/3 Meanwhile we are cheerfully roasting kid3 about good news that her dorm, which was constructed in 1877, has had only one (1) attack by a bat on a student
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@kenwhite.bsky.social At the student co-op I lived in for 4 years we had a metal mesh bat net for when bats got in the house. Once someone said they could hear noises in the wall and thought it might be rats. I said no, its bats, and to not worry because bats do not try to make openings in […]
aug 26, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I'll take those odds.
aug 26, 2025, 4:02 pm • 1 0 • view
As a bat on the internet, I gotta represent: that student had it comin.
aug 26, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Better book the kid in for a long painful series of rabies shots just to be on the safe side.
aug 26, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
...so far...that you know of.
aug 26, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Let me know if you need meal or other recommendations. Or the phone number for animal control.
aug 26, 2025, 4:00 pm • 30 0 • view
We will be in Philly for a similar reason this week, would love to hear food recs (I think we’re safe from bat attacks).
aug 26, 2025, 7:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Happy to. Give me neighborhood(s), cuisine preferences, level of formality, etc.
aug 26, 2025, 7:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Wow thank you! City Center mainly We will eat pretty much anything Not too dressy
aug 26, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
It's called Center City, FWIW. There are so many good places. Good Dog Bar for comfort food, Parc for classic (and large) French bistro with the best bread basket there is, our Chinatown has many great options, South Phila has classic red gravy (and modern) Italian, there's great Mexican ...
aug 26, 2025, 7:42 pm • 12 0 • view
Thanks and thanks for the correction! I’m a Yinzer so 🤷♀️.
aug 26, 2025, 7:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Reading Terminal is tourists and locals too. My fave is Sami Somi Georgian 🇬🇪 but the bad meals there are few and far between.
aug 26, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Good Dog is a great choice, new Italian by Stephen Starr, Bonimini may be open now, Spasso is good Italian, Parc also good, Estia at Broad & Locust for Greek.
aug 26, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
The Italian Market area in South Philly and Chinatown are both fun to walk around also @spfhockeyfan.bsky.social Parc is awesome though if you like French food and is big enough it usually isn't too hard to get a table.
aug 26, 2025, 7:57 pm • 5 0 • view
Thank you!
aug 26, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Walk west down Chestnut from 15th. Pick a place. Or head south on 15th. Plenty of decent places. I prefer DelFrisco's for dinner, Continental or Marathon Grill for lunch.
aug 27, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
Pretty sure I lived in that dorm freshman year at Penn and I survived with exactly zero bat attacks (the mice were another story).
aug 27, 2025, 4:10 am • 0 0 • view
There are hotels that are cursed, and it's best to cut your losses and change hotels.
aug 26, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Only one for 148 years? That's really low
aug 26, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
“Welcome to Philly. Fuck you.”
aug 26, 2025, 6:15 pm • 31 1 • view
You need to visit Philly on a night when they win a sports championship.
aug 26, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Now hold on, we can make that more accurate. “Welcome to Philly, the city of brotherly love. Fuck you.”
aug 26, 2025, 6:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Sounds like The Proper Philly Greeting.
aug 26, 2025, 6:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Kid3 should have chosen Colby, or Bowdoin. www.pressherald.com/2025/08/22/m...
aug 26, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I went to GA Tech downtown Atlanta in early 70s. Incoming frosh chose the Techwood dorm - as did I - because it was a symbol of pride. Built by the WPA coming out fo The Depression it sas pretty dilapidated, but the banging steam pipes in the winter were worth it.
aug 27, 2025, 11:58 am • 0 0 • view
That seems like either a very low or very high number of bat attacks.
aug 26, 2025, 3:56 pm • 15 0 • view
To figure it out, to you really need to know the bats per captia of the dorm.
aug 26, 2025, 4:01 pm • 16 0 • view
Bat attacks are up infinity percent over prior bat attacks
aug 26, 2025, 4:02 pm • 28 0 • view
"over 1,000%" gets you to the same result and sounds more believable.
aug 26, 2025, 8:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Hey at least we still have bats.
aug 26, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
…so far
aug 26, 2025, 3:59 pm • 17 0 • view
Isn't that right, Master Bruce?
aug 26, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
@kenwhite.bsky.social My alma mater Lehigh has a dorm named "Drinker"
aug 26, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
One *documented* attack.
aug 26, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
This pic & your context are a distinct combination of operatic, awful, & delightful. Thank you.
aug 26, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
"Don't worry, sweetheart... If you feel a little tickle in your throat, that's just the asbestos."
aug 26, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, at least you two aren't related to SO who graduated from Swarthmore!
