Would you accept a knighthood?

_Kaiser_ · 04-01-2007 12:56PM

I'd gladly accept it.. This whole anti-British/"800 years" rubbish has no impact on me - never has. Move on people!

robinph · 04-01-2007 01:04PM

Mossy Monk wrote:

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

look at you up there on your high horse. anytime anyone rejects anything from Britain it must be because of the narrow mindedness of the IRA loving attitude. jesus, get over yourself

So would you accept the French equivalent then? Legion de Honour or some such I think they call it.

Is it a refusal to accept any kind of recognition from anyone that people are against, or is it just that a foreign country wants to bestow an honour and they are then offended that their own country didn't see fit to already give them a similar form of recognition and they feel ignored?
Mostly looks to be just because of the actual country handing out the honour that is the problem though.

Also Bono's award is not coming from the Queen or even Blair, it is from the British ambassador to Ireland who made the recommendation and he could well have been prompted to come up with the idea from Bertie. After all he has to then give permission for Bono to accept the thing anyway.

Terry · 04-01-2007 02:35PM

I'd accept it and then walk away just as she was about to hand me whatever papers or trophies come with it. just for the craic.

Feral Mutant · 04-01-2007 02:49PM

Archeron wrote:

Yep. I'd accept it and just as the queen is lowering the sword over my shoulder, I'll pretend to have a twitch and jump up in the air, thus causing her to cut my arm off. (I'm fairly sure they grow back). Then I'd wave my stump around while screaming and spraying blood all over the media who are there to witness the event. Now that would make interesting headlines of a tuesday morning.

<Insert Monty Python reference here>

Yeah, I'd accept. I've yet to see a valid reason not to on this thread.

Terry · 04-01-2007 02:56PM

Feral Mutant wrote:

<Insert Monty Python reference here>

Yeah, I'd accept. I've yet to see a valid reason not to on this thread.

because it's fairly pointless and has absolutely no meaning in the real world?

Feral Mutant · 04-01-2007 03:14PM

julep wrote:

because it's fairly pointless and has absolutely no meaning in the real world?

Except I'd get to refer to myself as a knight which would probably pad out my CV a bit. I know being a knight doesn't have the perks it used to but I still don't see anything on here that would convince me not to accept it. It may not do anything but awards for other things don't make you better at them. If, by some bizarre twist of fate, I go on to win an Oscar, I wouldn't see the fact that it doesn't do anything in life as a reason to turn it down.

robinph · 04-01-2007 03:16PM

julep wrote:

because it's fairly pointless and has absolutely no meaning in the real world?

Is there any real point or meaning in the real world to receiving an Oscar, a sports personality of the year or even employee of the month type awards? They are all just a recognition that someone else thought what you did over the previous while was pretty good and that other people should try to do as well as you just did.

Terry · 04-01-2007 03:24PM

an oscar will get you more movie work, thereby earning you more money.

sports personality of the year. well, maybe a few more endorsment deals.

Knight. i can't really think of anything.

robinph · 04-01-2007 03:26PM

julep wrote:

Knight. i can't really think of anything.

Upgrades on plane tickets?

shoutman · 04-01-2007 05:48PM

I voted yes but it would come with some conditions like no queen licking or sponge bathing.

Mossy Monk · 04-01-2007 07:33PM

robinph wrote:

So would you accept the French equivalent then?

if i wouldnt accept one from the UK, then why would i accept one from the French or anyone else for that matter?

what a pointless post that was

oRlyYaRly · 04-01-2007 07:53PM

It'd be rude to say no really.

thebaz · 04-01-2007 08:05PM

What has happened the RocknRoll rebels - there all becoming aristocats -- Sir Paul Mc , Sir Bob , Sir Mick , Sir Bono -- what next
Sir Keith Richard or Lord Pete Doherty -- pass the sick bag

robinph · 04-01-2007 08:07PM

Mossy Monk wrote:

if i wouldnt accept one from the UK, then why would i accept one from the French or anyone else for that matter?

what a pointless post that was

Not pointless at all as we have now established that you are at least being consistent in your refusal which I doubt anyone has a problem with.

