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The great and the good are duly honoured:
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I agree with some, others not so but invariably that’s how it always is, everyone has their opinions.
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I agree with some, others not so but invariably that’s how it always is, everyone has their opinions.
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I would disagree with the notion that some get honoured just for being well-known. What we are often not told is the amount of work such people do behind the scenes for charities etc.
A well-know person giving their name to a charity can often pay huge dividends to the public awareness of that charity, and that person often does a lot of work which goes unreported.
On the other side of things. I recently met someone perfectly ordinary who had received the MBE for services to medicine. As has been said in other posts, a huge number of ordinary people are honoured, but it is the famous names that get reported, so gives a skewed impression of the system.
A well-know person giving their name to a charity can often pay huge dividends to the public awareness of that charity, and that person often does a lot of work which goes unreported.
On the other side of things. I recently met someone perfectly ordinary who had received the MBE for services to medicine. As has been said in other posts, a huge number of ordinary people are honoured, but it is the famous names that get reported, so gives a skewed impression of the system.
Buenchico is indeed generous in his answers but then he bucks the trend.
AB lives up to its name about 5% of the time and pretty much every question could be answered very quickly via a simple Google/YouTube search and masquerades on weekends as a puzzle-solving and crossword completion service.
It’s basically just a discussion group and is an ‘answer bank’ in name only.
AB lives up to its name about 5% of the time and pretty much every question could be answered very quickly via a simple Google/YouTube search and masquerades on weekends as a puzzle-solving and crossword completion service.
It’s basically just a discussion group and is an ‘answer bank’ in name only.
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You wrote earlier, "I would like to see the honours list *primarily* comprise of 'ordinary' people who have selflessly given their time and sometimes their money to help those less fortunate than themselves. These are the 'nobodies' in society who do things not for their own benefit or their own 'brand' but instead do things out of the goodness of their hearts."
For "ordinary" folk to be honoured, someone has to nominate them. If you want them to feature more in future lists why not nominate someone you believe to be deserving?
That was my point.
For "ordinary" folk to be honoured, someone has to nominate them. If you want them to feature more in future lists why not nominate someone you believe to be deserving?
That was my point.
