La gente falsa non parla, insinua. Non conversa, spettegola. Non elogia, adula. Non desidera, brama. Non chiede, esige. La gente falsa è povera di spirito, poiché non cammina, striscia nella vita, sabotando la felicità altrui e così finisce per non vivere, esiste appena.
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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Holy shit, this post is back and it got better in the meantime!
Ogni tanto ritorna la nostalgia degli amici, delle gruppate pomeridiane che facevamo a 15 anni, ma anche delle serate tutti insieme a 20 e a 25.
Poi apro facebook, e vedo cio’ che postano e di cui parlano adesso. E come ogni volta, la nostalgia cede il posto alla tristezza, alla delusione, e alla rinovata consapevolezza che non torneranno piu’.
Fascette intercambiabili…
[source: puma812; via L’apprendista libraio]
A parte che “popone” e “melone” non sono esattamente la sressa cosa. Questo e’ il popone:
e questo e’ il melone:
Per il resto piu’ o meno ci siamo 😀
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