New Year's Honours 2017
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New Year's Honours 2017
Of interest to some and with congratulations to those deserving:
New Year's Honours 2017
At link you should find the big awards (Knighthoods, MBEs etc). Perhaps someone could post the Military Awards (Commendations etc)?
New Year's Honours 2017
At link you should find the big awards (Knighthoods, MBEs etc). Perhaps someone could post the Military Awards (Commendations etc)?
Nice to see a rockape making something of himself.
By the way, I've made something of myself - it's just that nobody has told HM!
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At the risk, no the certainty of sounding miserable and mean I just cant stand the New Year Honours list. The awards have become somewhat discredited by some of the very people who receive them.
Does the USA and Germany have an honours system like ours, or any?
Its just another continuation of our class system writ large. Senior Officers only always get the OBEs in the RN, CBEs for lesser officers and Senior Ratings, BEMs for the remaining. Its just the same old **** pecking order.
I'm getting to the stage in life where I look up to people more who knock the award back when they are sounded out for it when asked -celebs like rocker David Bowie and pert chef Nigella Lawson ffs.
With only about seven comments for the people who have received these awards, I bet deep down I'm not the only one who thinks this.
Strictly my own opinion, and a Happy New Year as well.
Does the USA and Germany have an honours system like ours, or any?
Its just another continuation of our class system writ large. Senior Officers only always get the OBEs in the RN, CBEs for lesser officers and Senior Ratings, BEMs for the remaining. Its just the same old **** pecking order.
I'm getting to the stage in life where I look up to people more who knock the award back when they are sounded out for it when asked -celebs like rocker David Bowie and pert chef Nigella Lawson ffs.
With only about seven comments for the people who have received these awards, I bet deep down I'm not the only one who thinks this.
Strictly my own opinion, and a Happy New Year as well.
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Ahhh commendations lol, in the real world, not worth the paper they are printed on, if indeed they are.
As for the rest, and I include so call sportsmen, simply giving out awards such as OBE's, MBE's and knighthoods etc to people for simply doing their jobs and getting well paid for it, just degrades the system.
Now if they had done something exceptional I could understand it, but i would rather see the likes of an OBE awarded to the old woman who has spent 30 plus years of her life, paid peanuts, looking after disabled children etc than to someone who has simply been promoted into a highly paid and pensioned job.
It's about time they scrubbed the lot.
As for the rest, and I include so call sportsmen, simply giving out awards such as OBE's, MBE's and knighthoods etc to people for simply doing their jobs and getting well paid for it, just degrades the system.
Now if they had done something exceptional I could understand it, but i would rather see the likes of an OBE awarded to the old woman who has spent 30 plus years of her life, paid peanuts, looking after disabled children etc than to someone who has simply been promoted into a highly paid and pensioned job.
It's about time they scrubbed the lot.
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The media usually seek out some of these ordinary people, and there were a couple of them on BBC Breakfast yesterday who received awards for working within their communities, and they were absolutely delighted. My mother-in-law was awarded an MBE a few years back for the years -no, decades- of work she had done within the charity sector in her home town, and she is still tickled pink whenever any of her family mention it.
I suspect that those who belittle the awards system are usually those who have never done anything, or are never likely to, that would ever see them nominated for one. Except for those who turn awards down and rant about them being an imperialist throwback, which is a kick in the teeth to those who nominated them.
I don't expect I'll ever be in the position to be nominated, but if I was I'd be over the moon.
I suspect that those who belittle the awards system are usually those who have never done anything, or are never likely to, that would ever see them nominated for one. Except for those who turn awards down and rant about them being an imperialist throwback, which is a kick in the teeth to those who nominated them.
I don't expect I'll ever be in the position to be nominated, but if I was I'd be over the moon.
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Except for those who turn awards down and rant about them being an imperialist throwback,
So no more GCs or VCs then, as we no longer have a King Geo or a Queen Vic (except in Albert Square.......)
Its just another continuation of our class system writ large. Senior Officers only always get the OBEs in the RN, CBEs for lesser officers and Senior Ratings, BEMs for the remaining. Its just the same old **** pecking order.
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A sign of the times.
This is the first year that I don't recognise anyone's name on the RAF Honours List.
All my compatriates, even those who made it to the top echelons of rank, seem to have retired!
Some would say time I did, too!
This is the first year that I don't recognise anyone's name on the RAF Honours List.
All my compatriates, even those who made it to the top echelons of rank, seem to have retired!
Some would say time I did, too!
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