Quo in New Year's Honours list
Rob Jackson
Woody
Andrew Dick
as fish n' chips.
Cheers,
Andrew
2009/12/31 Rob Jackson <robjac...@yahoo.co.uk>:
> Rick and Francis got OBE's - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8435197.stm
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Grizzlybaz
it is for charity work. Glad to hear it, I don't hold with dishing
out honours to celebrities just for being famous.
G
Andrew Dick
matters. Usually there is a charity link to these honors. Sir Mick
Jagger deserved his knighthood for music as he is the most durable
icon of the 1960s.
Though I've never quite understood the reason behind Trevor
MacDonald's knighthood.
2009/12/31 Grizzlybaz <grizz...@msn.com>:
> Sorry to upset the apple cart chaps, but I really don't hold with
> dishing out honours to celebrities who've basically just spent their
> lives doing something they love and made a pile of cash doing it.
> Now, if they'd been awarded the honour for some charitable or
> humanitarian act, that's different. For me, honours should go to
> people who've done something worthwhile and not sought to gain from
> it.
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Grizzlybaz
unique doesn't deserve being honoured by the country if you've been
paid a boat load of cash for doing it in my book. Mick Jagger is an
excellent example of my point - he hasn't paid tax in this country for
some time, as he doesn't spend enough time in the country to have to
pay it. I seem to recall his knighthood was awarded "for services to
music". What a load of tosh - yes, he may have been an inspiration to
others but at the same time, he's been paid a huge wedge while doing
it.
Now, if you want an example of a celebrity who deserved an honour, you
need look no further than Sir Ian Botham. He was knighted for
services to charity because he has raised something like £15 million
for leukaemia research during the last 25 years, mainly through the 13
walks he's done from John O'Groats to Lands End. Before he did his
first one, survival rates for the disease were around the 20% mark,
these days it's closer to 80%. Now if Rick and Francis have been made
OBE's for charity work, then fair play to them and congratulations.
G
On Jan 1, 1:17 am, Andrew Dick <cyberscots...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> If they've paid their taxes and done something unique that's all that
> matters. Usually there is a charity link to these honors. Sir Mick
> Jagger deserved his knighthood for music as he is the most durable
> icon of the 1960s.
> Though I've never quite understood the reason behind Trevor
> MacDonald's knighthood.
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> 2009/12/31 Grizzlybaz <grizzly1...@msn.com>:
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> > Sorry to upset the apple cart chaps, but I really don't hold with
> > dishing out honours to celebrities who've basically just spent their
> > lives doing something they love and made a pile of cash doing it.
> > Now, if they'd been awarded the honour for some charitable or
> > humanitarian act, that's different. For me, honours should go to
> > people who've done something worthwhile and not sought to gain from
> > it.
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