customer complaints from the ancient world

[@thepoopieshow]

dudes, the last image is fake news :~(

[@wandiriswan6116]

Bro got fooled by the onion lmao

[@skreppeffedup]

aw man...

[@thefluffygenius4857]

Yea lol, I looked it up to see what University and seeing The Onion, aw no you caught that late!! lol

[@Pumpkin_0w0]

Pumpkin :D

[@WoodlouseFairy]

Nooooo D:

[@KingofJ95]

My favorite ancient markings were runes that were so high on a cave wall that they had to build scaffolding up to get a readable angle. The runes simply translated to "this is very high up."

[@JB2X-Z]

This is the kind of BS easter egg stuff I love finding in video games. Where you think you see something in the barely accessible distance, you do your darned hardest to get to it, only to find a simple message "this wall sure is nice"

[@maxave7448]

Just gotta imagine some dude in like 10000BC spending entire weeks building his own scaffolding from sticks he found outside just for the sake of doing some trolling 🗿

[@suchnothing]

@@maxave7448 If it was runes, it would have been a lot more recent, probably from a 1000 - 2000 years ago. Still hilarious, all the same.

[@highwaystar4518]

😂❤

[@DarkKnight-em7ue]

I aspire to be a timeless troll, too.

[@Hammerheadcruiser]

The one I always remember is graffiti on some roman wall that goes something like, "weep, women, for I have forsaken thee. From now on, I will only be with men's behinds".

[@DiatomBoy]

lol

[@Shovel________________]

"im gay, cry about it"

[@geoffreyentwistle8176]

Those sass levels are off the fucking chart! 😂

[@StarlitWitchy]

​@@geoffreyentwistle8176 have us gay peeps always been that sassy lol :p

[@Coconut_man0125]

roman incel 😂

[@erraticonteuse]

I love the sesame one so much. That "per my last tablet" energy is so relatable.

[@typicalgentleman]

It's ironic that Ea Nasir would be remembered by so many for selling such poor quality copper that a customer felt the need to write to him.

[@FeeshUnofficial]

My favorite "theory" is that he made a deal with a devil, djinn or other evil deity to make him the most well known copper merchant in history

[@DJ-kp7mf]

You want to know what makes this even funnier? The complaint was found in a house which was believed to be the house of ea nasir... in a room filled with other clay tablet. In a house archaeological evidence showed it had burnt down.

[@JRCSalter]

Just another example that bad service does more to harm your reputation than good service does to improve it.

[@ashj_2088]

​@@FeeshUnofficial oh like "Chips" hey😁

[@alclay8689]

Yeah, fuck Ea Nasir. All my homies hate his copper

[@genuinesaucy]

One of my favorite ancient artifacts is a souvenir stylus with an inscription that more or less says, "I went to Rome and all I got was this lousy pen." Some things don't change much.

[@bob7975]

Tourism became a thing in the ancient world the minute after they started building big stuff. If you build it big enough, they will come.

[@Nostripe361]

@@bob7975pilgrimages were just vacations with a religious flair

[@narrativeless404]

​@@bob7975 I mean yeah You also can advertise it as something related to "god" and they will be even more interested 😂

[@andistansbury4366]

i'm imagining a Colosseum gift shop

[@alfatazer_8991]

​@@andistansbury4366 They made Gladiator action figures for kids. Unscrupulous sellers would sell gladiator "blood" and "sweat" as aphrodisiacs.

[@thatmspaintgirl]

"Why do you care that you cannot read the heiroglyphs, I do not understand your concern." is genuinely the cutest thing I have ever seen.

[@mistersplu1251]

it‘s basically the ancient version of „who asked“

[@Window4503]

It has such Reddit or KZbin vibes with that sort of snarky bite

[@jedisalsohere]

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles leave... flakes on my mittens?! Hey, these are stones with a copper veneer! I've been bamboozled by Ea-nāṣir!" - Randall Munroe, 2022

[@Eloraurora]

This is hilarious, and low-key makes me want to look up what instruments they had back then, so I can imagine a historically accurate accompaniment.

