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# Can you explain something to me please
my Antipodean friend?

Why do you aussies use Cockney rhyming slang so much?
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sun 25 Jan 2009, 0:52, archived)
# we are a nation of criminals pure and simple.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sun 25 Jan 2009, 0:53, archived)
# Well yeah, I understand that.
However, cockney rhyming slang wasn't developed until after you had all been shipped off innit....

(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sun 25 Jan 2009, 0:57, archived)
# rhyming slang started about 1840 transportation finsished about 1870.
there was a goldrush, then the ten pound pom in recent times but it's all down to the fact we're a bunch of immigrants
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Sun 25 Jan 2009, 1:03, archived)