Almost totally re-writing events such as in U-571 (or whatever it was called) is rather different to changing one letter of a dog's name isn't it?

This was one of my points, why get worked up over that seamingly minor change (done to avoid causing offence or confusion) but readilly accept hundreds of other minor omissions or changes in pretty much every 'historical' film; not least those cited earlier from the original Dambusters film.

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Interesting that - not least because my dad went to school with the outraged ex-marine and is a member of the local legion.



Looks like the chap in question is a bit of a delusional nut job.

I'm outraged that the Nazi supporting paper is outraged by a bloke who, as P-A says, is probably nothing more than delusional.

Or Mutley, who as we know, would do anything for a medal.

He was a fraud though. As far as I can recall despite his decorations he never did stop that pigeon.

didn't Dick Dastardly always take the medal back at the end of each episode?

You've a better memory than me - but I think you're right.

I always was more of a Wacky Races man myself.

Wake up Muttley you're dreaming again!
You're not Robin Hood and you're not Gunga Din!
You're not a brave knight or a king who's been crowned;
You're just plain old Muttley, the snickering hound!

And in a strange twist of fate Richard Todd has died RIP

Maybe in despair at some of the posts on this thread

I fully agree that use of any racial terms is now unacceptable. My point was to defend Guy Gibson being tarred as a racist for using what was in those days a commonly accept name for a colour of shoe polish, coloured pencil etc

god i am soooooooo tempted

I accept your well made point but unless any of the people posting on this thread actually knew Gibson then I do not accept that you should single him out as a racist. It is a serious accusation against a war hero who was risking his life so that our country remained free from the tyrany of real racists. If by calling his dog after name on a tin of shoe polish or the name printed on the side of a coloured pencil is being a racist then that means you have to include the whole population who also used the language of the day.

Would like to read the book though.

Is it worth the potential ban though?

I would, that's my point - that 1940s Britain was an inherently racist society.

Growing up in 60s Britain we used to choose sides in games by reciting "Eeny meeny miney mo, catch a niger by his toe..." Thousands of times.

We also watched the "Black & White Minstrel Show" & even later the execrable "Love Thy Neighbour" & learnt to read, certainly in the 50s, with "Little Black Sambo".
So, yes, we were latently racist without even knowing it.
Things hopefully have changed for the better.

I'm outraged. This is just the tip of the PC iceberg. It's time to end this disastrous democratic experiment.

Remember folks - 9pm tonight, BBC1 - "Small Island"

Set in 1948 the experiences of Hortense, a Jamaican girl who arrives in London with her new husband, ex-RAF who volunteered to help the mother land during the war and was "one of the few" but finds a different sort of life and prejudice when they return three years later.

Fits in just fine with this thread I think, will put the icing on the cake of those who doubt how far we have come in two generations.

All this PC crap over a bleiding dog.Their all the same when their chained up.

Yes but not more so than all the other nations. Racism was not just about colour in those days. And Guy Gobson was still a hero with a VC

There's a dead horse somewhere, and it's screaming, "Stop flogging me!"

True story

I hope not. I dont like to think of dead animals.It makes me feel sad.

… me too that’s why when I see the leg of lamb I bough for Christmas day I picture a little, three legged lamb with little crutches hobbling round a country meadow.

...when I look at the turkey crown currently residing in our freezer I see a turkey sitting up in its hospital bed after a double mastectomy...