posts from 2015 / 12 / 06

1. RT @aedison: “Add one small onion (finely chopped), then half an onion, then a quarter of an onion, then an eighth of an onion…”–Recipe f…

2. RT @BoobsRadley: My dad once told me bagged cereal was cheaper because the artists who do the boxes are expensive. Hey dads, you can just s…

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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?

   [ source ]

   every time this post comes across my dash (which is often) it has even more cool info attached to it

   As a former student of ancient near eastern archaeology, this whole thread right here makes me incredibly happy.

   I love things like this, these little snapshots of human nature through time. We are all the same, we have always been the same. We can all relate to this guy’s customers 4000 odd years ago. We can probably all think of someone who’s a little bit like Ea-nasir.

   I love this.

   December 6th, 2015 11:50am

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5. merlin:

   SNL - “Close Encounter”

   They were real respctful about it.

   Kate McKinnon is a national treasure.

   December 6th, 2015 10:28am

6. RT @biorhythmist: I’ve watched this 982x https://t.co/WaOQ94kqhN