Not Douglas Bader but...
My Grandad was a real salt of the earth working class hero who lost an ear at Gallipoli. He never once made an overtly or casual racist remark that I can remember, but he did have a dog called N****r.

Its easier to talk about my other Grandad, he was a conshie.
(J H Christ began in Afrika ka ka ka ka, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 14:29, 6 replies)

Wasn't the dog in Dambusters
called that?
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 14:44, closed)

Not in the version
Stephen Fry is writing.
(Rsoles, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 14:54, closed)

"Digger"
apparently
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 15:08, closed)

Australians
won't like that then.
(Rsoles, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 17:18, closed)

I lived in Moss Side, Manchester for a while
where a lovely old chap lived with his dog, also called 'nigger'. The first time I heard him shout it out of his front door, I was the only white person visible on the street aside from him, and the only person even remotely bothered. The strange thing was, the dog was sort of ginger-blonde...
( blyerkit e k trilby, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 17:53, closed)

Not even Guy Gibson VC

(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Fri 28 Oct 2011, 0:10, closed)