Biggest difference is that indoor tracks are typically 200m vs an outdoor 400m. Tighter turns make things just a little more difficult, hence the slower times.

Tens of thousands is a ridiculous under-estimate. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross estimated there were 50,000 to 100,000 in Center City after the Super Bowl win. I was hearing people everywhere chanting “Big Dick Nick”, so your guess is probably off by an order of magnitude.

I never knew about the Blue Comet even though I grew up a few miles down 309. Sounds like a solid spot. Then again, I moved away before I turned 21, so I was always at the Glenside Pub cuz I thought their food was pretty good and I wasn’t out to drink. Ohhhhhh nostalgia!

I have a coworker who says “bio-break” and it always weirds me out. Just saying you need to go to the bathroom, use the restroom, go to the men’s room, or fuck it, just say “I need to be excused for a minute”.

But that strategy had the Paul Anka guarantee!

If you can pull it off, get some guayaberas too. Those things are ridiculously versatile.

Once when my brother visited, as we waited to pay to get on a streetcar (not bus - we still have actual streetcars / trolleys) with the aforementioned tokens, two kids on horses rode by. My brother was like “what century is this city in?”

Actually, they just stopped selling tokens in stations. They’re stopping them altogether in 2019. So, come on, we’re only like 20 years or so behind normalcy.

A lot of beat writers get paid better (a lot better in some cases) than your average reporter. I would think that this would definitely help some of those beat writers get paid even better, and some of them assuredly deserve that, but it could also pull desperately needed readers / subscribers away from their previous…

Yeah. I get annoyed anytime people tell me they don’t get the flu shot and one of the arguments I present to them is herd immunity. Even if you believe you have a strong immunity and the vaccine is only 10% effective that year, if everyone gets it, then the immuno-suppressed, etc. (and the stupid people who don’t get…

I had a roommate in college who worked at Little Caesar’s. I’ll agree that stuff is garbage, but it tastes so good when your roommate brings it home when you’re drunk AND it’s free!

Wow. A reasonably well thought out comment about the NFL AND a Silmarillion reference all in one? Didn’t think I’d be seeing that today.

I live a few blocks from Bonnie’s. Next time I’m there, I’m keeping my eyes open for a drunk guy with a cup of chicken soup. Not sure if I’ll say hi or just observe like an inquisitive sociologist.

But the cancer comes with a free Frogurt!

I know Philly isn’t the greatest place in the world, but if you’ve only been to the neighborhood around LaSalle and the area around the stadiums, you’ve only been to two locations that are definitely on the shitty end of the rankings. Hell, I live in Philly and I wouldn’t willingly hang around LaSalle.

I just was sent to St Louis (ugh) for work recently and saw a Container Store for the very first time. If I’m sent back, I might actually check it out just cuz of the curiosity factor of what this place is like. I’ll let you know how much I regret my decision.

I stopped in the Trader Joe’s in Center City Philly once cuz they have a very particular snack that my girlfriend is all about and holy shit that place was pandemonium. I biked, so luckily I didn’t need to fight for a parking spot (why is everyone driving to a TJ’s in Center City?), but the line for the registers went…

I think 4:30 is a great time to take some bets cuz yeah, it’s attainable for a huge amount of high school runners, but at the same time, Lebron doesn’t seem like he has the physique to run 4:30. I know guys that were pretty decent 400m runners, but as soon as you made them run anything beyond 800m, you’d think you…

4:30 for the mile isn’t even that exceptional of a time for a high school track runner. 4:30 wouldn’t even qualify you for the state meet in Pennsylvania in the 1600m for AA (the smaller of the two divisions). I’m genuinely curious where you found this conclusion cuz almost anyone I know that ran in college could run…

Actually, the island is only 40 miles across north-south (and a little over 100 miles east-west). I’m guessing he found out he was within 100 miles of actual suffering and then booked it, which explains why he ended his tour an hour early.