• The Picard ManeuverOPM
      50•3 months ago

      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?

      • no banana
        46•3 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.

      • @samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19•3 months ago

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

        “They mad, bro?”

    • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
      11•3 months ago

      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.

      • NielsBohronEnglish
        15•3 months ago

        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.

  • Transporter Room 3
    46•3 months ago

    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

    • @Klear@lemmy.world
      25•3 months ago

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

  • @NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
    30•3 months ago

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

        • @DragonTypeWyvern
          7•3 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!

    • @samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•3 months ago

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

      • @NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
        3•3 months ago

        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.

  • @Oiconomia@feddit.de
    10•3 months ago

    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.

    • BizzleEnglish
      2•3 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