Re: Melancholic crosspost

On 02.10.2022 13.12, Merlyne wrote:
> 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.

Probably not, though. My sarcasm is mostly directed at the 
power-structure - rich bastards, religion, politicians and such...

BeH