Her Majesty's New Years Honours List 2014. Kighthoods

Lapin · 31-12-2013 01:34AM #1

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 · 31-12-2013 01:40AM

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

Lapin · 31-12-2013 01:40AM

Slow uptake here.

Surely Dame Whoopsadaisydoodles deserves one for services to reading bullshít ?

J_E · 31-12-2013 01:42AM

Who cares?

WilyCoyote · 31-12-2013 01:43AM

Mint Aero says OFFWITHHISHEAD!

Lapin · 31-12-2013 01:43AM

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 · 31-12-2013 01:44AM

WilyCoyote wrote: »

Mint Aero says OFFWITHHISHEAD!

Knighthood for WilyCoyote for actually reading my OP.

Sir Arthur Daley · 31-12-2013 01:44AM

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 · 31-12-2013 01:45AM

Tips for splenetic anti-Brit monologues:

Keep it short
Never compile when pissed
Get a fucking life

mrsdewinter · 31-12-2013 01:46AM

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 · 31-12-2013 01:47AM

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 · 31-12-2013 01:48AM

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.

31-12-2013 01:50AM

Was Atari Jaguar included in the list?

MadsL · 31-12-2013 01:52AM

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 · 31-12-2013 01:54AM

Knighthood to who ever invented toilet roll.

PizzamanIRL · 31-12-2013 01:55AM

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

errlloyd · 31-12-2013 01:56AM

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 · 31-12-2013 01:57AM

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 · 31-12-2013 01:59AM

Tramps Like Us wrote: »

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

Great Britain

Daqster · 31-12-2013 01:59AM

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 · 31-12-2013 02:05AM

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 · 31-12-2013 02:05AM

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 · 31-12-2013 02:07AM

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 · 31-12-2013 02:09AM

Cydoniac wrote: »

No other monarchy has even half as much coverage.

How dare you say Her Majesty is fat!!

WilyCoyote · 31-12-2013 02:09AM

Cydoniac wrote: »

No other monarchy has even half as much cleavage.

There! fyp

anncoates · 31-12-2013 02:17AM

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 · 31-12-2013 02:18AM

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 · 31-12-2013 02:19AM

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 · 31-12-2013 02:23AM

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 · 31-12-2013 02:25AM

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 · 31-12-2013 02:26AM

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Mrs Valerie Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

Try saying that 10 times!

Her Majesty's New Years Honours List 2014. Kighthoods

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