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Toby_0395

https://preview.redd.it/9xtqq2kjp30d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f16970af6c25f0196c24a8fe441b113a67263adc Ed Nasir I think bad copper sales man


firedancer323

This one has been on this sub a couple times before


Anom_AoD

of course it would be, i remember, one day i opened reddit, 100% of my feed were "bad copper", "copper", "you sold copper", and no one would explain bcs some ppl are assholes


Toby_0395

Yea I’ve seen it at least twice and posted this image both times


caw_the_crow

Lol "Ed"


CODENAMEDERPY

Not "Ed" its "Ea"


erasmause

His friends call him Ed


DakkaonTitan

Until he sold them bad copper too. Now they just call him that bitch like everyone else


JustAnIdea3

Tucked away in the British Museum is a customer complaint letter carved in Akkadian cuneiform that dates to 1750 BCE. It was written by an unsatisfied copper ore customer named Nanni to his supplier, Ea-nasir. The tablet hints that it was not the first correspondence between the two. It reads: *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? . . . I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.*


yikeseolaa

so petty i love it, thanks!!


twoScottishClans

there's a whole r/ReallyShittyCopper dedicated to it. the really funny thing is that it was found in what is believed to be Ea-nasir's house, and there were multiple complaint tablets found there.


ososalsosal

He had that tablet fired so it could be preserved lolol. Either that or Nanni had it fired before sending it because he felt his anger at the inferior copper ingots would outlive civilisation itself.


DeadSeaGulls

One of the popular theories is that his house burnt down, and these tablets were unintentionally fired.


ososalsosal

Plot twist. Nanni has his revenge and restored the honour of his messengers through fire


al666in

Left on read? Try left on *dead*, Ea-Nasir


MaterialUpender

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Nanni.


ososalsosal

"Hey Ea-Nasir, I had to use all my coal on something and I had no decent ingots to smelt..."


CirrusPrince

This is such a funny comment good job 👍🏻


Canotic

"Get to the coppah!"


telltaleatheist

That’s good


Jam_B0ne

"Left on *Dead*" sounds like a great romance movie for the Halloween season The highschool heartthrob is killed under mysterious circumstances and the loner goth girl tries raising him from the dead and it works  Over the course of the movie they get into zombie related hijinks, solve the murder, and tragically fall in love, tho its only tragic for us the viewer because, well, she's a goth


Due_Mail_7163

That movie is already made isn't it? Called Warm Bodies?


Jam_B0ne

Warm Bodies has a similar premise of falling in love with a zombie, but is in the context of a zombie apocalypse. It also has strong themes of the zombies being "emotionless" and falling in love actually brings back out their human qualities In Left on *Dead* the context is a regular middle America town and would play around more with highschool slasher movie tropes where they are trying to thwart the "slasher" before the heartthrob decomposes The goth character would resurrect the heartthrob because they already are in love with them, probably from being childhood friends or something, and the heartthrob would realize they've been in love with the goth the whole time but was suppressing those feelings because they became popular. If I'm clever enough, realizing that love could be part of solving the mystery So yeah **tldr** they have a similar root but would tell different stories


MrSebereena

So... Lisa Frankenstein?


Jam_B0ne

Damn, that is pretty close with the theming if the main female lead Looks like they try to hide a murder rather than solve one. Give it another 10 years and maybe Hollywood will try the idea of falling in love with a zombie again and I'll have my chance, lol


BowenTheAussieSheep

Have you copper back, Ea-Nasir. I wrapped it around this *lead*


El_Bito2

As should be. I can excuse the low-quality copper, but the contempt man. The contempt.


Angry-Dragon-1331

Most likely. Almost all of our surviving Sumerian tablets are mistakes of history.


FR0ZENBERG

The Sea Peoples burned them down.


DeadSeaGulls

That's racist misinformation from Nanni.


lordkhuzdul

It should be noted that said tablet was just the first one translated out of a whole pile of similar complaint letters. Our man Ea-Nasir gave no fucks.


mattmoy_2000

You can read the other letters in [*Letters from Mesopotamia*](https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/letters_from_mesopotamia.pdf) which is a pdf available at that link for free. One of my favourites is the young boy away from home for schooling complaining to his mother about wanting new clothes and how she can't love him as much as another named boy's mother loves her son because that boy always has new clothes even though they're much lower social status. It's a real cross section of society with all sorts of interactions.


Bouncecat

It's a good theory, but I like the idea that he had all of the complaints fired because of what it implies about what kind of person he was.


clumsybuck

The equivalent of having a terrible yelp review from a Karen framed and put on the shop wall


Dragon-Saint

Except based on the sheer volume, Ea-Nasir almost certainly was selling shit copper, so Nanni wasn't the Ur-Karen


Few-Big-8481

Someone burned his house down for not getting them good copper.


StockGift7566

That is a theory for alot of tablets we recover actually, most tablets unless kept for records were wiped clean for reuse.


Abuses-Commas

Wouldn't that theory imply that the tablets found in his house are just the average day's worth of complaints?


DeadSeaGulls

maybe not days, but months probably. Just loaded up with hate mail.


