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[-] [email protected] 50 points 3 days 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] 34 points 3 days 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] 18 points 3 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days 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] 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 days 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 3 days 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] 23 points 3 days 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 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

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

𒂍𒀀𒈾𒍢𒅕 to clarify for everybody

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

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

Legend

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

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

Lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

A great touch, attached in a little bag too!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Looks like bad copper to me.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

This is fantastic.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days ago

looks good to me

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days 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] 3 points 3 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

See the linked Wikipedia Article

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Should have saved this dank meme for Mesopotamia Monday

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Its a diamond 💎 alloy.

Obvious /s

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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

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

Looks more like a Harbor Freight brand.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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

this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
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