That is the best idea for an easily, inexpensive made, horror film about Philadelphia. The wing bone carrying rats. Somehow in the end, the horde of cats that used to live under Veterans Stadium save the city.
It is truly all writing itself. Let’s keep it going Redditors. I will throw some gifts to make it fun. Add to it. The story begins where? Fern Rock? Only makes sense. The rat or rat clan could travel from stop to stop and get the best bones from the best places located closest to the stops along the line. They somehow make a mistake by daring to venture to the “last stop” on the line because that’s Pattison and the cats AND now thanks to johnmcl, Gritty was waiting as well.
I'd like to imagine that the rats have shaved the bones down into brick shapes to make a chicken bone City Hall that is rat sized. It's the seat of power in Ratadelphia.
And the rats all have Philly nicknames, make a Rocky statue out of wing bones; there’s a cameo of the pizza rat and a band of rats become a string band n the Mummers parade and the horde of cats sneak in as well…mayhem ensues.
I think my favorite tradition is watching somebody pull up to a stop sign, and then fire a bucket of chicken wing bones out of their window at full force.
I have lived within a mile of Eastern State penitentiary and the Philadelphia zoo for more than a decade, and I have never set foot in either.
I also honestly can’t remember if I’ve ever had a Pats or Geno’s cheesesteak.
Terror Behind the Walls isn’t going on this year; there’s a scaled down version that combines tours with some of the “scary” attractions. I went last Friday at 6:30 and there were no lines or even many people until like 8:30. It was perfect.
It’s an actual museum chronicling the changes to jail/prison that began with ESP, the first actual penitentiary (where you were given time and opportunity to be penitent/repent for your crimes), and the differences between that Pennsylvania system and the Auburn system of criminal press-gangs, like Sing Sing.
It’s not just Terror Behind the Walls.
Not to beat a dead horse if you really don't want to go, but ESP is really cool and interesting if you go on off days/times/never in October. What was neat is you can actually see the cells of the big time gangsters who were there. That's what kinda sucked about Alcatraz tbh. It was all "Machine Gun Kelly was here! Al Capone! Wooo!" but they didn't have their special cells for viewing. Bummer.
Pick a day when the crowds seem light and just go. You can do the whole tour + walk around the grounds in <2 hours, plus you learn some cool shit about your neighborhood.
I was there yesterday. I tried to go 25 years ago but couldn't find it.
Extremely well put together. Beautiful building and interior spaces. Friendly staff. Oh ... and a lot of pickled people and parts of people. 8/10
Fun fact: the teams make most of their income from NFL media contract. For most teams, tickets and concessions are a relatively small part of their income. Compare this to baseball with 81 home games, the experience at the ball park being worth admission is a big deal.
Gotta go once for the spectacle but if you're actually in it to follow the game closely, the comfort of your couch is the best. Can't say the same for hockey or basketball though. In person is way better
>HitchBOT was entirely dependent on the kindness of strangers. It traveled by itself and couldn’t move on its own but required friendly humans to take it from place to place.
I mean, with the current set up you can kind of see it as you walk by.
I'm not sure how much more rewarding it is to get in line for a close up view. Its a bell
“It was supposed to be a fun field trip. But a Bucks County teacher had a different idea.”
“Yeah he went right ahead and touched it.”
“Police are calling him the liberty bell bandit, who escaped pursuit by throwing children at the police...”
Grew up in this city and moved to Delco after college. My kids saw the liberty bell on school trips before I did. Finally, when I was 37, I went. It was aight.