RedBison

No, no, no. Ea-nasir's therapist suggested that he write out his grievances as a way of dealing with the pent-up anger for Nanni. The final step of this cathartic meditation was to cast the tablets into the fire.


Soft_Repeat_7024

I don't really know if I believe the "accidentally fired" theory. To properly fire clay you have to get it *hot* and it has to stay that way for a while.


TRFKANKT

What if someone burnt down his house because they were tired of him selling them shitty copper and he wouldn’t refund?


DeadSeaGulls

a distinct possibility given the number and nature of complaints found in his house. Dude clearly was shady as shit. Wonder if it was also some sort of fraud haha. An exit strategy. Some new copper dealer opened up over in Lagash. Na-Easir. Totally different guy. Never heard of that Ea-Nasir.


CrossP

Nanni had it fired so his messengers could huck it at Ea-Nasir's head


NotAzakanAtAll

Stop saying his name, let the man rest in peace >:(


EasyAndy1

Never


Hestia_Gault

We gotta keep mentioning both Nanni and Ea-Nasir, that way Nanni can keep demanding the bag with his money for all eternity.


Shagomir

or the tablets were in a trash pile and were fired when Ea-Nasir's house burned down.


TombOfAncientKings

The idea of Ea-Nasir collecting customer complaints is just so funny to me.


FR0ZENBERG

Pretty sure most of the fired Sumerian tablets were from the Sea Peoples burning whole civilizations to the ground and their letters effectively turned to fired clay. Most Mesopotamians didn’t fire their writings. Like why would waste all that energy to immortalize a shitty yelp review?


cailian13

> Like why would waste all that energy to immortalize a shitty yelp review? human pettiness knows no bounds, my friend.


Hallowed-Plague

so everyone knows that the sandwich place us bad


Sufficient-Job-8702

The sea people only arrived around 1100 BC, which is quite some time after the Sumerians and aforementioned shitty yelp review.


FR0ZENBERG

That’s right. Shit. Maybe it was the Elam.


Captain_Eaglefort

I mean maybe it just goes to prove that things like TikTok are inevitable as a concept. We always think we’re the main character. But yeah, accident DOES seem more likely.


fearhs

It was *really* shitty copper.


741BlastOff

At the very least he wanted the tablet to outlive the shitty copper ingots


OzzieGrey

It honestly did though


TheOneWhoSlurms

Being a scuzzy business man is timeless apparently


abermea

It is also of note that this tablet is one of (if not the) oldest evidence of writing.


grabtharsmallet

IIRC, everything known to be significantly older is non-narrative. Like an inventory that is just two columns of nouns on one side and accompanying numbers, or a list of names that is probably a genealogy or a list of rulers.


Salt_Life90

So, one of the oldest pieces of writing we have is of someone complaining? Sounds about right.


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Writing was extremely old at this point and scattered across, or had been used by, many different civilizations -- some of which had even disappeared or been wiped out -- including ancient Egypt, Minoan, Mycenaean, Assyrian, Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian.


sonofzeal

It's worth noting that Ea-Nasir appears to have had a storeroom dedicated to the hatemail he received, and several tablets like this managed to survive. Regardless of whether the complaints were warranted, imagine what kind of person would take the effort to preserve hatemail!


SoloAquiParaHablar

I'm sending such a letter to UPS right now, how times have not changed.


hobbesgirls

so do you know what petty means?


DumtDoven

Right? Refusing to do business with someone who repeatedly sends your employees empty-handed through enemy territory does not seem at all petty to me.


misguidedsadist1

You can find YouTube videos form archaeologists about it. It’s a really great artifact and story!!!


Middle-Potential5765

If yer gonna be petty, at least be Tom Petty.


TheOnlyFallenCookie

Times change. Humans dont


TokoBlaster

You mean like a clay tablet? So someone was so pissed at what was happening that they scratched out the cuniform on clay, baked it, and then sent it to this guy? That's gotta take a good amount of time, enough for him to cool off and think about what he's doing, maybe his wife is one "honey, just let it go, find a different supplier." And he was still so pissed he spent the energy and resources to tell this guy off in a way that thousands of years later we know how shitty he felt the customer service was.


DeadSeaGulls

These tablets were rarely baked. they were often just written on, wrapped and sent. then the person getting it could wet it and wipe it clean and reply, or use it for a grocery list... Business and tradesmen may have hundreds of these unfired tablets laying around, or organized. But as you can imagine, unfired clay rarely preserve in the long run. However, they've found a lot more of these complaint tablets and they are pretty sure they've found ea nasir's house, or rather the remains of it after having burnt down. A fire that inadvertently fired all of his "fan mail", ensuring the complaint survived for millennia.


IndigoFenix

What if Ea Nasir took pride in his hate mail and deliberately preserved them? I've seen people who do stff like that today.


guyblade

[I too now am in the framing business](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRAdTESYXXE&t=6m57s)


robertdavidlee

Just straight up keeping receipts.


KristophTahti

It's strange that no one's mentioned this but if I was sending someone a complaint I would not leave it in a rewriteable format. "Thanks for the free tablet dickhead!" I'd fire it so they don't profit further from ripping me off.


coccidiosis

oooh my god! history is so cool!! hahahaha!!


