Sir Bono

daboyfergie

Should Bono accept a knighthood from the Queen? Are knighthoods usually reserved for British or Commonwealth citizens or are they awarded to people from around the globe? People should try and remain impartial when dealing with this issue. I think the days of rock and roll rebellion are over. In a modern society we surely need rock stars to be at least a little unconservative. I know this will offend alot of people from a patriotic point of view. The Queen decorated the paratoopers involved in Bloody Sunday. However I think that we should not dwell in the past. So ladies and gentlemen, your opinions please.

Mossy Monk

Bob Geldoff got one. Why not Bono?

randylonghorn

daboyfergie wrote: »

Should Bono accept a knighthood from the Queen?

Tbh, I couldn't give a toss. If he wants to kneel and let her wave a sword close to his throat, let him ... I guess there are a lot kinkier fetishes really.

whiskeyman

daboyfergie wrote: »

your opinions please.

My opinion is that you should use the search option, especially on a topic from last year...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055072223&highlight=bono

guinnessdrinker

Didn't he already get an honorary one just like to one Geldof got?

kowloon

So are there any honours bestowed on people for actual achievement or is it all just celebrity now? :rolleyes:

Oswald Osbourne

Yes it should. It's a rare time a Finglas scumbag is called "Sir", without it being immediately followed by "you're making a scene".

Davidius

Meh I heard he was a bit of a prick anyway.

Reminds though, didn't some guy get one of these titles of the French even though it's a republic?

Sherifu

Sir Bono of Turdington.

Guy:Incognito

kowloon wrote: »

So are there any honours bestowed on people for actual achievement or is it all just celebrity now? :rolleyes:

Yes. Some guy is due to slay a dragon in the next few weeks, it's likely he'll get one.

Neamhshuntasach

Who the **** would want a kinghthood? The brits can shove their titles up their holes. It creates false idolizing and no self respecting Irish person should ever accept such a thing from an imperialistic nation like England.

jazoo

rather see him become pope thats more rock n roll.

Oswald Osbourne

Oswald Osbourne wrote: »

Yes it should. It's a rare time a Finglas scumbag is called "Sir", without it being immediately followed by "you're making a scene".

Pretty funny, you should write comedy for tv.

leninbenjamin

daboyfergie wrote: »

However I think that we should not dwell in the past.

exactly why i wouldn't accept one tbh, as they are just a throwback to "darker" times.

kowloon

Stekelly wrote: »

Yes. Some guy is due to slay a dragon in the next few weeks, it's likely he'll get one.

Ooohhh Sarky

Hydroquinone

Neamhshuntasach wrote: »

Who the **** would want a kinghthood? The brits can shove their titles up their holes. It creates false idolizing and no self respecting Irish person should ever accept such a thing from an imperialistic nation like England.

The Queen doesn't come and kick your door in, wrestle you to the floor and knight you whether you like it or not, you know. Some minion or other writes to you and offers you it and you have to write back accepting it, if you want it.

Just like Terry Wogan and Michael Smurfitt and Bob Geldof and Spike Milligan and God alone knows who else did.

Steve

If you get knighted, can you change your username or do you still have to pay??

Sir stevec hmm..

ironictoaster

Oswald Osbourne wrote: »

Yes it should. It's a rare time a Finglas scumbag is called "Sir", without it being immediately followed by "you're making a scene".

I believe it's Glasnevin

Xavi6

randylonghorn wrote: »

Tbh, I couldn't give a toss. If he wants to kneel and let her wave a sword close to his throat, let him ... I guess there are a lot kinkier fetishes really.

And if she slits it for him then all the better

guinnessdrinker

OK, I found this article. He was awarded a honorary knighthood a year ago. But there must not have been a big deal about it because he wasn't awarded it by the Queen and he didn't have to go to go to Buckingham palace or anything. He just went to the British embassy in Dublin.

Incidently The Edge received an honorary honorary doctorate last year!

So we have a Sir Bono and Dr. Edge in the band now. Not bad going in fairness!

Flashraziel

Dr. The Edge, surely?

BraziliaNZ

I would accept it just to annoy idiot nationalists

Affable

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7_BcLjtG3eY

Degsy

"Arise,Sir Bono"

"I'm already standing up,m'am."

If he accepts this he's putting the final seal on his reputation for being a greedy,money-grabbing,hypocritical scumbag midget.

Beerlao

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I would accept it just to annoy idiot nationalists

YEAH!! YOU DA MAN!!!

:rolleyes:

robinph

Got nothing to do with the queen.

Just the amasador decides he want's to honour someone in the country hes ambasadoring(?), gets aproval from Blair and Bertie ( this is all from last year), then hands out a gong himself.

