HSBC~ Left handed cheque books

[auzzie]

Do they still do them? They used to years ago.

[bednobs]

so, let me get this right. when you say "vertically challenged" you refer to people from hongkong? Perhaps this was where i got lost, because i thought vertically challenged meant short.
i still don't really understand why hong kong (or short) people would need special chequebooks, or why having 2 bronze lions has anything to do with it

[DTCwordfan]

One of the reasons for their popularity is the preponderance for left handed leaders in our society.

Just think of politicians - in the UK, Cameron, Brown and Blair are all lefties, in the States, Obama, GB junior, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon and I may have missed a couple (Carter?).....and in the business world, a lot of finance folk are as well.

And of course Napoleon as he was the one who switched vehicles to drive on the wrong side of the road.... which hand do most of us hold the gun/sword/lance when riding?

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.arch.hku.h...ds/2008/02/photo4.jpg

They are rather nice lions though, I must admit.

[bednobs]

what popularity though? if left handed chequbooks are so "popular" why would there even be a need for this q?

[bednobs]

ps i can't rightly say what hand i hold my lance in lol

[DTCwordfan]

No, sorry, some who like their stubs on top of their cheques and some below. As a signatory and counter-signatory on cheques out there (some 50 to 80 a signing session out in Hong Kong), it used to drive me "mad" as to why there wasn't consistency. We would check the stubb to ensure consistency with the cheque as to the first line of "security" against any fraud.

[bednobs]

i am now leaving this thread because i have to come to the conclusion you have either taken drugs or are drunk. Or perhaps it's just me that dosen't "get" you. I can't understand that last answer either

[DTCwordfan]

I don't know what there isn't to understand, bednobs..... I used to have to sign cheques that had stubs on the left side (normal), stubs on the right side (left handers) but why cheques with stubs on the upside or downside (the latter, the joke on folk from Australia or NZ being south of the equator). I could not understand why HSBC did not standardise it - and Standard Chartered, did the same mind you. Imagine the cost of all these cheque formats and for what purpose?

[DTCwordfan]

mouse, you were recently suspended before for getting personal.

[DTCwordfan]

It wasnt me who reported you last time, mouse........

Though I must say that I find your manner irritating and juvenile.

[DTCwordfan]

here we go again, more little insults, grow up for once.

[DTCwordfan]

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[B00]

bet auzzie's glad he asked now....

[DTCwordfan]

I bet Auzzie is too, Boo. I am not surprised that I came in for flak as I bet you-know-who has been itching to try and get back at me after the last onslaught. Quite frankly it is pathetic.

[B00]

to be honest DT, ive no idea what you were on about either, and to be blunt as well ,don't rightly care. I just think that auzzie's got the answer he/she wanted (or has lost the will to live) and this thread should die now.

If you and housemouse have an ongoing gripe, perhaps here aint the place to conduct it?