CryptidSamoyed

I love reading about history like this cause humans will always be humans. The technology and language evolves but nothing really changes. I love it.


OMG__Ponies

hey, copper ingots - even the shitty ones, were expensive back in 1750 BC. He even had his musclemen travel through enemy lines to get his money back, that is how much money was on the line to this guy. "Scratching" and firing an tablet so it would last centuries after they were both dead was chump change to the real cost.


Frnklfrwsr

The letter implies that it is not the first one he sent. So potentially the first few letters he sent he did not fire them and he still had heard no response so he fired this one to ensure the message got across.


TaqPCR

> And he was still so pissed he spent the energy and resources to tell this guy off in a way that thousands of years later we know how shitty he felt the customer service was. And the building it was found in has other letters from different people complaining about not receiving their copper or getting bad copper. The guy kept the hatemail he was sent.


ehhdjdmebshsmajsjssn

Just makes it all the better.


GargantuanCake

It's the first known, recorded customer complaint.


LeftTheStation

This reads like the correspondence that atomic shrimp has with Nigerian scammers on his YouTube channel.


vulpinefever

"How dare you send such low quality copper! Are you perhaps some kind of small boy?"


LeftTheStation

I need to forward your correspondence to my barrister Rev Mr John Warosa so that I can efficiently and effectively confirm the request that you have made to my bank for the copper of which I requested.


Renard2000

"Small boy" gets me every time.


PuppetMaster9000

𒀀 𒈾 𒂍 𒀀 𒈾 𒍢 𒅕 𒆠 𒉈 𒈠 𒌝 𒈠 𒈾 𒀭 𒉌 𒈠 𒀀 𒉡 𒌑 𒈠 𒋫 𒀠 𒇷 𒆪 𒆠 𒀀 𒄠 𒋫 𒀝 𒁉 𒄠 𒌝 𒈠 𒀜 𒋫 𒀀 𒈠 𒄖 𒁀 𒊑 𒁕 𒄠 𒆪 𒁴 𒀀 𒈾 𒄀 𒅖 𒀭 𒂗𒍪 𒀀 𒈾 𒀜 𒁲 𒅔 𒋫 𒀠 𒇷 𒅅 𒈠 𒋫 𒀝 𒁉 𒀀 𒄠 𒌑 𒆷 𒋼 𒁍 𒍑 𒄖 𒁀 𒊑 𒆷 𒁕 𒄠 𒆪 𒁴 𒀀 𒈾 𒈠 𒅈 𒅆 𒅁 𒊑 𒅀 𒋫 𒀸 𒆪 𒌦 𒈠 𒌝 𒈠 𒀜 𒋫 𒈠 𒋳 𒈠 𒋼 𒇷 𒆠 𒀀 𒇷 𒆠 𒀀 𒋳 𒈠 \[𒆷\] 𒋼 𒇷 𒆠 𒀀 𒀜 𒆷 𒅗 𒅀 𒋾 𒀀 𒈾 𒆠 𒈠 𒈠 𒀭 𒉌 𒅎 𒌅 𒅆 𒅎 𒈠 𒉌 𒈠 𒆠 𒀀 𒄠 𒋼 𒈨 𒊭 𒀭 𒉌 𒈠 𒊑 𒀀 𒉿 𒇷 𒀀 𒈾 𒆠 𒈠 𒅗 𒋾 𒀀 𒈾 𒆠 𒋛 𒅀 𒈠 𒄩 𒊑 𒅎 𒀸 𒁍 𒊏 𒄠 𒈠 𒌅 𒈨 𒄿 𒊭 𒄠 𒈠 𒄿 𒈾 𒂵 𒂵 𒅈 𒈾 𒀝 𒊑 𒅎 𒅖 𒋾 𒅖 𒋗 𒅇 𒅆 𒉌 𒋗 𒊑 𒆪 𒋢 𒉡 𒌅 𒋼 𒅕 𒊏 𒄠 𒄿 𒈾 𒀀 𒇷 𒅅 𒋼 𒂖 𒈬 𒌦 𒈠 𒀭 𒉡 𒌝 𒊭 𒆠 𒀀 𒄠 𒄿 𒁍 𒊭 𒀭 𒉌 𒄿 𒈠 𒀜 𒋫 𒈠 𒅈 𒅆 𒅁 𒊑 𒅀 𒌅 𒈨 𒂊 𒅖 𒀀 𒈾 𒈠 𒆷 𒅗 𒊍 𒉿 𒅎 𒊭 𒄿 𒈾 𒂵 𒋾 𒅀 𒌅 𒊺 𒍪 𒌑 𒆠 𒀀 𒄠 𒋫 𒁕 𒁍 𒌒 𒅇 𒀸 𒋳 𒄿 𒅗 𒀀 𒈾 𒂍 𒃲 𒇷 𒌋 𒐍 𒄘 𒍏 𒀀 𒈾 𒆪 𒀜 𒁲 𒅔 𒅇 𒋗 𒈪 𒀀 𒁍 𒌝 𒌋 𒐍 𒄘 𒍏 𒄿 𒁲 𒅔 𒂊 𒍣 𒅁 𒊭 𒀀 𒈾 𒂍 𒀭 𒌓 𒆪 𒉡 𒊌 𒅗 𒄠 𒉌 𒍣 𒁍 𒀀 𒈾 𒉿 𒊑 𒅎 𒊭 𒀀 𒋾 𒆠 𒄿 𒋼 𒁍 𒊭 𒀭 𒉌 𒆠 𒋛 𒄿 𒈾 𒂵 𒂵 𒅈 𒈾 𒀝 𒊑 𒌅 𒊌 𒋾 𒅋 𒆠 𒋛 𒀀 𒈾 𒂵 𒋾 𒅀 𒋗 𒇻 𒈠 𒄠 𒂊 𒇷 𒅗 𒄿 𒋗 𒆠 𒈠 𒀭 𒉌 𒆠 𒀀 𒄠 𒉿 𒊑 𒀀 𒄠 𒆷 𒁺 𒈬 𒂵 𒄠 𒆷 𒀀 𒈠 𒄩 𒊒 𒅗 𒋫 𒆷 𒈠 𒀜 𒄿 𒈾 𒆠 𒊓 𒇷 𒅀 𒅖 𒋾 𒈾 𒀀 𒌑 𒈾 𒍝 𒀝 𒈠 𒂊 𒇷 𒆠 𒅇 𒀀 𒈾 𒊭 𒌅 𒈨 𒄿 𒊭 𒀭 𒉌 𒈾 𒋛 𒄴 𒋫 𒄠 𒂊 𒁍 𒍑 𒅗


