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Philly posters – What did you do the last time you saw that crazy guy with the tin foil hat on the corner preaching the world ends tomorrow or he was brought here by Martians? Did you decide he seemed like someone you could hold a reasonable debate with, or did you just walk on by?
In my view, there are some posters on this thread who are analogous to that old guy on the corner. How would I describe them? They are the folks who have exhibited one or more of the following behaviors:
• Jumping into a thread at the end without understanding the premise
• Making claims about a city they've never visited
• Ignoring posts with facts that counter their arguments
• Issuing challenges and then ignoring the responses
• Taking information out of context and posting it in a way that supports their position
• Making posts that are simply unintelligible
• Posting pictures of food(?)
• When all else fails, calling individuals names and other epithets
Just as I ignore the crazy dude on the corner, I find no sense in addressing any posts that fall into any of the above categories. Really, all it does is provide another opportunity for them to continue their crazy talk. If folks like that are left alone, they just take walk down the street to do their crazy somewhere else.
And just like the guy on the corner who wakes up tomorrow to find the world didn't end after all, I predict the folks on this thread will wake up tomorrow, look at the poll, and see what we already know – most people agree that our downtown is heads and tails above DC’s.
Keep watching the poll.
Well I will plead my ignorance. I just want to figure what a Bama is? I know we have a president named O bama and a state Al bama but I cant figure out what a bama is...
You are such a "hop on" that's it's ridiculous! If you go to any HBCU and ask around campus which city stands out the most. You will hear DC and NYC. Although, I hate to put them on, NYC dudes do their thing even though we consider them some bammas. But its all good. Philly is not even hot.
I think many of us are long since "campus" one day you will come to us seeking employment...
This is all subcultural stuff. There are actually quite a few older black people in DC who have never heard of Go Go. If you asked a 45-year old partner at a K Street firm about Go Go, mambo sauce, or Nike Boots, he'd have no idea what you're talking about. On the other hand, ALL Philadelphians (white, black, Hispanic, Asian) can relate to the following:
Yes a city with tradition, character, culture and actual interest and interesting things - but do enjoy a fudruckers burger in Chinatown every now and again, helluva fixins bar
No offense to the DC posters but I feel like you guys are coming from a purely subculture African American view which is very different from the views of the vast majority of people. Black Philly is not well off compared to black DC, so I can see why you guys have the opinions that you do. They just aren't representative of the cities when taken as a whole.
Well I will plead my ignorance. I just want to figure what a Bama is? I know we have a president named O bama and a state Al bama but I cant figure out what a bama is...
I neutral in this thing but here you go: Bamma (Urban Dictionary).
LOL Kid, your name's deceiving. Gotta start calling you OldmanPhilly or MidlifePhilly or MetamucilPhilly.
I'm just giving you a hard time Kid, don't take it the wrong way. Baseball season's going to start up soon and a couple of friends are already talking trash.
Yeah, but you and I both know that DC has alway's up until just recently been a predominately Black City with predominantly black culture. Once upon a time Ust. was named Black Broadway and the whole city as a whole was called "Chocolate City". Having every ethnicity on the same page is great, but we never really had the opportunity because most of the other ethnicities were just transplants and the ones that wern't (White ppl) lived in the more affluent parts of the city and really didn't have any real Identity at all other than maybe politics, but the blacks in DC were never really into that stuff.
I neutral in this thing but here you go: Bamma (Urban Dictionary).
LOL Kid, your name's deceiving. Gotta start calling you OldmanPhilly or MidlifePhilly or MetamucilPhilly.
I'm just giving you a hard time Kid, don't take it the wrong way. Baseball season's going to start up soon and a couple of friends are already talking trash.
People from DC aren't known for wearing Northface... and I don't get it...who cares if they wear Northface..every single college sorority girl I know wears a northface jacket...Anyone can go to their nearest strip mall and buy something from Northface... Who cares.
We aren't talking about the country old navy looking North Faces Sorority Girls wear or the hunting trip North Faces frat boys wear. We are talking about Sleep Tek Urban North Faces DC style that are only sold in city stores. They don't sell these in most cities.
DC Women
Women in Other Cities
http://www.pickjacketsite.org/images/tnf%20women/4.jpg (broken link)
http://www.the-north-face-outlet.org/images/Womens%20North%20Face%20Denali%20Hoodie%20Jacket%2 0-%20Rose.jpg.jpg (broken link)
DC Men
http://www.styleceo.com/images/stores/27/t/the-north-face-men-steep-tech-apogee-jacket-outerwear-black-12186323 (broken link)
Men in Other Cities
http://www.northfacedenali.org/images/mens%20denali/men-north-face-hoodie-003.jpg (broken link)
DC has an urban swagger. There is no denying that!
NorthFace has nothing to do with a better downtown. WTF is the point of your post?
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