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http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/

He might mean this

http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/richard_the_third_1

Who did you sue, the cockneys?

Part of the problem here is that speaking proper english is often seen as "selling out", and any attempts to crawl out of poverty or to get educated are harshly treated by peers.

Well, part of the problem is that certain sub-dialects are intended to obfuscate the meaning.

Cockney Rhyming Slang evolved to make it difficult to for police and those not "in the know" to understand what was being said.

If you're not part of the group, you're not supposed to know WTF they're saying. Of course, that doesn't mean you can't hire someone to help you out with the finer points. :-P

For a start, your money does not exist, it is a function of society, of government, all the money like all the assets in a society are owned by that society and it is based upon that society/government, how control over those assets is distributed and defined. You own nothing (except that bag of mostly water) and your are nothing but a cranky short haired rock throwing monkey on your own. It is only by being part of a society, being a part of government (voting and sharing you opinion counts just as much as standing for election as a representative of the rest of society). It is time get over the really rather juvenile fantasy of 'mine, mine, mine' and wake up to the mature reality of 'ours'.

As to being able to guess a person political standing by their appearance, listen to your grannies, if you keep pulling that face and it will stay like that for ever ie spend the bulk of your time smiling and laughing and the wrinkles in your face will show it, spend all your time angry and frowning and that expression will be locked in (apart from of course the plastic fantastics but on the whole they tend to be shallow conservatives). So if you're a grumblebum your're gonna end up looking like one on the other hand if you're caring and sharing and happy go lucky people will visibly recognise you as such.

Even posture counts, walk around like you've got half a dozen brass rods shoved up your Kyber Pass ( http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/khyber_pass_1 ) and people will pretty much accurately guess your a conservative.

when the parent said banker, he meant a merchant banker

...seeing stegonographic and other kinds of tools proliferate in China so that the whole censorship policy is rendered completely moot.
If they had some kind of translator to take a message and encode it in a Chinese version of rhyming slang, how nifty would that be?
Particularly if the product could appear pro-Communist. I guess pictograms would render such a project "non-trivial".
Loyal to the Group of 17 would be so proud of the Chinese government.

• Loyal to the Group of 17, in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun
• http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/

This site provides a pretty good list of colloquialisms present in British English that are absent in America. If you take a visit to the UK, I'd advise skimming through it as to not seem completely ignorant, and to avoid a certain degree of confusion. If you're visiting Edinburgh, and don't want to stick out like a sore thumb, I'd also recommend learning how to pronounce the name of the city -- I'm always amazed by how many people get that one wrong....

On the other hand, if they start using cockney rhyming slang, just give up.

That said, the article wasn't really loaded with British colloquialisms that you couldn't figure out on your own.

...software to render pen-and-ink style drawings...

Thousands of Londoners/Sweeney fans[1] and ex-pat Londoners around the world are wondering exactly what makes it stink[2]



[1] The Sweeney - a 1970's UK tv drama
[2] Pen-and-ink.... stink.... no? See Cockney Rhyming Slang

You mean a bloated, but addmittedly powerful chip is going to be call a Prescott?

Quick - someone ring Private Eye!

(for those of you who don't keep up with British politics, John Prescott is His Royal Tonyness' #2).

You're having a giraffe ain'tcha?

So that explains my inbox full of random british comments like "My internet's fell of the lolly!" and "I've bloody well lost my connection!" and "Cherrio good chap, the internet's down!"
Heh funny how it's ok for people in the US to make fun of people in England (and you mean England, not britain!), but not visa versa.
Along the same lines, did you know that rhyming-slang for someone who is predudist against people from America is called Listerine, because in rhyming slang an American is called septic (from septic tank = yank), then anti-septic, and finally Listerine, interesting stuff I thought :)