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Would you accept a knighthood

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    #62
    Thespoofer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Thespoofer


    Waiting on the call any day now.....


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    #63
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Yep, and I'd go old school with it too. My primary mode of transport would be by white horse while wearing a suit of from then on.


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    #64
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,957 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    It's not cryptic, it's true.

    Getting a knighthood, honorary or otherwise, is a simple recognition of accomplishment. There's no land or money involved.

    A lordship is an entirely different thing, similar to being appointed a senator in Ireland. They are open to anyone and the only Lord I've met, started life stacking shelves in Tesco.

    I'll ignore the rest of your post, it's pathetic.


    Well you just commented on it instead of ignoring it.


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    #65
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    I would. But just so that I could say this to the first telemarketer that called...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9u9QprLcvg


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    #66
    DonnchadhMac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭DonnchadhMac


    Never.


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    #67
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    I just checked - I don't get to call myself a Dame Bodice Ripper, on account of being foreign. So no.

    Getting to call myself Dame Bodice Ripper? I'd be knocking over other bitches in the queue.


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    #68
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    12Phase wrote: »
    I think these kinds of knighthoods are actually a sign of how the aristocratic system in the UK is gradually fading away to just being a bit of a relic and a medals system anyway.

    I don't think that's a bad thing. It's actually very important.

    What gets to me isn't the honours system. That's actually quite a nice way of awarding people with recognition of high achievement. It's the hereditary peerages and all the rest that really isn't very compatible with a modern 21st century liberal democracy.

    Except that that the honours are given out by the ultimate hereditary peerage.

    For me, accepting a knighthood would be to accept and recognise the monarchy and the idea that they should have any relevance in modern society.


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    #69
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,174 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What's more hypocritical, receiving a knighthood
    Or receiving an honourary degree or doctorate?

    I definitely don't deserve an honour or doctorate, but maybe I might deserve a complementary title for doing feck all??


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    #70
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,896 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    wuzziwig wrote: »
    It would depend on what perks come with it.

    Worthless now I'm afraid without the power. Once you couldn't flog the peasants and boss them round regardless, whats the attraction?


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    #71
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    No.
    I could elaborate, but I fear it would be lost on you peasants.


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    #72
    davycc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,013 ✭✭✭davycc


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Unless you became a British citizen, you wouldn't get a title.

    what about sir bob geldof and sir terry wogan ?


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    #73
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Will there be land with this knighthood? And lots of poor villagers reliant on me their master for everything?


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    #74
    Jayop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,377 ✭✭✭✭Jayop


    davycc wrote: »
    what about sir bob geldof and sir terry wogan ?

    Didn't ruby or AP get one this year too?


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    #75
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd accept it gratefully and then do this.



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    #76
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Definitely. To be honoured by your own or a foreign country for your services to whichever field you excel in, is a fine achievement.


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    #77
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    There's a huge smack of begrudery about a lot of posts on this thread. If it's a system that is that bad then I'm sure the British people will sort it out themselves, as opposed to Irish bitter "wans" on a chit chat forum.


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    #78
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    No definitely. To be honoured by your own or a foreign country for your services to whichever field you excel in, is a fine achievement.

    Well, it is nice to be recognized for your achievements by powerful people. But I think most of us are a bit sceptical about the motivations of those powerful people. It would be naive to ignore that they don't normally hand out knighthoods unless doing so serves their own interests in some way. If I was handed one, I would have to carefully examine the political and social implications of the offer and the ramifications of my acceptance of it.


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    #79
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Well if the life I lived made a big difference to the world and the head of a foreign state offered to recognise it I think it would be rude to say no.


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    #80
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    I'd accept it. I would then ask the Pope to call a crusade to knock.


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    #81
    blindside88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭blindside88


    Jayop wrote: »
    Didn't ruby or AP get one this year too?

    AP did, he's now Sir Anthony or Sir Tony if you like


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    #82
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    davycc wrote: »
    what about sir bob geldof and sir terry wogan ?

    As I've already stated, "sir" Bob shouldn't be called sir and Terence took dual citizenship.


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    #83
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sure. Why not? Get a day out. Have people refer to you as Sir. Take a dump in Buckingham Palace. Ask if you'd be allowed to use the sword.


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    #84
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    blindside88 wrote: »
    AP did, he's now Sir Anthony or Sir Tony if you like

    Sure wouldn't he deserve it the amount of knocks he took.

    Anyway off topic but why are so many jockeys Irish??? Is there a farm down south breeding them boyos?

    I only know of a few people who rode horses as in showjumping but never anyone who would race as in jockeys.


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    #85
    ads20101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭ads20101


    I'd love one (are you listening Whitehall - you seem to be able to see everything else on the net)


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    #86
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    iDave wrote: »
    Well if the life I lived made a big difference to the world and the head of a foreign state offered to recognise it I think it would be rude to say no.


    sure the world makes it seem like it would be rude and you could argue it might be, but in truth why should anyone have to accept something they are offered if they don't want it, the answer of course is that nobody has any right to impose their own degree of standards upon somebody and you should be fully within your rights to refuse something if you don't want it and not feel you are being rude by doing so.


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    #87
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,713 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Would you accept a knighthood?

    No, that is for the sycophants


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    #88
    Pink Fairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Pink Fairy


    A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »
    No, that is for the sycophants

    Ah you would really, sure you can probably claim dual citizenship now, be just what the doctor ordered


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    #89
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,557 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I would absolutely never accept a knighthood,and neither would I ever reduce myself to addressing anyone who had as "sir"


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    #90
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    No. Not my country. Not my country's system. Besides the oul knees are banjaxed and I don't like people approaching me with sharp objects.


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    #91
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    timthumbni wrote: »
    Sure wouldn't he deserve it the amount of knocks he took.

    Anyway off topic but why are so many jockeys Irish??? Is there a farm down south breeding them boyos?

    I only know of a few people who rode horses as in showjumping but never anyone who would race as in jockeys.



    Because were the land of the little people :p:o :confused:


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