If you missed today’s breaking news, an Egyptian man hijacked a Cairo-bound EgyptAir flight and rerouted it to Cyprus to ‘send a message to his Cypriot ex-wife’. While the hijacking and hostage-taking are serious, terrifying matters not to be laughed at, it’s been hard to keep a straight face at the news reports coming out (He had an explosive belt! No he didn’t, he had a letter!). Here are the best, side-splittingly funny tweets and Facebook posts cracking us up right now.

1. This:

2. He's not even making this up:

3. Nor is he:

4. So true:

5. And the Egyptian alsh begins:

6. And continues:

7. This reference was bound to happen:

8. The collective sound of Egyptian wives groaning:

9. Giving divorced men a bad name:

10. Ex-husbands unite:

11. This epic tweet is in reference to this viral story:

12. The hijacker has also made things hard on married men:

13. And on single women, too:

14. And all the hardcore-romantics, it seems:

15. Some people are already working on their valentine’s cards:

16. Better than the original:

17.  A bit obvious, but had to be done:

18. He's got  a point:

19. And while our thoughts and prayers are with the hostages, imagine being the ex-wife:

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By Kalam El Qahaira