I was born in the 70s, I know that makes me middle aged now, but ignore that if you can, I can remember the Berlin Wall coming down, warehouse all night raves, packets of crisps costing 5p, hell I can even remember the ½ p.
I can remember ‘Top of The Pops’ and when the shops weren’t open on Sundays.
But my blog today isn’t about how glorious my days were growing up, no, this blog is actually more about how I’m very glad that I didn’t have my breakfast this morning.
Now, don’t dare give me a lecture about how missing your breakfast isn’t good for you and it how it is the most important meal of the day, blah blah, whatever!
Because, if you were born around the 70s/80s you may remember ‘The Krankies’.
The couple, now both 64 consisted of a very short woman (Janette), who pretended to be a school boy (Jimmy), dressed like one too and her real life husband (Ian) who pretended to be Jimmy’s father.
Now not only is there more than a few things that Freud may want to say about THAT scenario but the revelation today, made we want to lose the breakfast that I hadn’t had.
According to Ian and Janette Tough, they were swingers……….
At first, I reckoned that I had a totally different meaning for ‘swinging’ than the journalist who had written the story. However, then Janette said: "We weren't behind each other's back. We knew what each other was up to.”
Sadly, I was wrong, the journalist and I had the same meaning.
Before anyone jumps down my throat about casting judgement on people who have different ideas of a bumper sex life than me, that is not really what I’m getting at.
Well, maybe just a tiny small bit.
It’s the thought of the full thing, these people who basically ‘raised’ my generation are not only talking about sex, they are talking about having consensual sex with different people whilst married and the other partner knowing’
It’s a bit like catching your grandparents having full blown sex whilst wearing a gag and full bondage gear when you come home from school one day. You know its none of your business and sure as hell wish you could unknow what you know.
On BBC Radio Scotland’s aptly named Stark Talk the couple continued to say that they were wild when they were younger. Now after a revelation like that, surely there isn’t anything that can be wilder than that?
