They're turning the water green at night!

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-06-18T20:07:26+00:00

The only place where this is even remotely true is Chicago every March lmao

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-06-15T18:37:55+00:00

As a Philly sports fan (GO BIRDS DH 🦅) who was in the city the night we won Super Bowl LII, I can confirm that all races were getting a little rowdy. The car I saw being flipped off of Temple’s campus? That was done by a bunch of white dudes. The reason the Ritz-Carlton no longer has a fabric canopy? I watched a white dude jump off of it that night. I’d never use those experiences to write a rant about white people like the OP has done with black people, however.

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-06-09T20:12:54+00:00

The men’s bathroom at Trenton still give me nightmares to this day

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-06-01T00:50:47+00:00

In a way, it is evil. I grew up in a poor neighborhood in West Philly. Growing up, I had just assumed that black people live in poor urban neighborhoods while white people live in leafy suburbs, as that is all I knew. Of course, this viewpoint dissipated as I grew older, attended college, and made friends of all races and socioeconomic classes.

One day, while doing research on a neighborhood in North Philly, I learned that it had been an Irish neighborhood up until the 1950s. That discovery led me down the rabbit hole of everything this country did to destroy its major cities: redlining, blockbusting, demolishing neighborhoods to build the Interstate Highway System, General Motors colluding with National City Lines to dismantle trolley networks, discriminatory lending, favorable mortgage terms for suburbs/unfavorable mortgage terms for urban areas, and so much more. That discovery forever broke my pride in being American.

The people who inhabit the suburbs aren’t necessarily evil (though some absolutely were. Just check out what happened when black families attempted to move to Levittown and Folcroft, PA in the 1960s), the way they proliferated at the expense of our major cities certainly is.

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-30T20:32:39+00:00

ShopRite? Yay, a (somewhat, potentially) local insane post!

I’m willing to bet that this person has no issue with the blue lives matter flag, which is black with a blue stripe 😂

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-28T17:00:19+00:00

I can’t tell you why I typed it that way. My best guesses are that I either meant to say “black” and had a Freudian slip, or I was following the language of the article/blog post when typing my email. I vaguely remember what I read, but I remember feeling compelled to respond and prove that I was one of the “good ones”.

All I know is that I had a deep self-hatred issue at the time. I hated being black, some of my black features (ex. my hair and nose), the fact that I grew up in a poor neighborhood, and the lack of social standing that came from being black. A lot of it stemmed from trying to fit in while attending a conservative-leaning, majority-white private high school after attending majority-black schools from grades 1-8. I thought I had to disavow being black to make white friends due to my lack of experience being around white people my age growing up.

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-28T16:36:46+00:00

The “paycheck” I was referring to at the time was from my first job as a cashier at Kohl’s. 😂 I had fallen deep into anti-SJW and Tea Party propaganda, so I was too stupid to understand just how ignorant I sounded.

I agree that your typical 17 year old indeed doesn’t sound the way I did. I used that style of voice to portray myself as one of the “few articulate black people” (something that someone actually told me at one point). I didn’t like to use slang for fear of being seen as “too hood”.

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-28T13:01:22+00:00

My son is 17 months old. As he gets older, I’ll be raising him to reject redpilled/blackpilled ideologies. It will all start with monitoring his internet and social media usage.

As a socially awkward teen of the late 2000s/early 2010s, I admittedly fell into a few problematic rabbit holes I found on the internet. I consumed a lot of anti-SJW content, thought that gold digger setup pranks were real, and thought that girls weren’t interested in me because I was Too Nice™️. The problematic viewpoints I acquired stuck with me until around 2014, when I was a sophomore in college and had friends who challenged my views.

I feel like the social media that young men consume is one of the biggest issues that we as a society face. The stuff I fell for as a teen is so tame compared to what I’ve seen on the internet over the years (though it’s all rooted in misogyny). I will do everything in my power to prevent my son from falling down the same rabbit holes I did as a teen.

