# MeanOldLady please explain **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 13, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149 "2013-02-13T03:43:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/1 "2013-02-13T03:43:56Z")
I haven’t posted on here in a long time. Talked to some members, but no posting. I’m only posting because I got directed to this story by Google and it made my blood boil. Sorry if I’m roasting someone out of their usual character, but this really pissed me off. > [@Fired LAPD Cop On a Murderous Rampage in SoCal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/176): > > LOLAPD. Dude’s outnumbered and outgunned and still shot two cops. Yeah, good for him. 200 points on COD. You do realize that we are talking about two REAL people? One who died? DEAD, not coming back. I’m sure his widow will be happy you got some laughs out of it. > [@Fired LAPD Cop On a Murderous Rampage in SoCal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-lapd-cop-on-a-murderous-rampage-in-socal/649674/183): > > That these cops keep screwing up. First they shoot up a car that kind of looks like his, then they have him holed up in a cabin and still get shot. The massive fucked-up-ness of this case isn’t funny (innocent people being shot galore), but I’m kind of face palming a little bit. It was certainly a tragedy that those innocent women got shot because the police officers were scared and fired on them by mistake. I hope they have a full recovery and I expect them to get compensation from the city. This guy was a cop. He knows the procedures officers take on a stop. He knows what they look out for when driving a patrol car. He knows what they know. He knows how they will react, he has had the same training. He can predict how they will react. It’s the worst scenario. A psychopath with training to fight those who will have to come after him. You have the luxury of checking the news every few hours to see if the cops have got the guy or if a few more have died for your amusement. The people on the ground (REAL people), may not see things the same way. Edit: I see the guy may have been burned up in a stand off in a cabin. I hope no firemen or officers are injured as a result of his final decision. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/2 "2013-02-13T03:49:24Z")
She’s mean and she’s old. It’s printed on the box. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/3 "2013-02-13T03:53:55Z")
Does “LOLAPD” not mean the Los Angeles Police Department itself is a joke? I mean, they cannot distinguish between a Tundra, a Titan and a Ridgeline? Is is not _their fucking job_ to be able to identify vehicles by type? GMAFB, just because you are on edge does not mean you, a public goddam servant, should start shooting at anything that moves. Jesus H., this public safety agency is a damn disaster and has been for decades, they need to just fire every one of those buffoons and start again from scratch. [former officer Joe Jones comments](http://freakoutnation.com/2013/02/11/a-second-former-lapd-officer-releases-a-manifesto/) ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/4 "2013-02-13T03:57:53Z")
She is mean. She called me a (to paraphrase because I don’t remember the exact wording)“completely useless person” in a thread I was admittedly being bitchy in, and this was AFTER I had apologized. She sees an opportunity to attack someone and she takes it, like a shark on a wounded seal. I am sure she gets some vicarious thrill from it, so I don’t really blame her. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/5 "2013-02-13T04:08:54Z")
Boy, the SDMB really should get our keyboards taken during sensationlistic news stories, because our self righteous emotions can’t take it. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/6 "2013-02-13T04:18:56Z")
I guess her username is a correct representation of who she is. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/7 "2013-02-13T04:24:18Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > I guess her username is a correct representation of who she is. …by that logic, shouldn’t yours be “Pompous Retard”? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/8 "2013-02-13T04:29:51Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > I guess her username is a correct representation of who she is. She is, however, not old. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/9 "2013-02-13T04:40:55Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > She is, however, not old. And she’s no lady. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/10 "2013-02-13T05:16:48Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > She is mean. She called me a (to paraphrase because I don’t remember the exact wording)“completely useless person” in a thread I was admittedly being bitchy in, and this was AFTER I had apologized. She sees an opportunity to attack someone and she takes it, like a shark on a wounded seal. I am sure she gets some vicarious thrill from it, so I don’t really blame her. But she was right, so there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/11 "2013-02-13T05:22:49Z")
I got yucks from a story about a woman who threw her baby off a parking garage, she can get yucks from the Police Academy. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/12 "2013-02-13T05:34:19Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > …by that logic, shouldn’t yours be “Pompous Retard”? “Obnoxious 15 Year Old” is really more succinct. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/13 "2013-02-13T05:38:00Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > “Obnoxious 15 Year Old” is really more succinct. Perhaps, but Pompous Retard is certainly snappier. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/14 "2013-02-13T05:42:13Z")
> [@For You](#): > > Does “LOLAPD” not mean the Los Angeles Police Department itself is a joke? It wasn’t even LAPD this time, although I guess LOSBSD doesn’t have the same ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/15 "2013-02-13T05:50:50Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > I got yucks from a story about a woman who threw her baby off a parking garage, she can get yucks from the Police Academy. [That was one of my favorite threads!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=621751) I came late to the party, but I still feel I made a significant contribution about the liability issue. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/16 "2013-02-13T06:36:53Z")
What the hell is all this? I suggest you get a grip, lady, and some bourbon. > [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > It wasn’t even LAPD this time, although I guess LOSBSD doesn’t have the same ring to it. True. I’m about the poetry, you see. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/17 "2013-02-13T06:40:39Z")
Am I the only one here who has no idea what the OP is talking about? I mean, I gather it’s connected to Dorner somehow, but I have no idea what the beef with **MoL** is. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/18 "2013-02-13T06:47:40Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > …by that logic, shouldn’t yours be “Pompous Retard”? This gave me some good, unexpected belly laughs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/19 "2013-02-13T06:50:50Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Am I the only one here who has no idea what the OP is talking about? I mean, I gather it’s connected to Dorner somehow, but I have no idea what the beef with **MoL** is. Because MOL is mean enough to make jokes about cops being killed, which absolutely ISN’T and can’t be funny. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/20 "2013-02-13T06:54:03Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > It wasn’t even LAPD this time, although I guess LOSBSD doesn’t have the same ring to it. Perhaps it’s illogical, but when I see “LOSBSD”, I think, “lobster bisque.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149.md?page=2)