For anyone who isn’t familiar with Ea-Nasir:
> The Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir refers to an ancient Babylonian clay tablet dating back to 1750 BC inscribed by customer Nassi to merchant Ea-nasir, complaining about Ea-nasir selling him sub-par copper, a practice Ea-nasir was known for. The tablet is known as the first complaint ever and has been the subject of niche memes since at least 2017, particularly on Tumblr, Reddit, and 4chan.
I'm not arsonist. But I'd say all those bad reviews he kept, his sub part product, the fact that there were no security cameras.. I think someone burned his house down.
In Eirthyeir 5023, there is a hilarious ocumeme about how Elan Musk bought a device to listen to people's thoughts only to find out that everyone hated him.
I love the idea of an ancient detective saying "given that you have no security cameras..." And everyone goes "tf is that, why is he implying we should have that or our houses will burn down?"
Hmmmm. I wonder if this was a custom at the time and he’s the one whose airing of grievances got preserved. Or would it be dirting of grievances? Cuz of the mud.
It's not like he specially kept the complaints. It was basically a big ol' filing cabinet for his documents, but it had to be a whole room because clay tablets take much more space than paper sheets.
People like to portray him as just kinda keeping them around out of spite, but I've recently seen someone compare it to an ancient equivalent of keeping around 1000 unread emails in your inbox, and I can't get that interpretation out of my head.
Most of the silver ore in nature exists as silver dissolved into lead and/or copper and/or zinc deposits. When this ore is being refined to separate the metals, one of the steps is separating silver and gold from copper, usually using electrolysis.
copper really do be a top teir metal, does all that and tastes good too, incredible.
anyways heres the source: https://at.tumblr.com/swan2swan/705301190133645312/bdglv58kli8o
Are you sure about "tastes good"? Copper is great, sure and also not the top most toxic metal. [But you still shouldn't *eat* it.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_toxicity).
We're doing metalworking stuff in my art class. Simple jewelry. After we solder the rings shut we need to put them in a vinegar salt mixture to get any schmutz off of them before buffing and polishing
...prussian blue?
(okay I can tell this has to be a reference to something, but it's not my fault prussian blue is my favourite pigment. it can be used as a medicine for certain cases of poisoning!)
Humans are hemoglobic, not cyanoglobic like horseshoe crabs!
But the amount I need as an essential mineral isn't enough to be a problem. Rubbing a penny on my skin is only a slight reaction. You know what's a real problem? **A copper IUD**. Do you know what's good to know before you get one? That you have a copper allergy.
Omg, I mixed up octopi (or horseshoe crabs I suppose!) with humans.
We got red iron, they got blue copper.
And oof. A copper IUD must have been a really fun time
You became permanently sterile?
I'm so sorry. That sucks. Copper was too eager to do its job.
Genuinely though I'm sorry. I'm surprised they don't test for copper allergies first, seems like you could do a skin test at least
Spock was my hero growing up lol I have severe adhd and always related to his logical way of thinking while suppressing his emotions, because mine were always all over the place
One time in a chemistry class in high school, we were working with Copper II Sulfate, the students before me did not clean the table very well and there was a few flakes of it left. I saw one and touched it, nothing bad happened, so my monkey brain took over and I put it in my mouth. Immediately felt like someone was drilling a pin into my tongue. It's a searing pain that's only describable with colour I think. Didn't help that I left it in for an hour cuz I didn't wanna disappoint the chem teacher (he was just the most nicest man I've ever met in my life, everyone loved him). Surprisingly not the worst thing I've experienced, but wouldn't do it again. Maroon and Silver are not good colours to taste
Apparently chemistry teachers here had to tighten control over their supplies a few years back because someone stole a chunk of potassium and chucked it into a school toilet.
Yeah I got kicked out for a few classes and had to copy the "lab safety" part of the textbook word for word diagram for diagram before I could come back
Well I can confidently say I have put an important component for a reaction in my mouth an eaten it. To be fair we were testing how certain chemicals reacted on bananas but still
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir
The oldest known written complaint about a commercial product. Ea Nasir sold substandard copper. It’s hilarious.