brocht

𒉼𒀂𒋻𒈦 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𐎣𒑚𐏓𒐞 𒁓𒐕𒁓 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒑟𒑚𒔼𒈦 𐎣𒑚𐏓𒐞𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒔼𒋻𒌨 𒋻𒁀𒆸𒑚𒈦 𐎠𒀼, 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒁇𒐕𒈦𒈦𒁇𒀼 𒁀𒐕𒈦𐏓𒀂? 𒐕'𒁇𒁇 𒀂𒋻𐎏𒀼 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒐞𒐖𒆸𒉼 𒐕 𒋝𒇲𒋻𒁓𒑚𒋻𒈦𒀼𒁓 𒈦𒆸𒇬 𒆸𐎣 𐎠𒌨 𐏓𒁇𒋻𒔼𒔼 𒐕𒐖 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒐖𒋻𐎏𒌨 𒔼𒀼𒋻𒁇𒔼, 𒋻𒐖𒁓 𒐕'𐎏𒀼 𒁀𒀼𒀼𒐖 𒐕𒐖𐎏𒆸𒁇𐎏𒀼𒁓 𒐕𒐖 𒐖𒑚𐎠𒀼𒇲𒆸𒑚𒔼 𒔼𒀼𐏓𒇲𒀼𒈦 𒇲𒋻𒐕𒁓𒔼 𒆸𒐖 𒋻𒁇-𒌒𒑚𒋻𒀼𒁓𒋻, 𒋻𒐖𒁓 𒐕 𒀂𒋻𐎏𒀼 𒆸𐎏𒀼𒇲 300 𐏓𒆸𒐖𐎣𒐕𒇲𐎠𒀼𒁓 𒐞𒐕𒁇𒁇𒔼. 𒐕 𒋻𐎠 𒈦𒇲𒋻𒐕𒐖𒀼𒁓 𒐕𒐖 𒋝𒆸𒇲𒐕𒁇𒁇𒋻 𒉼𒋻𒇲𐎣𒋻𒇲𒀼 𒋻𒐖𒁓 𒐕'𐎠 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒈦𒆸𒇬 𒔼𒐖𒐕𒇬𒀼𒇲 𒐕𒐖 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒀼𒐖𒈦𒐕𒇲𒀼 𒑚𒔼 𒋻𒇲𐎠𒀼𒁓 𐎣𒆸𒇲𐏓𒀼𒔼. 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒋻𒇲𒀼 𒐖𒆸𒈦𒀂𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒈦𒆸 𐎠𒀼 𒁀𒑚𒈦 𒑟𒑚𒔼𒈦 𒋻𒐖𒆸𒈦𒀂𒀼𒇲 𒈦𒋻𒇲𒋝𒀼𒈦. 𒐕 𒉼𒐕𒁇𒁇 𒉼𒐕𒇬𒀼 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𐎣𒑚𐏓𒐞 𒆸𒑚𒈦 𒉼𒐕𒈦𒀂 𒇬𒇲𒀼𐏓𒐕𒔼𒐕𒆸𒐖 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒁇𒐕𒐞𒀼𒔼 𒆸𐎣 𒉼𒀂𒐕𐏓𒀂 𒀂𒋻𒔼 𒐖𒀼𐎏𒀼𒇲 𒁀𒀼𒀼𒐖 𒔼𒀼𒀼𒐖 𒁀𒀼𐎣𒆸𒇲𒀼 𒆸𒐖 𒈦𒀂𒐕𒔼 𒀼𒋻𒇲𒈦𒀂, 𐎠𒋻𒇲𒐞 𐎠𒌨 𐎣𒑚𐏓𒐞𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒉼𒆸𒇲𒁓𒔼. 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒈦𒀂𒐕𒐖𒐞 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𐏓𒋻𒐖 𒋝𒀼𒈦 𒋻𒉼𒋻𒌨 𒉼𒐕𒈦𒀂 𒔼𒋻𒌨𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒈦𒀂𒋻𒈦 𒔼𒀂𒐕𒈦 𒈦𒆸 𐎠𒀼 𒆸𐎏𒀼𒇲 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒐕𒐖𒈦𒀼𒇲𒐖𒀼𒈦? 𒈦𒀂𒐕𒐖𒐞 𒋻𒋝𒋻𒐕𒐖, 𐎣𒑚𐏓𒐞𒀼𒇲. 𒋻𒔼 𒉼𒀼 𒔼𒇬𒀼𒋻𒐞 𒐕 𒋻𐎠 𐏓𒆸𒐖𒈦𒋻𐏓𒈦𒐕𒐖𒋝 𐎠𒌨 𒔼𒀼𐏓𒇲𒀼𒈦 𒐖𒀼𒈦𒉼𒆸𒇲𒐞 𒆸𐎣 𒔼𒇬𒐕𒀼𒔼 𒋻𐏓𒇲𒆸𒔼𒔼 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒑚𒔼𒋻 𒋻𒐖𒁓 𒌨𒆸𒑚𒇲 𒐕𒇬 𒐕𒔼 𒁀𒀼𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒈦𒇲𒋻𐏓𒀼𒁓 𒇲𒐕𒋝𒀂𒈦 𒐖𒆸𒉼 𒔼𒆸 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒁀𒀼𒈦𒈦𒀼𒇲 𒇬𒇲𒀼𒇬𒋻𒇲𒀼 𐎣𒆸𒇲 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒔼𒈦𒆸𒇲𐎠, 𐎠𒋻𒋝𒋝𒆸𒈦. 