thanks everyone for keeping us entertained last night with your top drawer time capsule submissions – our thoughts and prayers are with whoever’s manually inputting them all right now.
Thinking about the poor civil servant who will have to type in all the terrible hot takes for the time capsule pic.twitter.com/uEx9EzMzxu
— Jack 💛 (@hitthatroad) April 3, 2022
Header image via Twitter/@aoifeweefa
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