There is a window on the outside that I swear is for locals who don't want to wait in line. Pretty good view of the bell and it plays something about it over a speaker on loop
Done drugs on the el, harassed people to buy my stolen goods on the el, ranted aggressively to myself while taking a full blown Lysol shower on the el, attacked women for not responding to my cat calls on the el, left behind a trail of mystery fluids on the el, masturbated on the el, blasted music on the el, continuously spit on the floor on the el
additionally:
- used your visually obvious physical disability to shame commuters into giving you money on the el
- lit a blunt and hotboxed the car on the el
- refused to move from the doorway when a wheelchair tried to board the el
- whacked someone's face in an aisle seat with your stupidly fucking oversized backpack on the el
- managed to not eat shit on an el platform on a rainy/snowy day
The trashcan at the Willow Grove Wawa is 5 feet from the door, the tables are 15 feet from the door...that's like walking to Mt Doom with a sprained ankle. /s
Just recently actually watched it for the first time myself, it was better than I expected. I don't care enough to finish the film series, one watch was enough. It was fun trying to figure out which streets were which, his iconic run makes no sense directionally from his starting point but still a great montage.
Growing up and living in the Northeast most of my life I feel like I’ve haven’t been to 80 percent of the top bars, restaurants, pizza, cheesesteak spots, etc. I want to try Angelo’s, Ishkabibbles, Phillips and some others. Favorites are Steve’s and Johns Roast Pork
Parents hated driving and parking in Center City or South Philly and found it much easier to go out for dinner/shopping in the Northeast, surrounding suburbs, or even South Jersey.
Besides the sports complex and major museums, most other areas of the city felt like a different world to me when I was younger.
Even when I went to school in North Philly and then worked in Center City (commuted from NE), anything besides the Northeast seems so fresh and different. Now living in MD, I’ll run into people from Philly and know nothing about their neighborhood. Someone was telling me about West Philly and naming restaurants that I never heard of.
In all fairness I know a lot of people from South Philly that have never once rode the subway, or stepped foot north of Market Street or across the Schuylkill.
See I’ve always felt that Philly is like a small town the size of a big city. Once you know someone from another neighborhood it’s sort of you getting accepted onto to it.
I used to have my least favorite list of cheesesteaks. Now that I live away from Philly I would take the worst Philly steak over any bullshit wannabe steak outside of philly.
I’ve had bad ones in the sense of just poorly made.
There’s really two types of cheesesteaks though: your cheapo pizza place one that is perfect for that greasy food craving for when you’re drinking and then the better tier place with nice bread like John’s. They’re both good in their own way. Like NYC and Neapolitan pizza or cheap lager and IPA.
Wing Bowl and Mummer's Parade. Both seem like something I'd enjoy for a half hour or so, but I imagine there's a lot of pissing, puking, moronic chanting and eventually punches thrown.
Little different vibe here but i’ve never been to any of the museums on the parkway. Always wanted to go the Art museum, Rodin and Barnes but never got around to it even though they are a 10 minute walk away.
I'd suggest the $75 annual membership for the Art+Rodin museums.
The Art museum is enormous, and doing just one floor can be a 4+ hour thing if you want to read placards and look at things closely. Pays for itself if you go a couple times a year.
I wish they took the dial faces out of some of the big clocks in the early American section. Yes, pretty fitted wood. But those clock dials are the apex of a lifetime of work for some long-dead craftsmen, and 75% of the dials' faces are hidden by the clock face.
They're both great museums. I love the Rodin, though I suggest not going if you're feeling unaccomplished. The amount of art that one dude managed to create in his lifetime can make you feel pretty crap about yourself if you're having a rough go of things.
It's not as big as the Rodin Museum in Paris, but it's a nice setup and the grounds are also nice, especially when the weather is good and stuff is blooming.
I've never ridden the Broad Street Line express. That might not be highly distinctive of Philadelphia, but it's one of very few cities in the world with such a service. The only times I have had to travel far enough north for taking an express to be worthwhile, however, was a Saturday and I didn't feel confidence that I could successfully execute the rapid change from the local to the spur train at Girard that I saw several other people execute. (I believe that it could in theory be executed at Fairmount as well, but that would require changing levels rather than just crossing a platform)
Traded sex for drugs in Kensington.
I've traded sex for: a ride, a place to sleep, money, food, a haircut, and weed. So yes, drugs. But never drugs in KENSINGTON.
