# 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:** 4
**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, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/61 "2013-02-13T20:10:03Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > That would be like asking Picasso to explain to you how you can paint as awesomely as he does. MOL’s meanness is an art. A gift really and not something that can be taught. You just have to sit back and admire her talent. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/62 "2013-02-13T20:14:16Z")
> [@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. You deserved a lot worse in that thread for how big of a bundtcake you were being. ---
**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, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/63 "2013-02-13T20:22:43Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > You deserved a lot worse in that thread for how big of a bundtcake you were being. What thread is this? Links? ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/64 "2013-02-13T20:25:29Z")
> [@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. > [@Bob Ducca](#): > > You deserved a lot worse in that thread for how big of a bundtcake you were being. No kidding. [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15968373&postcount=27) barely counts as an apology: > [@](#): > > I wasn’t trying to start a fight, really. Sorry if I was being a little bitchy. I’ll blame it on the pregnancy hormones and leave my apology here. Also, I don’t think vicarious is what you mean, seeing as she’s acting on her own. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/65 "2013-02-13T20:26:17Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > What thread is this? Links? The one with the nude pictures of Beyoncé in 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, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/66 "2013-02-13T20:27:13Z")
Oh never mind. Thanks **lorene**. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/67 "2013-02-13T20:41:47Z")
Bundtcake as a pejorative, clever. I might have to use that. I don’t see the beef here. IMO, \*\*MOL \*\*is equipped to quip at the expense of corrupt officials, having recently moved to the home of the Blago (and apparently having lived in LA?). ---
**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, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/68 "2013-02-13T20:45:57Z")
Lived nearly all of my life in LA, now approaching year two of Blagoland. I had a brief layover in Minneapolis, but there wasn’t nearly enough corruption, so I came to Chicago. _breathes in_ Ah, yes. The smell of crooked cops. It almost smells like… home. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/69 "2013-02-13T20:53:02Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > She is mean. \ She sees an opportunity to attack someone and she takes it, like a shark on a wounded seal. Then I vote she change her name to **Mean Old Great White** seein’ as how that’s more accurate. All in favor? ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/70 "2013-02-13T20:53:22Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > MeanOldLady is my personal hero and savior. I worship at the alter to her caustic tongue. I revel in her unrivaled acerbity. > [@hajario](#): > > Google weights their results by the sites that they know that you visit. > > ETA: MeanOldLady kicks puppies. > [@Shakes](#): > > I have it on good authority that **MOL** wears a fur jacket that was made from puppies; stolen from children on Christmas morning! > [@lost4life](#): > > She once got me thrown out of a strip club. > [@phouka](#): > > Yeah, and that was _before_ she cancelled Christmas! > [@otternell](#): > > Only thing MOL needs to explain is how I can be as awesomely mean as she is. I get to bitchy, but then fizzle out. How do I take it all the way to mean? She’s the most interesting woman in the world. But she’s no Bill Brasky. > [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Bundtcake as a pejorative, clever. I might have to use that. Hopefully he/she didn’t mean this [bundt cake](http://www.commercialsihate.com/real-calif-milk-mom-jeans--video_topic11754.html). ---
**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, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/71 "2013-02-13T20:56:47Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Then I vote she change her name to **Mean Old Great White** seein’ as how that’s more accurate. All in favor? I thought someone already proposed a name change, **[Mean2OldLadies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15956190#post15956190)**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/72 "2013-02-13T21:07:51Z")
Hm. The attitude conveyed in the offending post _was_ rather nasty, and over-harsh, too; a pure comparison of numbers is a terrible way to go about tactical analysis here. But not at all worth the time spent pitting it. Further: with all of their missteps, nearly catastrophic overreactions, and the apparent (!) revelation that the cabin blaze was premeditated execution, I’ll have to admit it becomes more and more difficult for me to not to be suspicious of the LAPD. My sympathies to families affected by Dorner’s killings, but man, if I had anything to do with the LAPD I’d be washing my hands of them at this point. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/73 "2013-02-13T21:22:04Z")
I think [this Xzibit meme](http://i.qkme.me/3sz500.jpg) belongs here. I shouldn’t have laughed, but I’m also a terrible person. ---
**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, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/74 "2013-02-13T21:22:30Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > Hm. The attitude conveyed in the offending post _was_ rather nasty, and over-harsh, too; a pure comparison of numbers is a terrible way to go about tactical analysis here. But not at all worth the time spent pitting it. Fair enough. My original post can loosely be interpreted as "These fucking clowns…"and if that offends, then uhm, I’m sorry I guess? > [@](#): > > Further: with all of their missteps, nearly catastrophic overreactions, and the apparent (!) revelation that the cabin blaze was premeditated execution, I’ll have to admit it becomes more and more difficult for me to not to be suspicious of the LAPD. My sympathies to families affected by Dorner’s killings, but man, if I had anything to do with the LAPD I’d be washing my hands of them at this point. Yeah, about that. Is this true? The internet has been aflame with rumors that the cops intentionally burned the cabin down, which have been further fueled by audio (from god knows where?) from the cops’ scanner (allegedly?) of officers saying to just burn the “motherfucker” down. For a while I’d only seen posts about this on Reddit and on blogs, and nothing from any real news source, until this morning when the LA Times put out an article stating the cops used “incendiary” gases after using ones not prone to blow the fuck up. I swear this is turning into the worst Michael Bay movie ever. ---
**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, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/75 "2013-02-13T21:32:02Z")
Wait, shit, past the 5 min edit window. Sorry I bit. We already have 100 Dorner threads here where we can speculate about whether his charges against the LAPD were justified and who set fire to what and what the police did wrong and why killing innocent people is bad. I’d like to go back to discussing all the puppies that have killed to make this fabulous coat, if you please. Failing that, we can all go back to scouring for the thread with the naked pictures of Beyonce. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/76 "2013-02-13T22:15:44Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I swear this is turning into the worst Michael Bay movie ever. Well now I have to ask, which was the best Michael Bay movie? Despite the fact that such a thing could barely be said to exist. Maybe it’d be more appropriate to say which is the least bad? Which turd has the most polish? Upon which shit-sandwich are we least likely to choke and die before paramedic intervention? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/77 "2013-02-13T22:31:57Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Well now I have to ask, which was the best Michael Bay movie? Despite the fact that such a thing could barely be said to exist. Maybe it’d be more appropriate to say which is the least bad? Which turd has the most polish? Upon which shit-sandwich are we least likely to choke and die before paramedic intervention? _Bad Boys_ and _The Rock_ were both pretty good. ---
**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, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/78 "2013-02-13T22:39:13Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Then I vote she change her name to **Mean Old Great White** seein’ as how that’s more accurate. All in favor? Would there not be something of a problem with the “white” part? ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/79 "2013-02-13T22:59:16Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > I have it on good authority that she’s actually surly. Ah yes the not so famous 8th dwarf ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/80 "2013-02-13T23:26:26Z")
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