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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are we sure we're doing Ea-Nasir justice? Perhaps he was a perfectly fine copper salesman but had a weird and totally unhinged customer review (or complaint) he found funny displayed in his home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Looks like there were more complaint letters in what is assumed to be his dwelling from dudes either not getting their copper or calling it substandard

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I made a joke about Ea-nāṣir when someone mentioned some copper oxidizing their finger.

Nobody laughed.

At least my shame won't last as long as Ea-nāṣir's though

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Shame? He had no shame. He treated people with contempt and kept their complains on display, the legend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Nah, he was just so shitty lately that he had a bunch of them delivered the same day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

the scoundrel ea-nasir, such a douche

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I, too, hate it when I am sold objectively shitty copper.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

You gotta harvest the good stuff inside the walls

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Based on my experiences in customer service and just seeing online reviews in general, I have strong doubts about the accuracy of the complaint.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Considering there were other complaints found about not only his copper, but him being rude, I believe he was the asshole here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've never met the man, and have done little to no business with him, but in my experience if you do a lot of work some people are going to complain about it, and only the pissiest of them would go out of their way to inscribe a tablet about it. Nobody is putting that effort into "went fine, no complaints."

Ea-nāṣir's reputation may be the earliest victim of survivorship bias.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

He had multiple complaint tablets in his possession. Why did he save them? They take up a lot of space!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guess that's why he kept all the complaint tablets lol

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Like those restaurants that frame their comically bad reviews.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

All I'm saying is copper grading is complex, and impure copper can be better copper.

Is it Ea-Nasir's fault if a customer asks for the wrong grade? No, it isn't!

[–] [email protected] 84 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Today we think of plated items as being cheap. I believe that would be basically space age technology in ancient Babylon. I don't think they had any electrical or chemical way of plating anything. Not only that, I bet you would need to use very pure copper to plate something.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right, if it was actually plating. However, given the contract was for copper ingots, I'd guess the poor quality copper was copper cast into an ingot shape around something worthless rather than what we would consider plating. It could also have been much more about impurities and ores left over from an incomplete smelting/refining process such that trying to hammer or cast the copper resulted in lots of worthless slag.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about the comic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Fair enough.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I wonder what the guy would think if he could've known that people would be meme'ing about his poor quality copper in 2024?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"People will be still talking about your shitty copper and what an asshole you are in 3,800 years."

"They mad, bro?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

"@[email protected] recycled the worst memes."

  • Some dude on the Electroweak Bosonnet in the year 5,798
[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago

The fact that someone went out of their way to forever commemorate his shitty copper tells me he'd probably be fucking pissed but hey, maybe he was a swindler and a clown.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Came to post this, of course someone beat me to it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You could have posted the other one but it's too late for that now! Ha!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ooh, forgot about that one so yeah, totally fair game.