Re: Melancholic crosspost

BeH <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Oct 2022 23:46:51 +0200
Newsgroups alt.cake,alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup
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On 01.10.2022 17.50, Merlyne wrote:
> [posted and mailed]

[eh, no it wasn't]

> On 30 Sep 2022, you wrote in alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup:
> 
>> On 30.09.2022 18.31, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>>>
>>>> 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...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Worst. Story. Ever.
>>> Shame on me for getting my hopes up.
>>
>> Yeah, I know. I'm not a very nice person to talk to...
>>
> I don't believe that for a second.

I do have my moments... but then suddenly sarcasm.

BeH