If the Ivory Tower is the brain of the board, and the Transformers discussion is its heart, then General Discussions is the waste disposal pipe. Or kidney. Or something suitably pulpy and soft, like 4 week old bananas.
I used to, but recently, I've been keeping it so short it's near impossible to tell the colour, due to the fact that I like keeping it so short it's impossible to tell where there's none growing.