# Dougie\_monty is an immoral cultist **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 20, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993 "2014-08-20T13:31:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Reyemile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/341 "2014-08-26T22:44:35Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Well…not exactly. What I mean is that there are those who like to bait me, for whatever reason, and I get rattled and disorganized trying to defend myself. This is the internet. You can take half an hour to clear your head and think about your responses. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/342 "2014-08-26T22:55:45Z")
> [@Reyemile](#): > > This is the internet. You can take half an hour to clear your head and think about your responses. Or a day and a half, if required to really study the information and respond… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/343 "2014-08-26T23:55:19Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Or a day and a half, if required to really study the information and respond… Or [202 days](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17509242#post17509242), as the case may be. ---
**Author:** ![Reyemile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/344 "2014-08-27T00:12:45Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Or [202 days](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17509242#post17509242), as the case may be. Ha! Yes, that’s enough time for most people to cool down. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/345 "2014-08-27T00:34:34Z")
I am disappointed. I thought that matter was dead and buried with my apology. Apparently you were going to keep it to use against me at an opportune time.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/346 "2014-08-27T01:18:31Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I am disappointed. I thought that matter was dead and buried with my apology. Apparently you were going to keep it to use against me at an opportune time.:mad: Its the Internet - it never forgets, and it never forgives. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/347 "2014-08-27T03:39:45Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Its the Internet - it never forgets, and it never forgives. The Internet is one thing. One would expect the people who use it to be another–unless they see fit to abuse it with impunity. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/348 "2014-08-27T13:10:55Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > The Internet is one thing. One would expect the people who use it to be another–unless they see fit to abuse it with impunity. Like it or not - you make some memorable posts - you can see it as ‘abuse’ or you case see it as “maybe I should spend a little time to think on it before responding in a way that might come back to haunt me later”. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/349 "2014-08-27T14:23:57Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > The Internet is one thing. One would expect the people who use it to be another–unless they see fit to abuse it with impunity. So every post should be viewed in a vacuum, where previous posts / statements shouldn’t be allowed to add any weight? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/350 "2014-08-27T14:43:16Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > So every post should be viewed in a vacuum, where previous posts / statements shouldn’t be allowed to add any weight? That depends. Is anyone else helping it along? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/351 "2014-08-27T14:45:48Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I am disappointed. I thought that matter was dead and buried with my apology. Apparently you were going to keep it to use against me at an opportune time.:mad: All men have a history. We are, in many ways, the sum total of all our past interactions and as such it is perfectly legitimate to note what you had been in order to understand what you are now. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/352 "2014-08-27T14:47:02Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > That depends. Is anyone else helping it along? Helping it along? So, it’s only okay to bring up previous posts & statements if there is a group consensus? Is the vote taken among the general populace, or is there some sort of committee that decides? Let them bring up whatever they want, and if it is inappropriate, you can rest assured that other posters will let them know. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/353 "2014-08-27T15:01:44Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I am disappointed. I thought that matter was dead and buried with my apology. Apparently you were going to keep it to use against me at an opportune time.:mad: You apologized for the “loud bark”, not for digging up the thread nearly a year after the fact. And I still don’t buy your excuse that your modem prevented you from learing about [_Leck mich im Arsch_](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Leck+mich+im+Arsch) during all that time. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/354 "2014-08-27T15:16:06Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Like it or not - you make some memorable posts - you can see it as ‘abuse’ or you case see it as “maybe I should spend a little time to think on it before responding in a way that might come back to haunt me later”. “But it was _FINE_ when Jack Webb said it! [del]Hell[/del], I mean [del]heck[/del], I mean for Heaven’s Sake, even I laughed!” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/355 "2014-08-27T15:57:44Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > Helping it along? So, it’s only okay to bring up previous posts & statements if there is a group consensus? Is the vote taken among the general populace, or is there some sort of committee that decides? > > Let them bring up whatever they want, and if it is inappropriate, you can rest assured that other posters will let them know. OK, I’ll bide my time… ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/356 "2014-08-27T16:01:41Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > You apologized for the “loud bark”, not for digging up the thread nearly a year after the fact. And I still don’t buy your excuse that your modem prevented you from learing about [_Leck mich im Arsch_](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Leck+mich+im+Arsch) during all that time. Well, I don’t know if I can still get a letter from AOL attesting that 1) the AOL software couldn’t initialize my modem and 2) I have not gone online with AOL for two months, since the modem finked out. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/357 "2014-08-27T16:08:13Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > “But it was _FINE_ when Jack Webb said it! [del]Hell[/del], I mean [del]heck[/del], I mean for Heaven’s Sake, even I laughed!” Slight tangent here: The first few episodes of \* Dragnet \* in 1967 included bolder language than the later ones; similar to what Elliot Stabler or Leroy Gibbs might say these days. However. NBC apparently stepped in and made Webb tone it down. (From what I heard in episodes from the Fifties that I recall, and the old ones I have on DVDs, they didn’t talk that way then; but then again, neither did anyone else on TV.) ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/358 "2014-08-27T16:14:43Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Slight tangent here: The first few episodes of \* Dragnet \* in 1967 included bolder language than the later ones; similar to what Elliot Stabler or Leroy Gibbs might say these days. However. NBC apparently stepped in and made Webb tone it down. (From what I heard in episodes from the Fifties that I recall, and the old ones I have on DVDs, they didn’t talk that way then; but then again, neither did anyone else on TV.) Hint - LET IT GO. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/359 "2014-08-27T16:41:00Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Well, I don’t know if I can still get a letter from AOL attesting that 1) the AOL software couldn’t initialize my modem and 2) I have not gone online with AOL for two months, since the modem finked out. The Wikipedia link was on 11 December and your last post in the thread until you dug it up was on 27 December. You clearly had some way of accessing the Internet during those two weeks. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993/360 "2014-08-27T16:44:48Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > The Wikipedia link was on 11 December and your last post in the thread until you dug it up was on 27 December. You clearly had some way of accessing the Internet during those two weeks. :dubious: Oh, all right. But my desktop is still unable to go online; long story. I’ve been getting online lately via the smartphone I got. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dougie_monty-is-an-immoral-cultist/695993.md?page=19)