[@littleperson8315]

this flows so well omg

[@davidburnett5049]

Wow

[@Frommerman]

Lute

[@VashdaCrash]

I've read it like "My favorite things" from The sound of music 😂

[@saffron584]

Ea nasir will never be rid of that damn customer complaint

[@piccalillipit9211]

He should have sold better copper

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

Earliest documented ancestor of Electronic Arts.

[@26th_Primarch]

He apparently collected those complaints about his products because he thought they were funny.

[@kaspi001]

@@26th_Primarch That's also why they got preserved, his house burned down at some point which fired the tablets thus preserving them for history.

[@26th_Primarch]

@@kaspi001 Somehow I get the feeling that fire probably wasn't accidental...

[@backpackmusician]

Ahh yes, medieval shitposting. The time where the most influential figures had all the maidens and all of the wheat. And they would ride around in the latest horse carriage models

[@Real_Mr_Egg]

SHITposting :)

[@crbielert]

Even ~2500 years ago people were tired of Bros flaunting their bitches, money, and cars. "The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, "You are not to go back that way again." He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold." Deut. 17

[@backpackmusician]

@@crbielert humans don’t really change a lot

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

It actually exists in Manuscript boarders and Graffii

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Secundus has defecated here Secundus has defecated here Secundus has defecated here

[@vpaul4374]

The caveman drawing about depression broke me in so many levels. What they went through to make those drawings? Maybe their people ran out of food, maybe he lost someone close to him. Imagine yourself as a caveman being so devastated that you felt the urge to register your sadness in a stone wall, perpetuating your feelings for thousands of years.

[@stevenunyabidness]

keep in mind that sorrow tends not to plague the simpler minds. someone probably called them gay.

[@Chrys4l1s]

Id rather be a sad caveman tbh

[@LemonbreadSC]

It's not real though, that image is sourced from an article on The Onion.

[@Somedude20282]

Bro I don't have to imagine that shit I am him.

[@nyankrauss]

frustration, rethinking, and pp not working sadge caveman :'D

[@theshowihaventnamedyet1610]

I like the thought that out is some lost city with “first” scratched on a wall somewhere

[@MelagraneStar]

2:09 "i was here" - literally every human visiting a place after they learned how to write

[@fabiosonhandogrande1697]

Yeah, like "First"

[@maxave7448]

1000BC, random ahh building: "first" 2024, random ahh KZbin comment section: "first" Its honestly hilarious to me how humanity has changed so much over the centuries yet humans themselves have not changed at all

[@ksanag3426]

I like this ancient letter on a clay tablet from son to mom, where he complains that she makes him bad clothes and that his friend has better clothes, even though he has a stepmother 😄

[@Egryzilon]

The "[insert name] was here" is the most human thing that I've seen

[@10Bendog]

It’s honestly comforting seeing that despite how much our world has changed, we can still relate to the experiences of people who have lived thousands of years ago. Like, we do the same shit as them, just repackaged in a modern setting.

[@Sharauni]

I love stuff like this, little glimpses of daily life in ancient and medieval times. Like an illuminated text found that had writing in the margin that said "Ale has killed us", in other words, the monks had wicked hangovers XD Or another that had an inky pawprint on the page and whoever was writing that page decided to just keep going, as parchment was expensive back then and you didn't waste it, essentially just shrugging off his cats antics lol. The more things change, the more they stay the same, as the saying goes XD

[@Blackmanbubbs]

Can't come into into work my wife and daughter are brewing beer

[@bob7975]

The Egyptians were almost excessively civilized.

[@Jopeth23]

1:17 "That's the 5th time in this year you missed work for 'embalming your brother'. How many brothers do you have?!" "The last one was my older brother. This time is my half-brother, boss."

[@newhaveni]

for the first tablet shown you missed the best part of it the second half "Every man wants to write a book and it is evident that the end of the world is soon approaching"

[@andresf.7563]

Ironic

[@thepoopieshow]

Ik that's so funny, I wish it was true but I checked a few sources, and most agree the last part was made up

[@newhaveni]

@@thepoopieshow aw dang it

[@definitivamenteno-malo7919]

​@@newhaveni Don't worry, from -10BCE till 100 AD, more or less, a lot of people believed that the world was about to end, like a LOT, being Christians just one of many grouos

[@molybdaen11]

​@@definitivamenteno-malo7919We better not talk about new jear 1000 then...

