Hilarious, literal, preciously simple: Big Boat Stuck in the Suez Canal was the narrative we needed | Ben Jenkins

Finally, a global news event that we weren't screaming at each other on Twitter about - and which was simple enough to explain to a child

As the Ever Given was freed from the Suez Canal on Monday - just under a week after it jammed itself in there like a husky gentleman in a waterslide - the prevailing attitude online was not one of relief or celebration.

The hashtag #putitback started trending as people, with varying degrees of sincerity, immediately became nostalgic for the time when the whole world's attention was fixed on huge oaf of a boat gunking up 200km of canal.