# A new prejudice for the masses **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2002, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657 "2002-10-24T10:34:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/21 "2002-10-24T12:28:19Z")
was it not Monty Python? “Make Tea, not War”. I was coerced by the goevernment to give one of them my seat on the bus this morning! The sticker told me to! Help! Help! I’m being oppressed! why is it the Non-Old Non-Lady people the first to suffer repression because of the little old ladies! My culture suffers because of them aswell! They buy Daniel O’Donnell merchandice in record amounts > [@](#): > > With sales continually increasing, Daniel O’Donnell has now sold over 5 million albums > and over 1.5 million videos [www.northernechoholidays.co.uk/details.asp?UID=668](http://www.northernechoholidays.co.uk/details.asp?UID=668) - 14k de dominates the Country culture! I cant find the CD’s with songs about Whiskey, wife beating and the Cause since the Little Old Grannies (the LOG) publicity machine forces mediocrity upon the genre. Mary Whitehouse and the Queen Mum are still alive and running the LOG media. We have to unite against the nation of LOG. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/22 "2002-10-24T12:37:34Z")
I think they’re on to us: the Nation of LOG screwed up your link, **Twisty**. It turned into a holiday site. Must be something to do with the [Protocols of the Elders of Saga](http://www.saga.co.uk/)!!! ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/23 "2002-10-24T12:37:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*was it not Monty Python? > > “Make Tea, not War”… > > My culture suffers because of them aswell! They buy Daniel O’Donnell merchandice in record amounts > \*\* Goodies definitely did it too (um - that is IF I remember correctly!) 🙂 And I had forgotten about the Daniel O’Donnel danger - that is SERIOUS. And probably Des O’Connor too. Something must be done, in defence of all that we hold dear! ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/24 "2002-10-24T12:38:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > \*\* > (btw does anyone (probsably in UK) recall the “Goodies” TV proogramme about the fierce old ladies terrorising innocent normal people) > > 🙂 \*\* I thought that was an old Python skit? Didn’t they show biker-types nervously walking by a group of old ladies standing on a corner, and the LOL’s start harassing them. Anyway, one tried to move into our neighborhood, but us God-fearing younger people put a stop to that. Alls we need around here is a bunch of them racing down the street at 5 mph with the left turn signal permanently on. They’d be happier with their own kind. And by the way, why is it okay for them to call each other “old”, but if I use the “O” word, I’m an age-ist! Plus, many of them have kids but aren’t married. They’re just genetically immoral. Sure, they use the term “widow”, but I just say “slut!” ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/25 "2002-10-24T13:03:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Steve Wright \* > \*\*Who opens Parliament and gives the Queen’s Speech? Back in the 1950’s, it was a young woman, but now _it’s a little old lady_. \*\* …too funny …can’t breathe ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/26 "2002-10-24T13:16:06Z")
OK Folks - I retract the “Goodies” thing - bah - my brain needs defragging. ☹ Apart from the other terros already mentioned, there is also Ann Widdecombe Esther Rantzen Nancy Reagan (and Ann Robinson is no spring chicken) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/27 "2002-10-24T13:23:02Z")
_gasp_ You mentioned the Botox Warrior by name! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/28 "2002-10-24T13:26:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > \*\* > > So our campaign is ApartHeight? (THE Goodies again, I’m afraid - I seem to be regressing towards the early 1970s here. ) > Hmm \*\* Early 1970s? Happiest days of my life. > [@](#): > > I wandered lonely as a cloud, > That floats on high o’er vales and jungles, > When all at once I saw a crowd, > A host of golden daffodungles. (Excuse me. I sometimes get my arrested adolescence, my second childhood, and my mid-life crisis all mixed up.) ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/29 "2002-10-24T15:37:18Z")
_Nervously looking over shoulder_ Have you ever noticed, the LOL’s always have home made cookies around? They’re always so ready to give out cookies and milk. Why? Isn’t it obvious? _Mind Control_! That’s right, the sugar and peanut butter in those cookies alter the minds of the childred who eat them, who then grow up and have been conditioned to be sympathetic to their mistresses plans. The sweet old fiends! ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/30 "2002-10-24T15:46:06Z")