[@iquemedia]

I, ique, ate a hamburger while watching this video on Friday, July 12th, 2024 @ 5:52p. When it comes to youtube videos to put on while enjoying a meal, the poopie show provides one of the finest dining accompaniments. This video has inspired me to leave my mark for the future historians to learn from. The burger was made on a propane grill and included cheese and green chile. I paired both this video and the burger with a budweiser. My troubles are mostly with my health, as I am still mostly blind. However, I choose to be happy despite personal and global circumstance. Also, 420th like. thanks poopie see ya in the next one

[@OnlyForThePriceOf999]

that burger sounds good, i too enjoyed the video

[@Shovel________________]

theres this one grafitti that was written like, 14 feet up on a wall iirc, and it took archeologists a hot minute to get up there and figure out what it said. when they finally did, all it said was "this is very high"

[@MrDj232]

3 kids stood on each other's shoulders and laughed about the idiot who'd put in the work to read that.

[@theDMassistant]

This is exactly why I'm interested in history. You wouldn't believe some of the graffiti on Pompeii's walls. So yeah, lovely video! Keep it going!

[@adamus996]

Note if it hasn't been mentioned yet; the sad people cave drawing is from the Onion, a satire news outlet

[@Archbishop_of_the_Noodle]

Turns out that cave paintings might have been more about children being bored rather than what previous theories suggested.

[@AberrantChibi]

... That still kind of resonates with modern day shitposting, does it not?

[@molybdaen11]

Are they not fake, produced by „The onion”?

[@user-sg4ov7ng4h]

i heard it was mostly drawn by women

[@lhei_tayuun]

I am comforted that my extensive 3am Reddit ramblings will only survive indirectly through whatever machine-god my data was sold to for AI training.

[@GrimmWitchands]

God your videos animations are getting better!!! Love them

[@thepoopieshow]

thank u! I had a bit more time this week to actually animate sht

[@bonemasked3925]

regarding the determinism thing at the end: you may not be making your own choices, but if actions in the past chose YOUR actions, then you're choosing SOMEONE ELSE's choice in the future.

[@thepoopieshow]

ooh, I've made a vid on free will in the past, and yeah even though actions and choices are predetermined doesn't mean they don't impact anything

[@savanthuman8809]

Not all actions and thoughts are predetermined

[@maxave7448]

​@@savanthuman8809pretty much everything is predetermined imo. Imagine flipping a coin: the outcomes are normally 50/50 so we think its random, but you can theoretically predetermine whether it will land heads or tails based on how you threw it, at what speed and what height. This principle applies for everything, even your thoughts. Your brain recieves sensory input from that coin you just tossed which sends an electrical pulse through your brain that activates millions of neurons and leads to some thoughts like, for example "dang it I lost, why did I bet 10 bucks on this?". So if you think about it, everything was predetermined from the moment the universe came to existance. In short, if everything can be calculated and predetermined (like a seemingly random coin toss), then true randomness does not exist and therefore neither does free will. Unless of course true randomess DOES exist. Apparently quantum physics deals with probability distribution a lot. Probabilities which we dont know how to predict. This would imply that while in the short term everything is still pretty much predetermined, random quantum events in the far past could have had huge consequences for our current reality. Sorry if this gives anyone some sort of existential crisis, but its fun to think about imo

[@Coconut_man0125]

i think we're not exactly as unique as we think, and that someone has completely lived, felt, and think the way we do in the past, like an exact copy of it.

[@jclark2752]

3:47 the Sesame Farmer is my hero! Don’t tell me I didn’t Tell You!

[@thepoopieshow]

that dude got sht done

[@jclark2752]

@@thepoopieshow ❤❤❤ Poopie Show Theme Song! 😆😆😆(🤓)

[@wazzinhuu]

I expected to see something about a dog going inside a bar, didn't. Gotta write my frustration on a wall.