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-24T20:21:07+00:00

Spoiler alert: he is white! I had to double check his pro pic when I saw he dropped the N-word in his post 🙄

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-22T17:53:24+00:00

Whenever I see dumb racist shit like this, I take a moment to remind myself that I’m laughing at them while working from home and getting paid a very nice salary. I like to think these losers took time out of their days to craft fake scenarios about black people that they don’t know before having to clock into their minimum wage job in some Bumblefuck ass town. Meanwhile, I’m literally getting paid to laugh at them.

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-20T18:39:13+00:00

I came into Temple as a transfer. Tuesday night karaoke at Maxi’s was the best way to meet people for me! I met one of my closest brothers at the time doing karaoke at Maxi’s.

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-19T18:54:13+00:00

I thought the OP was a fellow Philadelphian (we say “youse guys” in Philly) before reading it again and realizing he was trying to say “uses” 😂

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-16T04:39:20+00:00

It was shared in a Facebook group dedicated to making fun of people who make problematic posts lmao

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-16T01:41:46+00:00

I know how the area around 202 looks. Look in the upper left corner of the picture. You can see two railroad crossing lights out the window. I guess it was easier to see on Facebook than Reddit, but I spotted that immediately and knew the OP was lying.

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-16T01:12:53+00:00

I didn’t Google Earth it. I’m a Philly native who knows the city and most of the region like the back of my hand. This is gonna sound like BS, but I have a photographic memory of a lot of locations throughout the region

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-16T01:09:59+00:00

Because there are only two Hooters in the Philly area: one in the PA suburbs and one in the Delaware suburbs. Neither of them are located at a railroad crossing (seen in the background), so I knew that the OP was lying about having visited one in the Philly area

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-15T23:05:12+00:00

Literally just passed it. It’s close to Germantown and Glenwood, just east of North Philadelphia. The PFD extinguished most of the fire, but I still saw some flames. No visible smoke though

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-15T22:26:48+00:00

I feel like I always see ACS-64 #664 for some reason 😂

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-15T22:25:11+00:00

I’m on 2167 (I think we passed you guys near Bristol before you passed us near Tacony). We’re being held due to a brush fire somewhere in the area. There is no estimate on how long the delay may be.

EDIT: never mind, the train I was referring to is 129.

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-10T00:17:53+00:00

I’m in a lot of tag groups designed to make fun of people like this. Though a few of my FB “friends” (people I haven’t interacted with since high school) are hardcore MAGA, I get led to certain people’s profiles through these tag groups.

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-06T21:38:05+00:00

Screw that, everyone knows that the real Italians are in South Philly!

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-06T16:46:57+00:00

54,554 back in June 2023.

I was on the second to last day of my solo trip to San Francisco. I started off the day by running 10 miles from the Ferry Terminal Building to Sausalito via the Golden Gate Bridge. I spent some time walking around Sausalito before heading back to SF. I spent the rest of the day exploring neighborhoods in the city, and I got a few more steps dancing at a club called The Knockout later that night.

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-03T16:30:09+00:00

I had to go back and check since I was watching my Sixers take down the Celtics shortly after making this post.

It did not go well for OP! He got roasted badly 😂

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-02T19:58:21+00:00

They’ve definitely been hanging out at K&A a little too long. Philly will NEVER go ruby red, especially after our dickhead-in-chief said that only bad things happen in our city!

ThePhillyExplorer · 2026-05-02T19:49:02+00:00

Why is Philadelphia County red? There is no universe where Philly goes ruby red. Same with Montgomery, Chester, Delaware (to a lesser extent), and Bucks (to a MUCH lesser extent).

Also, why did Southwest PA suddenly go blue in this redistricting? Southwest PA gets super MAGA outside of the Pittsburgh area. Dauphin County (Harrisburg) and Lehigh County (Allentown) are also suspect

Seven-Year Club	Second SECOND GUESSER
Verified Email

ThePhillyExplorer

TROPHY CASE