SarahBell Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 http://metro.co.uk/2014/12/31/37-people-who-cant-believe-james-corden-got-an-obe-5005181/?ito=facebook However, scores of Twitter users expressed disbelief that he had received the honour, flooding the social network with criticisms of the decision. Here are just 37 of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Bear Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Who is this James Corden anyway? Should I have heard of him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Who is this James Corden anyway? Should I have heard of him? no not really. about as relevant as giving barak obama the nobel peace prize before he was president. mutual back-slapping party for in-breds.that is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Who is this James Corden anyway? Should I have heard of him? ok i was a bit harsh. james corden is an up "n" coming comedian. i say up "n" coming in the loosest possible sense, as in most people you see strumming a guitar in hammersmith tube station are up" n" coming rock stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I was hoping to be Lord Fartingay, of Bishoip's Bottom, this year! My hopes are dashed, because I don't play sport, and have spent very little time in prison! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 On that basis, can I have an OBE for getting a good appraisal at work last April, letting out motorists into traffic on occasions and occasionally donating blood? I'm sure there are more deserving cases in the pipeline than this mediocre comedian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorkins Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I expect Cameron thinks Corden is a bit white van man, useful demographic to get onside in an election year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 From what I can gather, from my recent observations, the honours system in this country appears to be an elaborate way of adding letters, either before or after, some sort of attention seeker's name. This then serves the purpose of warning the rest of society that they should not leave their children unattended or alone with that person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Bear Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I was hoping to be Lord Fartingay, of Bishoip's Bottom, this year! My hopes are dashed, because I don't play sport, and have spent very little time in prison! Never mind, I will dub thee knight. Arise, Sir Pin of Turnip-under-PIddle - go forth and mangel thy wurzels, and dally with thy dairymaid, and slay a few Jabberwocks while you're at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Scraping around to find someone Welsh - he is Welsh isnt he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayo Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 I expect Cameron thinks Corden is a bit white van man, useful demographic to get onside in an election year. That is probably not far from the truth. He doesn't seem to be a political donor in his own name. They may seek to provoke a distractionary row to divert attention from the timeservers and kickbacks who get gongs for doing even less. I see they provide a breakdown on how many are given to women v.s. men each year, so they are keeping a keen eye on that electoral demographic. I see Mary Quant has got a DBE for Fashion, as Barbara Mary Plunket Greene. She already had an OBE also for fashion in 1966, and seems I will suggest, perhaps uncharitably, to have done very little since beyond designing the interior of a popular small car. I stand to be corrected by those with more knowledge of the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayo Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 I was hoping to be Lord Fartingay, of Bishoip's Bottom, this year! My hopes are dashed, because I don't play sport, and have spent very little time in prison! The bar seems to be even lower than suggested... Mrs Elizabeth Shan Josephine, sole child surviving the 3rd Baron Glanusk has got a DVCO. His title went to a First Cousin on presumably on account of gender, but she inherited the 400 acre country pile in Brecon and later married an Officer of the Royal Horseguards, who was the son of a Tory MP. Her main accomplishments appear to have been to pop out Tiggy Legg-Bourke the Royal Nanny and Zara Drax, as well as somehow becoming a Lady in Waiting to Princess Anne and the Lord Lieutenant of Powys, no doubt through a fair and transparent selection process, based solely on merit without prejudice on account of race, religion, disability or sexual orientation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Knimbies who say No Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Yes, the celebs are one thing but the scores of aristo chums and civil service timeserving nonentities which make up most of the list are what makes it a proper farce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnionTerror Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Quite a few have rejected them...John Snow I think said that if he had accepted his, then it wouldn't make him impartial.. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jan/26/refused-honours-list-download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Banner Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 I expect Cameron thinks Corden is a bit white van man, useful demographic to get onside in an election year. The use of the honours system to garner votes by honouring rock stars etc in the hope that their fans will see the government as "hip" was turned into an art form by Blair/Brown and embraced by their successor, Cameron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Quite a few have rejected them...John Snow I think said that if he had accepted his, then it wouldn't make him impartial.. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jan/26/refused-honours-list-download I really admire the ones who politely turned it down. ThePin applauds modesty, even if you were very good at something! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 On that basis, can I have an OBE for getting a good appraisal at work last April, letting out motorists into traffic on occasions and occasionally donating blood? I'm sure there are more deserving cases in the pipeline than this mediocre comedian. A "mediocre comedian" should be presented with half a joke from a Christmas cracker! The "comedian" than has to make the other half up, under pain of death! No laughs equals no head! I'm sure there might be some innuendo there. but I didn't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie_George Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 The moment the honour was bought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 ^ Did one of Cameron's lackies give Cordon a coffee enema as that photo was taken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Mrs Elizabeth Shan Josephine, sole child surviving the 3rd Baron Glanusk has got a DVCO. Distributed Voltage Controlled Oscillator? http://www.acronymfinder.com/Distributed-Voltage-Controlled-Oscillator-%28DVCO%29.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Distributed Voltage Controlled Oscillator? http://www.acronymfinder.com/Distributed-Voltage-Controlled-Oscillator-%28DVCO%29.html How I hate confusing abbreviations. Arise Sir Scun of Embra. I couldn't get THE queen, but I've found A Queen that might do the job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Distributed Voltage Controlled Oscillator? http://www.acronymfinder.com/Distributed-Voltage-Controlled-Oscillator-%28DVCO%29.html Acronym Finder is clearly crap. DVCO stands for Digital Voltage Controlled Oscillator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Acronym Finder is clearly crap. DVCO stands for Digital Voltage Controlled Oscillator. Humpty Dumpty and "Glory"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Humpty Dumpty and "Glory"? An oscillator in this context is used to make audible tones for electronic music. Voltage control was invented by Robert Moog as a system to control Oscillators, etc. - a step of 1 volt changed the pitch by one octave, in typical designs of a Voltage Controlled Oscillator. More modern designs still use this analogue method of control, but the Oscillator itself is constructed using digital electronics for greater accuracy and stability. Hence DVCO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 An oscillator in this context is used to make audible tones for electronic music. Voltage control was invented by Robert Moog as a system to control Oscillators, etc. - a step of 1 volt changed the pitch by one octave, in typical designs of a Voltage Controlled Oscillator. More modern designs still use this analogue method of control, but the Oscillator itself is constructed using digital electronics for greater accuracy and stability. Hence DVCO DISCO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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