Back in the 80s in our design office at Wyton we had a couple of Ex Avro chaps from Woodford. one had worked on the Anson amongst other things. He was scruffy git. We would occasionally go to the mess for lunch. On the menu would be "Soup of the day - Cream of Reg's tie".
Not sure if it is an age thing but life was more fun in those days. You took it and dished it out. We had the section sacrificial pillock. In the main we all got on and made some good friends.