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Time to get your mullet trimmed, wash your jorts & the mustache in order. Minshew-mania is coming!
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Bedlam at Pat's Steaks - don't mess with Philly y'all
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Howlinwolf wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:31 pmBedlam at Pat's Steaks - don't mess with Philly y'all
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RIP CortezCortez died after the assault that happened around 2 a.m. Thursday at 1300 E. Passyunk Avenue.
Two other men, Cortez's 64-year-old father and his 28-year-old friend, suffered minor injuries and were treated at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
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sports, alcohol and men - a winning combination.
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I don't think this could happen only in Philadelphia (it goes back at least to 1964 and the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens), but still...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/us/r ... 029039208a
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sadly, no one intervened, but:
Narrative of riders filming Philadelphia train rape is false, prosecutor says
Narrative of riders filming Philadelphia train rape is false, prosecutor says
We got messed up minds for these messed up times...
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You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
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May I ask what the dogs were doing on the ice in the first place?
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Pooping. Duh!beantownbubba wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 12:05 pmMay I ask what the dogs were doing on the ice in the first place?
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1/2 block off the route of last weekend's Mummers Parade:
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The duality of the Eagles tailgate thing
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Little known fact: if you catch the correct angle of William Penn atop City Hall, he appears to be quite excited by his perch...
Unpacking the phallic fallacy atop Philadelphia City Hall
Unpacking the phallic fallacy atop Philadelphia City Hall
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The Golden Corral fight, while a doozy, happened in Bensalem which is a Philly suburb and therefore does not belong in this thread!
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So are you going to stop saying that you're from Philly?
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Says the man known as "beantown" who lives in Newton! I was born and raised in the 19116, graduated from Philly public schools, worked in the city for 15 years... I'm bonafide!!beantownbubba wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 2:24 pmSo are you going to stop saying that you're from Philly?
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Nice. I actually didn't know (or remember) that you went to school in Philly.Clams wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 10:00 amSays the man known as "beantown" who lives in Newton! I was born and raised in the 19116, graduated from Philly public schools, worked in the city for 15 years... I'm bonafide!!beantownbubba wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 2:24 pmSo are you going to stop saying that you're from Philly?
Perhaps you will not be surprised that I think this is a complex issue that I have thought about a lot over time. I'll say more about this later because I like talking about the subject but for now I'll just say it's fairest to compare apples to apples: If you identify your "phillyness" as rooted in your early life then it's fair to distinguish the suburbs. If you think your kids are from philly, it seems to me it's a lot less fair to make that distinction when it's inconvenient.
As for me, for reasons I'll write about later, I think it's fair to refer to myself as "beantown" while living in the suburbs. However, on a more important level I consider myself to be a bubba "without a country" because I do feel uncomfortable saying I'm from Boston while at the same time it's harder and harder to meaningfully say I'm from Brooklyn.
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So, as I was saying...
When I first moved to Boston (and yes I lived in Boston) I always stumbled trying to answer the rather basic question, "where are you from?" While I lived in Boston, I didn't feel like I was "from" there and while I felt like I was "from" Brooklyn, I no longer lived there. I settled on asking "do you mean where I live or where I'm from?" which sort of worked for a time but as Brooklyn continues to change so dramatically and quickly, even being "from" Brooklyn doesn't sound right even though it's true. That's why I feel such a sense of dislocation when I go back to Brooklyn - my roots are there and they are deep but it doesn't feel like home. Poseurs, hipsters and new arrivals of all sorts think that they are "the real Brooklyn" and since they actually live there, who am I to argue? OTOH, if you want to gain any actual or assumed insights into me/my character/my personality based on where I'm from, "Boston*" would be the more misleading, less helpful reply than "Brooklyn."
As to being "beantown" from Newton, look at the numbers. The population of the Boston MSA is right around 5 million people. The population of Boston is less than 700,000 people. Or put another way, not a lot of people from Boston actually live in Boston. This is a very common and well accepted form of conversation:
- Where are you from?