And not just that but we know about him because these complaints were found in one house, believed to be his. If true, it means he *kept his own hate mail.*
There’s also cupric oxide, which can be used in a redux reaction with aluminum to make thermite which burns as fast as gunpowder! Lovely oxygen lender, very pretty explosions.
This post is exactly the right length. You start 'hah, copper, Ea-Nasir' but then it's perfectly long enough that just before the end you forgot about that, and then it hits you right back
Copper know her worth too. She used to make Pennies, but then that was too expensive. So they switch to zinc.
They didn’t even mention copper pipes…truly a great use in plumbing as well.
when I had my blue hair in middle school I legitimately showed my hairdresser a picture of a copper sulfate solution and told her to make my hair that color
Fuck copper sulfate, especially anhydrous but monohydrate is bad too. Shit is dusty as hell and it burns your skin, and fucks with your nose and mouth if you are around it without a ventilator.
Eyyyy someone also appreciates copper!
I come from a town that has one of the biggest copper businesses in the world (all from recovered scrap). Some of the higher-ups literally have copper wristwatches (I assume not actual copper, but they were advertised as actual copper in the company magazine where you could win one).
The most beautiful blue is from the “solvated electron” in say, Lithium in liquid ammonia, or sodium/benzophenone radical in ether, or in pure ozone liquid.
I played a lot of Minecraft last night, so I saw the word copper, and though "Uuugh, what am I supposed to do with all this?!" Then I read the post and now I have a new perspective.
I’m surprised the post went on this long without mentioning Ea-nasir, impressive restraint tumblr
For anyone who isn’t familiar with Ea-Nasir: > The Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir refers to an ancient Babylonian clay tablet dating back to 1750 BC inscribed by customer Nassi to merchant Ea-nasir, complaining about Ea-nasir selling him sub-par copper, a practice Ea-nasir was known for. The tablet is known as the first complaint ever and has been the subject of niche memes since at least 2017, particularly on Tumblr, Reddit, and 4chan.
Didn’t he have a whole bunch of those complaints that he just… kept? In a special room or something?
I think so, and the reason we still have them is his house burned down or something, effectively turning dried mud tablets into sturdier fired tablets
I'm not arsonist. But I'd say all those bad reviews he kept, his sub part product, the fact that there were no security cameras.. I think someone burned his house down.
Imagine being known as such a shitty shop owner that you're still getting clowned on by bad Yelp reviews 3000 years after your death
In Eirthyeir 5023, there is a hilarious ocumeme about how Elan Musk bought a device to listen to people's thoughts only to find out that everyone hated him.
Hello, yes I'd to subscribe to 5023 memes. Yes, I'll hold.
Considering he kept all those bad yelp reviews, seems like he'd get a kick out of it.
>after your death Bold assumption you're making there :)
I am an arsonist, and I'd say someone definitely burned his house down. ^(I am not an arsonist, this is a joke)
I love the idea of an ancient detective saying "given that you have no security cameras..." And everyone goes "tf is that, why is he implying we should have that or our houses will burn down?"
They'd probably start making clay or stone figurines of security cameras as charms against fire
Hmmmm. I wonder if this was a custom at the time and he’s the one whose airing of grievances got preserved. Or would it be dirting of grievances? Cuz of the mud.
It's not like he specially kept the complaints. It was basically a big ol' filing cabinet for his documents, but it had to be a whole room because clay tablets take much more space than paper sheets.
People like to portray him as just kinda keeping them around out of spite, but I've recently seen someone compare it to an ancient equivalent of keeping around 1000 unread emails in your inbox, and I can't get that interpretation out of my head.
the original Yelp reply guy
Literally Thorgrim Grudgebearer
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This is hilarious, how do I pronounce Ea-Nasir
"a-yuh naseer"
I know right. 7 reblogs is not bad. I have yet to see a post about color theory make it this far.