[@tomasvasutiu2275]

Poopie, im drunk right now, but I must tell you that I lvoe your channel. From the insightful insights to the very informative history events to the everyday phenomenon you gift to us through your perspective, I love all of it. I know some people make youtube channels out of a desire of stardom and benefit, everything you make seems so pure to me. Please, dont stop uploading thdese. I think your voice (both physically and metaphorically) is a precious one. Thank you and goodbye

[@MeatyZeeg]

How did you forget about the Viking Graffiti on the Hagia Sophia that had been thought to be a spell of some kind... and it was just some dude who wrote, I was here. XD

[@hgc009]

"halfdan carved this runes" = "halfdan was here"

[@The-Autistic-Strategist]

Humans… humans never change. We may invent new tools, our understanding of the cosmos may expand. But humans never change. (Rough reference to fallout… “war never changes”) lol

[@maximusharbour3463]

Warning: rant about something added only in the last few seconds of the video and likely that was added just for joke reasons. 5:20 actually I'm a soft determinist because regardless if something else happening is possible or not, whenever you think or do something, it is because that thing got processed through your brain. Your brain is you. Therefore, you did the things. Free Will is not destroyed by a lack of alternate possibilities being possible, for we do not know which possibiliity will happen, and still process all of our thoughts and actions anyway. Determinism isn't being told you are not allowed to do something, it is just knowing you wouldn't as an afterthought. I think what would truly remove free will is determinism plus knowing exactly what will happen in the foreseeable future.

[@derskalde4973]

I was so hoping for the bad copper and norse Graffiti to be mentioned, and was kinda sad the latter didn't. I think it was a series of scratches in the wall of - I think it was the Vatikan? It was some kind of church, iirc. Well, apparently, for a few hundred years, people were confused about these scratches, until relatively recently a Scientist noticed that those scratches seem to be norse runes, which translated roughly to "(name) was here".

[@nomam9085]

man the increase in the quality is amazing

[@HaussVonHorne]

This new HD animation really butters my biscuit.

[@Mx.muffin]

I find it very comforting knowing that humans have always been the same where we have to carve something into something because we have to show something we did, whenever it's a complaint, or just to say "I was here"

[@ChartreuseDan]

In regards to 3:30 I believe it was the great Daniel D. Viteaux that once said "Poop is funny."

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens/Bright copper kettles ... leave flakes on my mittens?!/Hey, these are stones with a copper veneer!/I've been bamboozled by Ea-nasir!" ~ XKCD 2758

[@hampuslundstrom9249]

4:00 Ah yes, the infamous copper merchant himself, Ea-fucking-nāṣir, may you always be eternally remembered from bad reviews.

[@saber2802]

Y'know it would be really funny and sad if his copper was actually pretty good, it's just this guy got a bad batch

[@billwhite1603]

Until recently the people drank beer. Not anything to do with grains as such but they often got sick drinking water. They had no idea of germs or that they should boil water. The way they transported water, often in skins, was not good either. So wine, very weak beer, worked much better.

[@CODENAMEDERPY]

The BEST copper merchant in the world!

[@alclay8689]

That cave painting is immaculate tho. Why is it not available for reprint to hang on my walls

[@iquemedia]

how did you know i was about to have dinner

[@glorbojibbins2485]

Poop?

[@iquemedia]

@@glorbojibbins2485 tomorrow morning homie

[@justyouknow2856]

Not the egyptian yelp reviews the sesame is visibly dying!

[@powermiro]

I had a project on my first year of college. It was to write about an artifact that you would save in a fire. I spoke about Ea-nāṣir and the complaint he got. I barely passed mainly because I can't write in french

[@MelagraneStar]

2:14 it sounds like a casual internet conversion I can't- 😭

[@theruler919]

The first ever customer complaints were in Mesopotamia, Ea-nasir a copper merchant used to sell fake copper to his customers which caused them to write a review on him saying he is a scammer

[@cybersentient4758]

0:10 this image will stay in my head rent free till i die, help.

