‘Did you see that Spitting Image on last night?’

‘No, was it on RTÉ?’

‘Oh I forgot ye haven’t got into the 1980s yet. Would ye not put up an aerial like everyone else?’

‘It’s the transmitter up the road.’

‘Oh yeah, the transmitter.’

‘We can get RTÉ even when the coat-hanger falls out but nothing else. One of the neighbours put up a thirty foot aerial then it collapsed and killed his dog. The ould fellah says we should learn from his mistakes.’

‘But you don’t have a dog.’

‘I didn’t bother mentioning that.’