Her Majesty's New Years Honours List 2014. Kighthoods

Lapin

Our next door neighbour's head honcho has just dished them out for next year and thus given herself the task of tapping the worthy winners on the shoulders with a sword for the year ahead.

Arise Sir Lapin !!!

Here is a selected list of some the other gallant recipients (For the first time ever there are more women than men). -

THE MOST ANCIENT AND MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE THISTLE

The Rt Hon David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, the Earl of Home CVO, CBE.
The Rt Hon Robert Haldane Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin. Chancellor of the Order

He deserves that thistle. (Whoever he is)


KNIGHTS BACHELOR

Antony Mark David Gormley, OBE. Sculptor. For services to the Arts. (London)

The Rt Hon Richard Geoffrey James Ottaway, MP. Member of Parliament for Croydon South. For parliamentary and political service. (London)

Great lads altogether.


ORDER OF MERIT

Sir Simon Denis Rattle, CBE.

Aren't you only delighted for him !

ORDER OF THE BATH
KCB

Michael Charles Lancaster Carpenter. Speaker's Counsel, House of Commons. For services to Parliament and voluntary service to the community in Surrey. (Oxshott, Surrey)
William Crothers. Chief Procurement Officer, HM Government. For services to Government Efficiency and Commercial Capability. (Woldingham, Surrey)

Pair of chancers - Modern day Sir Humphrys

MVO

David Barber. The Queen's Swan Marker.

Of Course.

And some people you may have heard of -

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

Mrs Penelope (Penelope Anne Constance Timson) Keith, CBE DL. For services to the Arts and to Charity. (Godalming, Surrey)

Mrs Karren Brady. Vice Chair, West Ham Football Club. For services to Entrepreneurship and Women in Business. (Solihull, West Midlands)

Mint Aero. for services to shíte talking on a global scale.

Charles Nicholas Parsons, OBE. For charitable services, particularly to Children's Charities. (Risborough, Buckinghamshire)

Full List

Because I can't be arsed trawling through it anymore and the Daily Mail one isn't up yet. (They're still trying to find an asylum seeker in a plane crash angle to it).


I think you'll agree they're we're all deserving recipients.

The question is - Which worthy plebs did the queen leave out ?

Cee-Jay-Cee

Fell asleep on the 3rd line. Wake me up later. Ta.

Lapin

Slow uptake here.

Surely Dame Whoopsadaisydoodles deserves one for services to reading bullshít ?

J_E

Who cares?

WilyCoyote

Mint Aero says OFFWITHHISHEAD!

Lapin

CJC999 wrote: »

Fell asleep on the 3rd line. Wake me up later. Ta.

And that was the very very shortened version.

Are you not gloriously excited and full of joy that the Countess of Wessex has now been made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ?

Lapin

WilyCoyote wrote: »

Mint Aero says OFFWITHHISHEAD!

Knighthood for WilyCoyote for actually reading my OP.

Sir Arthur Daley

Lapin wrote: »

And that was the very very shortened version.

Are you not gloriously excited and full of joy that the Countess of Wessex has now been made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ?

Could you post the lenghtened version please?

anncoates

Tips for splenetic anti-Brit monologues:

• Keep it short
  
  
• Never compile when pissed
  
  
• Get a fucking life
  
  

mrsdewinter

I usually think those titles are meaningless rubbish. Then I remember that Jimmy Savile used to include his OBE in the Jim'll Fix It credits.

Tramps Like Us

This carry on is all very backward isn't it. Can never understand the meek acceptance never mind the outright love some British people have for monarchy. The entire concept is morally repugnant

J_E

Tramps Like Us wrote: »

This carry on is all very backward isn't it. Can never understand the meek acceptance never mind the outright love some British people have for monarchy. The entire concept is morally repugnant

I'm just amazed it's still so strong! People making immense fuss over a baby just because it happens to be born in a special family. It's something out of the Middle Ages, turned into a bizarre celebrity role.

Was Atari Jaguar included in the list?

MadsL

Tramps Like Us wrote: »

This carry on is all very backward isn't it. Can never understand the meek acceptance never mind the outright love some British people have for monarchy. The entire concept is morally repugnant

The British being the only nation with a monarchy of course...oh wait.

lostdisk

Knighthood to who ever invented toilet roll.