[@MCSorry]

Our free will hinges on the unknown: IF determinism is true. For Kant, the answer lied in the difference between the rules of nature and the thing itself (broadly, the gap between particular events and general rules). We do not know if we have free will because we have no way of knowing if what we erect as general rules are complete and accurate or if will need to be revised later on. And it is in that uncertainty that free will remains possible.

[@timrosswood4259]

We do HAVE a will but it isn't free

[@somarumen]

My daughter left me and went far away from me. Now she's writing nonsense there and I have to eat my sesame alone...

[@meltingatom]

My favorite wall scribble from ancient times was something "the beauty of the gods do not compare to my wife" some man thousands of years ago was so in love with his wife, he wanted the whole township to know that even their gods were just second place to his beautiful amazing wife

[@porkchopxpress4]

Bro you are so underrated

[@CSGhostAnimation]

This is why Im going to engrave elon musk's nsfw likes in granite, so absolutely nobody forgets

[@drakegabrielvereto8423]

Your videos get better day by day Ideal time to wake up at 5am to watch it

[@FroggyNightmare]

4:23 Shinji is that you?

[@Doodle128]

I'm just wondering how long my definition on urban dictionary will last, I hope people see it and are just like "This was one of the ancient jokes, we do not get what the word's humour is, nor why the joke is so short, but primitive humans found it funny"

[@mad7monkey423]

My Classical Mediterranean and Middle East capstone was about ancient graffiti which included a discussion about how a guy pooped well at a specific place and how another guy screwed the barmaid. That entire capstone was a sh*tpost, but people learned and it made my advisor laugh so that's all that really matters, right?

[@dplocksmith91]

Poopie is the channel I come to for esoteric knowledge. She's like an obscure bookstore on the corner containing titles such as "Conspiracies in Mid-1300's Bohemia" :3

[@TheAnxiousOwl]

The best fermented consumable in ancient times was Mead. Never forget that cough medicine taste... it's delicious.

[@hitrapperandartistdababy]

I still can’t get over the fact that the oldest written complaint has the phrase ‘what do you take me for?!’ Such a universal phrase Also can’t forget the classic ‘Halfdan was here’ scratched unto the walls of Hagia Sophia in runes by a bored Varangian guard

[@bluezebra2759]

Your mom sharing your YT videos is so cute and heartening

[@Leafpocket]

“Thou shalt allow thee permission to communicate with one’s superior at once!”

[@blar2112]

Your videos are way too good to make it in to history, sorry you will be forgotten.

[@molybdaen11]

After 1 million subscribers are reached, we will erect a stone statue of her with deep ingravings. I vote for Peru, it's dry and nobody will find it for decades.

[@AlpineCanHowl]

I love your videos so much!! They are so entertaining 😂❤

[@hollin220]

The Power Puff Girls reference with the Chemical X was hilarious 😂

[@thefluffygenius4857]

One time I noticed the KZbin comments for the official My Heart Will Go On was closed, and next thing I thought was That's gonna be a mark in History, lol

[@internetlurker1850]

That is a great papyrus drawing.

[@rackoo3025]

I love your videos so much, they’re so entertaining please don’t die

[@ramenomicon]

You're actually hilarious. Keep up the good work.

[@igorkacperski8764]

My favorite ancient graffiti is from Pompeii that translates to "On April 19th I made bread". I can't tell if this was some inside joke or if that person was simply that excited about having baked bread.

[@voraito]

The art has gotten so good! Can this show even be called poopie anymore?

[@MilenaSrbova]

dude, if i was a time traveler that could time travel back 100,000 years to a random cave to put a painting in to troll archaeologists, i would absolutely put the three images of the ooga booga cave guy being sad

[@lastyhopper2792]

I would simply put the roman letters to confuse the hell out of the researchers.

[@seenundercygnus6870]

Ha ha! "No ooga booga tonight"! They really were just like us. I wonder how much of the ancient graffiti was actually written in paint and lost to time?