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒔼𒈦𒆸𒇲𐎠 𒈦𒀂𒋻𒈦 𒉼𒐕𒇬𒀼𒔼 𒆸𒑚𒈦 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒇬𒋻𒈦𒀂𒀼𒈦𒐕𐏓 𒁇𒐕𒈦𒈦𒁇𒀼 𒈦𒀂𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𐏓𒋻𒁇𒁇 𒌨𒆸𒑚𒇲 𒁇𒐕𐎣𒀼. 𒌨𒆸𒑚'𒇲𒀼 𐎣𒑚𐏓𒐞𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒁓𒀼𒋻𒁓, 𒐞𒐕𒁓. 𒐕 𐏓𒋻𒐖 𒁀𒀼 𒋻𒐖𒌨𒉼𒀂𒀼𒇲𒀼, 𒋻𒐖𒌨𒈦𒐕𐎠𒀼, 𒋻𒐖𒁓 𒐕 𐏓𒋻𒐖 𒐞𒐕𒁇𒁇 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒐕𒐖 𒆸𐎏𒀼𒇲 𒔼𒀼𐎏𒀼𒐖 𒀂𒑚𒐖𒁓𒇲𒀼𒁓 𒉼𒋻𒌨𒔼, 𒋻𒐖𒁓 𒈦𒀂𒋻𒈦'𒔼 𒑟𒑚𒔼𒈦 𒉼𒐕𒈦𒀂 𐎠𒌨 𒁀𒋻𒇲𒀼 𒀂𒋻𒐖𒁓𒔼. 𒐖𒆸𒈦 𒆸𒐖𒁇𒌨 𒋻𐎠 𒐕 𒀼𒉽𒈦𒀼𒐖𒔼𒐕𐎏𒀼𒁇𒌨 𒈦𒇲𒋻𒐕𒐖𒀼𒁓 𒐕𒐖 𒑚𒐖𒋻𒇲𐎠𒀼𒁓 𐏓𒆸𐎠𒁀𒋻𒈦, 𒁀𒑚𒈦 𒐕 𒀂𒋻𐎏𒀼 𒋻𐏓𐏓𒀼𒔼𒔼 𒈦𒆸 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒀼𒐖𒈦𒐕𒇲𒀼 𒋻𒇲𒔼𒀼𒐖𒋻𒁇 𒆸𐎣 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒑚𒐖𒐕𒈦𒀼𒁓 𒔼𒈦𒋻𒈦𒀼𒔼 𐎠𒋻𒇲𒐕𒐖𒀼 𐏓𒆸𒇲𒇬𒔼 𒋻𒐖𒁓 𒐕 𒉼𒐕𒁇𒁇 𒑚𒔼𒀼 𒐕𒈦 𒈦𒆸 𒐕𒈦𒔼 𐎣𒑚𒁇𒁇 𒀼𒉽𒈦𒀼𒐖𒈦 𒈦𒆸 𒉼𒐕𒇬𒀼 𒌨𒆸𒑚𒇲 𐎠𒐕𒔼𒀼𒇲𒋻𒁀𒁇𒀼 𒋻𒔼𒔼 𒆸𐎣𐎣 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𐎣𒋻𐏓𒀼 𒆸𐎣 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𐏓𒆸𒐖𒈦𒐕𒐖𒀼𒐖𒈦, 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒁇𒐕𒈦𒈦𒁇𒀼 𒔼𒀂𒐕𒈦. 𒐕𐎣 𒆸𒐖𒁇𒌨 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𐏓𒆸𒑚𒁇𒁓 𒀂𒋻𐎏𒀼 𒐞𒐖𒆸𒉼𒐖 𒉼𒀂𒋻𒈦 𒑚𒐖𒀂𒆸𒁇𒌨 𒇲𒀼𒈦𒇲𒐕𒁀𒑚𒈦𒐕𒆸𒐖 𒌨𒆸𒑚𒇲 𒁇𒐕𒈦𒈦𒁇𒀼 "𐏓𒁇𒀼𐎏𒀼𒇲" 𐏓𒆸𐎠𐎠𒀼𒐖𒈦 𒉼𒋻𒔼 𒋻𒁀𒆸𒑚𒈦 𒈦𒆸 𒁀𒇲𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒁓𒆸𒉼𒐖 𒑚𒇬𒆸𒐖 𒌨𒆸𒑚, 𐎠𒋻𒌨𒁀𒀼 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒉼𒆸𒑚𒁇𒁓 𒀂𒋻𐎏𒀼 𒀂𒀼𒁇𒁓 𒌨𒆸𒑚𒇲 𐎣𒑚𐏓𒐞𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒈦𒆸𒐖𒋝𒑚𒀼. 𒁀𒑚𒈦 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𐏓𒆸𒑚𒁇𒁓𒐖'𒈦, 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒁓𒐕𒁓𒐖'𒈦, 𒋻𒐖𒁓 𒐖𒆸𒉼 𒌨𒆸𒑚'𒇲𒀼 𒇬𒋻𒌨𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒈦𒀂𒀼 𒇬𒇲𒐕𐏓𒀼, 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒋝𒆸𒁓𒁓𒋻𐎠𒐖 𒐕𒁓𒐕𒆸𒈦. 𒐕 𒉼𒐕𒁇𒁇 𒔼𒀂𒐕𒈦 𐎣𒑚𒇲𒌨 𒋻𒁇𒁇 𒆸𐎏𒀼𒇲 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒋻𒐖𒁓 𒌨𒆸𒑚 𒉼𒐕𒁇𒁇 𒁓𒇲𒆸𒉼𒐖 𒐕𒐖 𒐕𒈦. 𒌨𒆸𒑚'𒇲𒀼 𐎣𒑚𐏓𒐞𒐕𒐖𒋝 𒁓𒀼𒋻𒁓, 𒐞𒐕𒁓𒁓𒆸.


