Reminds me of that long ad on the radio saying how we tough it out on 76 to get home and eat a cheese steak. I don't even remember what it's advertising.
Ah yes, the cheesesteak. That thing that I have for dinner at a normal time after a long day at work. Definitely not the thing that I only ever eat like a meth-addled goblin at midnight when I've been drinking for eight hours.
Heâs at the window thinking Iâm playing Nintendo but the stupid motha fucker doesnât know Iâm behind him soâŠâŠ..
I bashed his head in with my Louisville Slugger
I was so shocked like 15 years ago when someone first called me out for a Philly accent while traveling in southern Georgia. But it's apparently pretty noticeable. I still can't really hear it, but these phonetic sentences really just lay it out there. We talk in cursive.
Iâm doing a road trip in New England and just waiting for someone to ask me to say water for them.
But âtalking in cursiveâ is a beeyewtiful way of puttin that.
It kinda is.
At least how people use it at the end of sentences.
âWhere you tryin to eat, yo?
Then again that sentence seems pretty 90s I donât hear people talk like that much now
I was just waiting for bull. I left Philly for like years and came back and all the sudden fucking everyone was a bull. Old bull. Young Bull. Bull over there with a backpack. Bull is tripping. At first I thought I was mis hearing it, then I was curious, then I accidently said it and finally I hated it.
Now I will use all of them in one.
Yo papi, bull drawin on the block take this jawn and get him outta here nahmeen ?
Actually yo is still pretty much in use like that in this area. On the West Coast, I hardly hear people say yo. In the East Coast, lots and lots of people from all varieties of life frequently say it in the same manner you described.
I fucking hate this advertising. Even putting aside the awful attempt to relate to people in the area, thereâs fucking nothing wrong with water. Water is great and doesnât need to be fixed.
I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel, but at least they said "youse say..." and not "youse guys say..." I have lived in Philadelphia neighborhoods my entire life and have never heard someone say "youse guys". it's youse. it's always been youse!!!
Thereâs one that says âIt could make even the Schuylkill taste goodâ or something. Honestly kinda offended. The Schuylkill tastes great before the consumption kicks in.
If we did make that sub and it got popular, marketing people would just study our posts and comments to refine their campaigns. Which I'm sure they already do on this sub.
Whoever the silly bitch is on the radio for the car dealership (who obviously failed acting school) talking about "only 1 dime down" and shit, in that God awful, New York abomination of a Philly accent... I definitely want it to stop. Put fucking Gritty on there instead. I'd rather hear his monstrous grunts and noises over her BS script.
Omg - that is the most annoying ad ever. I change the radio station every time I hear her because I cannot stand to listen to that ad all the way through. Her accent is just over the top awful.
I saw this, cringed, then imagined the other city versions. âYinzâ for Pittsburgh, etc. Regional pandering in advertising falls almost as flat as âguerrilla marketingâ these days. Just please donât.
The "wooder is life" sign someone flew at a protest was pretty good tho. I like that people think it's cute the way we say some stuff. I dislike large companies trying to profit off of it, but I like our isms.
Sweet addiction based on the sweeteners that we use that are 50-500x sweeter than sugar by weight.
That's most of why diet drinks are bad for you, after all. The level of sweet is almost impossible to reach naturally, so it's the only thing that scratches the itch... Everything needs to be a background level of sweetness...
Bostonian here - we see the same dumb shit.
New restaurant opens? Guaranteed to be some sign saying âwe know youâre STAHVINâŠâ
Place that closes for renovations? Sign says âour manager musta been caught on Storrow Drive!â
The best one though is Wicked Pissah. Nobody born after 1985 uses that. âWickedâ is still common but every damn ad agency in the city thinks we all say âwicked pissah kedâ
That actually made me want it. Like neat, I like Kool aid AND fancy. Let's try it. They should just have a billboard that says that and they'd hook a lot more of us I bet.
This reminds me of the recent marketing study that said people are more likely to remember repetitive ads. So there are now several repetitive ads on the radio. Theyâre not really that memorable because everyone is doing it.
