Hounslow.
I turned the corner that marks the beginning of Hounslow, and an all too familiar shudder ran the length of my spine. I'm here each day, but I was driving this morning and it always looks worse from that angle (most likely as I'm usually blinded by tiredness by the time I arrive on my bicycle).

Today it was two individuals in particular that highlighted all that's wrong with this corner of London. Young, white females, they strolled in tandem along the litter ridden pavement. Their ill fitting tracksuits bouncing in union as they coughed like syphilitic whores. Only unable to cover their mouths as they had stuffed their hands deep into their pockets, they allowed their coughs to burst freely from their pasty, gaunt faces.

Fortunately the sound of their hacking was muted by my helmet, and I was spared the aural accompaniment to this foul oral dance, but I was under no illusion as to what the tightening of lips, raising of snout and obvious intake of breath would lead to. My prediction was realised as the foremost trout let fly with a grotesque ball of mucus that spattered across the pavement, adding slimy green to the ever present lumps of dried, blackened chewing gum.

An all too common act in this all too common place. Don't go to Hounslow my friends. Just don't.
( Moey, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:59, 10 replies)

Ha Ha!
I spent the first ten years of my life in Hounslow. Its fucking shit isn't. I thought it looked bad from all angles, which one are you talking about?
(Errorist, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:01, closed)

It's the approach
from Nelson Road onto Hanworth Road. I'm sure Hounslow starts sooner, but as I drive over the railway bridge and turn onto Hanworth Road it always suddenly seems so much more, Hounslow.
( Moey, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:04, closed)

Ahh
not far from where I once lived down an alley next to the Cross Lances pub. I agree, once over the railway bridge something seems to disappear.
(Errorist, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:09, closed)

Ah, the Cross Lances.
They have a fine selection of Ska on their juke box and they don't allow karaoke... it is a bastion of decency in an otherwise hideous hole.

EDIT: Now I think about it, I think I was thinking about the Windmill. The Cross Lances is as bad as the rest... I think.
( Moey, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:12, closed)

Yeah
I seem to remember it did have a good juke box. Not sure how I know this as I was prob about ten the last time I was in there. Does it still always still smell of gas outside?
(Errorist, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:15, closed)

Outside
the pub, or just outside in general?

After working here for well over 6 years I think I'm immune to it.
( Moey, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:18, closed)

Just outside the pub.
Weird the things you remember when you're young. I also remember a plane came over so low once the house shook.
(Errorist, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:24, closed)

Planes:
the most common sight in all of Hounslow.

My office shakes frequently from those fuckers.
( Moey, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:29, closed)

I think my mum was barred
from the Cross Lances for making an official complaint to the brewery about how racist the landlords were. Nice.
(Errorist, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:29, closed)

I live in Chiswick
My council tax goes to help these people.

Pissed off doesn't cover it.
( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 10:30, closed)