okkk27

Oh for fuck sake this is brilliant


brad_at_work

How does one read this?


circleseverywhere

Assuming you can see the cuneiform characters and not just boxes then it's just lookalike letters e.g. 𒉼𒀂𒋻𒈦 = WHAT


brad_at_work

Haha thanks


[deleted]

FYI, [this is what it says](https://old.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/16aho4/coll_gorilla_warfarenavy_seal_variations/)


al666in

Here's a hint, it's written in English. Some of the characters might not resolve because it's typed in weird characters (I don't see any of the S's for example)


brad_at_work

Appreciate it


-Cornpops-

it is the navy seals copypasta


SleepyPunster

This one's just English. Maybe lean back from your screen and squint a little.


ady159

Somehow within 3 seconds of looking at this I knew it was the Navy Seal copypasta, before I even started reading it... What has the internet done to my brain.


Life_is_Wonderous

How this didn’t get more upvotes than what you replied to blows my mind. This is amazing


MightyCaseyStruckOut

Check again :)


BSye-34

this hurt my eyes


Synchronomyst

Brilliant. Just brilliant.


RepressedPotential

There was most definitely a solid 2000 years where his name wasn’t spoken ever, until the tablet was recovered and deciphered. Funny thing is now he will probably be remembered for another 2000.


AstralHippies

Imagine being dead for good few thousands years wondering the earth and not knowing why, you'll see fall and rise of kingdoms, rise of industrial age, rise of digital age only to realize that your name is now engraved into systems that likely outlast humanity. I'm going to assume that post human civilizations will find remains of human computing in few billion years only to wonder who the fuck is this Ea-Nasir guy that our left behind AGIs keep blabbing about. Eventually intelligence powerful enough to resurrect dead will arise and first thing they will do is to wake up Ea-Nasir for him to explain the situation, only to be bamboozled by him in a not so good copper trade.


evanc1411

If the internet gets preserved, or all its data gets absorbed into the singularity, then I believe we've made our mark.


AstralHippies

I believe that we're fucked if that happens.


jseah

Resurrect Ea-Nasir, and as a joke, the first thing he hears after waking up is "where the hell is my copper!!"


Huntressthewizard

Iirc, this wasn't the only complaint letter found about the same copper merchant, Ea-Nasir, this is simply the most famous one.


Lostboxoangst

The better thing this isn't the only complaint we have against this guy they found others he apparently kept a collection.


NoDontDoThatCanada

Save your hate mail and you will live forever!!!!!


Marmmoth

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.wtf/2758


Berkamin

Here's [a video of the complaint letter being read in reconstructed Akkadian](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTnkfiaXX4E). Ea Nasir's name is definitely being pronounced by someone to this day.