PizzamanIRL

Cool. Thanks. Yeah. Nice. I appreciate you sharing this with zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

errlloyd

I remember reading that per capita based on web hits and coverage the Irish cared more about the Royal Baby then Britain did...

Tramps Like Us

MadsL wrote: »

The British being the only nation with a monarchy of course...oh wait.

Where did I say they were? The thread is about Britain isn't it

Sir Arthur Daley

Tramps Like Us wrote: »

Where did I say they were? The thread is about Britain isn't it

Great Britain

Daqster

Good fcuk!

CBE:
Cherie Blair (women's issues)
Tracey Emin (arts)

OBE:
Stella McCartney (fashion)
Ewan McGregor (acting)


Ewan is a decent enough actor but surely many where ahead of him in the queue for acknowledgements in that sphere.

Stella for fashion? Ha.
Tracey Emin for arts? Most notably, she didn't make her bed ffs!

Stephen Fry and Billy Connolly would stick out for me as two people who should have got at least a text message from her madge at this stage.

SilverScreen

I had to look up what a Swan Marker was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marker_of_the_Swans

And you can read all about Swan Upping here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Upping

Mind-blowing stuff.

Lapin

Daqster wrote: »

Tracey Emin (arts)

OBE:
Stella McCartney (fashion)

Aha,

That explains why the Daily Mail haven't got a link up yet.

They're still busy trying to link the two women to a protest over a Scottish lesbian vegetarian's escapade with a member of UK Border Control in 1994.

J_E

MadsL wrote: »

The British being the only nation with a monarchy of course...oh wait.

No other monarchy has even half as much coverage.

MadsL

Cydoniac wrote: »

No other monarchy has even half as much coverage.

How dare you say Her Majesty is fat!!

WilyCoyote

Cydoniac wrote: »

No other monarchy has even half as much cleavage.

There! fyp

anncoates

Cydoniac wrote: »

I'm just amazed it's still so strong! People making immense fuss over a baby just because it happens to be born in a special family. It's something out of the Middle Ages, turned into a bizarre celebrity role.

Populations in being largely moronic shocker.

Tabloids in running with news that their readerships want to read shocker.

Britain and many other countries in having monarchy shocker.

People still being shocked abut this shocker.

Lapin

Cydoniac wrote: »

No other monarchy has even half as much coverage.

You're right there.

When it comes to Royalty, The Brits win.

There were two abdications of European monarchs this year (Netherlands and Belgium). Situations which changed the head of state in those countries overnight. And nobody gives a fúck.

Yet the rest of the world was talking about a baby in Britain that will probably become king when we are being fed through a drip in a nursing home if we're still around.

MadsL

SilverScreen wrote: »

I had to look up what a Swan Marker was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marker_of_the_Swans

And you can read all about Swan Upping here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Upping

Mind-blowing stuff.

Frankly anyone who has to get close enough to a swan to ring it without using a tranquillizer gun deserves a fucking medal! Terrifying animals.

rainbowtrout

I always wondered what happened when two people with double barrell names got married

CVO (whatever that is)

Mrs Valerie Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers. Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset.

EB_2013

Headmaster - Services to education....so you get an honour now just for doing your job. She must have a quota to fill every year.

J_E

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Mrs Valerie Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

Try saying that 10 times!

rainbowtrout

ROYAL VICTORIAN MEDAL
RVM

James Anthony Butler. Stationery and Reprographics Officer, Royal Household.

FFS, when I was in college, reprographics was the fancy title that was on the door of the print/photocopying room....

rainbowtrout

Cydoniac wrote: »

Try saying that 10 times!

Or speaking to her if you were working in a call centre....

MadsL

EB_2013 wrote: »

Headmaster - Services to education....so you get an honour now just for doing your job. She must have a quota to fill every year.

Not looking - guessing that is a Private School...

Edit: Damn, I was wrong. Still, a Boys School founded in 1541!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton_School_for_Boys

MadsL

Found the Irishman!!

Phillippe Patrick O'Shea, C.N.Z.M. L.V.O. New Zealand Herald of Arms Extraordinary.

His arms are Extraordinary after all....

