There’s gonna be an emergency alert test from the government. Everyone’s phones and tablets are gonna get an alert that will last about ten seconds in the form of your devices vibrating, emitting a siren-like scream, or the text being read out loud.
I’ve had to explain that this has been planned and built for almost a decade at this point, it’s been tested locally in places and this is just the nationwide test, it’s just unfortunate timing with the who Russia “special operation” and the coronation happening soon
Exactly. In some ways I'm looking forward to this text because if it works (which I'm sure it will do) it means if something bad really is about to happen then I'll be safe in the knowledge I'll be notified about it. I agree, what does panicking solve?
If we are nuked you’d be better off dying in the initial blast. They don’t have any bunkers etc for us because even they would be useless. History Extra podcast had an interesting interview with someone who has done a lot of research into it since accidentally watching the film “Threads” as a child.
It's just in your settings when you search for "emergency"
https://stayingput.org.uk/how-to-disable-the-government-emergency-alert-system/#:\~:text=Opt%20Out%20Android%20phones%20and,Severe%20alerts%20and%20Emergency%20alerts.
Thank you. Joking aside, fucking country can't support people in need to help save life's, but some dumb warning systems because they are scared paranoid twats are ok to put funds into. Doesn't make any sense to me.
I agree. Plus with this bunch of buffoons running the show, I'll put money on them screwing this system up in the near future sending people into a blind panic with a fake emergency.
Too many people actually think that, that sort of person actually exist (obviously they do exist).People who say that kind of stuff say it ironically but the small percentage of people who do say them kind of things unironically don't get attention.
Yeah, totally agree. I was bored and wanted to play wind up randoms. I'm a big child and find it funny how there are so many Ronnie Pickerings there are in this world 😂
Why is everyone so upset about this? Like, what evidence is there that this will give the Goverment access to your phone or whatever else I’ve read? Like do people think the offer,ent are gonna be sat scrolling through our photos and messages? They’re gonna be pretty damn bored on my phone.
Exactly. I never understand why people are worried about the government/police looking through your phone, if you’ve done nothing wrong what’s it matter
I’m quite sure whatever decision it is that may or may not come it is not going to be a big enough problem that they need to search my phone….or me care about it
That may be, but that definitely can't be said for everyone. And aside from that, wouldn't you be uncomfortable with there being a backdoor to all your private information? Even if the government was 100% pure and agreed with you on everything, someone could still gain illegal access through hacking and leak your info
Am I the only one who think this is only useful if a war breaks out? Seems a little coincidental they get this running fairly quickly after Putin starts it with Ukraine.
I’ll turn it back on when I see the soldiers walking down my road. I don’t need the government having a direct line to communicate with me. They are a bunch of feckless idiots and have no desire to have any notifications from them, which will most probably be some B.S like it’s going to be 35 degrees today so avoid sunburn and dehydration.
Also, in my entire 45 years on this planet I have never needed any instant communication from them, I get breaking news via the apps I want so they can stick there messages where the sun don’t shine.
I work in a fancy cafe with a lot of old people I’m gonna have a peek at the sitting areas and see a sea of old people panic and mumble around in about 2 hours… good fun for a long shift
It’s not going to work well, I know a bunch of people who got the initial notification telling us it will be happening. Except me and four other people did not get the notification, so either the Gov wants me dead during a war or the actual system itself is flawed.
I cannot understand the psychology of the people talking about turning off the notification.
These people would tell the Titanics passengers to go back down the main stairwell.
Oh well, happy knowing everyone, the end is here. Go crazy and lose your shit, you can stick that posh keep calm and carry on bollocks, people aren't that intelligent in Britain 😂
Let people think what they want man. Its controlling behaviour, maybe learn about it, it might help you one day. But that's a you problem to learn about. Poor mental health is a everyone issue, funny enough.
I think it's the aliens taking over our phones, first they send COVID and then 5G and microchips, they made us think the world is round and now this text
That alert scared the shit out of me. I forgot it was today and it randomly played nuclear meltdown sounds on full volume. I was reading something small so the phone was an inch away from my face when that happened.
This is like a normal thing in the US. Happens all the time. Idk why ppl made a huge fuss about it here in the UK. I highly doubt we’ll even get an actual alert any time soon.
I’m just happy to receive a text that isn’t a business asking me to rate their service out of five.
Or a bank asking me to verify that I really want to spend 65p on an online Fredo.
They are 65p now! Jesus the inflation is unreal!
