On: Apple design chief Jonathan Ive is knighted

[seanmcdirmid]

This titling/tradition thing is really what distinguishes the old world (England) from the new world (America); we got rid of that baggage when we got off the Mayflower. But Ives deserved this if anyone did, congrats to him! In America, all we can offer him is some hero worship.

[astrec → seanmcdirmid]

Or the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Congressional Silver Medal... etc.

[Mvandenbergh → seanmcdirmid]

Titles didn't disappear from the US until the revolution, hundreds of years after the Mayflower landed.