aug 26, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
“Attacked by a cat?” “No, a bat. It’s all due to a trauma I suffered as a sbhoolboy” ~ Eric Idle -- the man who couldn’t say the letter C. “Can you say the letter K?” “Oh yes; Kipling, kettle, Kings Bollege Bambridge . . .” 1/2
aug 26, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
“Then why don’t you substitute the letter C for the letter K?” “Oh yeah . . . what a silly bunt!” 2/2
aug 26, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
i went to UT Austin, a city that has a proud love of its bat population, and where my fav professor met his wife bc their shared TA hallway was full of bats, and genuinely had to be like "only one? thats totally fine" before remembering the usual amount of bats in a college is 0.
aug 26, 2025, 6:40 pm • 0 0 • view
what im saying is, there is always somewhere more worrying. there could be more "dont touch the bat" posters. this is truly good news for kid
aug 26, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
No one reported the tarantula attack?
aug 26, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Reminds me of the time a bat got loose in the fourth floor hallway of our 1800s-era dorm and I got to see the priceless reactions of Division I football players to a small flying rodent.
aug 26, 2025, 4:04 pm • 12 0 • view
Probably about the same as a bunch of firefighter cadets seeing film of an actual childbirth. (From my own experience.)
aug 27, 2025, 3:25 am • 0 0 • view
Good times!😉
aug 26, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Baseball or flying mammal?
aug 26, 2025, 5:43 pm • 1 0 • view
yet dozens of attacks by students on bats, go Philly
aug 26, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
hmmm, stomach shots...
aug 26, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
She better brush up on her chiropterology!
aug 26, 2025, 5:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Please please please have a cheesesteak and report back so i can live vicariously
aug 26, 2025, 4:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Just not Genos or Pat's though, okay? Those are for tourists
aug 26, 2025, 4:12 pm • 2 0 • view
John's Roast Pork 4 life
aug 26, 2025, 4:16 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm from Roxborough, so I'm a Barry's Steaks girl lol
aug 26, 2025, 4:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Dalessandro’s is better 😊
aug 26, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh, i love them, too!
aug 26, 2025, 9:24 pm • 1 0 • view
LOL--but how many people have been required to have the vaccine when they are unsure about whether there is a bite--that's the thing to watch out for. Be confident if kid3 isn't bitten to say that or they will give it to you.
aug 26, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 3:58 pm • 5 0 • view
The goodness of the news is directly proportional to how long ago it happened. 1 bat attack in 1890? cool. 1 bat attack last Sunday? Um, wait...
aug 26, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Friends went to Swarthmore, and while back then men were not allowed in women's dorms after some curfew time, the dorm was such a firetrap that that rule didn't apply during fire drills, just so nobody would get caught in a real fire. They also kept a climbing rope attached to their radiator.
aug 26, 2025, 4:19 pm • 4 0 • view
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Is this Bryn Mawr? As an alum, it sounds very Mawrian...
aug 26, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 3:57 pm • 1 0 • view
I have two separate bat stories from my summer as a custodial supervisor in a gothic revival dorm
aug 26, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds like they're overdue.
aug 26, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Am guessing you’re at the Inn on Sansom? White Dog Cafe is worth a meal. And I hope she loves Philly - it’s a special place. (Oh, and go Birds.)
aug 26, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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This happened to me in a stairwell in my very old, very posh dorm. Another student an I just kept screaming, which disoriented the bat and made it randomly dive around, often towards our heads, causing us to scream more. Ah, memories.
aug 26, 2025, 11:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Hey! We had a bat incident in my dorm at Penn State main campus, way back in 1985. The dorm was built in 1938 - I think bats may be a PA thing, not an old dorm thing....
aug 26, 2025, 4:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Is a rabies vaccination included with dorm fees?
aug 26, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Tell her if she sees a bat, to throw a cheesesteak at it.
aug 26, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
ABAB
aug 26, 2025, 4:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Day ain’t over.
aug 26, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Was it Stephen Miller (not the student)
aug 26, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
One DOCUMENTED attack by a bat on a student.
aug 26, 2025, 5:33 pm • 3 0 • view
It's extremely unlikely that any of the other animal attacks in this dorm were caused by bats, as the bite marks were far too large. Probably just bears.
aug 26, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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There are several dorms at my kid's college in middle Ohio that would love to have that record for bat attacks. And they are all at least 30 years newer than 1877
aug 26, 2025, 4:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I thought The Bat was a gotham syndrome
aug 26, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view
The City Hall Tower tour is highly recommended as is the Barnes Museum. I miss Philly, but not nearly enough to move back.
aug 26, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Baseball or flying mammal?
aug 26, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view