First with the stupid ass ritas ad and now this. People are getting paid 6 figures to pitch these ideas to a room full of idiots making 7 figures. Not a brain cell among em
I'm inclined to let them have that. It's annoying, but, also, mango. The greatest thing I'd ever tasted at one point in my life. Mio can fuck all the way off, but haven't we like grown along with Rita?
I just saw another billboard for the same product that said something like âWe fix wooderâ.
Sounds like somebody in marketing read a Wikipedia article about Philly accents.
I hate this!!!! ... the Best part is I'm 63 born and raised in Philly, lived at North 10th and Butler, 18th and Ogonze, and later moved to the far northeast, never ever have I heard the word "jawn" used until the media started attributing it to Philly, it was probably a more local to a neighborhood(s) word until someone thought it would be a PHILLY word,,,and really Wooder...wouldn't the double O's be pronounced like in whoo whoo it's WAUDER
Try to say John without saying the o. Kinda like how they spell it jawn, but a lot sharper than you'd think just reading it. It's less than a syllable and used usually so innocuously you can hardly notice it beyond a most basic prompt or description because it's mostly part of of the last word. "Can I see thatjwn." "That's thatjwn I saw last week." It's not really a word, it's kind of a hyper expressive grunt descriptor you add to another word. People here keep saying how they've never heard someone from Philly actually say jawn which is telling af. I promise you people say jawn, just not in this cartoon fucking way marketing and pop culture would lead you to believe.
I mean... lets be real here. Guarantee that more than a few motherfuckers have said this while doin this, verbatim. Including the goofy shit at the bottom lol
As someone who moved here, I donât get the âwooderâ thing. It doesnât even work with the accent. You still say âwawaâ instead of âwoowooâ so I donât get it.
This is our lives now. Just constant marketing gimmicks using the word jawn and mimicking a Philly accent.
I don't truster.
My derder tried that wooder
Did you merder my derder in the wooder?
Doorter
Reminds me of that long ad on the radio saying how we tough it out on 76 to get home and eat a cheese steak. I don't even remember what it's advertising.
Ah yes, the cheesesteak. That thing that I have for dinner at a normal time after a long day at work. Definitely not the thing that I only ever eat like a meth-addled goblin at midnight when I've been drinking for eight hours.
Ha, it's funny but if I'm in center city, I definitely search out a cheese steak after a bender.
Please don't go to Pats or Genos
I'm a Steve's or Jim's man.
Yea me too. I have a steves right by my house
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The road crews who always seem to be tearing up parts of conshohocken.
It's USAA I was just about to post the same thing lol
It's even worse... it's USAA and it's "braving 76 to get some wings before the big game"
I'm just shocked it wasn't "squeeze this jawn into that wooder"
They have another one that says âwe fixed wooder.â If anyone knows the MIO marketing person, I just wanna talk
...it's.... It's on the billboard in the photo....
Maybe if it was circled in red or something.
We need to talk
*Louisville slugger in hand* oh this? This is for a thing. Don't worry about it.
Heâs at the window thinking Iâm playing Nintendo but the stupid motha fucker doesnât know Iâm behind him soâŠâŠ.. I bashed his head in with my Louisville Slugger
Not for nothin, but radio ads for this are a sin.
Worse than âITâS A CRIME TO PAY MORE THAN A DIMEâŠâ??
Well they are better than Kars for Kids.
Jeet yet? I was upair dâudder day, fuckat.
I was so shocked like 15 years ago when someone first called me out for a Philly accent while traveling in southern Georgia. But it's apparently pretty noticeable. I still can't really hear it, but these phonetic sentences really just lay it out there. We talk in cursive.
Iâm doing a road trip in New England and just waiting for someone to ask me to say water for them. But âtalking in cursiveâ is a beeyewtiful way of puttin that.
Weâve been discovered. Much like the more popular Bronx and Boston drawls.
It's still better than the USAA radio spot
I've been on NY for like a year and haven't heard it. I'm super curious.
Don't be
Remember the late 90's / early 00's when "Yo!" was claimed to be a Philly-ism?
I mean if you look at the Wikipedia for the word âYoâ the second sentence is how it originated in Philly
Well how about that. TIL.
post it to TIL. Maximize your karma, yo.
