# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/101 "2013-02-14T02:55:44Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > I am not anymore useless than you are Almost English, which I believe is a rule of this board? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/102 "2013-02-14T03:02:59Z")
Speaking in Almost English is recommended but not required. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/103 "2013-02-14T03:13:21Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > But I don’t wish to derail this much over due spanking of \*\*Mean Old Lady \*\*with a side conversation. We get to spank \*\*Mean Old Lady \*\*? ---
**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 14, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/104 "2013-02-14T03:35:43Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > So you’d rather be a useless bitch? Ok then. > [@April\_R](#): > > Huh? Are you drunk? Possibly Gleena IS drunk. But you’re stupid, ugly and useless. And Gleena will\* be sober in the morning. \*If she’s drunk ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/105 "2013-02-14T03:45:56Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Boy, the SDMB really should get our keyboards taken during sensationlistic news stories, because our self righteous emotions can’t take it. Self righteous? You mean like when we can’t stop reminding the Internet IN CASE YOU FORGOT I INVENTED “SNEAK BRAG”? Or emotionally sensitive, like when we cry about it. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/106 "2013-02-14T03:49:21Z")
I think this thread has PMS. ---
**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 14, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/107 "2013-02-14T03:50:53Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Possibly Gleena IS drunk. But you’re stupid, ugly and useless. And Gleena will\* be sober in the morning. > \*If she’s drunk LOLZ ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/108 "2013-02-14T03:52:26Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Possibly Gleena IS drunk. But you’re stupid, ugly and useless. And Gleena will\* be sober in the morning. > \*If she’s drunk So if Gleena isn’t drunk, she won’t be sober in the morning? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/109 "2013-02-14T03:54:22Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > I am not anymore useless than you are You want to be mean so people will like you. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/110 "2013-02-14T03:58:22Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Possibly Gleena IS drunk. But you’re stupid, ugly and useless. And Gleena will\* be sober in the morning. > \*If she’s drunk I’m not drunk, but what an excellent idea! Perhaps it will give me poster beer goggles for April. But I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/111 "2013-02-14T03:59:43Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > So if Gleena isn’t drunk, she won’t be sober in the morning? 😕 Oh god, given the meeting I have to attend in the morning, I so hope this is true. ---
**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 14, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/112 "2013-02-14T04:08:09Z")
> [@living\_in\_hell](#): > > You want to be mean so people will like you. Crap, you found me out! Dammit :smack: ---
**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 14, 2013, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/113 "2013-02-14T05:53:50Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > We get to spank \*\*Mean Old Lady \*\*? Good luck with that. Bigger risk than I would want to take. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/114 "2013-02-14T06:02:39Z")
I apologize in advance for bringing relevant content into this thread. Did anyone else see/hear the video of the reporter that was super close to the actual fire fight? The video is nothing special, you can’t see much other than a few smoke bursts. The audio is very telling though. One bullet can often kill a guy instantly. Sometimes it takes a few. When there are HUNDREDS of rounds shot at a small cabin, it’s safe to say they didn’t have an actual target and were just spraying the place with lead. If any one of those guys had eyes on the suspect, he would have been Swiss cheese in about three seconds based on the number of rounds pumped into that place. Regardless of how **MoL** behaves IRL, her persona here is any mixture of cranky, sarcastic, bitchy, dry humored, acerbic, and sometimes caring. There’s no way she would actually treat the deaths of anyone in the line of service in a cavalier manner. ---
**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 14, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/115 "2013-02-14T06:59:56Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > If the cops have a hair trigger, they’re idiots. However, if they have their weapons holstered while on patrol and catch a bullet from some asshole who has decided to open up on them, they’re \*also \*idiots. For me, I think anybody who doesn’t get that Dorner started with the advantage when he ambushed people, they’re probably not too bright. Ya, you haven’t been following this story, have you? Which is fine, because it’s not terribly important, and I’ve only been stalking it for the shitty movie factor, but yeah… > [@hajario](#): > > And then she took your parking space. The worst part is he was most upset by my taking his parking spot. Didn’t even care that I knocked him out of his chair and sold it for scrap. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/116 "2013-02-14T08:25:01Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > I am definitely not useless. My children, husband, friends, and employer will tell you that. So not completely right at all. If she had said, “You are a completely bitchy person” that would have been entirely **acute**. But to say I am useless is just plain mean, and frankly a case of the bitch calling the bitch a bitch. Bolding mine. If it’s not entirely acute, you’re just being obtuse. Dah dah dah dah dah dah…Superman! Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all wee…probably goddamn forever! ---
**Author:** ![Oliveritaly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oliveritaly/32/15233_2.png) [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/117 "2013-02-14T11:24:57Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > We get to spank \*\*Mean Old Lady \*\*? I’m in! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/118 "2013-02-14T12:07:30Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And please tell me he’s calling me a virgin again, as if I consider than an insult since it was and is my choice. I just learned it from you, dude! Always kinda assumed it, but if I read you correctly you are verifying my assumption. ---
**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 14, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/119 "2013-02-14T14:37:00Z")
> [@Faruiza](#): > > Bolding mine. > > If it’s not entirely acute, you’re just being obtuse. > > Dah dah dah dah dah dah…Superman! > Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all wee…probably goddamn forever! Ah dang, good catch! ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149/120 "2013-02-14T15:14:43Z")
“Ya, you haven’t been following this story, have you? Which is fine, because it’s not terribly important, and I’ve only been stalking it for the shitty movie factor, but yeah…”… given that I live in the Greater Los Angeles area, I haven’t been able to avoid it. If you want to explain in greater detail why the two deputies in the patrol car deserve a facepalm for being shot, or how Dorner was ‘outgunned’ (you might start by listing his available weaponry as currently known), go ahead. I still think it was a stupid, indefensible comment, but go ahead. Or you could read today’s LA Times account of the funeral of the 34 yr old deputy. And, BTW, I don’t believe anyone else got shot by Doofus after he was holed up int he cabin, (they got shot on the road), but feel free to correct me if I’m missing something, otherwise, you look like the one not following too closely… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meanoldlady-please-explain/650149.md?page=7)