Mossy Monk

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Bob Geldoff got one. Why not Bono?

Exactly ^

Alot has changed over the last 10 years as we all very well know. The hatred that people had for anything British has almost dispersed which is a great thing. Also, from my experiences over the water the English seem to be alot friendlier to us now too. All for the greater good fellas . So if Bono wants to get in the knight club whos stopping him really.

Degsy

KaG1888 wrote: »

Exactly ^

Alot has changed over the last 10 years as we all very well know. The hatred that people had for anything British has almost dispersed which is a great thing. Also, from my experiences over the water the English seem to be alot friendlier to us now too. All for the greater good fellas . So if Bono wants to get in the knight club whos stopping him really.

So what's he done to deserve it?Written songs about moles living in holes?Sued people over a pair of trousers?Moved offshore to avoid paying tax for nine months of the year?The swine deserves nothing.

Trampas

Walks up to the queen and she tells him he has to take his hat off.

He hands it to here and gets knighted.

Before he leaves he asks for his hat back incase she decides to sell it and he will start his crying again

Degsy

Degsy wrote: »

So what's he done to deserve it?Written songs about moles living in holes?Sued people over a pair of trousers?Moved offshore to avoid paying tax for nine months of the year?The swine deserves nothing.

I never mentioned once that he deserves it Degsy ol boy, I was just stating that he should accept it.

Flashraziel

Flashraziel wrote: »

Dr. The Edge, surely?

So now whenever anyone shouts out, "Is there a doctor in the building?" he can shout out ...

"Kinda"

OPENROAD

KaG1888 wrote: »

from my experiences over the water the English seem to be alot friendlier to us now too.

They always were though in my experience

Slutmonkey57b

Davidius wrote: »

Meh I heard he was a bit of a prick anyway.

Reminds though, didn't some guy get one of these titles of the French even though it's a republic?

Everyone I know who's ever met the man thinks he's a nice bloke actually.
Because he is.

sdanseo

Thread title is flawed tbh, he's not a British citizen so can't use the title 'Sir'. Just gets some letters after his name or something. Good enough for him for accepting it.

Spyral

rather see him become pope thats more rock n roll.

he cannot be pope as he is a protestant

Steve

sdonn_1 wrote: »

Thread title is flawed tbh, he's not a British citizen so can't use the title 'Sir'. Just gets some letters after his name or something. Good enough for him for accepting it.

MBE or OBE isn't it?

don't know what they mean though.

Ponster

Bono is an OBE I think. Even if he was British an OBE doesn't give you the right to use 'sir' before your name. O = officer and M = member


As Lennon once said :

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war—for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Bard

An MBE doesn't give an Irish person the right to be called "Sir" either. The Corrs got honourary MBE's a year and a half ago.

I'm not sure Irish people should accept these titles but I don't really care what Bono does, to be honest.

Degsy

Bard wrote: »

An MBE doesn't give an Irish person the right to be called "Sir" either. The Corrs got honourary MBE's a year and a half ago.

I'm not sure Irish people should accept these titles but I don't really care what Bono does, to be honest.

He'll accept it because he's a typical me feiner,a greedy,money-grabbing little parasite and a hypocritical preacher of nonsense.Him and Bob Geldof wil die roaring for a vicar!

sdanseo

Ponster wrote: »

O = officer and M = member

...of the British Empire. No wonder people don't take to kindly to him accepting it eh :rolleyes:

Moneygrabbing git. I'm sure he means well sometimes but he's too self-obsessed for that to be of any use.

ODS

This has been in another forum but may as well be here; was in Phoenix last year - fairly shocking stuff imo

Phoenix Magazine wrote:

SIR BONO'S PROFIT FROM WARGAMES

WHEN NOT saving the world or relocating companies off-shore, Bono KBE (Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) has been busy recently in making interesting investments – with one such gambit being into a software firm which specialises in "extremely realistic videos to be used as training games for the US military".

The recently elevated knight has become part owner in Elevation Partners – a massive US-based investments company set up in 2005 where, along with five other non-U2 partners, Sir Bono has a one sixth partnership. But, regrettably the activities of this and related companies don't always seem to match the world-saving rhetoric of Hewson's finer words.

Only last August Elevation bought a substantial stake into Forbes Media, publisher of Forbes Magazine, which is responsible for printing various "Top 100" type lists – the best known being that of billionaires. Editor-in-chief Malcolm 'Steve' Forbes is, of course, well- known for his "traditional" US Republican agenda. Featuring on a variety of platforms such as his own TV show, "Forbes on Fox", Steve is known for being against gun control, pro death penalty, opposing pollution control, and a world perspective that promotes, as he succinctly puts it himself, a "US not UN Foreign Policy".