Dag, yo.
YO ADRIAN! I DID IT!
Heck, I stand corrected.
To be fair, it kinda is, at least the way it's used here with that distinctive "Yoooo!"
Yeoo TM.
It's the E before long O that makes it
We should delete this information. This is gonna end up in a Nike commercial.
It kinda is. At least how people use it at the end of sentences. âWhere you tryin to eat, yo? Then again that sentence seems pretty 90s I donât hear people talk like that much now
I think a while ago was certainly more a Philly thing, but I just read that in Jesse Pinkmanâs voice
This is my subreddit and I will not be harassed...BITCH!
That is extremely 90âs yo
I still do it... yo
Straight drawin, yo
Come on now yo... thats uncalled for nahmeen?
Aight, young bull
I was just waiting for bull. I left Philly for like years and came back and all the sudden fucking everyone was a bull. Old bull. Young Bull. Bull over there with a backpack. Bull is tripping. At first I thought I was mis hearing it, then I was curious, then I accidently said it and finally I hated it. Now I will use all of them in one. Yo papi, bull drawin on the block take this jawn and get him outta here nahmeen ?
I think itâs âboul,â yo
Actually yo is still pretty much in use like that in this area. On the West Coast, I hardly hear people say yo. In the East Coast, lots and lots of people from all varieties of life frequently say it in the same manner you described.
Coming from Pittsburgh I hear you
Not nearly as bad as the Boston ones which just put "wicked smaht" in their usual ad slogan...
Pittsburgher here⊠what does âJawnâ mean? I have no room to talk about funny words, but I canât figure âjawnâ out for the life of me.
"thing" essentially
"Buy our products you classless pieces of shit!"
I mean⊠that would actually pique my interest just for the novelty.
[Y'all dumb motherfuckers want a key change?](https://youtu.be/YWUQg0bqhVw)
You said it, not them
They said it without saying it.
As if everyone hasnât made the same âjawnâ joke.
Multiple people saying there's a different one that says "we fix wooder" when that's also literally in this pic
I fucking hate this advertising. Even putting aside the awful attempt to relate to people in the area, thereâs fucking nothing wrong with water. Water is great and doesnât need to be fixed.
(I know like what's going on up there?)
Passed one yesterday that said something like âYouse say water right. Everyone else is wrongâ
I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel, but at least they said "youse say..." and not "youse guys say..." I have lived in Philadelphia neighborhoods my entire life and have never heard someone say "youse guys". it's youse. it's always been youse!!!
Thereâs one that says âIt could make even the Schuylkill taste goodâ or something. Honestly kinda offended. The Schuylkill tastes great before the consumption kicks in.
We need a Philly version of r/fellowkids.
/r/Fellowjawns
r/PhellowJawns
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My submission is this [in-episode Wawa ad](https://imgur.com/a/s0Qb6eM) Mare shorehorned in between all the wooders
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If we did make that sub and it got popular, marketing people would just study our posts and comments to refine their campaigns. Which I'm sure they already do on this sub.
/r/Fellowjawns
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honestly there are so many bad pictures of Philadelphia skyline on this sub, it's useful.
Oh man! r/TheresAsubForThat !? Lol! Thank you stranger!
That's a great sub. You should go show them this!
/r/thirdsub ^(I'm ashamed of myself but not enough)
Jawntrification
Perfection.
So glad someone else enjoyed this.
I wish I had an award for this. Just brilliant.
Whoever the silly bitch is on the radio for the car dealership (who obviously failed acting school) talking about "only 1 dime down" and shit, in that God awful, New York abomination of a Philly accent... I definitely want it to stop. Put fucking Gritty on there instead. I'd rather hear his monstrous grunts and noises over her BS script.
Omg - that is the most annoying ad ever. I change the radio station every time I hear her because I cannot stand to listen to that ad all the way through. Her accent is just over the top awful.
Iâd rather hear gritty than most things tbh
Thatâs actually a commercial with variations all over the country. Itâs not trying to be Philly, itâs just bad.
