Twitter Flooded With Cowabunga Bárðarbunga Jokes

In anticipation of Bárðarbunga’s possible eruption, social media users have been busy sharing their thoughts on the volcano.

Many of these tweets are helpful, pointing travellers to vital resources but an alarming number use Bárðarbunga as a segue into some kind of Cowabunga joke.

Presented here is a selection of tweets collected by the Grapevine.

Helpful

Dear people, please stay updated through safetravel.is regarding #bardarbunga volcano.

— I heart Reykjavík (@IheartReykjavik) August 19, 2014

Pretty cool visualisation of #Bardarbunga‘s seismic activity. Updated every minute. http://t.co/H7u0ic5fJW — Ómar Kjartan Yasin (@omarkj) August 19, 2014

Follow the development in #Bardarbunga at our Facebook page https://t.co/EeMH2MgxKB

— Almannavarnir (@almannavarnir) August 19, 2014

You can now follow Bárðarbunga live on a web cam situated in Grimsfjall, 30 km from the volcano http://t.co/FZgZoUtYUy #Bardarbunga — mbl.is (@mblfrettir) August 18, 2014

Summary: EVERYBODY GET THE HELL OUT OF DODGE. http://t.co/pye20O43yc #Iceland #volcanowatch #Bardarbunga #bungabunga pic.twitter.com/78sJ3bC2bg

— Alda Sigmundsdóttir (@aldakalda) August 19, 2014

Cowabunga

Cowabunga Bardarbunga – calm down — Sarb Johal (@sarb) August 20, 2014

Cowabunga! Bardarbunga is the next Eyjafjallajokull. #icelandicvolcano — Wendy Jermyn (@wendyjermyn) August 19, 2014

Cowabunga Bardarbunga! Some 3,000 earthquakes have taken place since Saturday in Bardarbunga—a stratovolcano in Iceland. — Bob MacNeal (@BobMacNeal) August 19, 2014

Volcano named after one of Berlusconi’s orgies threatening to blow up my holiday. #cowabunga #Bardarbunga — Lois McEwan (@LoisMcEwan) August 18, 2014

#Cowabunga, someone’s having a #bungabunga in my #Bardarbunga. http://t.co/h13Uv4M7DF — Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl (@eirikurorn) August 19, 2014

@rte the #icelandicvolcano#Bardarbunga, will be referred to as #cowabunga or #bungabunga but not the Berlesconi kind. Rgds, #iceland — Victor Blaer (@victorblaer) August 19, 2014

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