Happily the part acquisition of Forbes ran smoothly, with Elevation partner, Roger McNamee, telling the NYT that Bono "was attracted to the magazine because it has a 'point of view,' adding that Bono 'drove this part of the discussion and likes the fact that there has been a consistent philosophy throughout its history'".

However the really cool move by Elevation is over on the US west coast, where it invested a reported $300 million in 2005 on a company called Pandemic/Bioware Studios. As reported in the Boston Globe, Pandemic is currently preparing to launch a product called 'Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, "a violent video game in which players become hired mercenaries who invade Venezuela, where a tyrant has tampered with the country's oil supply" – in other words the opportunity to re-run the CIA's failed 2001 coup attempt in cyberspace, except this time there can be victory.

Not surprisingly, this has not impressed a number of parties including the Venezuela Solidarity Network and the Boston Bolivarian Network, who last July first wrote to Bono to protest.

Helpfully Venezuela Network issued a release stating "Pandemic is a sub-contractor for the US army and the CIA funded Institute for Creative technologies which uses Hollywood techniques to mount war in California's high dessert in order to conduct military training. Pandemic's target market is young men of military recruitment age and indeed this is not Pandemic's first military adventure. Micro Soft NBC reported that the videogame Full Spectrum Warrior was created through the Institute for Creative Technologies in Marina Del Rey, California, a $45 million endeavor formed by the Army five years ago to connect academics with local entertainment and video game industries. The institute subcontracted work to Los Angeles based Pandemic Studios."

Despite the fuss, 10 months on, with the product due out this autumn, there's still no word from the new KBE about the ethical criticisms of his investments. This hasn't stopped a head of steam building up in the meanwhile. One petitioning letter by US clerics Reverend David A Bos, Rabbi Michael Lerner, and Pax Christi USA Ambassador for Peace, Fr. Joe Nangle OFM, has secured further signatures from the US Fellowship for Reconciliation and other religious organizations.

Apparently hes since sold on the shares - at a profit. So much for "Bullet the blue sky"...

faceman

I hate these type of threads. Often its to rise people to say "fcuk the brits" and all that rubbish

AckwelFoley

Id happily accept it.

Sir Snyper MBE has a certain ring to it.

jahalpin

I don't know why the Queen would want to waste a knighthood on someone like Bono.

Everything is does is motivated by profit (which in itself isn't a bad thing, but to try to imply that he is doing it for any other reason is wrong). His Red campaign is only to improve sales of U2 music.

Bob Geldolf, on the other hand, was motivated by a desire to help the starving people of Africa and he deserved a knighthood for his work

The British Ambassador probably wouldn't be able to knight him anyway, as his head is so big, it would be difficult for the sword to make contact with his sholder anyway!!

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Bono has done good things. In fact he has done a lot more good things than the people we elect to do good things for us. Why wouldn't he accept an honour bestowed on him by another country?

Bono is an honoury doctor from Trinity as well. As a side note: people with honoury doctorates are not meant to use the title Dr.

Terry

Oh christ. Here we go again.
Bono made a few quid?
Lenin, Marx and Stalin must be spinning in their graves.

Rossibaby

bono is a little self-absorbed hypocrite and i don't care what he does.it would be like him to accept this,the same with his buddy geldof.they have done some good stuff,of that there is no doubt and u2 are a great band...but i thin he does it all for the glory and not for the right reasons at all.how about he gives some of his vast wealth to nations in trouble,not all like but is it not a bit hypocritcal asking working class people to make donations when he can afford a private jet:o

Creature

ODS wrote: »

This has been in another forum but may as well be here; was in Phoenix last year - fairly shocking stuff imo



Apparently hes since sold on the shares - at a profit. So much for "Bullet the blue sky"...

Eh Phoenix is a satirical magazine, that article is nonsense. Lol "Pandemic is a sub-contractor for the US army".

poker-jacks

Degsy wrote: »

So what's he done to deserve it?Written songs about moles living in holes?Sued people over a pair of trousers?Moved offshore to avoid paying tax for nine months of the year?The swine deserves nothing.

He's not a tax exile. Artists in this country are exempt from income tax, take it up with a politician if you disagree.

Bono stated that "you can call me anything, except Sir".

This thread is unbelievably flawed with non-factual and inaccurate information.

Ponster

poker-jacks wrote: »

This thread is unbelievably flawed with non-factual and inaccurate information.

Welcome to AH !

sdanseo

Creature wrote: »

Eh Phoenix is a satirical magazine, that article is nonsense. Lol "Pandemic is a sub-contractor for the US army".

*falls off chair*

Awww, ODS you Muppet. (Even though my first thought was Phoenix in the US not the magazine )