Things are going to get worse before they get better. The best of us will rise, the worst of us will be continue to be who they are. Find the positive in your day, remember that self-care is the most … Continue reading The Calm Before The Storm Friday Politicking Thread
Name three songs (or albums) that have something in common. Replies are for guessing the link between the three. The commonality can be anything: a shared lyric, the year of release, a featured musician, the producer or record label, or even … Continue reading Game of Three (My Three Songs)
Hello! Happy Friday! We’ve got new music, isn’t that nice? It looks like there are a bunch of potentially good releases today – most importantly (to me) is Waxahatchee‘s fifth album. I’ve been a huge fan of hers since Cerulean … Continue reading Friday New Music 3/27
It’s the Final Four. Two of the original Crystal Gems and two of the B-Team. Please make your heart-wrenching choices. Please vote for one character in each pairing. Feel free to discuss your favorites, add gifs, squabble over who had … Continue reading Gem War: Steven Universe Character Tournament Round 5
Can the first person here each day create a Results thread so it’s always first when sorted by Oldest? That will make it much easier to track results. Quiz Type: Forced Order Or visit the quiz here. Remember to post … Continue reading Triviacados: Friday, March 27, 2020
You arrive at the Manitoba Cryonics HQ in beautiful downtown Winnipeg on the evening of March 26. The lobby floor is covered with asterisks made out of painter’s tape that are spaced at six foot (two meter) intervals. A sign … Continue reading Werewolves 120: Adelaida’s Planet – Day 1
Tonight we celebrate Allison aka Holly Jolly Giggle Fits on her milestone birthday! Let’s wish Miss Nosilla a happy birthday and many happy returns this year and beyond…….. Continue reading Holly Jolly Birthday Night Thread
Well, then. Of all the episodes I knew we were going to cover here, this is the one I was dreading the most, because… well… Oof, this is tough. Adaptations, as we all know, are tricky beasts. Stay too faithful … Continue reading Poirot (Classic): S07E01 “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”
Star Trek: Picard is a television program that features Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Talk about the things that have happened on it here. Many things have happened so far and surely there’s more to come. Continue reading Star Trek Picard – Episode 10 Finale Spoiler Space
Introducing today’s contestants: Evan, a beverage packing specialist from British Columbia, met his wife at McGill during the run of Ken Jennings; Susan, a fundraising researcher from California, has seen five solar eclipses all around the world; and Adam, a … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Thur., Mar. 26
We’ve had some dessert-themed food tournaments, but following a recent (ish) discussion in the OT, it seemed like a tournament for anti-dessert (known to some as appetizers or starters) would also be fun. I’ll run the nominations themselves this week, … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer: Nominations
Some guidelines to help this space be a positive experience for everyone: As always with the Avocado, don’t feel compelled to share beyond your comfort level. Anyone who identifies as female, or who was socialized female/AFAB/otherwise has firsthand experience with … Continue reading The Women+ Thread Is a Little Lonely
(full playoff standings can always be found here) Group 2 Champions: Wild Card Standings: The rest of the group: Now we get to the eliminations. We have 1,047 songs in this tournament; they have been broken up into 22 groups … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 1996-2000: Group 4
One of the fundamental challenges facing any voting system that allows for local representation is how to draw those local districts. In those systems, the need for local representation comes into conflict with the need to achieve a system that … Continue reading XTREME Civics & Comparative Gov’t: How to Gerrymander a Voting District
In Which There’s an Armadillo Tank The strangest thing about progressive rock is nothing really inherent to the genre. Not the extended keyboard solos, the constantly shifting time signatures, the tributes to both classical composers and jazz musicians, nor the … Continue reading Weird, Overlooked, Wonderful 02: Tarkus
Heaven knows we need positive vibes right now and today’s the *mumble, mumble* -th birthday of one of the positive-est vibes Avocado alumni, Holly Jolly Giggle Fits. Zoey wrangler, Lifetime aficionado and Professor Of Muppet-ology at Hahvad University, ked, we … Continue reading The Giggle Fits Birthday Thread Extravaganza
Heathcliff book collection, Vol 2 Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Thur 3/26/2020)
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
Hello friends. What games are you playing and what do you think of them? As a bonus prompt, what is your favorite video game pet or animal companion? Please be sure to join us tomorrow for a Franchise Festival column … Continue reading Weekly Games Thread #2 Has a Pet
Let’s discuss any and all music here. Got a new artist who’s rocking your boat that you want to talk about? Post a video! Found out about that unearthed Coltrane album that has the jazz freak in you losing your … Continue reading A Sample of the Weekly Music Thread
Hello! Survivor thread Continue reading Survivor 40 – Winners At War Episode 7
