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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Philadelphia's City Hall is the largest free standing masonry building in the World. That rocks.
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Apr 30, 2020 06:11
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FogHelmut posted:That rocks. Yeah it's amazing. Humans have been around for about 100,000 years and for most of that time we were defined by stone. We lived in caves, we built houses and temples and made tools that were all stones that came from the Earth that we shaped to our purpose. Lithos is Ancient Greek for stone and that's where we get Paleolithic and Neolithic. Eventually we came up with concrete 2000 years or so ago which is essentially stone that we can mold to our own purposes. But before then all we had was stone that we laboriously shaped ourselves. We didn't make stone, we took it out of the Earth and made it bend to our will. Philadelphia City Hall is the greatest expression of that will. It's not manufactured stone, it's stone directly from Mother Earth that we cut and carved and fit together to look like this ridiculous pretty building. 100000 years of people and no group has ever quarried and cut and shaped so many stones to make one building. And no other of the billions of people who have lived since its construction have ever decided to put that many stones together again.
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Apr 30, 2020 06:39
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Apr 30, 2020 06:44
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Plus if you look at the top from a certain angle it’s like William Penn is holding his wiener!
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Apr 30, 2020 14:58
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Bust Rodd posted:Plus if you look at the top from a certain angle it’s like William Penn is holding his wiener! 
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Apr 30, 2020 17:01
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https://twitter.com/hwolson1/status/1255637380494737408?s=21
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May 1, 2020 02:01
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I was driving around South Philly today and the wind was so severe literal airborne waves of garbage were attacking pedestrians from foot to face. It reminded me a lot of the song Sandstorm.
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May 1, 2020 02:38
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Yeah it's amazing. Humans have been around for about 100,000 years and for most of that time we were defined by stone. We lived in caves, we built houses and temples and made tools that were all stones that came from the Earth that we shaped to our purpose. Lithos is Ancient Greek for stone and that's where we get Paleolithic and Neolithic. Eventually we came up with concrete 2000 years or so ago which is essentially stone that we can mold to our own purposes. But before then all we had was stone that we laboriously shaped ourselves. We didn't make stone, we took it out of the Earth and made it bend to our will. Philadelphia City Hall is the greatest expression of that will. It's not manufactured stone, it's stone directly from Mother Earth that we cut and carved and fit together to look like this ridiculous pretty building. 100000 years of people and no group has ever quarried and cut and shaped so many stones to make one building. And no other of the billions of people who have lived since its construction have ever decided to put that many stones together again. I love this and I love Philadelphia It's cheap and close to everything, and has great food. And BYOB's so you can get drunk at a fancy meal cheap. Also The Barnes has a large collection of Impressionist art that the city stole from some guy. It's great.
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May 1, 2020 03:05
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Rich_Lori/status/1255942008520216576
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May 1, 2020 03:12
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May 3, 2020 13:25
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Bust Rodd posted:Plus if you look at the top from a certain angle it’s like William Penn is holding his wiener! my family came over to the new world with William Penn to help him survey the great state of Pennsylvania after consulting our copious family records, I can attest to the fact that Penn's Penis is in fact that large
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May 3, 2020 15:18
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I got married at Philly City Hall late last year and we had our photos taken there and around other parts of Philly and it loving owned As we were walking with our photographer, we lost count of how many people told my wife she was beautiful and congratulations and all that Two dudes driving by in old city at two different times shouted out congrats from their cars as they flew by, too awesome city
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May 4, 2020 01:47
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Good soup! posted:I got married at Philly City Hall late last year and we had our photos taken there and around other parts of Philly and it loving owned Philadelphians are really friendly and open people just not in a fake Southern "bless your heart" way or a horribly passive aggressive Midwestern way. They'll actually look you in the eye and tell you how they feel, unlike scared of human contact west coasters. They're less pushy than New Yorkers and less loud and stupid than New Englanders. Yeah, Philadelphians can be mean to you if you have a Cowboys jacket on and it's December. Yes, Philadelphians will actually tell you you're an rear end in a top hat if you're actually being an rear end in a top hat. Somehow this has resulted in Philadelphians getting a reputation. Remember all the worst behaved people in Philadelphia are actually from South Jersey! It's a scientific fact!
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May 16, 2020 16:44
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“I’m not mad, I’m just from Philly” was a great way of describing our attitude that my West Philly townies were quite fond of saying.
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May 16, 2020 18:46
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Philadelphians are really friendly and open people just not in a fake Southern "bless your heart" way or a horribly passive aggressive Midwestern way. Unless you're a robot
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May 16, 2020 19:14
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That "robot" was dumb as gently caress and the Philadelphians thats killed that stupid-rear end Reddit wet dream did everyone a favor.
