On the field, football clearly dominated the American scene, with that insane Saturday in CFB, a rather messy day in the NFL (punctuated by the season ending injury to Richard Sherman), and the bizarre Jerry Jones Vs The Rest of … Continue reading Sports Corner – November 15
This post was put up by a banned user. The Avocado does not condone their actions and preserves their threads for the sake of the conversations in the comments. As a kid, watching a movie is a simpler process. There’s a hero and a bad guy and you root for the hero and against the villain. But what happens to that dichotomy in adulthood? Once you understand that Silence of the Lambs’ Anthony Hopkins is actually a pretty pleasant guy in real life and not a consumer of human livers, it’s no longer convention for adult viewers to judge … Continue reading Orange is the New Black: S01E09: F*cksgiving
This post was put up by a banned user. The Avocado does not condone their actions and preserves their threads for the sake of the conversations in the comments. Since experiencing Star Wars fandom firsthand with the audience disappointment in the prequels, I’ve always felt a strange sense of sympathy for George Lucas whose rabid fan base jump on his later mistakes without seeming to appreciate that their whole obsession would never exist without George Lucas in the first place. Who knows what would have happened to Gene Roddenberry if he lived past 1991? Perhaps, it takes an outsider to the … Continue reading Star Trek: Discovery: S1E6 “Lethe”
This post was put up by a banned user. The Avocado does not condone their actions and preserves their threads for the sake of the conversations in the comments. Better Off Ted-The Lawyer, the Lemur and the Listener- I recently discovered there were a couple of episodes of this wonderful show I never watched, so I checked this show and it reminded me of how a show can still find a niche in TV’s golden age using the conventions of 90’s workplace sitcoms cranked up to absurdity. Where Better off Ted fits on the pantheon of great TV is hard to … Continue reading Better Off Ted: S02E02 “The Lawyer, The Lemur, and The Listener”
This post was put up by a banned user. The Avocado does not condone their actions and preserves their threads for the sake of the conversations in the comments. List your 25 songs by the letter. Feel free to make fun of my tastes (beware, I’m putting a 3 Doors Down song in this edition as well as Taylor Swift, Arianna Grande) or specifically explain how your songs might be superior or great. So here we go. In this instance, I don’t necessarily go out of my way to seek out music from before 1998 and if I do it’s not … Continue reading 25 Songs by Letter: “B” edition
Yeah, that header says Happy Birthday. But that’s because today really is my birthday! Downside, is I’m turning 37 or, as it should be called, “almost 40” Ages 36 through 39 should be called “almost 40”. Regardless of that, I … Continue reading Happy November the 10th (11/10)
This post was put up by a banned user. The Avocado does not condone their actions and preserves their threads for the sake of the conversations in the comments. OK, this is going to be a cool new game where we go through the alphabet and expand our horizons. I have pretty limited taste in music as opposed to TV/movies. I only started listening to popular music when I was about 15 and I started driving for the first time and playing the radio (I grew up in a household where my mom listened to Sounds of Sinatra and my dad … Continue reading Name Your 25 Favorite “A” Songs
This post was put up by a banned user. The Avocado does not condone their actions and preserves their threads for the sake of the conversations in the comments. The Mayor– (FOX) This episode was helped greatly by what has so far been its most self-contained, informative and engaging plot to date. Courtney has to negotiate a renewal with the bus drivers’ union or risk a strike and he slowly realizes he can’t make everyone happy. Unlike trick-or-treating or learning about filibusters firsthand, this episode focuses more on the nuts and bolts of governing by enwrapping it in a tighter narrative … Continue reading My week in television (Pt 3): Mayor, Fresh off the Boat, Knick, Orville, Mom, Ingonerable
Hooray, we made it to the new site, and just in the Knick of time. As Kristaps Porzingis has been incredible so far, lifting the Knicks to the heights of mediocrity and making it possible to believe that maybe they will be good in our lifetimes. Other stories of note: Big three way trade in the NHL. Are the Senators and Preds now lined up to meet for the Cup? The Big Ten becomes the Big Mess. The Eagles, Saints, and Lions rise, the Giants sink into the swamp, and Brady has a week off. Free agency starts in baseball, … Continue reading Sports Corner
A big thank you to Aranaktu for believing in my dream of a monorail themed thread and photoshopping frames to make it happen. Continue reading Maiden Voyage Night Thread: 11/04/17
