Banter is good

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I am not a destroyer of reputations, I am a liberator of them!

The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that banter, for lack of a better word, is good. Banter is right, it works. Banter clarifies, cuts through the bullshittery and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Banter in all its forms. Sarcasm. Parody. Ridicule. Banter for laughs, to self-aggrandise, to demean, to prick bubbles, to draw the undeserving air from fashionable ideas, has marked the upward surge of personkind, and banter – you mark my words – will not only save Wickliffe Hampton, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.

—Gordon Moron, Batshit Street

Chief investment officer Peter Branner complained the press was making “childish” jokes about the change.

He said it would be unethical to treat an individual in the same way.

In an interview with the trade publication Financial News, he said: “I understand that corporate bullying to some extent is part of the game with the press, even though it’s a little childish to keep hammering the missing vowels in our name.”

The Financial Times responded by publishing a post that read ”Lv Abrdn aln” (Leave Abrdn alone), while City AM ran with a front page on Tuesday that read “Abrdn: an apology - sry we kp tkng th pss ot of yr mssng vwls”.

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