In article , Andrew Gideon
wrote:

Bob Gardner wrote:

I don't see it as sarcasm....I've said the same thing hundreds of times.

Right. The controller might have some reason for you to not join at the
moment. That's occurred to me a few times - although I believe that I was
given a head's up on this from the controller each of those times.

Yes, I've been told on several occasions, "Vectors through the final
approach course for faster traffic behing you", and then been vectored
back around to join the localizer from the other side.