Ohh! Wait, you've never seen the Ea-Nasir memes before?
Okay, there was this really shitty copper merchant back in ancient Sumeria. Sold low-grade copper as higher quality, was rude to messengers who had traveled for ridiculously long distances, refused to give refunds, all that. At least one coppersmith sent him several very long and sternly-worded complaints.
When the city was dug up later, archeologists found that that this asshole had literally framed these complaints in his house, like a badge of honor. He had taken his 1-star reviews and framed them in his kitchen.
Tumblr found this and decided to immortalize this asshole in memes.
Okay, there was this really shitty copper merchant back in ancient Sumeria. Sold low-grade copper as higher quality, was rude to messengers who had traveled for ridiculously long distances, refused to give refunds, all that. At least one coppersmith sent him several very long and sternly-worded complaints. When the city was dug up later, archeologists found that that this asshole had literally framed these complaints in his house, like a badge of honor. He had taken his 1-star reviews and framed them in his kitchen. But the most important thing everyone needs to consider though, is how back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
Uh, yeah? They can kill pets for getting in the way, target you if you're the wrong skin color, or risk collateral damage should they be too trigger happy. Robbers won't want to stick around, and someone just looking to hurt you (rare af) can be dealt with more quickly by neighbors if you live in an urban environment. As soon as hostility becomes too costly, almost any random threat will run.
I'm sorry if your world is all mad max lawlessness but in my world this is how I've successfully gone about things: Intruder in house > call 911 > police come & file a report > eventually get a warrant for the intruder's arrest > intruder eventually gets apprehended & removed from society. Peace restored.
Fuck no. WE have Community Emergency response in my area. Calling the cops would also put ME and my FAMILY at risk because ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS. Children have been taken away from their parents because the cops they called for help alerted social services. So they are not allowed in our community any more. Fuck you for suggesting it, bootlicker. You disgust me.
omg, i remember someecards!!! that is crazy. Amazing to have seen these a million years ago when they were ubiquitous, and to have not even noticed their slow extinction. Seeing this kind of gave me time whiplash.
Hard to say what the oldest is since the creation dates of the files have gone through at least a couple of filesystem changes, but this is definitely one of the older ones, probably circa 2008. And it is technically on my phone since I sync my pictures folder on my Google Drive.
Context of the joke is that "burek" is allegedly only with meat, however, many have put other shit into the same structure and called it "burek" anyways, and some even changed the structure a bit but stuck to putting only meat in it, leading to the liberalisation of what constitutes a "burek" (neutral-neutral); and thus, the question of what defines a "burek" was raised and was funnily represented through this meme (many take this WAY more seriously than you'd assume)
They do now, so it's probaby fine to just take a picture of your oldest meme related philosophy papyrus (the concept of possession or later, if I'm not mistaken)
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I often think about Kyle Broflovski's father, sitting down with a nice glass of red wine, cracking his knuckles to troll the shit out of the internet
I had this saved from 2017 apparently
I barely save memes lol
We need a count bot on lemmy
To have it count what?
This is from countwithchickenlady, every post has to increase the number by one and a bot has to delete everything else
It took me so long to see the r/ name in the image lol
I saw a very cool spider today
spider spoiler tag for the arachnophobic ^ - ^
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler spider spider!
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that is a very cool spider :)
thank ya! :3
No need, I have bugs in my house to look at
It's okay, I have bugs in my code to look at. 🥲
Sometimes its fun to keep them around, its like gathering bug-friends irl!
Huh
Sin(k) / cos(k) = tan(k)
Sin divided by cos is hiw tangent is defined. Using k as the variable makes the words sink and tank
Thank you
is that supposed to look like brown sugar frosted mini wheats or am I just stoned
idk are your brown sugar frosted mini wheats made with inferior copper and when you tried to return them your servant was insulted?
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
right? like I swear sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
Both can be true. Though I think the norm back then was more "giant earthen pots of room-temperature beer."
Ohh! Wait, you've never seen the Ea-Nasir memes before?
Okay, there was this really shitty copper merchant back in ancient Sumeria. Sold low-grade copper as higher quality, was rude to messengers who had traveled for ridiculously long distances, refused to give refunds, all that. At least one coppersmith sent him several very long and sternly-worded complaints.
When the city was dug up later, archeologists found that that this asshole had literally framed these complaints in his house, like a badge of honor. He had taken his 1-star reviews and framed them in his kitchen.
Tumblr found this and decided to immortalize this asshole in memes.
Had to fix a bit of this:
Okay, there was this really shitty copper merchant back in ancient Sumeria. Sold low-grade copper as higher quality, was rude to messengers who had traveled for ridiculously long distances, refused to give refunds, all that. At least one coppersmith sent him several very long and sternly-worded complaints. When the city was dug up later, archeologists found that that this asshole had literally framed these complaints in his house, like a badge of honor. He had taken his 1-star reviews and framed them in his kitchen. But the most important thing everyone needs to consider though, is how back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
Haven't seen this in forever. Thank you for keeping the old magic alive.
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I have seen them! I was just stoned 😅
😄Well, glad you were having a good time. Roll one for those of us in the prohibition states. 🌲
Hahaha will do!
"If you want it, take it. If you don't want to take it, go away!" 💅
From the archives of 2019
And as always: ACAB.
So are you saying you wouldn't call 911 even if there was an intruder in your house because the cops would only make matters worse? 😂
Uh, yeah? They can kill pets for getting in the way, target you if you're the wrong skin color, or risk collateral damage should they be too trigger happy. Robbers won't want to stick around, and someone just looking to hurt you (rare af) can be dealt with more quickly by neighbors if you live in an urban environment. As soon as hostility becomes too costly, almost any random threat will run.