And they wear a specialised sort of headgear: if not the infamous hats (a la queen-mum-gawd-bless-'er-and-all-who-sail-in-her), many wear headscarves. Many also frequent haunts known as “bingo halls” where I suspect messages are passed on in a fiendish numerical code. And _why_ do some of them dye their hair blue? What can be the meaning of this? I mean, I am sure they would _say_ it is a simple matter of personal habit and preference, but, really, we _must_ be on our guard. (They never give me cookies though ☹ ) ---
**Author:** ![Jerevan\_Somerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@Jerevan\_Somerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerevan_Somerville)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/31 "2002-10-28T16:06:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tansu \* > \*\* > > …too funny …can’t breathe \*\* Here _gasp_ here! ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/32 "2002-10-28T19:42:05Z")
The Blue Hairs are the elite members of the cabal. They’ve been instructed in the most important secrets of the Bloomernati. Beware! ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/33 "2002-10-28T22:37:01Z")
And don’t forget their attempts to cripple the world’s economy at checkout counters all over the world. “I’m sure I have the exact change, dearie”, they tell the cashier before spending 20 minutes fumbling in their purses. Or perhaps it’s the cunning “Can I write a check for that?” ploy, which is then followed by a lengthly delay whilst the checkbook and pen are excavated from the depths of the pocketbook, the check is laboriously filled out, and questions as to the date and payor name must be asked. Meanwhile. those of us waiting in line to purchase our vital consumer goods have given up in digust. “I’m too busy to wait like this” we say. tossing our goods aside and storming out of the store. I tell you the costs of this surely run up into the billions. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/34 "2002-10-28T23:36:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > \*\*um folks, could we jsut establish at what age one _does_ become a LOL? UM - purely for hypthetical interest, you understand. > > \ \*\* And now that we’re on to them, those dastardly fiends are _cunningly disguising their age_, all the better to sneakily infiltrate normal society! [sorry Celyn] ---
**Author:** ![Naz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@Naz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naz)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/35 "2002-10-28T23:36:06Z")
Yes! My mom and I have been after the LOL’s for years! The truth is out there!! Of course, efforts have been made over many years to expose the LOL’s evil. Ever see _Arsenic and Old Lace_? Or _Rosemary’s Baby_? Huh? Huh? But they have weaknesses. Rap music. High speeds. Good taste. I say we speed up to the nearest bingo hall and walk in, all of us in good, tasteful clothing, each holding a boombox with Eminem on full volume. Charge, brothers and sisters! ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/36 "2002-10-29T00:11:54Z")
Hmmm - could we do it without the rap music, do you think? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/37 "2002-10-29T00:34:42Z")
I’ve heard rumours of whole gangs of them practising T’ai Chi in the park (in warm climates, anyway. No sign of it yet in England, AFAIK). Come the revolution, brother :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/38 "2002-10-29T00:46:30Z")
And the worst part? Go to any “senior center” (and if _that_ isn’t a cunning euphemism…), and look at all the LOLs _learning to use the Internet._ In other words, we can plan the resistance in relative safety here now, but in a few short weeks, even this bastion of freethought will be under assault. Maybe we should proactively ban all links to and from [ComfySlipperFront.org](http://ComfySlipperFront.org), just to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/39 "2002-10-29T00:58:23Z")
We could sneak around supermarkets poisoning the Complan. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657/40 "2002-10-29T01:03:03Z")
That great old Monty Python skit was about a gang named “Hell’s Grannies”. They had blue hair, were dressed in black bombazine, and were viscious with furled unbrellas! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-prejudice-for-the-masses/133657.md?page=3)