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May 16, 2020 21:46
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If I recall correctly that robot was mutilated in Center City and honest Philadelphians rarely ever venture there. Tourists, suburbanites, rich people, assorted out of towners. It was probably one of them. I don't mean to insult Center City! I'm not going to say you can't have essentially the perfect solo evening by eating at Reading Terminal, seeing an artsy movie at either of the Ritzs, and then getting drunk as a beast at McGlinchey's.
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May 16, 2020 23:31
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I think it was in Old City, which is a weird mix of very upscale residences and lots of petty crime.
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May 16, 2020 23:35
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Just lmao if you can’t effortlessly envision a couple of FishNecks trying to rob the robot for its smokes and SEPTA tokens
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May 17, 2020 00:06
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May 24, 2020 15:02
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Philadelphians are really friendly and open people just not in a fake Southern "bless your heart" way or a horribly passive aggressive Midwestern way. They'll actually look you in the eye and tell you how they feel, unlike scared of human contact west coasters. They're less pushy than New Yorkers and less loud and stupid than New Englanders.  the "Bless your heart" poo poo annoyed me to no end when I was living in TexasAlso all the worst behaved people in Philly are definitely from the burbs just outside of it, south jersey is good and pure* *at least the places I lived in Burlington county near the Delaware lol
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May 24, 2020 17:29
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Gloucester County is New Jersey's Delco.
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May 24, 2020 17:49
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One of my favorite things about living in Philly was having an openly contemptuous relationship with the state of Delaware and treating everyone I met from there like a kobold picking through my garbage and basically never being forced to reassess that relationship.
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May 24, 2020 18:03
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FogHelmut posted:Gloucester County is New Jersey's Delco. Having lived in both, you're not that far off. But I feel like Camden County is the truer heir to the Delco title.
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May 28, 2020 21:30
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Now that we're sort of on the other side of the outbreak, we can look at how different cities responded to the crisis at its worst. Philadelphia definitely comes out as the leader among the 10 most populous cities of the USA. We did proper science guided restrictions and we fed people. Like no paperwork no ID check no lines no forms we just gave out boxes of food to humans who needed food. That simple action puts Philadelphia ahead of every other large city.
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May 30, 2020 04:13
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WaffleZombie posted:Having lived in both, you're not that far off. But I feel like Camden County is the truer heir to the Delco title. That's not possible, you see I'm originally from Camden County...
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May 30, 2020 08:15
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Riots broke out in center city. People broke in windows at city hall and set police cruisers on fire.      
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May 31, 2020 03:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj88ULPMnTQ
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May 31, 2020 03:28
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Bust Rodd posted:We can't tell you where the best one is because it depends, do you want peppers and cheese whiz? or do you want like an actual sandwich an adult might eat, with meat, light onions, and provelone. I lived across the street from that place and it made me gain 5 lbs between August and September 2010. drat I miss Philly
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May 31, 2020 03:30
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bossy lady posted:The roast pork sandwiches with broccoli rabe are better than cheese steaks. This is the truth
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May 31, 2020 03:31
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https://www.pscp.tv/cdt448/1RDxlQzmdzrKL
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May 31, 2020 03:33
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https://twitter.com/GrittyNHL/status/1266815341939785733
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May 31, 2020 04:33
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How many south philly goons in here? Nothing major happened down here yet from the look of it but like legit have been hearing people go nuts outside the past like 4 hours
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May 31, 2020 05:58
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Kyron posted:How many south philly goons in here? Nothing major happened down here yet from the look of it but like legit have been hearing people go nuts outside the past like 4 hours Literally nothing has happened on my block and it's been business as usual.
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May 31, 2020 06:19
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Okay thanks big relief lol. Yeah might just be people up the block on a Saturday night
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May 31, 2020 06:38
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Apollodorus posted:This is the truth
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May 31, 2020 12:37
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bruvs be4 luvs
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https://twitter.com/phillynewsguy/status/1268058875548270594?s=21 Hell Yeah
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Jun 3, 2020 12:20
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If it was a scheduled demolition, there would have been protests and lawsuits, but with this stuff going on, it's just "gently caress it get it out of here". Hopefully they dump it in the loving river. A couple of years ago I had listened to the Dollop episode on Rizzo. The conversation with my dad was very telling. "Hey dad, I listened to a podcast about Rizzo" Dad interrupts "No matter what they said he wasn't racist, black people were voting for him when he died". I didn't even mention racism, just that I had listened to a podcast about him. He automatically (and correctly) assumed it was about how he was a racist dick. Edit: Did some reading on his policies, actually he seems pretty good, I need to educate myself more I guess. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Jun 3, 2020 |
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Jun 3, 2020 12:52
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Kenney is the best mayor we've had in a while and Rizzo was a crumb bum. I've hated on Kenney for being spineless about the statue as he's been saying he'd take it down since November 2017 but it looks like he's found a little courage this week.
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Jun 3, 2020 15:19
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Until that statue gets melted down and shot into the sun, I'm not holding my breath about it being officially gone.
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