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So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:24 am
by Globus
Richly deserved.
THe Honours list is possibly the most diverse I've seen.
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:33 pm
by -RB-
Globus wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:24 am
Richly deserved.
THe Honours list is possibly the most diverse I've seen.
Ok I'll bite.
If being an insufferably smug blowhard was the criteria you'd have been knighted years ago.
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:01 pm
by Globus
-RB- wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:33 pm
Globus wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:24 am
Richly deserved.
THe Honours list is possibly the most diverse I've seen.
Ok I'll bite.
If being an insufferably smug blowhard was the criteria you'd have been knighted years ago.
My, my. Not seen you about on here before. Do behave.
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:04 pm
by Lobby
More relevant to this bored, congratulations to:
OBEs
Rob Baxter (director of rugby at Exeter Chiefs), for services to rugby union.
Dee Bradbury (Scottish Rugby Union president), for services to rugby union.
Matt Hampson (former rugby union player and founder of Matt Hampson Foundation), for voluntary and charitable service.
MBEs
Kevin Aitchison (chair of Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby), for services to wheelchair rugby and to people with disabilities.
Damian Hopley (chief executive of the Rugby Players Association), for services to rugby union.
Joe Simmonds (captain of Exeter Chiefs), for services to rugby union.
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:07 pm
by Globus
Lobby wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:04 pm
More relevant to this bored, congratulations to:
OBEs
Rob Baxter (director of rugby at Exeter Chiefs), for services to rugby union.
Dee Bradbury (Scottish Rugby Union president), for services to rugby union.
Matt Hampson (former rugby union player and founder of Matt Hampson Foundation), for voluntary and charitable service.
MBEs
Kevin Aitchison (chair of Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby), for services to wheelchair rugby and to people with disabilities.
Damian Hopley (chief executive of the Rugby Players Association), for services to rugby union.
Joe Simmonds (captain of Exeter Chiefs), for services to rugby union.
Agreed ! I must confess I didn't run through the whole list. It took up nigh on two pages in the Telegraph today.
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:11 pm
by sockwithaticket
Hampson I get.
Maybe Baxter after the number of years he (and his family) have put into Exeter as both player and coach combined with where he's taken them, but Joe Simmonds? The honour certainly can't be just for on field contributions, but even if he does shit loads of charity work, he's 23 and full time pro, I find it hard to conceive that he's done enough to warrant recognition for services to rugby thus far (not to say he couldn't get there). Maybe I'm completely wrong, but he's not quite at Matt Hampson levels is he?
Don't know enough about the others to comment.
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:14 pm
by laurent
Can we cut his head off now ?
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:31 pm
by Globus
I'm just glad that sports people are getting formal awards.
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 2:55 pm
by The Druid
An outspoken supporter of BLM accepting an honour containing the words British Empire?
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 3:05 pm
by frodder
The Druid wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 2:55 pm
An outspoken supporter of BLM accepting an honour containing the words British Empire?
He'll do what our Michael did.
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 3:10 pm
by The Druid
frodder wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 3:05 pm
The Druid wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 2:55 pm
An outspoken supporter of BLM accepting an honour containing the words British Empire?
He'll do what our Michael did.
No, Michael is an honourable Newport boy.
Just not as fast.
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:01 pm
by Hugo
Lobby wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:04 pm Damian Hopley (chief executive of the Rugby Players Association), for services to rugby union.
Goes nicely with his 1993 sevens title.
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 1:19 pm
by Hong Kong
A black man, supporter of BLM, receiving an honour from the most privileged white woman. No ironing there. At least he’ll have a justified reason to take a knee...
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 4:34 pm
by Enzedder
I go straight to the OBEs and QSMs where the truly deserving names are listed.
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:44 pm
by Openside
Hong Kong wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 1:19 pm
A black man, supporter of BLM, receiving an honour from the most privileged white woman. No ironing there. At least he’ll have a justified reason to take a knee...
very good
Beknighting a tax exile sticks in the craw a bit
Re: So. That Will Be SIR Lewis Hamilton To You !
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:45 pm
by Openside
Enzedder wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 4:34 pm
I go straight to the OBEs and QSMs where the truly deserving names are listed.
You mean MBE's surely?
OBE = Other buggers efforts
MBE= My bloody efforts