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Welcome to the 3rd Annual Pits Category Nominations featuring Categories and Nominations. Sponsored by Upvotes. If you need to review any of the past categories, threads, or winners, you can check them out here. Here’s the returning categories to start … Continue reading The Pits 2018: Category Nominations
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Image by Wen Shi Greetings everyone! With Giftmas coming to a close and the end of the year fast approaching, we are bringing back our annual awards celebration, The Pits. The Kappa will soon be announcing the main part of … Continue reading The Pits: Best in Media Achievement for 2018 Announcement & Home Page
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It’s here! It’s finally here! 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! Sleffos … Continue reading MERRY GIFTMAS EVERYONE! 2018 Edition
Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Dec. 14 – Today’s contestants are: – Noah, an organic farmer from Michigan, hiked the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim; – Jackie, an attorney-writer from California, got people to pay to walk over hot coals; and – Faris, … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Dec. 14
“Let me put it this way: very few make it all the way without uttering a word. But do carry on merrily. Just don’t believe you’re going to tell me something I haven’t heard before.” I no longer understand … Continue reading Movie Reviews: The House That Jack Built (2018)
WARNING: This is a Not Safe For Work (NSFW) discussion! If you are afraid of others seeing what’s on your screen, leave now and come back later! Greetings, Avocadoans! Welcome to the second LGBTQQIA+ discussion of the week, this one … Continue reading The LGBT+ Sex & Relationships Discussion
In Love Actually/Hate Actually, Great Boos Up discusses each story in the movie and puts it on trial in an attempt to grapple with his enjoyment of the movie versus his own acknowledgement of its problems. The Defendants: John and … Continue reading Love Actually/Hate Actually #5: John/Judy
Finally, a movie that will answer the most pertinent questions: Can he swing from a thread? Is he strong? Anyway, there goes the Spider-Men! And Spider-Women. And Spider-Pigs? Welcome to the Spider-Verse, a cinematic universe full of people with spidery … Continue reading Spoil Sports: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Hey, all; Happy Friday – So, in lieu of a topic this week, I thought I’d present some interesting statistics regarding unemployment in 2018. (In the the U.S, anyway. Any Internatiocados want to chime in with information regarding … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 12/14/2018 – Facts and Figures
Hello, and welcome to the Weekly Shuffle Thread! Today, our theme is in a loving mood, because the word of the day is LOVER! Share your favorite songs with the word Lover in the title of them! Or if you … Continue reading The Weekly Shuffle Thread Is For LOVERS!
Psychology Today was founded in 1967 by a young doctor named Nicholas Charney, seeking to make psychology more accessible to people without Ph. D’s who were curious about how their minds worked. Topics range from neuroscience to psychology to sexuality, … Continue reading Let’s Read Psychology Today, December 1970!
It’s time, everyone, for the final round of Muppet Casting! Well, maybe that’s putting things a bit strongly. A year ago, inspired by Grampton St. Rumpterfrabble’s Muppet Shakespeare threads on the old A.V. Club After Dark disqus page, I started … Continue reading Muppet Casting FINALE: Star Wars (The Prequel Trilogy)
John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together is a 1979 Christmas special that has never been released on home video, though it can be found in full on YouTube with a simple search for the title. While the special … Continue reading John Denver and the Muppets Day Thread
We’ve been looking at quite a few biopics lately, stories that translate real life to Hollywood, but what about those films that cut out the middleman? It’s been a long while since we’ve looked at a documentary as part of … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Free Solo (2018)
Welcome back to Franchise Festival, where we explore and discuss the history of noteworthy video game series from the last four decades. Older entries can be found here. This week we’ll be creating our own path through Craftworld with LittleBigPlanet. I only made … Continue reading Franchise Festival #41: LittleBigPlanet
Good morning everyone, and happy Friday! I would bring up the idea of it being Firing Friday, but seriously, who is there left to fire in this administration? Jared? His yet to be named new Chief of Staff? I’m not … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread WITCH HUNT!
It’s time to start Round 4, the divisional semifinals! This time there are few enough songs remaining that I’m just doing one post with all divisions. But first, here are the stats on the Round 3 matchups: Religious Division Most … Continue reading Christmas Song Tournament–Round 4: Divisional Semifinals
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Editor’s Note: Feel free to post as big or as small of a list as you would like below but please keep your lists contained to these posts and do not open up your own or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best in Music 2018
Editor’s Note: Feel free to post as big or as small of a list as you would like below but please keep your lists contained to these posts and do not open up your own or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best in Video Games 2018
For Avocados of a certain age, the most formative Christmas viewing experience is 1978’s Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. Look. You’re a kid. You love Sesame Street. You love Christmas. The Sesame Street on Ice intro is a bit inconsistent … Continue reading The Night Thread When Oscar Left Big Bird to Freeze on the Roof (12/13)
“So we got a grande vanilla latte and a tall skinny latte with a shot of espresso. Will that be all? Okay, that’ll be $9.48. Thank you. Happy holidays!” …Are they gone? Close the door, Gwennifer. Okay heathens, we’ve been … Continue reading Werewolf 79: The War on Xmas Signups
Other countries: They’re all around us. Many of them don’t speak English. It’s not their fault, they were born overseas! But how does one speak with them? Like that dummy on the left in the picture up there. He’s tried … Continue reading So You Think You Can Think: Puzzle 13, “French for Beginners”
It’s that time of year, folks! We’re prepping to record the year-end AVoCADo GamesCast community extravaganza, and just like last year, we’re trying to involve as many community members as we can. We’re going to use a similar format as … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast 2018 Year-End Extravaganza Sign-Ups