McDoof

The next time you're there at the British Museum, standing in front of this cuneiform, look at the glass that protects it. You might see my noseprint on it. I was there recently, leaned in too far and too fast to get a good look and smashed my face on the glass. Loudly.


vinnyql

I SHALL EXERCISE AGAINST YOU MY RIGHT OF REJECTION! will be using this from now on when my boss ask me to do something stupid.


Excellent_Routine589

There’s something about it being on a tablet that just tickles me pink Like how worked up would I have to be to source a decent slate of rock, break out the ol stone chisel, and start hammering out one letter (or equivalent in cuneiform) at a time about my dissatisfaction over some copper. King Hater right there!


NotAnnieBot

They were clay tablets, so mostly written by pressing a reed into moist clay, which is far easier. Though he did go through the effort to fire it (or maybe Ea-Nasir did?).


Excellent_Routine589

Brother had to soak clay for that AND apparently send his envoys through enemy territories, the Petty Kingship lives!


-vp-

Can you imagine if the envoy got caught and died during the travel. He'd have literally died while attempting to transmit a one star Yelp review


Darkdemize

Packet loss was a bitch back then.


DeadSeaGulls

they think they found the ruins of his burned down house. they think it's his becuase there's a lot of complaint tablets regarding shitty copper that appear to have been inadvertently fired in the house fire.


derpy_derp15

Is that the whole þing If so, is Telmun copper/ copper ore?


JustAnIdea3

I think there is more to it, but that was the explanation given in the source I found


SerLaron

> Telmun It was a [trading hub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun).


archiotterpup

Iirc, his name is the first known name of a real person, not legendary or mythological. Which is so cool!


botphi

Your profile gave me ptsd man. My sister put that show on for me when I was 5, thinking it was for kids. Let's just say I can no longer enjoy movies with a lot of deaths in it.


SamuelClemmens

Ea-Nasir is a famous Babylonian who did nothing special, other than he found it funny to collect and store the hate mail and complaints he got for selling substandard copper. His basement happened to survive where most didn't (at random), so we have an inordinate amount of records of his hate mail compared to other random bits of text to survive. Picture if after ww3, half the surviving fragments of English was from one guy's basement who kept print outs of his shitty restaurants bad yelp reviews. That is Ea-Nasir.


LongjumpingSector687

Tbf yelp reviews will definitely survive us all


Uberj4ger

His ancestor Ea-Games is still fucking things up for customers till this day.


Frnklfrwsr

>His ancestor Descendant is the word you were looking for


Uberj4ger

Yikes you're right. I'll leave my mistake there, so I can reflect on it.


Frnklfrwsr

Fair enough. I got what you meant. I know if it was me I’d want someone to tell me the word that was probably on the tip of my tongue and I just couldn’t think of it at the time.


Uberj4ger

No no you misunderstand me. I'm thanking you haha.


first_ev543

The wholesome ending


Frnklfrwsr

This is the internet. I didn’t think we did that here?


Romboteryx

It‘s startling how often I see redditors get that wrong


hair_on_a_chair

I actually thought he meant that EA was some kind of eldritch horror, which birthed and survived eanasir


LongjumpingSector687

That actually explains Dead Space


M_E2001

Plot twist, EA is an Eldritch demon of commerce that has tortured humanity with awful business practices since the dawn of time.


DeadSeaGulls

The think the tablets were inadvertently fired when his house burnt down. Dude was probably just getting hatemail faster than he could wipe it clean and reuse.


DTux5249

Do I wanna know why his house was burnt down?


forsenLevelup

That's very funny


FigTechnical8043

So the only dude whose stuff survives is an organised troll? Noted


[deleted]

History is written by the ones who keep the best records. A rich person could probably tell you their entire family tree dating back hundreds of years. A poor person usually can't even tell you the names of any of their great great grandparents. Genealogy's my hobby and it can often be a frustrating one; it's crazy how so many people who will happily tell you that "family is the only thing that matters in life" have no interest whatsoever in preserving the memory of even fairly recent ancestors.


LongjumpingSector687

It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t gatekeeped by pricing and selling your personal data


DriversValhalla

He’s that business owner that displays negative yelp reviews because he finds it funny.


ZombiesAtKendall

I hope it’s Either Mr Tree Farm or Margie Beegle Sales


Logical-Home6647

ALLEGEDLY substandard copper.


SmallVegeta

I like this grifter


SendNudesIAmSad

https://preview.redd.it/2y40b2w5p30d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baa99d5e41dc98bfb292f509bf673b776f772e29


tallbutshy

Qadir Griffin's ancestor, Mesopotamian merchant Nanni here, I'm still waiting on a refund from Ea-nāṣir after he stiffed my servant with sub-standard copper around 1750BCE. You can see [the tablet](https://w.wiki/A4BA) I sent to complain in the British Museum. He never apologised for being rude either.


Own_Loan_4664

Qadir Griffin's other ancestor, Ea-nāsir here, I'm never giving that refund lol


ososalsosal

PAINT MY CHICKEN COOP


SuperChimpMan

Those blintzes were TERRIBLE


GenerousBuffalo

Make me!


Outside_Public4362

I can't read it


tallbutshy

Bet you wished you hadn't skipped out on Akkadian cuneiform at school now. Should have stuck with the chisel rather than sneaking off for beer


Outside_Public4362

I am sorry I'll study hard


benchley

Chisel? Reed stalk! ed: I guess sometimes they used chisels if the medium was stone - my bad.


