You know, lad, it's as if the participants in this war secretly appreciate each other.

It's a bad winter this one and I've known them all here, man and lad.

And do you know what happened then, lad?

And I know, lad, you haven't had much chance.

'You know where that third eye comes from, lad?'

You know, this was a great old city once, lad.

But you know what they say, lad.

You know, lad, that I've a wife and five daughters.

I know what it is to be lonely, lad.