The Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir is an ancient Babylonian clay tablet dating back to 1750 BC inscribed by customer Nanni to merchant Ea-nasir, complaining about Ea-nasir selling him sub-par copper, a practice Ea-nasir was known for. [knowyourmeme, wikipedia]
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PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 1y
The entire meme structure can be considered historical too. Well played.
notarobot@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Can anyone explain? Sorry
Sinaf@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
notarobot@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
What does it have to do with jerking?
frog@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 1y
The term jerk came from this point in history.
"The guy that sold this copper to me was a jerking."
This was mistranslated to:
"The guy that sold this copper to me was a jerk."
Maven@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y
Historically at least 1 person has jacked off
(This is also a play on rage comics which often started with "le me doing an action" while also having a general theme of "random = funny")
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Big if true
Albbi@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
Well it was big, and then it wasn't afterward.
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It happens