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Those HSBC calculators are a complete pain in the scrotum. It's so small that I carry mine around in the leaflet/wallet thing it came in, otherwise I'd lose it immediately. Yet too big and annoying-looking to carry on my keys. Is that what they think you'll do, carry it on your keys?! Ridiculous, it'd get battered. Spastics.

Also the presumptuous and arrogant slogan "The World's Local Bank" gets on my tits (as there is, of course, nothing in any way local about an enormous multi-national banking corporation).

Ive been abroad loads of times and never been able to access any money through foreigh HSBC banks despite being a hsbc customer. Neither at the ATM or inside the branch. But in these same countries other banks (like "ONE BANK" for example) have given me full access to funds/banking even though I am not an account holder.