RE: Justin Scarbs: Wine Emojis and Wishful Thinking 🍷😎12 May 2025 18:49
Hi “Justin/SPICYTUNA"
Appreciate the effort here, but come on — this still doesn’t pass the smell test.
No matter how genuine it tries to sound, it’s incredibly unlikely that the Head of IR at a listed company would be setting up a fresh LSE forum account mid-holiday to correct retail investors in between poolside drinks and hotel updates.
You say this isn’t AI — fair enough — but it’s also not IR. No public company exec handles investor comms like this, on an unmoderated message board, referencing beach bars and shorts, while quoting internal policy. There’s a reason listed companies have formal channels — because posts like this would never get compliance approval. And they shouldn’t.
If you really are who you say you are — great. You’ve got a corporate email, phone, LinkedIn, all on record. Nobody’s stopping you from engaging via official means. But casually popping up on a chat forum, giving semi-insider tone with a personal touch, just isn’t how IR works.
So either this is satire, or someone’s a little too eager to roleplay as corporate comms. Either way, the community deserves better than to be treated like it won’t notice the difference.