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Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)

old school hate mail

Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock

Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.

Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole

More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.

And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:

He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.

The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.

Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

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Okay, but imagine from the other guy’s point of view. You send angry letters about how Ea-nasir shipped you half a ton of subpar copper, and then 3800 years later—

History: you are without a doubt the worst business man ive ever heard of

Ea-nasir:

@binghsien

He didn’t have the surname Dibbler, by any chance?

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*In class today*

Me: So with luck, the divers at the shipwreck of the Erubus and Terror will be able to tell us what really happened to those more than a hundred men who disappeared in the North Pole, whether they froze to death, were eaten by polar bears-

Kid: Or were kidnapped by Santa and made to make toys forever!

Everything: *dies laughing*

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everyone knows that kids w divorced parents can have a rlly tough childhood but honestly let’s take a moment and consider the kids who’s parents never got divorced yet kept fighting and arguing every day… sometimes divorce is for the best option, both for partners and especially their kids

My mom says we can never understand what it’s like to grow up with one parent but we have always told her conversely she doesn’t know what it’s like to grow up with two parents who are physically and emotionally abusive towards each other

Divorce is not the worst thing that can happen to your marriage and it’s definitely not the worst thing that can happen to your kids.

Yeah, the reason studies say divorce is terrible for kids in because they compare them to kids with happy parents instead of kids with parents who should be divorced. When compared to the latter group, kids with divorced parents do better.

Actually we talked about this in one of my psych classes recently, and studies show that kids with parents who stay together in an unhappy marriage actually DO adjust worse than kids who’s parents divorce. “Staying together for the kids” doesn’t actually help if the parents are unhappy with each other.

what about the parents that get divorced and still hate each other?

They’re not around each other enough for it to matter, and if they’re not completely shit parents they can put up a show of being polite to each other for the 0.6 seconds they spend in each other’s company.

It took me until I was in my late teens to work out that my parents really disliked each other, because they’d divorced when I was 5 and were careful to be fair and decent to each other around me and my brother, regardless of how they really felt.

When someone writes you such an amazing comment on one of your fics you go and reread your own work.

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When someone writes you such an amazing comment on one of your fics you go and reread your own work just to see it through their eyes.