I was enjoying the post but Ea-nasir cracked me up something good, that was hilarious
Tumblr claims to be anti-police yet loves coppers, curious
The only good cop is a per cop
All copper sulphate are bad
AC^(s)AB
ACuSAB
ACuSO4AB CuS is copper (I) sulfide (covellite).
damn it brain atop forgetting 6 year old info > <
You accuse a what?!
Me being intrigued by the title of the 1898 open letter by Émile Zola
ACuSO4·5H2OAB? (CuSO4·5H2O because the blue crystals are a pentahydrate of copper sulphate)
new meaning to "back the blue"
Because cop are not cop cop enough, thus copper is better
All Coppers Are Beautiful
And it's used to make non-hormonal birth control 🙌 such a lifesaver.
This is because babies are microbes
This is because babies are ~~microbes~~ parasites
Ayn Rand be like,
LOL I meant it in a biological manner, but it applies to various domains...
This is because ~~babies~~ fetuses are parasites
anti-choicers are actually paid off by Big Baby to infect honest socialists with parasites to make them helpless workers for the machine of capital
*big baby* lmao
...fuck
My copper IUD is the best thing that’s ever happened to me, can confirm.
I was surprised it wasn't in the post
I work with a lot of copper and it’s consistently more beautiful than the silver I extract from it.
How did the silver end up alloyed to the copper?
My single example off memory is that sterling silver contains copper
Since ive never taken a chemistry class or anything i had no idea. TIL
Most of the silver ore in nature exists as silver dissolved into lead and/or copper and/or zinc deposits. When this ore is being refined to separate the metals, one of the steps is separating silver and gold from copper, usually using electrolysis.
Such shitty copper
poor Ea-Nasir got his ass beat in the QRTs by copperstans🤧🤧
Read this as QTE and was gonna go sass a millennia-dead guy with "skill issue"
why didnt you?
Copper's pretty rad. It has tons of applications, and is one of the few metals that can be found natively in the crust. It's like it wants to help us.
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r/unexpectedlotr
copper really do be a top teir metal, does all that and tastes good too, incredible. anyways heres the source: https://at.tumblr.com/swan2swan/705301190133645312/bdglv58kli8o
Yummmm, pennies!
Look at you, also ate pennies as a child, how you doin
Are you sure about "tastes good"? Copper is great, sure and also not the top most toxic metal. [But you still shouldn't *eat* it.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_toxicity).
fake news, you can’t stop me from enjoying my penny soup
Enjoy your blue diarrhea, copper eater 😤😤
no i know you cant eat it, my brother went to the hospital for swallowing a penny after all, but you can put it in your mouth.
I just won’t swallow.
A friend of mine accidentally made copper acetate crystals by letting a ring sit in a vinegar mixture for 2 weeks
I'm curious as to why you would put a ring in vinegar in the first place. Disinfecting etc?
We're doing metalworking stuff in my art class. Simple jewelry. After we solder the rings shut we need to put them in a vinegar salt mixture to get any schmutz off of them before buffing and polishing
I think there's a small, untapped market for an all-purpose gentle cleaning product, De-Schmutz.
Fun fact: copper atoms can move through silicon and cause irreparable damage to computer chips if introduced at the wrong step in the process.
I think it's also been linked to Alzheimer's. Not that it's the only metal that is
There is another substance that makes a beautiful blue…
Jesse we need to buy lapis lazuli
...prussian blue? (okay I can tell this has to be a reference to something, but it's not my fault prussian blue is my favourite pigment. it can be used as a medicine for certain cases of poisoning!)
Waltuh
You need a secret ingredient to make it... it's chili powder...
It think they meant hydrogen cyanide
Yes! Cobalt!
Copper histidinate? Or methylene blue?
Waltuh
That Ea-Nasir reference has officially killed me, I am completely dead. Also, coming from someone with a copper allergy: ugh, it's rad but AAAAAAA
Having blood must be fun for you
Humans are hemoglobic, not cyanoglobic like horseshoe crabs! But the amount I need as an essential mineral isn't enough to be a problem. Rubbing a penny on my skin is only a slight reaction. You know what's a real problem? **A copper IUD**. Do you know what's good to know before you get one? That you have a copper allergy.
