Re: Melancholic crosspost

On 29.09.2022 12.44, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> 
>> On 28.09.2022 12.53, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>>>
>>>> On 25.09.2022 18.34, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>> [email protected] (Sn!pe) wrote in
>>>>> news:1pyrk3r.1pegkp314iufN%snipeco.2 @gmail.com:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Merlyne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Like in the olden days when I was a kid, we had to physically get
>>>>>>> up and walk over to the tv to change the channel.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Olden Days?  OLDEN DAYS ???2?  Anyone might think that you are
>>>>>> living in the past.  I didn't get where I am today by living in
>>>>>> the past.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pshaw, they just don't make nostalgia like they used to.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I disagree. The older I get, the better nostalgia gets.
>>>>
>>>> Could it be that there's just more of it...?
>>>>
>>> Maybe.
>>> Most of the bands that I liked as teenager are still touring.
>>> So there's that.
>>
>> Your nostalgia is mostly music based, then?
> 
> I accept this premise.
> It's not like I'm romanticizing the idea that we used to be able to buy
> 2 loaves of bread for a dollar or weird things like that.

Back when I was a kid we could buy patries from the day before for 10 
ører each at the bakery next door. (That would have been about ha'penny 
in english money back then.)

>> For my part I still relish that time a made a really cutting snide
>> remark to my boss...
>>
> Do tell.

Oh I don't remember the specifics, but he was being dick about all his 
new initiatives for business development - which never made any money.
And my remark was very snide and cutting indeed...

BeH