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AE 1171 - Interview: Getting to Know Chris Delapp from Instant English - Part 1

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Polymer Banknotes

In Australia, we invented the polymer that is used in banknotes. We had like a purpley colour for the $5, a blue for the 10, a red for the 20, a yellow for the 50, and then a green for the 100. And yeah, they're polymer notes. So you can't light them on fire. You can't rip them. You can still snort cocaine with them. But that's about it, apart from paying for things too. Yeah, I think we have them now in the UK. When I went back there in February, he thinks the five pound notes and the 10, they're like plastic now, or they're not paper anymore

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