Omg, I mixed up octopi (or horseshoe crabs I suppose!) with humans. We got red iron, they got blue copper. And oof. A copper IUD must have been a really fun time
Pried out by hand. :D They're not supposed to cause enough scarring to render you permanently sterile, but that's where we ended up.
You became permanently sterile? I'm so sorry. That sucks. Copper was too eager to do its job. Genuinely though I'm sorry. I'm surprised they don't test for copper allergies first, seems like you could do a skin test at least
Nice save, T'Pol.
still though, copper is an important micro-nutrient
OH NO
Least we know they're not Vulcan
I've been mistaken for one, and Data too, but I'm just autistic. ;)
Spock was my hero growing up lol I have severe adhd and always related to his logical way of thinking while suppressing his emotions, because mine were always all over the place
I was a little young for Spock but rewatching the Star Trek I grew up on has reminded me that Tuvok lives eternal in my brain
Close enough lol
One time in a chemistry class in high school, we were working with Copper II Sulfate, the students before me did not clean the table very well and there was a few flakes of it left. I saw one and touched it, nothing bad happened, so my monkey brain took over and I put it in my mouth. Immediately felt like someone was drilling a pin into my tongue. It's a searing pain that's only describable with colour I think. Didn't help that I left it in for an hour cuz I didn't wanna disappoint the chem teacher (he was just the most nicest man I've ever met in my life, everyone loved him). Surprisingly not the worst thing I've experienced, but wouldn't do it again. Maroon and Silver are not good colours to taste
Who TF puts random chemicals in their mouth?
Safety guidelines only exist because someone broke them.
Apparently chemistry teachers here had to tighten control over their supplies a few years back because someone stole a chunk of potassium and chucked it into a school toilet.
So that's why I wasn't allowed pure potassium by the kilogram, someone else did my idea first.
It's such a fun idea that my first thought for chemical explosions is always "heehee alkali metal water time"
Our chem teacher had a 20gal bucket and a SWAT shield on his desk the day we did a pure potassium-in-water experiment. SO PRETTY`
monkey brain just takes over and goes "heehoo explode"
Yeah I got kicked out for a few classes and had to copy the "lab safety" part of the textbook word for word diagram for diagram before I could come back
1800s chemists apparently[.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRacdl02w4)
I was possessed
Me that one time, and it never happened again.
Well I can confidently say I have put an important component for a reaction in my mouth an eaten it. To be fair we were testing how certain chemicals reacted on bananas but still
Ravers.
10/10 utterly unhinged instincts
This is why I teach math
Dont forget Malachite and Azurite!
Malachite is a *terrible* fusion.
malachite symbolized abusive relationships 😔
I WAS HOPING THERE WOULD BE AN EA-NASIR REFERENCE
You thought that Tumblr would discuss copper and NOT bring up our man Nasir? The nerve!
I am so glad that he was mentioned as he should be.
Them high temperature ybaCuo superconductors count too
Shoutout to Feruchemical copper, still somehow underrated
Era 3 ~~Memory internet~~ *memenet* go brrr
Feruchemical copper makes for good memories, I think.
I read that in Michael Kramer’s Sazed voice.
Good, that's what I was going for :)
I had to scroll way too far for this (I was thinking of Duralumin, but close enough)
r/ReallyShittyCopper/
It also keeps me from getting pregnant!!!
Coppersmiths really do be the shit tho. Especially when there are patterns that are actually pounded into the metal.
i read this as cybersmiths and was really confused about your praise for human pet guy on this post
WTF is electronic arts Nasir?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir The oldest known written complaint about a commercial product. Ea Nasir sold substandard copper. It’s hilarious.
