Arise, Sir Baldrick...........

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Ghost Rider, Jun 15, 2013.

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  1. ..................but Blackadder gets just a CBE............



    There's proof positive the Honours system is up the creek...........




    AL
     
    #1 Ghost Rider, Jun 15, 2013
  2. Well he does dig up old relics
     
    #2 bradders, Jun 15, 2013
  3. No, he just talks about holes in the ground...........
     
    #3 Ghost Rider, Jun 15, 2013
  4. Baldrick did say he had a cunning plan :biggrin:
     
    #4 plug, Jun 15, 2013
  5. lets face it , with the successes of mr bean, rowan atkinson is doing OK, he can afford to bin a mclaren F1 after all!!

    really like the fact that tony robinson get the proper nod for his other work
     
    #5 funkatronic, Jun 15, 2013
  6. As someone here just said, lets hope Lord Flasheart bursts in on the ceremony lol
     
    #6 Sharky698, Jun 15, 2013
  7. I thought tony robins was a massive anti royal, if so slightly ironic to be presented with an award from someone you hate?
     
    #7 paulk563, Jun 15, 2013
  8. We all have to live in the world as it actually is. Holding the view that the head of state ought better to be elected rather than hereditary is a perfectly reasonable position, but the fact is at present our head of state is hereditary and everyone (including Tony Robinson) has to live with that reality. No doubt he would prefer a Labour government, but the fact is we haven't got one at present and he has to live with that too. I do not see anything inconsistent, or ironic, in Tony Robinson being a realist.
     
    #8 Pete1950, Jun 15, 2013
  9. I'm share your view Pete..........


    AL (KCMG)
     
    #9 Ghost Rider, Jun 15, 2013
  10. If he is anti the whole establishment etc on this, its beyond hypocrisy he should accept.
     
    #10 bradders, Jun 15, 2013
  11. Hypocrisy? Could you explain just where the hypocrisy arises in your view, please? I don't see any hypocrisy whatever.
     
    #11 Pete1950, Jun 15, 2013
  12. pete1950 MBE, CBT, MA

    you have to be kidding surely..
    the hypocrisy is clear to see if he 'is' anti then goes against his values to accept it.

    if he was anti - then he would surely do what others have done prior and reject the award on principal of his objections of the establishment what issues it
     
    #12 Phill, Jun 15, 2013
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  13. If Tony Robinson had condemned other people for accepting honours but then accepted one himself, that would be hypocrisy. But that is not the situation here.

    As I understand it he is in favour of an elected head of state for the UK, but (as far as I know) has never criticised anyone for accepting an honour, or an appointment, or anything else, from the head of state we have actually got, i.e. HM The Queen. So for him to accept an honour himself is not at all inconsistent, nor ironic, nor hypocritical. You do know what "hypocrisy" means, right?
     
    #13 Pete1950, Jun 15, 2013
  14. Yep, it means belong to the Labour Party but get rich while doing so.......(apparently)....and then get your honours and accept them.
     
    #14 Ghost Rider, Jun 15, 2013
  15. So you really don't have any idea what it means then.
     
    #15 Pete1950, Jun 15, 2013
  16. Oh, here we go again with the patronising intellectual snobbery..............


    PS. Please punctuate your responses correctly.
     
    #16 Ghost Rider, Jun 15, 2013
  17. I have no idea what his views are. Simply if he is against everything it stands for, to accept one and compromise his principles is hypocrisy. Tadar! :upyeah:
     
    #17 bradders, Jun 16, 2013
  18. #18 mattmccabebrown, Jun 16, 2013
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  19. Rather peope like Robbins than some sportman who won one title and gets knighted. Or a team that win a game and get gongs.
     
    #19 bradders, Jun 16, 2013
  20. Who's Robbins?
     
    #20 El Toro, Jun 16, 2013
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