New Years Honours 2019 - Micheal Palin Knighted
 

So was Alistair Cook

Twiggy was made a dame

Cool! Still think John Cleese and JK Rowling should be knighted/damed.

Time this nonsense was scrapped.
Just give awards to real heroic acts.

As for services to charity as a reason, (actually the best people don't shout about what they do),they give often only out of their surplus most of the time.
Hardly any hardship.

For me, these awards of titles and honours overall just get worse.

Palin is so deserving of this tbh

**** off....the pythons are so anti establishment...it makes him look like a cock.:nono:

Phillip Pullman is to be knighted as well :D some good choices this year.

not sir michael palin now


that makes me puke, him getting that title before John Cleese, so undeserving :(

The toffs and political class love their cricket, whereas Wayne Rooney plays a working class sport. So no surprise to see Alastair Cook Knighted.

They also prefer their rugby union to the working class sport of Rugby league, so no surprises that Bill Beaumont gets a knighthood while Billy Boston doesn't.

They'll soon want us when war kicks off.

Wayne Rooney is a scumbag who doesn't deserve it

i get annoyed when people get an honour for what they are paid to do. I also get annoyed when some independently wealthy person gets an honour for giving to charity when it has zero impact on their life, and their sole purpose is to get some recognition for it.

When you take all those out, it doesn't leave many that are actually justified :laugh:

He deserves a knighthood for being brave enough to frequently stick his knob in a chlamydia-soup of moderately priced prostitutes.

Palin > Cleese

John Cleese has contributed more to comedy, but Palin has done all his travel stuff, which probably counted for more.

Doesn't Palin do a hell of a lot of charity work

I'm pretty sure he does, yeah. But so does Cleese - https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/john-c...rticle/1223162


I think Cleese once mentioned he was offered a "Commander of the British Empire", but turned it down because he wouldn't be addressed as Commander Cleese, but that sounds like a joke.

in fairness, he does top up a lot of mature women's pensions

Good news for Palin and Pullman, two of my heroes. Not stopping to try to make sense of all the negativity in this thread though. You can't please all of the people, apparently.

This, for instance. Undeserving? smh...

Adam your sigpic makes me feel lumpy and out of shape, whoever it is.

I wish I'd said all that.

Your last 2 lines sum it all up perfectly, for me anyway.

Did you like Book of Dust?

Yes, I've loved everything he's written.


Will Palin now be Sir Michael Palin of Ni?

Sir Galahad the Chaste!

Not Dame Twiggy. :joker:

I think most of the awards go to members of the public rather than celebrities.

Course they do but no-one outside of Kettering cares about Doris the dinnerlady who does the Waendel Walk for charity.

I read 70% go to charities and non-celebs, and around half are women this year. As pleased as I am for Palin and Pullman, I was delighted to hear the divers who saved the Thai boys from the cave all got recognition.

:hee:

if you're a moderately successful actor and live long enough you're bound to get it, that's not right
also someone should highlight and scrutinize those selected for political reasons
just for transparency's sake

and some names of those gongs should be changed, british empire is gone so

Not really. Otherwise there wouldn't be a series of very successful actors who don't have it/never got it.

The ones that do get it tend to have done a little bit more than that to get the recognition.

Palin to North Korea documentary you mean :bored:

I particularly agree with this. While I worked for the Tories I met lots of people who'd worked for John Major, Cameron, Heseltine, Maggie... and anyone who ever works for a cabinet member gets a gong, it seems. It's ridiculous. Type a bunch of letters, do a bit of admin, get well-paid and great perks... and get an MBE thrown in!

don't forget some of them refuse for political or personal reasons so it's hard to judge
E.g. Helen Mirren said she'd been first offered damehood years before she actually changed her mind and accepted
Wouldn't be surprised if JK Rowling has been offered and declined

I know I exeggarated the argument but still, that's the impression I get sometimes

JK Rowling has accepted one a few years back. :skull:

she did? well, I stand corrected, wrong example :hee:

Pole to Pole, Around the World in 80 Days, Full Circle... not to mention all his other stuff. His documentary on WW1 was particularly brilliant.

if you don't think he deserves this, Nicky, you probably don't know enough a about him.

"On 12th December 2017, J.K. Rowling was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, for her services to literature and philanthropy. She accepted the esteemed award from the Duke of Cambridge during an investiture at Buckingham Palace"

From her own website.

Queen of Orphans!

Her charity Lumos is brilliant, for that and Harry Potter she should be a Dame

I like Palin. Well deserved.