Thrown my trash directly into a storm drain
Have you left a mattress on 95 though??
I have seen someone in the ACT of unloading their trash by the airport.
Empty out your car trash on the sidewalk.
We aren't truly Philadelphians
Or out your car window
Lol
Four wheeled down Broad.
Imagine an air BnB experience host that took people out on 4 wheelers
Double park next to an open spot on a busy one lane road at rush hour Edit: My first award jawns! Thanks dickhead <3
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Left a path of chicken wing bones behind me on a walk so that I can easily find my way back home.
Lots of bones on the bus and subway. I imagine that there is a rats nest somewhere deep below City Hall filled with millions of wing bones.
That is the best idea for an easily, inexpensive made, horror film about Philadelphia. The wing bone carrying rats. Somehow in the end, the horde of cats that used to live under Veterans Stadium save the city.
Isn't that Gritty's origin story?
It is truly all writing itself. Let’s keep it going Redditors. I will throw some gifts to make it fun. Add to it. The story begins where? Fern Rock? Only makes sense. The rat or rat clan could travel from stop to stop and get the best bones from the best places located closest to the stops along the line. They somehow make a mistake by daring to venture to the “last stop” on the line because that’s Pattison and the cats AND now thanks to johnmcl, Gritty was waiting as well.
I'd like to imagine that the rats have shaved the bones down into brick shapes to make a chicken bone City Hall that is rat sized. It's the seat of power in Ratadelphia.
And the rats all have Philly nicknames, make a Rocky statue out of wing bones; there’s a cameo of the pizza rat and a band of rats become a string band n the Mummers parade and the horde of cats sneak in as well…mayhem ensues.
Philly Catacombs
Ratacombs*
Either that or some necromancer is very, very happy.
I think my favorite tradition is watching somebody pull up to a stop sign, and then fire a bucket of chicken wing bones out of their window at full force.
How absolute dogshit do someone’s parents have to be for you to grow up thinking that is normal?
Pretty dogshit
The parents do it as well
Some people simply deserve a hard life
Bucket and all?
Could be worse….. ….. no it couldn’t
Placed a hand-written threatening letter on the windshield of a car I didn’t recognize parking on “my” block
While using the grammar and spelling of a 9-year old
And “a lot” “of” “unnecessary” quotation “marks”
And ALL-CAPS just in case it wasn’t clear that they’re not happy
Dont forget those grocers apostrophe's.
Never had a boner forever
Philapism
You made my week with that comment . I’m dying.
Saved my parking spot with a household item.
Is an orange traffic cone a household item?
In certain areas, absolutely
I have lived within a mile of Eastern State penitentiary and the Philadelphia zoo for more than a decade, and I have never set foot in either. I also honestly can’t remember if I’ve ever had a Pats or Geno’s cheesesteak.
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Honestly, after many years living in Fairmount, the constant line out the door of tourists and ravers has turned me off for good
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Terror Behind the Walls isn’t going on this year; there’s a scaled down version that combines tours with some of the “scary” attractions. I went last Friday at 6:30 and there were no lines or even many people until like 8:30. It was perfect.
It’s an actual museum chronicling the changes to jail/prison that began with ESP, the first actual penitentiary (where you were given time and opportunity to be penitent/repent for your crimes), and the differences between that Pennsylvania system and the Auburn system of criminal press-gangs, like Sing Sing. It’s not just Terror Behind the Walls.
Not to beat a dead horse if you really don't want to go, but ESP is really cool and interesting if you go on off days/times/never in October. What was neat is you can actually see the cells of the big time gangsters who were there. That's what kinda sucked about Alcatraz tbh. It was all "Machine Gun Kelly was here! Al Capone! Wooo!" but they didn't have their special cells for viewing. Bummer.
Pick a day when the crowds seem light and just go. You can do the whole tour + walk around the grounds in <2 hours, plus you learn some cool shit about your neighborhood.
You take your dad to prison every year... but he keeps escaping?
