Re: Melancholic crosspost

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> On 01.10.2022 17.50, Merlyne wrote:
>> [posted and mailed]
It's weird it posted that. I must have clicked on something.
I didn't get an error for [email protected]. LOL!

> 
> [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.
> 

Me too! I am the evil oldest sibling after all.
Although I usually try to avoid being sarcastic at the person I'm 
talking to useless they started it.

It's also hard to get a sense of what someone is like on usenet. It's 
all rather one dimensional. So you might be making sarcastic commments 
to me all the time and I'm completely missing it.