Philadelphia Culture

[Anonymous]

The Kelly Drive was not named after Grace Kelly, it was named after her brother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m from south Jersey - went to Penn. Yes - a lot of Italians moved from south Philly to our south Jersey town.
Occasionally I let a “wooder” slip instead of water and my kids are like - what ?!
People who live in Philadelphia seem less uptight than those in DC and NYC. Are the people you’re working with transplants though?

NO they are not transplants. They largely seem like life long suburban Philadelphians. Already heard wooder. Lol

I appreciate the directness another poster mentioned.

[Anonymous]

I find it very hard to tell of people are mad at each other or just having a friendly conversation. Philly people pride themselves on being blunt but to me it often sounds like someone is just being super nasty and rude.

This strange Philadelphian way of communication is extra stressful if you are communicating via zoom bc it’s like “what is happening…are they mad at me? Did I insult them somehow?” While the philly person is happy, unperturbed on the inside thinking like “yeah I’m keepin it real up in this jawn, should I wear my eagles jersey to get my hoagie at the fancy Wawa or will that jinx the game this Sunday?”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have a sense of what actual towns they live in?

That’s right start judging them for living in Ridley township vs being classy enough to own a half a waterfront twin in ridley park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you have a sense of what actual towns they live in?

That’s right start judging them for living in Ridley township vs being classy enough to own a half a waterfront twin in ridley park.

I'm surprised there are no Irish people in the mix and I'm wondering what's up? And Ridley culture is gonna be a wee different than Bryn Mawr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Kelly Drive was not named after Grace Kelly, it was named after her brother.

Elaborate!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Kelly Drive was not named after Grace Kelly, it was named after her brother.

Elaborate!

Read up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Kelly_Jr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you have a sense of what actual towns they live in?

That’s right start judging them for living in Ridley township vs being classy enough to own a half a waterfront twin in ridley park.

I'm surprised there are no Irish people in the mix and I'm wondering what's up? And Ridley culture is gonna be a wee different than Bryn Mawr.

I know they love Notre Dame, but I seem to be the only super obvious Irish Catholic last name everything else is Italian

[Anonymous]

Anecdote: anytime I’ve ever done business with someone from Philadelphia there has always been chicanery on their end. I now try to avoid working with people from there.

[Anonymous]

I’m from north Wilmington and my parents grew up in blue collar Philly neighborhoods (they always called it Philly, not sure why that is a no-no).
As noted above, wooder=water and quooder=quarter. There is also a weird long “o” in home or throne (or just the word Oh) - not sure how to type it, but it’s like “heooome”. We drop words. For instance, “I’m done my soup” is perfectly acceptable, whereas uptight DMV types insist on extra words I.e. “I’m done with my soup.” All of my relatives are far more direct than people typically are in the DMV. I get told a lot that I am “very genuine” - by which I suspect people here mean rude or blunt.

Tastykakes are the best! Wawa is the best!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m from north Wilmington and my parents grew up in blue collar Philly neighborhoods (they always called it Philly, not sure why that is a no-no).
As noted above, wooder=water and quooder=quarter. There is also a weird long “o” in home or throne (or just the word Oh) - not sure how to type it, but it’s like “heooome”. We drop words. For instance, “I’m done my soup” is perfectly acceptable, whereas uptight DMV types insist on extra words I.e. “I’m done with my soup.” All of my relatives are far more direct than people typically are in the DMV. I get told a lot that I am “very genuine” - by which I suspect people here mean rude or blunt.

Tastykakes are the best! Wawa is the best!

both of which are readily available elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you had one of those crop-duster airplanes, and filled it with rust remover, and flew over Philadelphia and sprayed it, I’m fairly certain the entire city would just disappear.

I'm always saying this.

[Anonymous]

This thread is hilarious.

[Anonymous]

If you are from philly, all you need to know is contained in this song:

https://youtu.be/r-4UCHr6XIE

This is the official song of the city. Young, old, poor, rich, black, white, Asian, Latino, man, woman, any gender any orientation —

If you are from philly, this hits differnt.

Just listen to the song and you will know everything about philly there is to know

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Philadelphians are very proud of their city. Do not call it Philly!

Do you know the city well? You might check out the incredible museums there. The historic parts of the city are gorgeous and there are cool little towns adjacent as well.

Why not? I'm from Philly and have no problem calling it that.