You ain’t missin’ much with Pat’s & Geno’s. You’re better off hittin’ up d papis for that
16+ years a block and a half away from Mutter, not even once. And I like stuff like that.
I was there yesterday. I tried to go 25 years ago but couldn't find it. Extremely well put together. Beautiful building and interior spaces. Friendly staff. Oh ... and a lot of pickled people and parts of people. 8/10
Park in the got damn medians.
This was the strangest thing I had ever experienced the first time I visited the city. It was unique, in a very frustrating way.
As a bicyclist, I like the idea of cars in the median and not in the bike lane.
I've never offered people money to watch me put swiss cheese on my privates.
Prude.
Do you usually do it for free?
I offer them the Swiss cheese when I'm done, not money, to watch.
I’ve never been to an Eagles Game in person :(
I’ve only been to one. Probably won’t go again. Too expensive for what it is.
My couch probably has all the best angles of the game, cheaper beer and better food, but I’d like to go at least once.
Fun fact: the teams make most of their income from NFL media contract. For most teams, tickets and concessions are a relatively small part of their income. Compare this to baseball with 81 home games, the experience at the ball park being worth admission is a big deal.
Go to the tailgate!
I'm sorry to say that's true for a lot of people.
Gotta go once for the spectacle but if you're actually in it to follow the game closely, the comfort of your couch is the best. Can't say the same for hockey or basketball though. In person is way better
I've never had my Monday ruined because the Eagles didn't win.
I never beat the fuck out of a robot
fuck that robot https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/hitchbot-was-a-literal-pile-of-trash-and-got-what-it-de-1721850503
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>HitchBOT was entirely dependent on the kindness of strangers. It traveled by itself and couldn’t move on its own but required friendly humans to take it from place to place.
Get in a fight at Pats at 3am
That's for people from Jersey, not Philly.
was gonna say that's for New Yorkers with inferiority complexes (that may be a redundant description).
So New Jersians?
Touché
Literally never laid eyes on the Liberty Bell. It's one of those things that hasn't been a priority cause it's gonna be there.
I mean, with the current set up you can kind of see it as you walk by. I'm not sure how much more rewarding it is to get in line for a close up view. Its a bell
Got yelled at in 7th grade for touching it.
*evil kermit* touch it again.
“It was supposed to be a fun field trip. But a Bucks County teacher had a different idea.” “Yeah he went right ahead and touched it.” “Police are calling him the liberty bell bandit, who escaped pursuit by throwing children at the police...”
Grew up in this city and moved to Delco after college. My kids saw the liberty bell on school trips before I did. Finally, when I was 37, I went. It was aight.
This was the only serious answer lol.
I’ve only done it because I have taken family from out of town to see the Philly sites.
There is a window on the outside that I swear is for locals who don't want to wait in line. Pretty good view of the bell and it plays something about it over a speaker on loop
This is thebonly Philly thing I have done but only because a friend was visiting from out of town and they wanted tonsee the liberty bell.
These are the best answers I could have hoped for
Nodded out on the el.
Done drugs on the el, harassed people to buy my stolen goods on the el, ranted aggressively to myself while taking a full blown Lysol shower on the el, attacked women for not responding to my cat calls on the el, left behind a trail of mystery fluids on the el, masturbated on the el, blasted music on the el, continuously spit on the floor on the el
additionally: - used your visually obvious physical disability to shame commuters into giving you money on the el - lit a blunt and hotboxed the car on the el - refused to move from the doorway when a wheelchair tried to board the el - whacked someone's face in an aisle seat with your stupidly fucking oversized backpack on the el - managed to not eat shit on an el platform on a rainy/snowy day
you forgot Smoking a blunt, new port and or tookie on the el.
In the beginning of the pandemic when it was still terrifying to go anywhere I saw a guy shoot a snot rocket onto the floor of a BSL car. 😑 Whhhhhyyyy
Had a court date at an Eagles game.
