Comment by chrisseaton

People outside England will probably assume Cockney Rhyming Slang is one of those things that nobody actually uses anymore and is just done in bad films to play up Englishness and to invoke a feeling of London... but it's actually pretty common to hear people using it naturally and un-ironically in speech here - especially examples like 'I haven't got a Scooby, mate' or 'let's go for a Ruby after this'.