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laughingsquid:

An Ancient Babylonian Customer Service Complaint Inscribed on a Clay Tablet Around 1750 BC

“0/10 stars burn their village and scatter their people”

so yelp started out weird

customers have sucked for 3,000 years

I’m just very confused by all the people who rt’d this from me on twitter and added ‘for when you’re pissed off enough to carve it into stone’.  I… it’s clay? you used a stylus to press letter sounds into it, it’s no more work than writing with a pencil.

While the angry customer would probably have gotten his scribe to do this, I am really amused by the image of a guy furiously stabbing his stylus into the clay and all his marks being angry and uneven.

The really fun part is that this isn’t the only complaint about this particular guy. Ea-nasir is well known to historians due to the dozens of surviving documents complaining about his shady business practices, spanning everything from household goods to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. He’s literally gone down in history for being such a colossal asshole.