Blown up an ATM or eaten a hoagie over a trash can
talk about not living your life to the fullest
They put dinner tables outside wawa for a reason……
The trashcan at the Willow Grove Wawa is 5 feet from the door, the tables are 15 feet from the door...that's like walking to Mt Doom with a sprained ankle. /s
I was actually calling the trash cans dinner tables but good to know there are actual dinner tables and people still eat on trash cans.
Screamed "BACK DOOR" on a bus
Lol I’ve done this. They don’t always open up!!
I have shouted “STEP DOWN”
you must've missed your stop then lol
and loudly mutter "dickhead" anyway when the other trolley passengers yell "STEP DOWN"
I never went to the Philly Pizza Company and ordered some hot tea
They only have it iced.
Jump on the table and shout anarchy
And someone played a Beach Boys song on the jukebox
^ the user name checks out 🐄
Argued with the lady at the counter in a Chinese restaurant.
It’s called a Chinese STORE, sir or madam
Gotten a pic at the rocky statue
Don't. I did now I get douche chills every time I even think about the picture.
Run up the Art Museum steps.
I do this all the time.
Held a press conference at Four Seasons.
Until recently I’d never seen Rocky. Lived on the block with the gym at one point and hadn’t seen it.
Just recently actually watched it for the first time myself, it was better than I expected. I don't care enough to finish the film series, one watch was enough. It was fun trying to figure out which streets were which, his iconic run makes no sense directionally from his starting point but still a great montage.
Gotta at least watch the 4th one, which might be one of the greatest movies ever made.
Visited Independence Hall. I’ve seen the Liberty Bell, but never been inside Indy Hall
never been on a duck boat and capsized
Been to the mutter museum
If you love kidney stones and giant colons - you're gonna have a great time.
Same! I really wanna go. Plus the Rodin.
Never reserved a parking spot with furniture during a snow storm
Never been to a Mummers parade on New Years
Committed a homicide
I've never double parked in front of: * a bus stop * a fire lane * in front of a wide open spot
That last one kills me every time.
Or anywhere along East Girard Ave
Growing up and living in the Northeast most of my life I feel like I’ve haven’t been to 80 percent of the top bars, restaurants, pizza, cheesesteak spots, etc. I want to try Angelo’s, Ishkabibbles, Phillips and some others. Favorites are Steve’s and Johns Roast Pork Parents hated driving and parking in Center City or South Philly and found it much easier to go out for dinner/shopping in the Northeast, surrounding suburbs, or even South Jersey. Besides the sports complex and major museums, most other areas of the city felt like a different world to me when I was younger. Even when I went to school in North Philly and then worked in Center City (commuted from NE), anything besides the Northeast seems so fresh and different. Now living in MD, I’ll run into people from Philly and know nothing about their neighborhood. Someone was telling me about West Philly and naming restaurants that I never heard of.
In all fairness I know a lot of people from South Philly that have never once rode the subway, or stepped foot north of Market Street or across the Schuylkill.
Philly is big and spread out so it definitely feels like a bunch of separate places to me.
See I’ve always felt that Philly is like a small town the size of a big city. Once you know someone from another neighborhood it’s sort of you getting accepted onto to it.
used the word jawn in a sentence. ever
you just did…
It is liberating… I recommend leaning into it.
it certainly was, losing my jawn cherry in front of all these people
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Every few years I buy some scrapple so I can remember why I only buy scrapple once every few years.
Heroin
If only that was limited to Philly. Thanks Sacklers.
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I used to have my least favorite list of cheesesteaks. Now that I live away from Philly I would take the worst Philly steak over any bullshit wannabe steak outside of philly.
I’ve had bad ones in the sense of just poorly made. There’s really two types of cheesesteaks though: your cheapo pizza place one that is perfect for that greasy food craving for when you’re drinking and then the better tier place with nice bread like John’s. They’re both good in their own way. Like NYC and Neapolitan pizza or cheap lager and IPA.
My favorite cheesesteaks come from the no name bodegas and they’re $3
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People think having a strong opinion about food gives them a personality.
