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Making a separate thread for the giving drive this year! The drive starts today and will last until 12/12 at 10am CT. Our goal is $822 – $6 for each Avocado participating in Giftmas. The top three vote-getting charities this … Continue reading The Charitable Spirit of Sixthmas
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Couple of guidelines for this thread: EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Even if your gift is going to be late or you didn’t participate in the exchange at all, join us for some holiday/anniversary fun! We have a separate post for asking … Continue reading MERRY SIXTHMAS EVERYONE!
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Kappa gave me the go-ahead to take over from him on overseeing this, time to get a-crackin’!But first some organisation, here’s the rough plan: Topic leaders posting their threads for nominations and categories starting next week: Movies on 7th December … Continue reading 2021 Pits – Preppin’ for Pits
Nope, no close calls here. Unlike Cher and Sade Battle Royale, these were all pretty much blowouts, and Cher this time couldn’t turn back time. She was almost halved by Bjork, 29 – 16. Kermit did the same thing to … Continue reading Favorite Mononymous Famous Person – The Final Four
Here are the contestants for day one of the Professors Tournament: Gary, a chemistry professor at Roanoke College, challenges students to figure out who died; Gautam, an associate clinical professor of law at Vanderbilt Law, answers questions with questions; and … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Dec. 6 – Professors Tournament day one
Michael Urie drags his roommate, Philemon Chambers, from L.A. to New Hampshire for the holidays. Urie’s insufferable family wants them coupled. They will play dirty tricks to ensure it. Single All the Way shows the limits of shoehorning LGBTQ+ folks … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Single All the Way (2021)
Pictured: A whitewashed fence and a whitewashed movie. Hey everyone. Your friendly neighborhood Bones here. Hope you’ve had a good weekend. What games are you playing? What do you think of them? And a question: Reboots. They’re a vital part of … Continue reading Weekly Games Thread Just Reboots It
Welcome to Guy Talk, a serious space to discuss masculinity, good and bad. This week’s discussion prompt is “reproductive health“. There are many different subjects we could cover – how patriarchal attitudes affect the use and discussion of contraception, men’s … Continue reading Guy Talk: Men and Reproductive Health
You are now entering Ad Space, a realm of commercials, brought before us so we might examine how they work, and discuss why we both love and hate them so. So it is written … The Product:Loblaws supermarkets The Promotion: The … Continue reading Ad Space – Shatner and the Great Big Penguin
We talk about them often enough in the Open Threads, I figured it was time for a dedicated discussion space! Whether it’s a thought-provoking video essay, an appetizing recipe, a bewildering shitpost, or anything else, if it’s a video Of … Continue reading Weekly YouTube Thread (12/6)
I’m on record as a Scrooge, especially when it comes to Christmas music. Here is where I confess my hypocrisy. One of my family’s most hallowed traditions is listening to absolute garbage Christmas music. Every year while I was growing … Continue reading The Day Thread Ate The Tinsel On The Christmas Tree
Every week, we’ll be looking at 1 or two records from The Wire’s “100 Records That Set the World On Fire (While No One Was Listening)” list, originally published in the The Wire 175 (September 1998). You can find the … Continue reading 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)
Tumbleweeds was an American comic strip that offered a skewed perspective on life on the American frontier. Writer-artist Tom K. Ryan (June 6, 1926 – March 12, 2019) (who signed the strip “T.K. Ryan”) was very familiar with conventions of … Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Mon 12/6/2021)
Tell us about your shenanigans. What did you do this weekend? Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?
Welcome back to your monthly report of game news, where I do my best to compile everything into one convenient ad-free place, so you don’t have to worry about the pesky cracks that info can fall through at other publications! … Continue reading Game News Roundup: November 2021
This challenge was produced with the help of Mr. Ixolite for the prompts! With the month of December here, that tends to mean a lot of family gatherings or time with friends where it’s definitely easy to pull out a board … Continue reading 30 Day Board Games & More Challenge Day 6: Best Quiz Night Games
Quiz Type: Forced Order Quiz Note: This quiz was a Sporcleversary present for 3vilFish88 ! Can the first person here each day create a Results thread so it’s always first when sorted by Oldest? Or visit the quiz here. Sunday: MiscellaneousMonday: LiteratureTuesday: … Continue reading Triviacados: Monday, December 6, 2021
Bob Dole, longtime public servant and WWII veteran, dies Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, who will be remembered for the tenacity that defined his career and his work on behalf of fellow military veterans, died in his sleep Sunday morning. … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Embellished by an Occasional Saxophone Solo
In the talk about “queens” of music — Dolly, Beyonce, Aretha, etc. — Reba McEntire is often left out. But she’s OGOAT (one of the greatest of all time)! She sings the greatest feminist country ballad of all time (I … Continue reading The Reba McEntire Night Thread (12/5/21)
Ex-pastor Jake “J-Dawg” Jackson (or was his surname Johnson? It doesn’t matter; we’re all new people up north) surveys the scene while his partner kneels down over the corpse. “Are you telling me this was our…” “Yeah, T. She was … Continue reading CSI: North Pole – Day 2
Written by: Bill OdenkirkDirected by: Wes ArcherDN’s Ranking: Bad / NONESSENTIAL / Essential This is my favourite of the Amy-focused episodes, which is pretty reflective of how the show treated her in general because it has so many crucial things … Continue reading Futurama, Season Four, Episode One, “Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch”
The post-Thanksgiving weekend isn’t one expected to have a lot going on as there wasn’t anything new that was going big and wide. What we get is largely a repeat of before with Encanto in the top spot followed by Ghosbusters: Afterlife making … Continue reading Encanto Wins Another Box Office With The December 3rd – 5th Weekend Results
When Arrow debuted back in 2012, I doubt anyone foresaw the massive franchise that would grow out of it. To date it’s launched three spinoffs (The Flash, Batwoman, and Legends of Tomorrow), had three more shows retroactively added to its … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – Jefferson Saves Barry (& Beebo Saves Christmas)