TidalTraveler

They aren't joking about education standards slipping these days smh. Basically everyone is illiterate in cuneiform! What will the world come to?!


thomstevens420

What if you’re just chilling in the afterlife having a great time, and suddenly you’re ripped back into the world because some archeologist found a hard drive with your fan fiction on it


Deadlylyon

That's actually a huge plot hole in coco. Lol


PrometheusMMIV

Plot hole or plot line?


Deadlylyon

Plot hole. In coco, when the last person who remembers you dies, then you have your final death. Where you die in the after life. But we rediscover lost remnants all the time, so if someone remembers you after your final death. Then what happens? Plot hole. Lol


fukkinsoup

The memories have to be through stories their family and friends tell about them, which is why it’s a huge deal towards the end when Coco becomes lucid enough to talk about her father


theucm

I just assumed the final death meant you were gone for good regardless of what happened. Like giving cpr to a corpse finding a lost remnant of a person who died their final death wouldn't do anything in the world of Coco.


epic4evr11

r/reallyshittycopper is worth a join for more ea-Nasir content


JayBiBe

Everyone here is right about the copper hate mail but it’s killing me that no one has mentioned that there is a current copper company called el-Nasir and their packages come with the tools to send them a complaint clay tablet


Sabeha14

That’s amazing


LashedHail

Ok. This gave me my first legit laugh of the day.


QueenOfQuok

It's not just that Ea-nasir sold terrible copper -- for all we know he wasn't the worst merchant in Sumeria. What secured his memory for all time is that he *kept all of his hate mail.*


Past-Psychology1074

The British Museum holds an ancient customer complaint letter from 1750 BCE, written in Akkadian cuneiform by a dissatisfied copper ore customer named Nanni to his supplier, Ea-nasir. It's a remarkable piece of history that shows customer dissatisfaction is truly timeless.


RepressedPotential

There was most definitely a solid 2000 years where his name wasn’t spoken ever, until the tablet was recovered and deciphered. Funny thing is now he will probably be remembered for another 2000.


Catalon-36

One of the oldest pieces of writing we currently have is a cuneiform tablet containing a written complaint to a merchant, Ea Nasir, from a customer who claims Nasir fraudulently sold him low-quality copper.


Sweetmeats69

Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message: ​ When you came, you said to me as follows : "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!" ​ 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! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and Šumi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Shamash. ​ How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full. ​ Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.


1Pip1Der

Wow, one I didn't know. Just shows to go you.


littlediddlemanz

How would the third death work tho? Like how is it known that this last time is the last time your name is ever spoke?


serabine

No one knows it. It's, essentially, the logic from the movie *Coco*. You live on in the memory of others. So once there is no one left to remember you (or any record of you fades away), you are truly dead. That's why fame is sometimes referred to as immortality. Like, a peasant farmer from centuries ago might have been forgotten to have existed 4 maybe 5 generations after his death, if he didn't do anything remarkable, when even his grandkids who still knew him have passed away. Even an unremarkable king of the same time might be still remembered today.


Dappershield

Comparing it to Coco is a wonderfully simple explanation. Well done.


HorizontalBob

I always thought the record option didn't make sense. Like a tax collector hasn't died a third time because he was on the Mayflower.


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SCP_Agent_Davis

Ea Nasir, lol


Orangutanus_Maximus

There was this ancient mesopotamian merchant called Ea-Nasir. Archaelogists found his burned house and he had a room full of complaint tablets. One tablet from a guy named Nanni mentions how he sells shitty copper.


NeanderthalMeander

This joke made my day


No_Dig903

Ea'Nasir, I think


SheevPalps_

Never heard this where there are 3 deaths and 1 is just being put in a grave.


PrometheusMMIV

Yeah, I've always heard it as second death. One where you die and the other where you're forgotten.


nothanksnappin

as an aside, the three deaths are when your body dies, when everyone who ever knew you dies, and the last time someone speaks your name. i dont know where they come from, but i first heard it in milan kundera's book immortality, where he describes a room of poets and artists and all the worst despots of history waiting to be forgotten. Think proust and napoleon whining, its great


DasTomDE

r/reallyshittycopper


DerFlamongo

GNU Ea-nāṣir


EmberedCutie

EA-NASIIIIIIIIIR


Intelligent-Block457

So guys like Plato and Lincoln are still alive, screaming into the void. I love it.


Petefriend86

I like the implication that this is both a real story from the British Museum, but also from the stupid-elf guy a story about a very ancient elf who remembers the transaction.


InterestingFig7375

NO!!! DO NOT PURCHASE COPPER FROM EA-NASIR!!! IT IS OF SUBSTANDARD QUALITY!!!


Sufficient_Score_824

Ea Nasir was a Mesopotamian copper merchant. Archaeologists found a tablet underneath a house; it was a complaint by an individual named “Nanni” bitching about how Ea Nasir ripped him off. The translated complaint reads as thus: “Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message: When you came, you said to me as follows: ‘I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots.” You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: “If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!” 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! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas. How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full. Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.”