Famous Cockneys

[♥ Lily ♥]

For my E-ness!

[♥ Lily ♥]

There's a lot of Cockney's who work in London street markets stalls,
and also as Black Taxi drivers.

Cockney's make the best Black Taxi drivers due to their knowledge of the maze of streets in London
in addition to remembering 250,000 street names.

Londons Black Taxis are world famous and the worlds oldest taxi service.

They are spacious inside, and the drivers have to pass the "Knowledge Test",
meaning the drivers must learn 320 different routes in London by heart,
in addition to knowing 250,000 streets and 20,000 landmarks in London by memory
before they are allowed to become a London Black Taxi driver and take fares.

The Knowledge Test of London takes 3 years to learn and pass the examination test.

Londons Black Taxis are available for tours and day trips, film work, weddings, short or long journeys, "Harry Potter" tours,
airport transfers, 'meet-and-greet service', countryside tours, London tours and loads more!

[♥ Lily ♥]

Although Patsy Kensit was raised in Hounslow, West London,
her father worked as an associate of the notorious London gangsters... the Kray twins
and managed to make enough money to send his daughter Patsy to a theatre school.
Nicknamed "Jimmy the Dip", he also reportedly worked for the rival Richardsons, running long firms for the gang.
He served time in prison before Kensit was born; she believed he was an antiques dealer
as he told her this whilst she was growing up.
Kensit's parents did not marry until much later after her birth.

Her paternal grandfather was born poor and became a robber and counterfeiter.

Patsy was educated in a good school and became a singer, actress, and model,
and she has a son with multi-millionaire Liam Gallagher from the Manchester band Oasis,
who rose from working class roots to become a millionaire.
They married (and later divorced) and have a son who was named as Lennon
(after Liam's idol John Lennon,)
and Elizabeth Hurley was made as the child's godmother.
Patsy and Liam's son Lennon goes to an elite school for the upper classes.

Within just 3 generations, Patsy's family have risen from poverty and crime
to wealth and elite education.

[♥ Lily ♥]

I often think that Aussie accents sound similar to Cockney accents, and my Irish-Londoner friend said he thinks the same when he hears Aussie accents too.

People who committed crimes were usually poor people who would steal food rather than die of hunger. The convicts were put on ships and sent to live and work on the other side of the planet in the hot sun in Australia.

A lot of convicts were sent to Australia from Ireland and London and other parts of Britain.

Maybe the Aussie accent stems from Cockney's. The Aussies call the British as 'pommie's' and sometimes mock the pale pink skintone of British people as like the flesh of the pomegranate fruit, although others say that POME is an acronym for Prisoner Of Mother England.

[♥ Lily ♥]

[♥ Lily ♥]

Dizzee Rascal (a Cockney who was born and bred in East London)

[♥ Lily ♥]

His spoken rhymes on the streets are against the biggest gangsters and war-makers,
wealthy drug importers and mass-murderers... the elite government, royal family, politicians and bankers!
The aristocracy come from a long bloodline of Norman conquerors who took over the ruling elite of England
1000 years ago and the ruling elite have a long history of murderers and thieves
in their royal and aristocratic and capitalistic greedy families
who drove the ordinary people into poverty and who often resort to crime to survive.

[♥ Lily ♥]

There's a lot of gangs across London, especially in the east end and south London
who end up hooked on drugs as their escape from reality,
and street drugs with dodgy chemicals messes with peoples heads and makes people violent
when they have addiction problems.

Guns can't be imported into Britain. Gangs say that they buy the guns come from the military barracks
and are sold on the streets via the government, as it makes them profits
and keeps a certain part of the population (black people) down
as they kill each other due to their rival gangs.

A UK documentary found that over 90% of illegal drugs are imported by British Intelligence groups
into the UK and that the enormous sales and profits from drugs is an industry worth billions of pounds,
and it helps to prop up the economy, along with banks and tourism, etc.
An ex-CIA agent in the US who wrote that the CIA was involved in importing
a lot of cocaine into the US was found shot in the back of his head
and his death was called 'a suicide.'

Some black people hold a grudge about their ancestors
being taken as slaves and raped and killed and their countries being robbed of their resources,
but slavery happened to the Irish and to the working classes all over Britain
when child labour and other bad things happened to the working classes
under the German Queen Victoria's Empire.

Capitalism brings greed, poverty, homelessness, drug lords, advertising, religious brainwashing,
guns, wars, gangs, prostitution, crimes, corruption, theft, terror bombs, bloodshed., CCTV spy state...

[Shkembe Chorba]

In high-school weve learnt that Cockney accent was born on the Market as a way of trading banned goods. Some sort of inner communication of merchants that they use in order not to be caught.

Is it true? I dont know if I remember correctly, I was high most of the time in my English literature classes :icon_yawn:

[♥ Lily ♥]

In high-school weve learnt that Cockney accent was born on the Market as a way of trading banned goods. Some sort of inner communication of merchants that they use in order not to be caught.

Is it true? I dont know if I remember correctly, I was high most of the time in my English literature classes :icon_yawn:

Around the Dockland Isles of East London where the ships would arrive during the British Empire and colonial era days, the east Londoners would help to off-load the goods from ships, and from there they had great access to lots of east-end markets to quickly sell-off nicked items.

They formed Cockney rhyming slang which was like a code language that made it difficult for the police or any informers to know what they were saying.

As for the accent, they often drop their T's in words like 'butter' (buh-er) and talk flat and fast, like they're in a hurry.