IT'S A FUCKING DOG.
It didn't do anything special. It just got given a racist name by a somewhat unpleasant man who happened to be a VERY good pilot.
No one is rewriting history.
IT'S A FUCKING DOG.
IT GOT RUN OVER.
IT DIDN'T BOMB THE FUCKING RUHR DAMS WOOFING ALL THE WAY.
It didn't do anything special. It just got given a racist name by a somewhat unpleasant man who happened to be a VERY good pilot.
No one is rewriting history.
IT'S A FUCKING DOG.
IT GOT RUN OVER.
IT DIDN'T BOMB THE FUCKING RUHR DAMS WOOFING ALL THE WAY.
We took a nasty word, off a memorial to a FUCKING DOG THAT GOT ITSELF RUN OVER. During repairs and restoration work. To a FUCKING MEMORIAL TO A FUCKING DOG.
It didn't even win a Dickin medal.
Where's your outrage for all the WW1 medal winning pigeons THAT DON'T HAVE MEMORIALS?
It didn't even win a Dickin medal.
Where's your outrage for all the WW1 medal winning pigeons THAT DON'T HAVE MEMORIALS?
I bet if those WW1 messenger pigeons all had racist names that I couldn't type here, you'd be FALLING OVER YOUR FUCKING SELVES to get them up on the spare plinth in trafalgar square.
Fucking racist arseholes.
Go back to wanking over black and white films and stay there.
Fucking racist arseholes.
Go back to wanking over black and white films and stay there.
Non-ranty sidenote: there is (or at least was) an EXCELLENT mini-museum for Dickin medal winners at Bletchley Park.
Worth a visit. If it's still there (hope so!)
Worth a visit. If it's still there (hope so!)
Back to rant:
Do you know what happens if you look on Amazon for a biography of Guy Gibson's dog?
THERE FUCKING ISN'T ONE. BECAUSE IT'S NOT A HERO. IT'S A FUCKING DOG.
Do you know what happens if you look on Amazon for a biography of Guy Gibson's dog?
THERE FUCKING ISN'T ONE. BECAUSE IT'S NOT A HERO. IT'S A FUCKING DOG.
Although it does recommend 'Legend', which is actually a decent Tom Hardy film. Maybe Guy Gibson's dog has a cameo in it?
Also 'Music Revolution' which looks a bit more shit and cobbled together.
Maybe that has archive footage of Guy Gibson's dog woofing along to Vera Lynn or something. IDK.
Maybe that has archive footage of Guy Gibson's dog woofing along to Vera Lynn or something. IDK.
I'm guessing not though. Because it was JUST A FUCKING DOG.
Go read a book on Chastise if you want to learn the history of it, and it's context. Which is GENUINELY important as a study of tech, bomber crews, propaganda, what an arsehole Arthur Harris was and civilian impact.
Go read a book on Chastise if you want to learn the history of it, and it's context. Which is GENUINELY important as a study of tech, bomber crews, propaganda, what an arsehole Arthur Harris was and civilian impact.
Because the GHOST OF GUY GIBSON'S FUCKING DOG was NOT hanging around that stupid memorial before, waiting to educate passers by on the complex and nuanced history of a remarkable operation.
AT BEST you'd have got an aetherial 'WoOoOf' followed by a sharp squeal of tyres.
AT BEST you'd have got an aetherial 'WoOoOf' followed by a sharp squeal of tyres.
Because it was:
Just.
a.
fucking.
dog.
/ENDS
Just.
a.
fucking.
dog.
/ENDS
ADDENDUM: I do have both a patreon and a kofi. But i'm not going to link to them.
I'd much rather use this as an opportunity to stress, again, that Arthur Harris was definitely a bell end.
Thanks for your time.
I'd much rather use this as an opportunity to stress, again, that Arthur Harris was definitely a bell end.
Thanks for your time.
