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[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago

If it's true that a man dies twice: once when his body fails, the second when his name is last spoken...

Then I swear this cheeky fucker is going to outlive us all!

[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not again, Ea-Nasir. You cannot keep getting away with thisi

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Nanni tried to warn us but we didn't listen.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago

What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt!

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Ea-nāṣir: "Lol, this one goes in the pile!"

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I usually think this joke is beaten into the ground, but I like this execution, it's great!

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno it's only been like 4,000 years. I think that's a pretty easy geological excavation to beat it back down some more.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

This one never gets old to me. There's something endearing about seeing people being their assholish selves in an everyday setting from over 3,700 years ago.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I love this meme. It is as beautiful and enduring as the copper ingots I once received from the honorable Ea-nāṣir of Ur. Many blessings upon his house.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Ea-nāṣir funds social media bots to polish his image because of all of the money he saves selling low grade copper ore

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

"But, we were highly trusted in Ancient Sumeria, honest!"

"Your grasp of metalworking and material science looks like it belongs in 3000 B.C. too."

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

You have to admit, quality or not, the guy has the longest running brand recognition. Any PR is good PR.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Lmao "questions, complaints? Fill out the clay tablet..."

Legend

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

“…unless your are Nanni, then shut up”.

Lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

A great touch, attached in a little bag too!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Didn’t recognize the name until I saw the original Akkadian

𒂍𒀀𒈾𒍢𒅕 to clarify for everybody

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

looks good to me

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hahaha, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir it's good/bad to know that humans have always been the same.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like bad copper to me.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

This is fantastic.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Mesopotamia's Best! These are the copper fittings that built civilization. In fact it was these exact ones.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe it wouldn't hurt to do some googling? You know what they say, what's on the internet is chiseled in stone.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Should have saved this dank meme for Mesopotamia Monday

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Its a diamond 💎 alloy.

Obvious /s

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not a history buff so I don't understand the reference.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

See the linked Wikipedia Article

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

"Those are speed-holes. They make the car go faster."

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Looks more like a Harbor Freight brand.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's a long "a"? I've been using a short "a" this whole time.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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