"When I was a lad, calling someone "Sailor" was a derogatory term meaning gay. You see, use of words has to take into account a moment in time and place, and whilst many pillocks used that term in a bad way, the irony was that the same blokes were proud if their lads went in the navy."

That is really really fucked up. But it explains the way you have been addressing me on this thread. Private jokes, even regional ones don't translate well to an international forum.

"You see, use of words has to take into account a moment in time and place," Are you trying to say that there is some way that "Dumbfuckistan" is NOT an insult. I'd be interested to analyze that tortured logic.