[@papabird4425]

The sesame will die AND I HAVE WARNED YOU Literally me

[@suchnothing]

There are cliff walls in a few places in Canada that are absolutely COVERED in rock paintings. Some were important travel routes for hunting parties or traders, others were sacred locations. For long periods of time whenever something important happened in the area, the people who experienced it would inscribe it in pictographs on their way by. So there are hundreds of years of history painted at these locations. One location in Ontario was still in active use right up to the 1700s or 1800s, and only really stopped being used because all the indigenous children were being stolen from their communities and raised by nuns in "residential schools" to kill their culture and language, so the practice died out. But there are still some people who managed to get the stories passed down of what historical events are being referred to in some of the pictographs. There are sites like this right across the country. I wonder if any of them contain petty stuff like in the video lol. Most of them seem to be spiritual stories, instructions for hunting or building, or recordings of historical events like battles or big successful hunts. But I bet there's a decent amount of "X was here" as well. It's just harder to tell since the meaning behind some of the symbols has been lost to time or colonial violence.

[@matthewreynolds2384]

Did you read the book "1177 BC?" It's full of hilarious quotes from cuneiform and hieroglyph letters sent between angry spouses, brothers, in-laws, and friends. They read just like an angry email or sms from today!

[@bbittercoffee]

4:26 grrrrr I thought it was so funny "It's literally 'it should've been ME', Shinji Chair and pepoSAD' Until I looked it up online, word for word, and found it came from THE ONION

[@8Aerondight8]

Future archeologists digging up my sh*tposts is a new fear you just unlocked.

[@menosproblemos6993]

Everything you do is extraordinary. Everyone are just so awesome, all our accomplishments kinda blend together. It's not you. It's me... and her.

[@CooperRust]

Happy for you poopie , finally getting good views on your videos. You deserve it 👏 😊

[@thepoopieshow]

thank u :'~)

[@toganium4175]

I like how so many people have associated Ea-Nasir with this random Sumerian sculpture of a man, even though we know so little about him, so we don’t even know what he looked like

[@KoneSkirata]

My favourite ancient shitposting is from a viking, found on a greek temple wall: "Halfdan was here." So inspiring.

[@krasimir-balchev]

Ngl, that is totally me when gf says no ooga booga tonight fr

[@traciekitten]

great video, happy to be learnin about history from the great Julia Argent

[@ThatGeezer]

Letter home from a Roman Soldier on Hadrian's wall: "send woolly socks"....

[@vincentclark5739]

Your voice is refreshingly different from everything else I listen to

[@Izuki_Kaede]

"I was here" is like a Darksouls Orange messages. All be it tamed..

[@BlackReaper0]

I am pretty sure that cave painting is from The Onion.

[@thegenericnerd6832]

Wonderful video! I do think your mic is peaking a little on the "sh" sounds around 5:00

[@thepoopieshow]

it's a new mic I got, I don't think I'll use lavs again after it tho

[@Alurkerdood]

There are Nordic runes carved into one of the walls of the Hagia Sophia. It reads “Halfdan was here.” Another series of runes were written in an unusual spot high up in a wall in a burial mound on the Oakney Isles. It reads “This is very high.” We’ve always been this way. We just got fancier ways of shitposting.

[@mark-jf5ik]

2:45 this bit is so golden squish

[@MasoTrumoi]

"I think we tend to think people of the past were so different from now" Shows a femboy as the modern example...a social role that Romans had like 20 words to describe because they loved them and had so many of them.

[@Windowsprodukt]

TIL pyramids had youtube comments

[@applicationuser9764]

I was here. Watched the video. Enjoyed same.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

Goes to show that humanity was very immature and opinionated back then, not to mention ranging from elequent in writing to grammatically uncaring. And we're STILL LIKE THIS 😭

[@JenFoxworth]

My son wants me to draw you riding on top of a tesla cyber truck for some reason. Something about poopie on poopie.... XD

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Ea Nasir the OG businessman Rip Niga Niga, boy got played.

[@doctordice2doctordice210]

5:21 I disagree because determinism explains reactive responses The way you're raised determines how you react to stuff, but actions are more then impulse reactions, with actions, you have the ability to think and reflect on what you want to do and what you're doing