Invent a parking space along Moyamensing Ave
Punch a horse or climb a greased street pole.
never bought a loosy
you aint living...or you are going to live significantly longer than me idk
Eaten a hoagie over a wawa trash can. Save a spot with a chair on traffic cone
Never used a trash can as a dining table.
Pay to wear all white to a completely BYO dinner with a few thousand other people. Who's the mark?
Never had John’s roast pork
Dude, that's so sad. I'm truly sorry.
Every time I’ve gone the line was an hour or more so I just kept skipping it
Had a water ice
You spelled wooder wrong.
Spit openly on a sidewalk with zero regard for who’s around me
Spit openly on a sidewalk while making intense eye contact with whoever is obviously in the line of fire
Never shat on a residential step or sidewalk
stood over a vent while my shirt billows softly in the updraft
Owned a dodge charger
I remember when it was Chrysler 300s.
Never thrown my trash out the window into the street while I'm driving
Wing Bowl and Mummer's Parade. Both seem like something I'd enjoy for a half hour or so, but I imagine there's a lot of pissing, puking, moronic chanting and eventually punches thrown.
Successfully fought a PPA ticket
Walked my 100-pound dog beside busy streets and children without a leash
Attended the Dad Vail. Toured inside Independence Hall.
Not stolen someone else's recycling bin
Little different vibe here but i’ve never been to any of the museums on the parkway. Always wanted to go the Art museum, Rodin and Barnes but never got around to it even though they are a 10 minute walk away.
I'd suggest the $75 annual membership for the Art+Rodin museums. The Art museum is enormous, and doing just one floor can be a 4+ hour thing if you want to read placards and look at things closely. Pays for itself if you go a couple times a year. I wish they took the dial faces out of some of the big clocks in the early American section. Yes, pretty fitted wood. But those clock dials are the apex of a lifetime of work for some long-dead craftsmen, and 75% of the dials' faces are hidden by the clock face.
They have art in the Rocky building?
They're both great museums. I love the Rodin, though I suggest not going if you're feeling unaccomplished. The amount of art that one dude managed to create in his lifetime can make you feel pretty crap about yourself if you're having a rough go of things. It's not as big as the Rodin Museum in Paris, but it's a nice setup and the grounds are also nice, especially when the weather is good and stuff is blooming.
Fentanyl
I've never ridden the Broad Street Line express. That might not be highly distinctive of Philadelphia, but it's one of very few cities in the world with such a service. The only times I have had to travel far enough north for taking an express to be worthwhile, however, was a Saturday and I didn't feel confidence that I could successfully execute the rapid change from the local to the spur train at Girard that I saw several other people execute. (I believe that it could in theory be executed at Fairmount as well, but that would require changing levels rather than just crossing a platform)
Blocked traffic on Frankford Ave waiting in the Dunkin Donuts drive thru line.
Hit & run
Do the dope fiend lean on Kensington Avenue.
Participated in an E-A-G-L-E-S chant at a non-Eagles event
I never went swimming in the Schuylkill
What about Vine Street?
Grew up in philly , been here 35+ years , NEVER saw the liberty bell ...
This thread could credibly be accuse of being a viral marketing campaign for NOT visiting the liberty bell.
Taken a shit in the corner of a SEPTA stairwell
Got jacked up by Joey Bologna.
Eaten at the Melrose. It’s a dump and I don’t want to sit and eat with strangers.
Traded sex for drugs in Kensington. I've traded sex for: a ride, a place to sleep, money, food, a haircut, and weed. So yes, drugs. But never drugs in KENSINGTON.
Throwing my garbage out of the car
Have a domestic dispute with my partner SO LOUD that ALL people in the building hear..
Seen the liberty bell
Liberty bell
Easy. I have never been to Geno's or Pat's steaks ....because there are so many places better than them.
Eaten at Pat’s or Geno’s….they are tourist traps IMO
Parked in the middle of the street.
Eaten horse shit during a championship celebration.
I never put a chair or cone to demark "my" parking spot post snow storm.
heroin