# The heck happened to mangetout?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 19, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300 "2006-04-19T14:51:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/1 "2006-04-19T14:51:56Z")
Haven’t seen him post in a while…
Everything Ok?
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/2 "2006-04-19T15:02:23Z")
Has the kingdom of butter melted away?
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### Author:  [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/3 "2006-04-19T15:11:37Z")
Maybe he’s become deeply involved with his abandoned glove project.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/4 "2006-04-20T00:34:26Z")
According to his user profile, his last activity was back on March 5th.
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### Author:  [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/5 "2006-04-20T15:43:08Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#):
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> Has the kingdom of butter melted away?
Maybe he ate it all?
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/6 "2006-04-20T17:06:35Z")
Maybe he went on a diet?
Robin
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### Author:  [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/7 "2006-04-20T19:17:40Z")
He changed his name to Mang_o_tout?
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/8 "2006-04-20T20:27:38Z")
He’s OK, he just e-mailed me back and said he’s on a self imposed haitus. No details.
Glad to hear he’s alright though, he’ll be missed while he’s away.
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### Author:  [@matt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/9 "2006-04-20T20:59:57Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#):
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> He’s OK, he just e-mailed me back and said he’s on a self imposed haitus. No details.
> Glad to hear he’s alright though, he’ll be missed while he’s away.
That’s good to know. Thanks for finding out!
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/10 "2006-04-20T21:10:34Z")
I too wondered this [not long ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7265212#post7265212). His [last post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7135328#post7135328) said “I should go”, which was both enigmatic and a fulfilled prophecy.
Glad to hear everything’s OK. If you’re talking to him, give him my regards.
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### Author:  [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/11 "2006-04-20T22:15:31Z")
Well I’m glad to hear he is alright, I hope he comes back soon. I miss reading **Mange tout** ’s posts.
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### Author:  [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/12 "2006-04-20T22:21:13Z")
> [@jjimm](#):
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> I too wondered this [not long ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7265212#post7265212). His [last post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7135328#post7135328) said “I should go”, which was both enigmatic and a fulfilled prophecy.
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> Glad to hear everything’s OK. If you’re talking to him, give him my regards.
I’d noticed his absence too. Your second link may in part explain it though. **Blake** was incredibly short with **Mangetout** who I’ve always thought of as one of the most courteous of posters.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/13 "2006-04-21T01:54:53Z")
Yeah, I’ve been missing him. And his user name (my favorite).
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### Author:  [@matt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/14 "2006-04-21T07:27:41Z")
> [@Vetch](#):
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> **Mangetout** who I’ve always thought of as one of the most courteous of posters.
[Me too.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6832977&postcount=127) In fact, he makes a lot of people’s lists in that thread.
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### Author:  [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/15 "2006-04-21T09:51:48Z")
The popular feeling is that it’s hard round here for conservatives. But I think it’s actually harder for hard-left-wingers such as **Mangetout** and **SentientMeat**. They feel they’ve said it all before over and over again, presented all their best arguments, given it their best shot. Hence the resort to one-liners, which in turn induces a feeling of shame at appearing to have abandoned rationalist principles by eschewing argument. Fighting a good fight was never easy.
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/16 "2006-04-21T12:49:55Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#):
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> The popular feeling is that it’s hard round here for conservatives. But I think it’s actually harder for hard-left-wingers such as **Mangetout** and **SentientMeat**. They feel they’ve said it all before over and over again, presented all their best arguments, given it their best shot. Hence the resort to one-liners, which in turn induces a feeling of shame at appearing to have abandoned rationalist principles by eschewing argument. Fighting a good fight was never easy.
Very good points.
I’m a moderate conservative and I didn’t even know **Mangetout** was a hard left-winger. He was one of the first posters I engaged when I first came to the Dope, but he seemed so honest and fair that his bias was nearly impossible to detect, for me anyway.
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### Author:  [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/17 "2006-04-21T16:29:52Z")
A lot of socialists in Europe struggle internally over some of the dilemmas which which they are faced. At university, I knew one fellow in particular whose family owned a beautiful property in Wiltshire, where a group of us stayed during one vacation, who practically tortured himself with the challenge posed by Michael Young, architect of the welfare state in Britain and author of _The Rise of the Meritocracy_, namely, that equality of opportunity was a snare and a delusion, and that equality of outcome was what was needed. His reasoning was that equality of opportunity actually makes it more difficult for equality of outcome to come about, because if everyone starts out on a level playing field then the resulting distribution of wealth, however unequal, will be regarded as legitimate.
I note that **Mangetout** ’s average posts per day is a whopping 12.4 (and that’s now after he’s been dormant for 6 weeks or so), so perhaps he was just suffering from burnout.
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### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/18 "2006-04-21T16:37:12Z")
This whole business about socialism and **mangetout** ’s “hard-left” views may well be a red herring. It might have nothing to do with his reasons for taking a break. I always found him to be a solid board citizen, and will be glad to see him come back.
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### Author:  [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/19 "2006-04-21T18:11:49Z")
I miss his posts b/c up until about 30-35 seconds ago I looked at his name as ‘Mange Tout’ and would always wonder who the hell would talk up mange.
The lesson, as always, is I’m an idiot.
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### Author:  [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-heck-happened-to-mangetout/353300/20 "2006-04-21T18:12:53Z")
I miss his posts b/c up until about 30-35 seconds ago I looked at his name as ‘Mange Tout’ and would always wonder who the hell would talk up mange. ‘Man Get Out’ - its an epiphany for me.
The lesson, as always, is I’m an idiot.
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