Out of Thin Air (TM) Village Idiot of the Week competition

[snaw]

every schoolboys favourite kind.

Dammit, I changed that straight away and you still picked it up in the 60s window available.

[Bob Dalek]

every schoolboy's favourite kind.

Ahem!

[The Lone Gunman]

Lonegunman for insisting that HSBC was a HK/Shanghai bank cause it says so in the letters.

It was until it moved. Easy mistake to make.

[snaw]

It was until it moved. Easy mistake to make.

You're big enough to admit it, which lets you off in my book. Not like any of us here haven't occasionally got it completely wrong ...

[cupidstunt]

Contestants have to come up with Out of Thin Air(TM) assertions which they obtained from their voices in their head.

The finalists are

atW - for asserting that most City institutions were recipients of tax-payers money, when this is clearly a crock of crap.

Cybercretin - for asserting that the ECB followed the BoEs lead in cutting interest rates yesterday (when it was clearly a coordinated effort by about 6 countries) and for asserting that Life prisoners serve an average of 6 years when this is clearly another crock of steaming turd manure.

Remind me to start an AGW thread next week so you can make the final.

[Spacecadet]

Remind me to start an AGW thread next week so you can make the final.

That would be next weeks final then

[Moscow Mule]

Lonegunman for insisting that HSBC was a HK/Shanghai bank cause it says so in the letters.

It was until it moved. Easy mistake to make.

http://www.hsbc.com/1/2/about-hsbc

What's the argument?

[The Lone Gunman]

You're big enough to admit it, which lets you off in my book. Not like any of us here haven't occasionally got it completely wrong ...

Back in the 80's a mate of mine went to work in Honkers as a copper. He sent me lots of pictures and post cards and letters while he was there. One that stuck was because he had been called to the Honkers and Shankers HQ. I was well impressed because he had been to the HQ of what was one of if not the biggest banks in the world. So I knew where its HQ was. I had just missed the fact that they had moved a bit, recently. It is not as if I was making it up is it.

[The Lone Gunman]

http://www.hsbc.com/1/2/about-hsbc

What's the argument?

I insisted it was still HQed in HK. It has moved to London. Doh.

[sasguru]

Remind me to start an AGW thread next week so you can make the final.

Looks like we'll need a larger van for Village Idiot outings.