I'm sorry if your world is all mad max lawlessness but in my world this is how I've successfully gone about things: Intruder in house > call 911 > police come & file a report > eventually get a warrant for the intruder's arrest > intruder eventually gets apprehended & removed from society. Peace restored.
Must be nice to live in a world where cops aren't glorified gang members
And don't watch the news too much because that makes people live in paranoia that the whole world is going up in flames. It's really not.
I'm almost jealous you live with such privilege, but I don't envy your lack of empathy
Have police killed one of your housepets or family members? Or are you just repeating things we've all seen in the news?
Fuck no. WE have Community Emergency response in my area. Calling the cops would also put ME and my FAMILY at risk because ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS. Children have been taken away from their parents because the cops they called for help alerted social services. So they are not allowed in our community any more. Fuck you for suggesting it, bootlicker. You disgust me.
*For your enjoyment:
https://www.iamc-line3.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/guidebook-for-community-emergency-response.pdf
THIS IS AMERICA SNOWFLAKE!!!
This needs to be updated for 2026
The oldest meme on my phone. I changed phones in like 2017, so I don’t have my very ancient memes.
2007 :3
Quite new, since I recently reset my phone lol
"Pull the lever Kronk!" combined with trolley problem is hilarious.
"WRONG LEVERRRRRRRRRRR"
Why does she even have that lever?
Saved this one as a contact picture for a friend obsessed with crossfit.
omg, i remember someecards!!! that is crazy. Amazing to have seen these a million years ago when they were ubiquitous, and to have not even noticed their slow extinction. Seeing this kind of gave me time whiplash.
Yeah they did kinda just vanish and nobody noticed.
Looks like an album cover.
Anal bum cover will keep the farts in.
From 2012. Most of y’all were probably in grade school when I saved this meme on my phone. ALL BOW BEFORE YOUR GERIATRIC MEME LORD
Let's meet up im the nursing home later and trade years of rad memes. Also 2012.
Hell yeah brother, let’s have a LAN party and play some counter strike
What's up
barely a meme, but well done
(now my mind is grinding away trying to find a suitable caption to make it into a meme)
Bubble butt
Nailed it.
October 2, 2020
And also American kids of a certain age watching public television
That's pretty funny
I have competing memes so heres a few
Oldest one in my phone
He bears the ancient texts...
A vintage 2012 meme for you
Do I win?
2025, if I was at my desktop I'd show something much older
Not even cropped lmao
From the hallowed year 2011 (I didn’t bother to crop it on my iPhone 4 back then either, so you can also see the old UI for an extra nostalgia burst)
2017!
Rich Evans is the most expressive man to ever walk the earth.
This thread is gold
2015, but that's just when i've saved it, or more like recovered from dying website that was around for a decade before or so
~2013
I thought I'd have something older but here we are
It's hard to tell which is truly the oldest, but here are some contenders:
Wzf?
Hard to say what the oldest is since the creation dates of the files have gone through at least a couple of filesystem changes, but this is definitely one of the older ones, probably circa 2008. And it is technically on my phone since I sync my pictures folder on my Google Drive.
Sadly it only goes back 3 years
The oldest meme from the backup of my old phone
Oldest one in my phone.
This is the oldest according to date saved
From 2011
Saved in 2017
Context of the joke is that "burek" is allegedly only with meat, however, many have put other shit into the same structure and called it "burek" anyways, and some even changed the structure a bit but stuck to putting only meat in it, leading to the liberalisation of what constitutes a "burek" (neutral-neutral); and thus, the question of what defines a "burek" was raised and was funnily represented through this meme (many take this WAY more seriously than you'd assume)
here you go, from 2023
mood, tbh
This would probably be my oldest...
I downloaded this image on Jan 10, 2013:
I miss this meme. It wasn't very clever like most memes from the 2000s and early 2010s, but it was fun.
ACAB includes past and present meme cops (and future of course)
Last year oh well
Phone:
Oldest saved anywhere:
I was working for Salesforce at the time, too
It's a relatively new phone, all my prehistoric memes are on my computer
I transfer all downloads to the PC every once in a while, so it's not that old
Oldest one in my cloud Memes folder
Oldest one on device
(sorry, rly the oldest one I could find)
I do not save memes on my phone.
I do have a baby hedgehog yawning in my ancient OneDrive.
It used to brighten my day.
Oldest on my phone:
Okay, most people definitely won't get this 😂
And I refuse to elaborate
Text below: CO2 taxation levels were accidentally set too high, so snow fell until mid July.
Dude thinks: "Just great"
Saved this one back in 2013.
surprisingly wholesome
March 7th, 2010
Kilroy was here
It has been a while since Boku no hero was completed, one piece still hasn't lol
This is one of the oldest on my phone, from 2016 (there were three older ones, but they were too specific to my friend group)
Ohhh oldest...
This was a great idea btw OP thank you!
Oldest as in the meme being old or me having it in the phone for the longest time?
I shitpost in c/chainsmokercat
Fitting
New phone, who dis‽
Phones didn't exist back then.
sir, you did not understand the question
They do now, so it's probaby fine to just take a picture of your oldest meme related philosophy papyrus (the concept of possession or later, if I'm not mistaken)
2005 Korean meme (also if you like historical dramas with extreme Buddhist lean Shindon is your show)
I posted my oldest earlier in this thread, but this second oldest is also pretty great
I don’t save memes on my phone