It's obviously been painted over and the word "Copper" in the text is replacing some other word that was there before. But I have no idea what it was before.
Minutes ago, I was hoping to get laid by the new person I'm texting. However, it's past 9pm on a Friday and they went to sleep. Totally understandable, I think.
Now, I'm laughing at an obscure history reference that I just learned through a community called "Really Shitty Copper," and my nerd-brain is telling me, "This is better anyway."
Meanwhile, some distant voice in the back of my head is yelling, "Dooooork!"
Would Nanni take comfort in knowing that people would be making fun of Ea-nasir's shitty copper over 3700 years later? I'd find it pretty hilarious, myself.
The best part is that if memory serves right there's another tablet that sheds light on the fact Nanni owed money to Ea-nasir. The reason Ea-Nasir sold Nanni shitty copper was because he was offloading shit goods onto someone he was probably going to take to court anyways. We know about all of this because a copper merchant several millenia ago did the equivalent of saving texts for legal reasons.
The whole "copper absorbs impurities" thing is a long-lasting trope. Copper is very soft and doesn't break like this. Certainly not a ring in half. The matte out is MS Paint to connect 2 probably unrelated images.
38 Comments
BannedVoice@lemmy.zip · 154 pts · 322d
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 84 pts · 322d
It's obviously been painted over and the word "Copper" in the text is replacing some other word that was there before. But I have no idea what it was before.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 104 pts · 322d
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 14 pts · 322d
Eee, I win the prize, hematite was my guess!!
HowAbt2day@futurology.today · 10 pts · 322d
Bloody pinky? (Not the British bloody, btw)
deltapi@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 322d
I think it might be a shadow
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 322d
a shadow of someone else's blood
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 322d
Don't start the dress argument again
awful_neutral@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 322d
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 29 pts · 322d
Maybe it was hematite, which "absorbs negative energy" according to some people. It's about the right amount of space.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 322d
Yeah, and it's also a brittle material known to break when turned into rings. So yeah, believe it
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 322d
I suppose when you make a ring out of natural rust it will break in not too long
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 322d
...that's part of the genius for me
notabot@piefed.social · 85 pts · 322d
There are times when I really wish I had the lack of scrupples to do this sort of thing, but I don't, so I wont.
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 322d
Sociopathy is the secret to becoming a billionaire.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml · 66 pts · 322d
Ea-nasir is just looking for an excuse to sell shitty, I mean, inferior quality copper.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 322d
He was ahead of his time. Inspired a whole lotta people tho
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 55 pts · 322d
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 322d
!reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 322d
Minutes ago, I was hoping to get laid by the new person I'm texting. However, it's past 9pm on a Friday and they went to sleep. Totally understandable, I think.
Now, I'm laughing at an obscure history reference that I just learned through a community called "Really Shitty Copper," and my nerd-brain is telling me, "This is better anyway."
Meanwhile, some distant voice in the back of my head is yelling, "Dooooork!"
... Being in your 30s is fucking weird.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 322d
Would Nanni take comfort in knowing that people would be making fun of Ea-nasir's shitty copper over 3700 years later? I'd find it pretty hilarious, myself.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 322d
The best part is that if memory serves right there's another tablet that sheds light on the fact Nanni owed money to Ea-nasir. The reason Ea-Nasir sold Nanni shitty copper was because he was offloading shit goods onto someone he was probably going to take to court anyways. We know about all of this because a copper merchant several millenia ago did the equivalent of saving texts for legal reasons.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 50 pts · 322d
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 24 pts · 322d
I'm confused by the matte out. Is it to anonymize the ring? Something written on it, maybe?
lemmyng@piefed.ca · 47 pts · 322d
It was not copper. Look at the spacing on the text around the word.
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 22 pts · 322d
I'm embarrassed I skimmed right over that on a first glance. Looks like the original was hematite. I'm going to pretend I was making a bad LotR joke.
yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 322d
In the original picture the ring isn't copper. The word copper is also edited. It was changed to copper for the Ea Nasir joke.
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 322d
The word "Copper" is clearly edited in as well, so it's probably covering a ring made by a different material.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 1 pts · 322d
Maybe hematite? I seem to remember saying that about hematite when I was young and the whole neopagan and new age stuff had a moment.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 322d
The whole "copper absorbs impurities" thing is a long-lasting trope. Copper is very soft and doesn't break like this. Certainly not a ring in half. The matte out is MS Paint to connect 2 probably unrelated images.
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 322d
Ah, I'd never heard that. Found the image and it appears to have originally been hematite.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 322d
Yeah, brittleness of a stone makes sense for a break like that.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 322d
We are censoring jewelry now /s
ulterno@programming.dev · 0 pts · 322d
We are also censoring the name of the material it is made of.
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 322d
That's quite the stretch for an ea-nasir joke. I prefer the wild ones.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 322d
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 322d
The badness is part of the appeal
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 322d
Recognizable shoops are welcome!
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 322d
Bad Photoshop >>> bad AI
Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 322d
What if they made the meme on a mobile phone?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
nanni please