Scene Dissection by Richard Killjoy III, Sea Boy In which we discuss a deleted scene from the Jim Jarmusch movie Dead Man… Here is the scene: DIALOGUE: Conway Twill: Anyhow, getting back to the beginning of the story, my grandaddy came … Continue reading Scene Dissection: Dead Man – Deleted Scene
Since we don’t wanna spam the OTs with Giftmas talk, let’s take all the strategizing and troubleshooting over here. Now that you’ve been sent your names and have had a chance to read through the Introductions thread, feel free to shitpost here about gift ideas, shipping issues, general troubleshooting questions, etc. WOOO GIFTMAS Original Post with comments Continue reading Giftmas discussion thread
The awesome thing for the mods (and I think a perk for the channel in general) is that we no longer have to worry about spambots coming along and creating threads trying to sell you something….or worse. Any of the … Continue reading Request to be a Publisher
I’m sure there will be plenty to add to this in the future. Here’s just a very basic mockup. How to I comment? Once the site becomes operational, DISQUS will be installed as a plug in so users will be able to use the same DISQUS that they are already using on the original channel. How do I publish a thread? Because this site is built using WordPress, users who are interested in being able to create a thread will have to register for a WordPress account and then either submit that user name or their email to be added … Continue reading F.A.Q.s
WAYS TO CONTACT YOUR MODERATORS: Responding to a comment of theirs. Respond to an old one if you want your post to be more private. Email us at the mod email: avocadomods@gmail.com Tweet us at https://twitter.com/AvocadoMods Fill out the concern form at:v https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwV_Co5qAh0fxL2SrgQVgUVIjY7jkGW-AW02z_-fr9x-yGOQ/viewform?c=0&w=1 RULES: Rules are non-negotiable and may lead to official warnings or bannings. We are obliged to follow DISQUS’s Basic Rules and a list of those can be found here: https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/1753105-basic-rules-for-disqus-powered-profiles-and-discussions Also, this shouldn’t need to be stated, but we don’t accept hate speech here. This includes racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, slut shaming, or any of the … Continue reading Channel (Site) Guidelines
We have been extremely lucky with the DISQUS channel so far in keeping together refugees from The AVC but unfortunately, channels have their limitations. Welcome to this new experiment where hopefully there will be a chance to have a much easier time navigating all the different threads people want to create, including an archive of past threads, as well as having more control over not just the layout but the mod controls such as the filter. Continue reading Welcome to the Beta version of AVCAD 2.0
Detective Harvey Dent was still getting moved in to Mello’s old desk and finding newer and increasingly more ridiculous compartments where its previous inhabitant had stashed tiny bottles of bourbon. He’d brought along his 2-headed coin and placed it neatly … Continue reading Werewolf XXXVII: WOLF COPS 3 – The Possession of liz156 (DAY SEVEN)
Deputy Admirax folded her robe neatly and placed it next to a stack of baby clothes and a pile of loaded hanguns littering in her closet. She smiled and hummed silently as she got ready for bed. The ritual bloodletting had gone exactly as planned and she’d managed to not screw things up for the others in her cult. They’d just committed a murder and would likely even commit more but her doctor had told her she needed a hobby. She slipped on a sleeping mask and was soon fast asleep. Not long after, the door the her bedroom creaked … Continue reading Werewolf XXXVII: WOLF COPS 3 – The Possession of liz156 (DAY SIX)
Still perked to the gills from having brought their first wolf to justice, the officers retired to a bar for drinks. Amid the raucous laughter and the slurred confessions of undying love for their precinct and their police chief even though he could be a real hard ass, Detective Lenny Briscoe stood with his trademark poise and raised his virgin mojito for a toast. “To good old fashioned detective work,” he said before panning around to meet the whiskey-soaked grins of his fellow detectives who had miraculously all fallen silent. “To airtight cases and to the motley crew of lawmen … Continue reading Werewolf XXXVII: WOLF COPS 3 – The Possession of liz156 (DAY FIVE)
Lin Beifong stomped into the evidence room, annoyed, as always, at the waffling of her fellow cops. Seeing the room scattered with open handcuffs, she grumbled in annoyance. “Reckless idiots.” She started to metalbend the cuffs into a neat pile. … Continue reading Werewolf XXXVII: WOLF COPS 3 – The Possession of liz156 (DAY FOUR)
[Ron Howard Narrator Voice] — GOB had developed an unhealthy obsession with his new friends who he still assumed were all just members of a youth seminar roleplaying as police officers. He hadn’t felt it unusual that the officers increasingly … Continue reading Werewolf XXXVII: WOLF COPS 3 – The Possession of liz156 (DAY THREE)
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