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[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (6 children)
[–] Sinaf@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir is an ancient Babylonian clay tablet dating back to 1750 BC inscribed by customer Nanni to merchant Ea-nasir, complaining about Ea-nasir selling him sub-par copper, a practice Ea-nasir was known for. [knowyourmeme, wikipedia]

[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What does it have to do with jerking?

[–] frog@feddit.uk 10 points 7 months ago

The term jerk came from this point in history.

"The guy that sold this copper to me was a jerking."

This was mistranslated to:

"The guy that sold this copper to me was a jerk."

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Historically at least 1 person has jacked off

(This is also a play on rage comics which often started with "le me doing an action" while also having a general theme of "random = funny")

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Historically at least 1 person has jacked off

Big if true

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

Well it was big, and then it wasn't afterward.

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