MadsL

rainbowtrout wrote: »

FFS, when I was in college, reprographics was the fancy title that was on the door of the print/photocopying room....

You think photocopying Camillas knitting patterns is going to do itself do you?

NegativeCreep

I'm so confused right now.
I can't even

Daqster

Lapin wrote: »

That explains why the Daily Mail haven't got a link up yet.

They have articles up regarding this year's honours.

Here's two:

Campaigner who exposed horrific neglect at NHS hospital is honoured in new year's list

Females in the new year's honours list outnumber men

MadsL

Mrs Valerie Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

Now there is a quad-barrelled gatling gun of a name.

I think her great great grandfather was this chap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Henry_Lane-Fox_Pitt-Rivers

Amazing museum of the incredible stuff he collected over the years from all around the world at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford including costumes from Peru made for fleas!!

Holsten

Meaningless titles from a meaningless monarchy.

Well, unless you're British of course.

rainbowtrout

Ahhhhh Jessica Fletcher is now a Dame. Cabot Cove will be throwing a party.... at which someone will get killed.

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
DBE
Mrs Angela Brigid Lansbury Shaw, CBE. Actress. For services to drama and to charitable work and philanthropy.

MadsL

Dame Penelope Keith is pretty damn obvious if you think about it, surprised she didn't get a gong before this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anyValstHU

Classic stuff...

MadsL

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Ahhhhh Jessica Fletcher is now a Dame. Cabot Cove will be throwing a party.... at which someone will get killed.

Never knew she was British, huh.

awec

MadsL wrote: »

Never knew she was British, huh.

You don't have to be British.

Bill Gates has a Knighthood. He can't call himself Sir, but he is Bill Gates KBE.

MadsL

Are we just going to ignore this photograph then?

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02777/newyear-acosta_2777635c.jpg

sabat

I prefer the people who refused to accept royal honours -here's a selection of them:

David Bowie
Danny Boyle

Francis Crick
Paul Dirac
Albert Finney
E. M. Forster
Thomas Hardy
Stephen Hawking
Peter Higgs
David Hockney
Trevor Howard
Aldous Huxley
Rudyard Kipling
L.S. Lowry
Harold Pinter
George Bernard Shaw
Ralph Vaughan Williams
H.G. Wells
A. E. Housman
Francis Bacon
Robert Graves
J. B. Priestley


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declining_a_British_honour

Lapin

sabat wrote: »

I prefer the people who refused to accept royal honours -here's a selection of them:

David Bowie
Danny Boyle

Francis Crick
Paul Dirac
Albert Finney
E. M. Forster
Thomas Hardy
Stephen Hawking
Peter Higgs
David Hockney
Trevor Howard
Aldous Huxley
Rudyard Kipling
L.S. Lowry
Harold Pinter
George Bernard Shaw
Ralph Vaughan Williams
H.G. Wells
A. E. Housman
Francis Bacon
Robert Graves
J. B. Priestley


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declining_a_British_honour

Very short list. Is that all you could find on the internet?

Can't believe you left out the late Peter O'Toole, given that he has been in the news recently for having the misfortune of shuffling off his mortal coil.

Dozen Wicked Words

MadsL wrote: »

Not looking - guessing that is a Private School...

Edit: Damn, I was wrong. Still, a Boys School founded in 1541!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton_School_for_Boys

Interesting fact. Matt Smith, previous Dr. Who went there.

Uninteresting fact, I went there. Was a kip when I was there, worse still when my older brothers were there. They then got huge amount of income from 'old boys' who had been there and donated. They got a theatre, and shed load of new buildings, so Dr who had a lovely time I'm sure.

Very pretentious school now, wants to be selective academically in who it takes and sees itself as above most other schools in town. That headmaster seems a right tool imo.

Larianne

He gave a selection, meaning not the full list. Sheesh! Easy up!

Chucken

Holsten wrote: »

Meaningless titles from a meaningless monarchy.

Well, unless you're British of course.

Or Mint Aero.

Mint Aero

Lapin wrote: »

Mint Aero. for services to shíte talking on a global scale.

WilyCoyote wrote: »

Mint Aero says OFFWITHHISHEAD!

Chucken wrote: »

Or Mint Aero.

Is this coming by post or?