I honestly think that people hanging onto the importance of the dog’s name are just using it as an excuse to say a word they know is socially unacceptable in 2020 but they feel they have an entitlement to use because it is the right of their generation.
I agree. Oh - and Specaircrew, as a member of 35 Sqn I have of course upheld the tradition of peeing on that so-called grave!
If you look at the last few minutes of
The Dambusters when 'Gibson' and 'Barnes Wallis' are talking, a black dog can be seen running about in the background. It was thought by the tinfoil hat brigade that this was the ghost of Gibson's dog - but I heard lter that when a member of the film crew queried this with some airman, he replied "No mate, there's no n***** at Scampton" using the contemporary expression for a 'person of colour'......
A Nigerian chap on the CFS course after mine remarked "Will I get a grave that good if I crash and kill myself?"