After reading one of the most enthralling threads I’ve read for a while I’d just like to throw an observation into the pot.

In the early to mid 40’s there were very little in the way of ethnic minorities in England so to say that attitudes were racist may be expanding the term a little beyond its current interpretation.

There was still a sense of imperialistic superiority especially in the senior ranks of the armed forces. Guy Gibson was born in India during colonial rule so his parents would have definitely instilled a supercilious attitude towards ‘foreigners’.

Racism depicts a portrait of dislike/hatred towards a group of individuals because of their ethnic origins.

I was more likely that Gibson just felt that he was simply superior to African/Asian people and therefore could refer to them how he pleased.

As I said before, the dog was named because he was a particular colour,the N word being in the name of the colour. If anybody was displaying any rascism it was the paint/polish companies.
In the same fashion I could have called my Lab "Burnt Sienna",we actually settled on Charlie.

I have to remember to post a copy of my dad, an Army sergeant in the Corps of Transport in Africa during WWII, sat outside his tent in a canvas chair with the small black boy servant that each sergeant was entitled to, sitting at his feet - the epitome of colonial rule.

Their job was to transport British Army vehicles from Nigeria to Ethiopia for onward shipping to India, and so he spent his war driving back and forth across the width of Africa until one day they were ordered to board the ship with the trucks as they were all going to India with them - all the sergeants waved goodbye to their little Nigerian servants on the quayside in addis ababa, a mere 2500 miles away from home ...

Don't laugh...

My mates dad died a few weeks ago. He worked with Gibson & Wallace. According to his dad they hated the dog & all peed on its grave.

So there you have it.
From indignation at the renaming of a dog in a film.
To the lack of perspective in the changing of a rascist word compared to the massive loss of life caused by the event.
To a comparison of the cultural comparisons of 1940's and modern day Britain
To a cameo of the Raj and North Africa in WWII

To a dog itself being hated and it's grave being peed on.

I'd say we've pretty much done this one to death now.

Er. No. Your mates dad was clearly suffering from dementia before he died.

It's got peeing on a dead dog, does that not count as porn?

You didn't like it when i did it on yours though!

I don't think McField was too bothered it was the rest of the family that objected.

he prefered it when there was no glass in the table!

Whooosh!

Its not over until someone posts who actually served in the 2nd world war.