Daniel Day-Lewis to be knighted

Dave! · 13-06-2014 11:28PM #1

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/daniel-day-lewis-to-be-knighted-by-queen-elizabeth-1.1831985

Multi-award-winning actor, and Wicklow resident, Daniel Day-Lewis is to be knighted.
He is one of more than 1,100 people from the UK and beyond to be recognised in Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday Honours list.

1,100 people, jayzus! Feeling kinda sh*tty that I didn't make the list tbh.

However having said that, I would probably say "thanks, but I'm grand" if I was offered. What about ye – would you accept a knighthood?

I don't have any particularly strong views on monarchy, nor even any hugely nationalist leanings, but I just think it's a bit silly and archaic really.

Also – has anyone (in the last, say, 30 years) turned down a knighthood?

dee_mc · 13-06-2014 11:32PM

Danny Boyle turned something like this down last year, and David Bowie a few years ago I think?

Sh1tbag OToole · 13-06-2014 11:32PM

Jeez you'd have to be a right ould drip to turn down a knighthood, it would be an experience anyway

mike65 · 13-06-2014 11:32PM

Dave! wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/daniel-day-lewis-to-be-knighted-by-queen-elizabeth-1.1831985

1,100 people, jayzus! Feeling kinda sh*tty that I didn't make the list tbh.

However having said that, I would probably say "thanks, but I'm grand" if I was offered. What about ye – would you accept a knighthood?

I don't have any particularly strong views on monarchy, nor even any hugely nationalist leanings, but I just think it's a bit silly and archaic really.

Also – has anyone (in the last, say, 30 years) turned down a knighthood?

Loads have over the years, there is probably a wiki list! Most of that 1,100 are people you have never heard of as they work in the public sector or civil service. The famous sport/showbiz types are only a relative handful

wazky · 13-06-2014 11:33PM

I'd only accept it if it meant I could ponce around Buckingham Palace in just my jocks and crown and have Liz make the tae for me.

Sky King · 13-06-2014 11:34PM

Yeah there's a wiki list people people who have declined one. Edit here it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declining_a_British_honour#Knighthood

I would accept it but only if I also got the armour and a horse.

everdead.ie · 13-06-2014 11:34PM

mike65 wrote: »

Loads have over the years, there is probably a wiki list! Most of that 1,100 are people you have never heard of as they work in the public sector or civil service. The famous sports/showiz types are only a relative handful

There is an english artist Lowry(?) i think he turned several down.

Micky Dolenz · 13-06-2014 11:40PM

Fair play to him.

Adamantium · 13-06-2014 11:40PM

Daniel Day Lewis in a mental hospital: "But I AM King Arthur and always have been, where did you put Excalibur?"
Doctors: I'm sure it feels very real to you.
Lewis: Come Summer 2016, it's gonna feel pretty ****ing real to you too. Anybody not wearing hardened chainmail is gonna have a real bad day. Get it?!

Karl Stein · 13-06-2014 11:43PM

Does he get a big sword and a horse and a couple of wenches?

Jonny Blaze · 13-06-2014 11:47PM

Will he be able to keep the black knight at bay though?

Busted Flat. · 13-06-2014 11:48PM

He must the most depressing actor of all times, most of his movies are nearly in the dark. I will give him something in his favor as regards being an actor, and only one, The last of the Mochiens, Spell check down.

Tail Docker · 14-06-2014 01:49AM

Busted Flat. wrote: »

He must the most depressing actor of all times, most of his movies are nearly in the dark. I will give him something in his favor as regards being an actor, and only one, The last of the Mochiens, Spell check down.

I think it is spelled Mochachinians.

The Diabolical Monocle · 14-06-2014 02:02AM

Kind of easy to say that you'd say 'no' when you're just waffling on-line.

My inner provo is telling me in such a situation to say 'no stuff it up your crown Liz ...something something 800 years'.

But theres got to be some nice perks to having it. Not to go on about the north too much but you'd probably be well liked in unionist towns, they'd probably give you a place at the head of the table when their barbecues roll round.

Free bbq is good.

