Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Shuffle Thread, your favorite place to show off your new favorite shuffles! I’ll give you all a square answer and a square deal today… because our special word of the … Continue reading Don’t Be A SQUARE, Come Join the Weekly Shuffle Thread!
“I had no idea you could blow like that.”
Continue reading The Avocado Movie Club #17: Glitter (2001)
We haven’t done the ’80s in a while, have we? Feels like it’s been a while. Let’s do some ’80s. Continue reading The 02/21 Day Thread Can’t Control Itself Any Longer
Friday, makes the music, new 2/21, yeah New Baths! New Baths! New Baths! Here’s a more complete list, taken from Consequence of Sound w/ minor updates. Let us know what’s missing, what you’re excited for, what’s good, what’s not and … Continue reading Friday New Music 2/21
Is it a cold? Is it allergies? Flu? The only thing I can say for sure is that it’s bullshit. Anyway here’s a song I heard earlier this week that I like, and by ‘I like’ I mean ‘made me … Continue reading The Friday PT Is 20% Politics, 80% Vaporub
Hector’s Dolphin, named after one Sir James Hector (with a number of Māori names including tutumairekurai), is a unique creature in a number of ways: Smallest dolphin: Adults are 3-5 feet long; No obvious beak, which one would usually expect … Continue reading The Hector’s Dolphin Night Thread (02/20)
Here are today’s Invitational Tournament contestants: Jeopardy! ASIAN GEOGRAPHY // MOVIES WITH CHAMPIONS // BABY & TODDLER PRODUCTS // POLITICAL LINGO // A DUAL MEANING // SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES DD1 – 800 – SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES – Historians … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Thur., Feb. 20
I’m This is a safe space: a space for women+ to come together as we are. All of our wants, needs, thoughts, feelings, experiences, losses, successes etc. are welcome. We are here to support each other during trying times and … Continue reading Weekly Women’s+ Thread
How’s it going? Continue reading The Avocado Parenting Thread is Successful!
We have a svelte 746 songs this time; genuinely, thank you so much. As a result, we have 31 groups for you this time, each with 24 songs. [footnote]The final group is 26 songs, as a treat[/footnote] For this round, … Continue reading Best Video Game Song Tournament, 2023-2024: Group 15
Happy Thursday, y’all! What games are you playing and what do you think of them? As a bonus prompt, let’s discuss our favorite rank-and-file enemies in video games. Continue reading Weekly Games Thread #2 Has Minions
Trigger warning mentions of drug use/addiction. Like many things in the 60s, opinions were divided about drugs. On one hand, promising research began about the uses of LSD in mental health care. On the other, fearmongering about the dangers of … Continue reading The Go Ask Alice Fraud Day Thread
In which your host restores the duplicate post from last week (hopefully), contemplates “lost” vs “wasted,” and also battles with WordPress Classic. One of my favourite yearbook platitudes is “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Cliched though it … Continue reading Breaking the Habit: Lost and Found
Yesterday, the weather here took a turn for the cold, and the news coming out of DC (and most places really) felt extra bleak along with the weather, so I turned to an old favorite to take a break: Mr. … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread’s Got Moxie
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 mind? Lay … Continue reading The NEW and IMPROVED Weekly Music Thread
Terence Blanchard composed the score to one of HBO’s best docuseries. When will HBO stop trying to launch Game of Thrones spinoffs Jim on the Move doesn’t give two dragon craps about and get back to producing great pieces of investigative journalism like When the Levees Broke? Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread — February 20th, 2025
Here are today’s Invitational Tournament contestants: Jeopardy! AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING // LET’S PLAY SPORTS // CLASSICAL MUSIC // LIQUOR IS QUICKER // LACK OF ENERGY // I’M “DRAGON” TODAY DD1 – 600 – I’M “DRAGON” TODAY – This book’s title … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Wed., Feb. 19
I hope everyone is doing well and having a great time, and best of luck to those who are not. As always, anything related to dating, relationships, intimacy and so on is fair game and welcome. And of course, as … Continue reading Dating, Relationships, and Sex (02/19/2025)
