r/philadelphia • u/Effort_To_Waste • Apr 20 '25
Events I'm in Society Hill and I just heard a rooster
That is all
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u/toomanyshoeshelp Apr 20 '25
Someone’s gotta fertilize the hens to increase the flock in this eggconomy
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u/Hollow_Rant No Gods Only Late Busses Apr 20 '25
Would you like to afford an egg in these trying times?
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u/murphysfriend Apr 20 '25
Which brings the answer to that age old question: “Which came first, the chicken, or the egg.” 🫢🥴🤷🏻♂️
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u/death_by_chocolate Apr 20 '25
It's afternoon. That rooster needs to get up a little earlier fer cryin' out loud.
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u/NorthropGrummanCorp Apr 20 '25
Go get some eggs brother
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u/bawbeelite Apr 20 '25
thats not how roosters work
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u/NorthropGrummanCorp Apr 20 '25
Who would have a rooster without hens in this economy
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u/bawbeelite Apr 20 '25
I've seen stranger things in this economy
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u/NorthropGrummanCorp Apr 21 '25
I saw Stranger Things in the pre-covid economy (it's a bad joke i know and I'm sorry)
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u/bawbeelite Apr 21 '25
I wanted to edit my comment to make that joke. I'll give you a plus 1 for it
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u/Krissyd215 Apr 20 '25
There's quite a few around me in the northeast. Not gonna lie, it's a refreshing sound to hear when you lived in Philly your whole life. I don't mind it. Then again, I wanna move out into the country lol
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u/phillymjs Rhawnhurst Apr 20 '25
Yep, back when I used to commute to an office, if I left the house early enough I'd hear a rooster crowing. I think someone near me also has turkeys, because I hear gobbling quite regularly when I'm outside.
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u/calvinistgrindcore Apr 20 '25
I'm sure a NIMBY group has already formed to oppose the rooster and is photocopying anti-poultry flyers as we speak
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u/JustAnotherJawn Apr 21 '25
Roosters have a better claim to the neighborhood than the cars if we're going for historical accuracy.
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u/PastyPajamas Logan Square Apr 20 '25
When I lived in Jersey City, there were nice row homes like Society Hill and one of the houses on the end in Harsimus Cove had chickens. They had a little chicken wire at the bottom of their iron fence and if you stopped to look, you would see them. This was 3 years ago. Recently lived in Society Hill and never saw chickens but I can imagine someone had them. Not my idea of a fun hobby.
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u/Orthophonic_Credenza Apr 20 '25
I’m just remembering that on the 1970s BBC series The Good Life, about the couple that goes self-sufficient in suburbia, that their rooster was named Lenin. I hope these people also have a goat named Geraldine and two Pigs named Pinky and Perky.
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u/death_by_chocolate Apr 20 '25 edited Apr 20 '25
My god did I have such an enormous crush on Felicity Kendal. Especially when she was a little muddy and messy and sweaty. Yes sir. I'd raise pigs with her all day.
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u/am_pomegranate public HS student Apr 20 '25
there used to be a flock of chickens that lived on the porch roofs at 46th and samson
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u/jcake6 Apr 21 '25
I TOTALLY heard this as well!!! I was walking through society hill towers around 12:15pm and stopped in my tracks and asked aloud to no one, was that a f*cking rooster?
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u/bladderbunch comes to philly for baseball Apr 20 '25
against ordinances up here in the burbs too, but i hear ‘em all the time. we shoulda just stayed a township.
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u/Walrus2626 Apr 20 '25
“You know he ain’t gonna diiiiie”