On Friday morning the world woke up to reports of an earthquake in Kent – and their Twitter feeds stuffed full of the same jokes endlessly retweeted.
There have been no reports of injuries or structural damage, so the 4.2-magnitude quake in the garden of England is ripe for ridicule.
And as with any other underwhelming natural event, everyone on Twitter is making the same joke involving garden furniture or upturned wheelie bins:
Devastation after over night #kentearthquake . Damage estimated to be around 39p. pic.twitter.com/vH6l5eLi7v
— Trumpton Police (@PCTrumpton) May 22, 2015
Apparently Kent had an earthquake measuring 4.2 last night. The scenes posted online are devastating. #KentEarthquake pic.twitter.com/H4DjnuOSel
— Renzo Soprano (@Renzo_Soprano) May 22, 2015
No matter how much inconvenience the #KentEarthquake has caused....us kentonians will troop on x pic.twitter.com/WUfdA45C9k
— IAMEatonsMess x (@Britishchickx) May 22, 2015
#KentEarthquake We will rebuild❤️ pic.twitter.com/aAgULOYpoU
— Nick Butcher (@nickbutcher88) May 22, 2015
Jerry can't defeat us and neither will an earthquake. It's time for Kent to rebuild. #kentearthquake pic.twitter.com/5f0JhYk8gd
— Sgt Arthur Wilson (@SgtArthurWilson) May 22, 2015
Note that the above wheelie bin is actually a Cardiff council wheelie bin. Which is not in Kent, in case you didn’t know.
First pic of #kent #earthquake damage comes in pic.twitter.com/7I7NFtk4wU
— Mark Roberts (@cortexrock) May 22, 2015
Then there were the jokes about the joke.
The #KentEarthquake has left a path of overused tweets in its wake pic.twitter.com/FFfA1xGNOY
— Felicity Morse (@FelicityMorse) May 22, 2015
I really hope the #KentEarthquake has not knocked over a garden chair anywhere.
— Stig Abell (@StigAbell) May 22, 2015
It’s clearly a beloved part of British Twitter by now, given similar pictures crop up every time there is an underwhelming natural event.
First photos of the catastrophic storm damage in London emerging. pic.twitter.com/D8iXXf11TW
— Grumples (@Grumples_) October 27, 2013
Long to the short, Twitter is a bit like Inception right now. With less dramatic music. And more wheelie bins.
As you were.
