iplaudius commented on The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report

"The game is stupid; however, visiting spectators are pretty much guaranteed to be drunk and laid by the end of the day, so."

iplaudius commented on Milkshakes With Radicals

"The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education would like to assure you that Anjem Choudary and company do not really mean it."

iplaudius commented on South Korean Celebrity Deaths Continue

"This is awful."

iplaudius commented on Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In

"@Seeräuber Jenny: There’s a joke about titty-fucking in there somewhere—or, at least, a cleavage-themed epigram."

iplaudius commented on Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure

"At -0:47 and following, the end of the song, the prolonged IV-I6-IV-V-I cadence with suspensions ("Caring about ourselves / This is our last dance / This is our last dance / This is ourselves / Under pressure "): it destroys me every time."

iplaudius commented on Jeanne-Claude, Artist and Wife of Christo

"I’ll never forget their umbrellas in the mountains along the stretch of I-5 known as the Grapevine, in Southern California."