AndonHandon · 14-06-2014 02:07AM

A knighthood is bestowed by a people who are hardly what one would call 'bad people'. It is awarded for significant contributions to whatever. Declining purely on the basis of an anti-royal sentiment is justifiable IMO, but I am not anti-royal for this reason alone (and the same reason I am in favour of a president); the role is important as the King/Queen represents the people, their spirit, their dreams, their ideals, their hopes and ambitions as well as how they hope to be seen around the World. They are purely figureheads, physical manifestations of a sovereign and united spirit.

However, I have a preference for a democratically elected president over an inherited King/Queen role as it is the people of the current time that elect their president so the president is more in touch with the current population's morale, psyche, personality and feeling (although I cringe at Michael D Higgins being our president!).

Essentially, therefore, because I hold nothing significant against the British and their monarchical system, I would be honoured to receive a knighthood from their Queen.

uck51js9zml2yt · 14-06-2014 02:11AM

Now he'll be Knight and Day. Must get very confusing

Lux23 · 14-06-2014 02:17AM

Can I be a Countess instead?

Riddle101 · 14-06-2014 02:26AM

I'd do what Bart Simpson did in Australia. I'd say yes to being knighted but during my knighting ceremony when the Queen is about to knight me. I would turn around, bend over, drop my trousers and moon her. I'd even have an Irish flag painted on my arse to add insult to injury. That'll show them Brits.

AndonHandon · 14-06-2014 02:41AM

Maci Sweet Radish wrote: »

Now he'll be Knight and Day. Must get very confusing

They should make a movie about it!

14-06-2014 02:47AM

I'd do it purely so I can book flights using the title 'Lady' and so maximise the likelihood of a free upgrade.

uch · 14-06-2014 03:01AM

I'd be sofa king happy if I was asked, my grandad was in Dunkirk and survived

DEFTLEFTHAND · 14-06-2014 03:56AM

I suppose we're small four nations in the North Atlantic who share culture and history, 3 of us Irish, Scots and Welsh traditionally hate the English :pac:. So why not take a knighthood? The Irish especially played a part in laying down the groundwork in wildlands. An integral part of the building of the empire.

Any student of history will know of the 'true Gael' bull propagated by Nationalists from the mid to late 19th century. (Separate from the Home Rule Statesmen like Parnell and Dillon) The Irish and Scots aren't Celts, the celts were mainland Europe and traded in the British isles, look up the depiction of a true Celt, sallow skin, brown eyes, pointy nose, dark brown or black hair.

We're all pretty much the same on these islands.

Badly Drunk Boy · 14-06-2014 04:01AM

Candie wrote: »

I'd do it purely so I can book flights using the title 'Lady' and so maximise the likelihood of a free upgrade.

If your Irish (or rather, not a member of the Commonwealth), you're not entitled to use 'Sir' or 'Lady'. It'd only be an honorary knighthood.

Hank Scorpio · 14-06-2014 04:35AM

Legendary actor, there will be blood is a masterpiece and his performance is like nothing I've seen in film

Nodin · 14-06-2014 05:27AM

Dave! wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/daniel-day-lewis-to-be-knighted-by-queen-elizabeth-1.1831985

1,100 people, jayzus! Feeling kinda sh*tty that I didn't make the list tbh.

However having said that, I would probably say "thanks, but I'm grand" if I was offered. What about ye – would you accept a knighthood?

It was a method for co-opting people into the Empire in many ways, though more the establishment now. I'd accept a dose of the pox quicker.

Nodin · 14-06-2014 05:29AM

Candie wrote: »

I'd do it purely so I can book flights using the title 'Lady' and so maximise the likelihood of a free upgrade.

You will be surrounded by brown nosers. And I don't just mean the usual perverts that come out in summer.

Skill Magill · 14-06-2014 05:43AM

you're jousting?

whiskeyman · 14-06-2014 08:31AM

I often get the luas after 9pm

Tabnabs · 14-06-2014 08:45AM

Titles and nobility really brings out the republican in me. I'm the citizen of a Republic and the constitution of my country does not allow for such nonsense. Besides, "celebrities" have done a service to their country how?

A big fat NO to any foreign State from me...

umop.episdn · 14-06-2014 08:49AM

uch wrote: »

I'd be sofa king happy if I was asked, my grandad was in Dunkirk and survived

Yeah, but he was German

Sir Osis of Liver. · 14-06-2014 09:00AM

Often wondered do the good people in Limerick refer to Terry Wogan as Sir Terence when he's home.

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