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Old 28-12-2018, 09:39 PM #1
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Default New Years Honours 2019 - Micheal Palin Knighted
So was Alistair Cook

Twiggy was made a dame
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Cool! Still think John Cleese and JK Rowling should be knighted/damed.
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Old 28-12-2018, 10:39 PM #3
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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.
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Palin is so deserving of this tbh
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Palin is so deserving of this tbh
**** off....the pythons are so anti establishment...it makes him look like a cock.
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Phillip Pullman is to be knighted as well some good choices this year.
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not sir michael palin now


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

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Wayne Rooney is a scumbag who doesn't deserve it
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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
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Wayne Rooney is a scumbag who doesn't deserve it
He deserves a knighthood for being brave enough to frequently stick his knob in a chlamydia-soup of moderately priced prostitutes.
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not sir michael palin now


that makes me puke, him getting that title before John Cleese, so undeserving
Palin > Cleese
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not sir michael palin now


that makes me puke, him getting that title before John Cleese, so undeserving
John Cleese has contributed more to comedy, but Palin has done all his travel stuff, which probably counted for more.
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Doesn't Palin do a hell of a lot of charity work
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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.
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in fairness, he does top up a lot of mature women's pensions
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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.
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that makes me puke, him getting that title before John Cleese, so undeserving
This, for instance. Undeserving? smh...
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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
I wish I'd said all that.

Your last 2 lines sum it all up perfectly, for me anyway.
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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.
Did you like Book of Dust?
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Yes, I've loved everything he's written.


Will Palin now be Sir Michael Palin of Ni?
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Will Palin now be Sir Michael Palin of Ni?
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