Simon Dunn

Scriptwriter and Comedian

Last Of The Rubber Johnnies

This is Sid’s cafe, circa 1975, during series two of Last Of The Summer Wine. Again, just look at how run-down and bleak a place it is.

But I want to draw your attention to this dispensing machine on the wall.

Now, I know there can’t be a condom dispensing machine on the wall of a small Yorkshire cafe, but it really does look like there’s a condom dispensing machine on the wall of a small Yorkshire cafe. Well, yes, on the studio set depicting a small Yorkshire cafe, I grant you.

So what is it? Rennie?

It makes no sense for there to be a condom dispensing machine on the wall of a small Yorkshire cafe. And yet.

What is it?

What’s it dispensing, if not prophylactics?

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