I suspect that if the title of the poll was not referring to an honor from the UK that the results would have slightly less no votes in it though.

tensecyclist · 04-01-2007 08:22PM

YES i would accept!..coz i dream to be one!:rolleyes:

Terry · 04-01-2007 09:38PM

thebaz wrote:

What has happened the RocknRoll rebels - there all becoming aristocats -- Sir Paul Mc , Sir Bob , Sir Mick , Sir Bono -- what next
Sir Keith Richard or Lord Pete Doherty -- pass the sick bag

you can buy the title "Lord". always been that way. Lords were always the rich people in britain. you had to be a land owner to beconme a lord. it's all about the money. can't see pete doherty throwing away his crack money on a title.

robinph · 04-01-2007 10:36PM

julep wrote:

you can buy the title "Lord". always been that way. Lords were always the rich people in britain. you had to be a land owner to beconme a lord. it's all about the money. can't see pete doherty throwing away his crack money on a title.

Not that expensive really:

Clicky

For a mere £195 I might take a couple of lordships.

Edit: Had a bit more of a look around that page and it seem that you can buy a hereditary title for £995 which comes with it's own bit of land as well. You won't be able to build a castle on the land though as it is only 20cm x 20cm in size.

cournioni · 04-01-2007 11:37PM

I would. Just to piss off everybody.

Terry · 04-01-2007 11:50PM

you wouldn't piss me off. not that i count or anything. just saying.

Pighead · 04-01-2007 11:56PM

Me neither. Pighead would be happy to congratulate Sir Pornnapster. The honour and prestige associated with the Honour would give a much needed boost to that shithole of a County that calls itself Cavan.

Zebra3 · 05-01-2007 06:10AM

No chance.

Not from Britain (a state that has committed genocide and terrible war crimes in Ireland and never apologised or recognised them) nor from any other state.

kevmy · 05-01-2007 11:46AM

Damn right I'd accept. If I done something worthy of an honour I'd accept. I'd accept a Knighthood from England, a Legion d'Honneur from France and money from the US.
Nearly every country has a national honour it's nothing short of disappointing that we don't have one. There was a great cartoon in one of the papers last week. Bono beside his wall of honours; knighthood, legion d'honneur, the one he got from Nelson Mandela and a brick from Ireland. Cos it seems thats all he ever gets here no acknowledgement for his music or his charity work and an awful lot of hypocrisy. If everybody on these boards had E250m they'd put it in the country where they'd pay the least tax but when he does it b1tch, b1tch, b1tch

de5p0i1er · 05-01-2007 11:48AM

I wouldn't bow to the queen of England just so I could call myself Sir. Its pointless.

Mossy Monk · 05-01-2007 11:59AM

kevmy wrote:

If everybody on these boards had E250m they'd put it in the country where they'd pay the least tax but when he does it b1tch, b1tch, b1tch

he can put his money where he likes but if he doesnt want to pay taxes here then he should STFU about what Ireland does with tax money

Hagar · 05-01-2007 12:25PM

Mossy Monk wrote:

he can put his money where he likes but if he doesnt want to pay taxes here then he should STFU about what Ireland does with tax money

A very incisive observation. Well put Sir.

kevmy · 05-01-2007 01:17PM

Mossy Monk wrote:

he can put his money where he likes but if he doesnt want to pay taxes here then he should STFU about what Ireland does with tax money

In fact he still pays large ammounts of tax here as they only moved part of the U2 empire abroad and I belive he's telling every other country where they should put their money so why not us. Not saying he isn't an annoying twerp at times though:rolleyes:

kevmy · 05-01-2007 01:20PM

de5p0i1er wrote:

I wouldn't bow to the queen of England just so I could call myself Sir. Its pointless.

My point is your getting your honour from England and it just so happens the head of state in England is the Queen but the honour comes from the people of England. It's just an anti-English thing IMO if a country sees fit to honour for something I've done in their country then IMO it'd be rude to reject it.

Angels · 05-01-2007 02:48PM

Well no im a paddy so theres no way i'd like to get knighted by the Queen of England it contradicts everything us Irish people stand for!!

robinph · 05-01-2007 03:11PM

Angels wrote:

Well no im a paddy so theres no way i'd like to get knighted by the Queen of England

That's not a problem then as Bono, and yourself if you were to get one, would get the award from the British ambassador to Ireland and wouldn't need to go anywhere near the Queen.

Angels wrote:

it contradicts everything us Irish people stand for!!

What is it exactly then that the Irish stand for then, "hate" everything with any association with England apart from the premiership?

The Sweeper · 05-01-2007 03:27PM

Angels wrote:

Well no im a paddy so theres no way i'd like to get knighted by the Queen of England it contradicts everything us Irish people stand for!!

Are you aware that 'Paddy' is a term of racial abuse?

Perhaps that's something else Irish people stand for...

There are over three quarters of a million Irish-born people living in England. That's just shy of 1,000 Irish people for every year of colonisation. I wonder what they stand for, eh?

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