-Boston
- Oh yeah, what part?
- Newton (or Cambridge, Chelsea, Quincy, Medford and a whole bunch of other towns)
By contrast, this is a pretty awkward and not widely accepted conversation:
-Where are you from?
-New York
-Oh yeah, what part?
-Scarsdale
After a while I used to say that my kids are from Boston but I'm not. They were literally born in Boston but never lived there, but in the sense I'm trying to convey, they and everyone they know, thought of themselves as Bostonians. Now people from the classic pre-gentrified neighborhoods like Southie, Roxbury, Charlestown, etc might well have a problem with that but I think it's a pretty fair sense of the vernacular.
I suppose these things are less important in the days of increasing homogenization and mobility but for those of who feel it keenly (and I include Clams in that number) it's a very confusing time. Back in the day, all I had to do was to speak a couple of sentences and pretty much everyone could tell where I was from. These days, the Brooklyn has worn off, the Boston hasn't really taken, and very few people can place me by my accent. It doesn't exactly keep me up at night but I do think it's a little bit sad.
*Assuming that it is not wrong or misleading for me to say I'm from Boston in the first place.
When I first moved to Boston (and yes I lived in Boston) I always stumbled trying to answer the rather basic question, "where are you from?" While I lived in Boston, I didn't feel like I was "from" there and while I felt like I was "from" Brooklyn, I no longer lived there. I settled on asking "do you mean where I live or where I'm from?" which sort of worked for a time but as Brooklyn continues to change so dramatically and quickly, even being "from" Brooklyn doesn't sound right even though it's true. That's why I feel such a sense of dislocation when I go back to Brooklyn - my roots are there and they are deep but it doesn't feel like home. Poseurs, hipsters and new arrivals of all sorts think that they are "the real Brooklyn" and since they actually live there, who am I to argue? OTOH, if you want to gain any actual or assumed insights into me/my character/my personality based on where I'm from, "Boston*" would be the more misleading, less helpful reply than "Brooklyn."
As to being "beantown" from Newton, look at the numbers. The population of the Boston MSA is right around 5 million people. The population of Boston is less than 700,000 people. Or put another way, not a lot of people from Boston actually live in Boston. This is a very common and well accepted form of conversation:
- Where are you from?
-Boston
- Oh yeah, what part?
- Newton (or Cambridge, Chelsea, Quincy, Medford and a whole bunch of other towns)
By contrast, this is a pretty awkward and not widely accepted conversation:
-Where are you from?
-New York
-Oh yeah, what part?
-Scarsdale
After a while I used to say that my kids are from Boston but I'm not. They were literally born in Boston but never lived there, but in the sense I'm trying to convey, they and everyone they know, thought of themselves as Bostonians. Now people from the classic pre-gentrified neighborhoods like Southie, Roxbury, Charlestown, etc might well have a problem with that but I think it's a pretty fair sense of the vernacular.
I suppose these things are less important in the days of increasing homogenization and mobility but for those of who feel it keenly (and I include Clams in that number) it's a very confusing time. Back in the day, all I had to do was to speak a couple of sentences and pretty much everyone could tell where I was from. These days, the Brooklyn has worn off, the Boston hasn't really taken, and very few people can place me by my accent. It doesn't exactly keep me up at night but I do think it's a little bit sad.
*Assuming that it is not wrong or misleading for me to say I'm from Boston in the first place.
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This is a fucking disgrace I tell ya, and I'm not even a Flyers fan. Here is a guy who has played so far in a whopping 989 games in a row. The flyers are having one of the worst seasons in franchise history, at the bottom of the division and out of the playoffs. For the " franchise " to make this horrible decision to have Yandel sit as a healthy scratch is embarrassing to the Flyers fans and the league in general.
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The sooner we put those assholes in the grave&piss on the dirt above it, the better off we'll be
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Props for respecting the leash law.
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It's been a great couple of days here
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Cheers!
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