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Last night saw Victoria be hit by its biggest earthquake in 30 years. At 5.3 magnitude, no serious damage or injury has been reported. Instead, Melbournites were quick to prove their strength and quick wit and the jokes started flying.
Here are some of the best memes we could find.
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Dear Melbourne, nice work ripping off the Adelaide earthquake picture (didn't even take a new picture)
#adelaidefirst
Hey, it's called being efficient through recycling!
this annoyed me based upon the fact that despite the lack of TOO much damage (however the store across the road from my job lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock here in Morwell) it was extremely frightening. I live just 15min from the epicenter of the quake and it did not feel funny. I live in a house that is held up by pillars. My animals did not find it funny, for an hour afterwards I was still shaking and trying to calm down my animals. My elderly neighbour was frightened out of her wits and a lot of her life-long belongings were shattered on her floor. She is devastated.
Melbourners got very snooty and judgey about people commenting on this immediately on the internet and dumbing down peoples concerns and upset, but for people who live in this Gippsland region where it happened, I assure you it was no laughing matter. I was thankful that it didn't result in anything like what happened in Christchurch and that besides getting smashed in the head with a bunch of cds and a photoframe while trying to hold some things from falling down, I am unscathed.
Sorry to be so serious, but it was scary and I don't feel like laughing along with people who are belittling the scare.
It scared the crap out of me out in the north western suburbs of Melbourne, so you are not alone at all and I was on the internet making sure I was not hallucinating!!
come on ... you're fine, animals are fine, you can sort your CDs. Bad things happen a lot, good to have a dinner party story that didn't land you in ICU.
youre missing the point.
No, no I was just making light in defense of what I thought were pretty funny (albeit unoriginal ) pictures. I'm glad you wrote though because I was feeling really bad about the post because you were upset by the earth quake - so am sorry for not being more supportive x hope all is good now