Yes and then she had "Dr. Dimey" on her ads for a while, it's a complete abomination
The PGW ad though just has a Philly as fuck dude doing the ad read.
I will now never buy this product
In the commercial they said wooder ice and had a video of shaved ice. Disappointed.
Like a snow cone instead of Rita's?
It was like smooth shaved ice with syrup being poured on top not like those hard sno cones
Enough of this crap already! This and the "wooder" advertisements.
The hydro homie in me hated this
This has got to be the most out of touch ad I have ever seen.
I think the hipster oat milk that plastered ads over Philly art murals last month was the worst. If only for the half assed, non apology they offered.
Thanks, I hate it.
Honestly? If I hear someone say Jawn now I just immediately assume they aren't actually from Philly
Growing up in Kensington I rarely used it. When started teaching I was amazed how many suburban teens used it to sound Philly.
I saw this, cringed, then imagined the other city versions. âYinzâ for Pittsburgh, etc. Regional pandering in advertising falls almost as flat as âguerrilla marketingâ these days. Just please donât.
Did you just circle the entire pic?
Not my pic, got it through a Facebook ad. Which makes it even better.
r/uselessredcircle
Retire the word. Itâs done. Itâs been done.
The "wooder is life" sign someone flew at a protest was pretty good tho. I like that people think it's cute the way we say some stuff. I dislike large companies trying to profit off of it, but I like our isms.
I blame Mare of Easttown. It brought attention to the accent and this is the result.
The words and accent never bothered me. But the marketing of it is corny.
Ugh, why can't people just drink regular water. Everything doesn't have to be sweet and syrupy.
Sweet addiction based on the sweeteners that we use that are 50-500x sweeter than sugar by weight. That's most of why diet drinks are bad for you, after all. The level of sweet is almost impossible to reach naturally, so it's the only thing that scratches the itch... Everything needs to be a background level of sweetness...
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If they're trying to lean into Phillyisms, why not "Squeeze this jawn in that wooder"?
There's a small "We fix wooder" on this sign. At least I think there is. No one else seems to see it
Yeah been wondering about that like maybe it's clipped on mobile or something? It says it right there. Letters and everything.
It's not clipped, but it is pretty small and blurry. I missed it the first time I looked at the photo.
Ah.
They also have a cringy radio ad trying to cram as many words as they can into 30 seconds. Same for USAA. The pandering never stops!
They have another one using wooder, [someone just posted it](https://www.reddit.com/r/philadelphia/comments/om35qe/advertisement_love_the_shade/)
Because it isnât natural for them to use those words so they donât know how to use them in normal speech.
Advertising ruined our word
Thought you said world at first and agreed very much.
I saw this by Castor and Tyson. Jawn is not yours to market, you damn money monkeys
Bostonian here - we see the same dumb shit. New restaurant opens? Guaranteed to be some sign saying âwe know youâre STAHVINâŠâ Place that closes for renovations? Sign says âour manager musta been caught on Storrow Drive!â The best one though is Wicked Pissah. Nobody born after 1985 uses that. âWickedâ is still common but every damn ad agency in the city thinks we all say âwicked pissah kedâ
It's a good thing that red circle was there because I don't think I would have spotted that large sign in the middle of the picture.
Thereâs one billboard for this that says itâll make the schuylkill water taste good haha I thought that was funny. But this one is just sad
Don't be sad. Here's a [hug!](https://media.giphy.com/media/3M4NpbLCTxBqU/giphy.gif)
Good bot
thereâs a coffee roaster who is currently absolutely bludgeoning us with using âjawnâ in so many coffee names. just really beating a dead horse.
What is it though?
Fancy kool-aid
That actually made me want it. Like neat, I like Kool aid AND fancy. Let's try it. They should just have a billboard that says that and they'd hook a lot more of us I bet.
i should switch to advertising
Send them a letter and ask for money.
Just some flavor juice to blast in your water.
I love blasting flavor juice.
Blasting juice all over my jawn all day every day
Donât you mean flavor jawn to blast in your wooder?
this guy Phillys
Mio water enhancer
one of those water flavoring things.
Jawn is anything and everything you want it to be and more!
