Word: hounslow
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...multitude of ridiculous walking bets: "Peter Radford, in his book The Celebrated Captain Barclay, recounts some gloriously eccentric pedestrian contests. One was devised by 'an unnamed Duke' who wagered a thousand guineas that he could find a man to walk the ten miles from Piccadilly to Hounslow within three hours, taking three steps forward and one step back...
Only the deaf know Hounslow. The west London borough sits uncomfortably beneath the flight paths of nearby Heathrow Airport, where many of the vicinity's largely immigrant Indian and Pakistani residents labor as porters, cleaners and security guards - dreaming of escape, a better life for their children and, for now, triple-glazed windows to block out the noise. Yet Hounslow is about to become famous for another, similarly noisy local feature: a violent, hip-hop-infused, South Asian youth culture that is the subject of perhaps the year's most loudly hyped first novel. The talk of last fall...
...this whole phenomenon in the early 1990s of young men who'd had enough of pandering to the system. They wanted to go create their own society and not hang out with white kids anymore." To his surprise, the topic was approved, and he spent months hanging with the Hounslow homeboys, jotting down their thoughts and folkways. His tutor, the late Susan Benson, shrewdly asked him to consider the subculture in terms of gender, not race. "Asserting their ethnicity is actually a way of asserting their masculinity," says Malkani, noting that his subjects' disgust for "coconuts" actually masks a fear...
...Muslim active at Hounslow mosque, Baig says he is angered that terrorists use Islam to justify their actions. ?There?s such a sadness in my community,? he said, ?but we fight it by being positive and standing up to them...
Safety First. In Hounslow, England, John Connell, president of the Noise Abatement Society, made a speech to a meeting of the Southern Motor Cycle Club accompanied by a bodyguard...