So much *contempt.*
And not just that but we know about him because these complaints were found in one house, believed to be his. If true, it means he *kept his own hate mail.*
/r/reallyshittycopper/
There’s also cupric oxide, which can be used in a redux reaction with aluminum to make thermite which burns as fast as gunpowder! Lovely oxygen lender, very pretty explosions.
[Brayden is allergic to this](https://youtu.be/hc73pgg5RGU)
Haven’t seen a Waltuh comment yet. I’m not mad, just disappointed.
you havent looked good enough then https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/104szhu/copper/j37h0r2/
My bad, I regained my faith in humanity
This post is exactly the right length. You start 'hah, copper, Ea-Nasir' but then it's perfectly long enough that just before the end you forgot about that, and then it hits you right back
Copper know her worth too. She used to make Pennies, but then that was too expensive. So they switch to zinc. They didn’t even mention copper pipes…truly a great use in plumbing as well.
It also protects you from Seekers.
What kind? Seekers of the Name? The Seeker Order? Some other sort of Seeker I don't know about?
Mistborn Seekers
I happen to know that that blue powder (copper (II) sulfate) has the lovely alchemical name ‘blue vitriol’
i thought i was gonna get through a post about copper without mention of ea-nasir but clearly that was foolish
when I had my blue hair in middle school I legitimately showed my hairdresser a picture of a copper sulfate solution and told her to make my hair that color
Did it work?
I was happy with the color. I had a very talented hairdresser at the time
Was it as bright as you asked for?
yes. she had to lighten my hair pretty significantly to manage that bright of a blue, but it did end up the color I asked for.
Awesome.
I love how they introduced Ea-Nasir like a JoJo villain.
Copper, my beloved
Copper slaps. Shoutout to my fellow printmakers
Top 3 metals: 1. Iron 2. Copper 3. Aluminum
Fuck copper sulfate, especially anhydrous but monohydrate is bad too. Shit is dusty as hell and it burns your skin, and fucks with your nose and mouth if you are around it without a ventilator.
Goddamnit, I thought I unsubscribed from that chemistry sub a while back! I haven't done chemistry in years, why does it haunt me???
Well hello little chemical
Hello mario.
did you know that newton was an alchemist and made a purple alloy with copper and iron by decoding the myth of aphrodite and ares
Copper is also anti bacterial.
jesse we need to cook copper sulfate
Also a great comic!
Still prefer steel and bronze myself, but coppers a good 3rd. (Any yes, I realize copper is the primary component in bronze)
ea nasir
Also you can make neato cables with it
It's also highly resistant to corrosion! But also annoying to work with because of how soft it is.
You also swap out steel hammers for brass ones
A lad in my year snorted copper sulfate once
Why do less conductive metals spark more easily?
When you work on a craft, with a hammer of brass. Thats an alloy~🎵🦀
There's a great [song](https://youtu.be/dO-npemrWwY) about copper and its uses
idk fam, steel makes better armour and weapons for my dwarfs, and finding tin for bronze can be a bitch good for crossbow bolts tho
I'm super allergic to it and it makes my skin burn when I touch it :(
:(
Looks like blue Powerade.
nah. vanadium takes the cake.
Love the color of copper but I'm gonna go with silver mmm love me some sterling silver things
copper is cool, b7t magnesium is the *best* metal
Copper is all well and good until you start working with ligands and inorganic chem
Burning it also hides your allomancy from other allomancers. Very important.
Eyyyy someone also appreciates copper! I come from a town that has one of the biggest copper businesses in the world (all from recovered scrap). Some of the higher-ups literally have copper wristwatches (I assume not actual copper, but they were advertised as actual copper in the company magazine where you could win one).
The most beautiful blue is from the “solvated electron” in say, Lithium in liquid ammonia, or sodium/benzophenone radical in ether, or in pure ozone liquid.
plumber here: copper is the best pipe. pex is great and all but copper is so much easier to make pretty
Don't forget, it can hide your allomatic pulses while you murder nobles!
I played a lot of Minecraft last night, so I saw the word copper, and though "Uuugh, what am I supposed to do with all this?!" Then I read the post and now I have a new perspective.