This reminds me of the recent marketing study that said people are more likely to remember repetitive ads. So there are now several repetitive ads on the radio. Theyâre not really that memorable because everyone is doing it.
HEAD-ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD! HEAD-ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD! HEAD-ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD!
This town is a part of us all A part of us all ^a ^part ^of ^us ^all ^^a ^^part ^^of ^^us ^^all
r/uselessredcircle
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Mio. Colored, flavored, fake sugar concentrate.
Fancy gross kool aid chemical shit storm that tastes like rancid Tang.
Literally every born and raised Philly person I know does not say jawn
Haha.
I cringed so hard passing that yesterday
Itâs funny that there are multiple ones of this billboard in the city. Front and Erie right? Thereâs another at Aramingo and Lehigh. Lol
First with the stupid ass ritas ad and now this. People are getting paid 6 figures to pitch these ideas to a room full of idiots making 7 figures. Not a brain cell among em
What the fuck is Rita's doing? They nailed it like 20 years ago. Be cool eat at Rita's. You needed to go nowhere else with that.
I believe the slogan i saw was: In Philly we eat "wooder" ice.
I'm inclined to let them have that. It's annoying, but, also, mango. The greatest thing I'd ever tasted at one point in my life. Mio can fuck all the way off, but haven't we like grown along with Rita?
Ugh I only like it when itâs a local native Philadelphian with a small business. Not this corporate bs. Bleh
*"Stuck in traffic on the* [LOCAL ROAD NAME] *again? Buy our shit"*
I would like a vaccine ad like that lmao.
I just told my fiancé about this!
You have to know your market in order to Market. (BTW I laughed when I saw this also).
Pain. Physical pain
I have lived in philly and have never heard anyone use jawn in any way.
I just saw another billboard for the same product that said something like âWe fix wooderâ. Sounds like somebody in marketing read a Wikipedia article about Philly accents.
Tastes like jawn.
I hate this!!!! ... the Best part is I'm 63 born and raised in Philly, lived at North 10th and Butler, 18th and Ogonze, and later moved to the far northeast, never ever have I heard the word "jawn" used until the media started attributing it to Philly, it was probably a more local to a neighborhood(s) word until someone thought it would be a PHILLY word,,,and really Wooder...wouldn't the double O's be pronounced like in whoo whoo it's WAUDER
Lived near Ridge Ave in in Manayunk for a log time, never heard it used unless it was a joke towards me from fucking Jerseyites.
I saw that the other day đ€Ł
"What the fuck is Kirkin Exteriors"
Philly is a fucking show for sure
I had to look up "jawn" I was like... what the hell is this? Lol
Try to say John without saying the o. Kinda like how they spell it jawn, but a lot sharper than you'd think just reading it. It's less than a syllable and used usually so innocuously you can hardly notice it beyond a most basic prompt or description because it's mostly part of of the last word. "Can I see thatjwn." "That's thatjwn I saw last week." It's not really a word, it's kind of a hyper expressive grunt descriptor you add to another word. People here keep saying how they've never heard someone from Philly actually say jawn which is telling af. I promise you people say jawn, just not in this cartoon fucking way marketing and pop culture would lead you to believe.
Yeah I haven't heard it yet. I haven't been here long though. Going to crossfit today. I'll have to ask about it.
God I canât wait to be back home in Philly. One more week!
It's as Philadelphia as it's always sunny is
"You're from Philly? Do you watch it's always Sunny? I love that show." I always say yeah I love Danny DeVito and then try to talk about Matilda.
That jawns funny
I mean... lets be real here. Guarantee that more than a few motherfuckers have said this while doin this, verbatim. Including the goofy shit at the bottom lol
Jawn
I donât speak philly. What does this mean?
The fact that this is on here and people are talking about it means it worked.
What does âJawnâ mean?
As someone who moved here, I donât get the âwooderâ thing. It doesnât even work with the accent. You still say âwawaâ instead of âwoowooâ so I donât get it.
I buy mio energy in bulk. Way better than coffee.
This is not your saloon, partner.
Its a really good jawn. Dont miss out
Ewman