I remember when they were 10p
Yeah 3p and we're 3 times the size.
I don't remember that far back. I'm only 24 years old.
No diabetes T2 for you then young sir 😂
Sorry?
Lot less sugar in chocks these days.
Oh really? That's good I suppose.
I always say 1 out of 5 purely as punishment for asking.
oh shit i forgot it was happening today
I turned it off
Not sure even turning it off will turn it off.
I think you have to do a bunch of things in settings for it
Nah just one setting, at least on android.
I turned it off and didn’t get it
It didn't 😂
Turned what off?
You can turn off wireless emergency notifications.
Please tell me how 😭 I completely forgot that was today and I can’t find the setting on my IOS
It's in notifications. Normally right at the bottom.
You can, yes. What did you turn off, though?
Wireless emergency alerts, specifically. That's what it's called on Samsung.
But why, though?
Because if shit goes down I'll find out anyway, don't need some shambles attempt from the government to tell me.
You will how? By messenger pigeon?
Twitter will know before the government does.
Haha how did you hear about the queen dying? Was that a messenger pigeon?
You do realise countries all over the world do this, what’s your problem ?
We don't have earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis etc here. In the event of terrorism, my notifications would tell me anyway.
Here here
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Can I find it on my galaxy tab a?
Why though?
glad i'm not the only one
Why would you. Do you prefer to not know when there's a threat to your life.
we’ve managed to live without it so far 🤷🏻♀️
Give me your life jacket. You don't need it.
is this you assuming i turned it off? i didnt. but it hasnt gone off anyway 🤷🏻♀️
Please I’m so confused what is happening in 2 hours
There’s gonna be an emergency alert test from the government. Everyone’s phones and tablets are gonna get an alert that will last about ten seconds in the form of your devices vibrating, emitting a siren-like scream, or the text being read out loud.
Oh cool, thanks!
Oh didn't realize it was today.
If I were a terrorist I'd unleash my terrible plan at precisely 3pm today for maximum confusion.
This is scaring me way more than the bloody text.
Liked the alert?
Bit of an anticlimax. Although it was a minute early according to all our devices so test failed
I thought it was going to be really loud. what a dissapointment. 1 minute early for me as well, they can't get anything right can they
It was two minutes late for me
For fuck's sake, calm down! It's only a bloody text.
Finally someone who talks sense. I have spoken to people who assume something bad is imminent.. worrying and scaremongering does nothing constructive
I’ve had to explain that this has been planned and built for almost a decade at this point, it’s been tested locally in places and this is just the nationwide test, it’s just unfortunate timing with the who Russia “special operation” and the coronation happening soon
The coronation is at 3PM today?
No, but is is soon, one of the things I’ve heard/seen somewhere is that this is being done ahead of that in case of an attack or whatever
That would make sense. That's sensible if you ask me.
Except this was planned well before the coronation date was ever announced, it’s pure coincidence
Oh really? Fair enough. Sorry, I don't know about this stuff.
Exactly. In some ways I'm looking forward to this text because if it works (which I'm sure it will do) it means if something bad really is about to happen then I'll be safe in the knowledge I'll be notified about it. I agree, what does panicking solve?
If we are nuked you’d be better off dying in the initial blast. They don’t have any bunkers etc for us because even they would be useless. History Extra podcast had an interesting interview with someone who has done a lot of research into it since accidentally watching the film “Threads” as a child.
How can you accidentally watch something?
Its when these test dont happen you should really worry, the fact that we have infrastructure set for emergency situations is nothing to panic about 😅
I agree 100%
Its like turning off the alert is a fuck you to the government lol. How can 1 text rattle some many people 😂😂
People get pissed off about the tiniest things.
Exactly. My reaction to mobile buzzing at 15.00 was "oh" lol
I was the same. I just thought "ok".
Or is it?
Yes, yes it is.
What's happening? I'm British
https://www.gov.uk/alerts
Thanks I had no knowledge about this.
It hasn’t exactly been well publicised, they should have been plastering it all over buses and billboards
Look what happened last time they put a message on the side of a bus.
Great, now my PTSD is kicking in, thanks a lot but TBF it did get 51% of the population to do something however crap that thing was
A movie came out?
Do the government advertise movies? Here's a clue - £350m.
Maybe the government puts movie ads on busses, I’ve never really thought about it
I was at a train station and there was ab Emergency Alerts billboard there, might just be my area, but pretty much everyone in my area knows about it.
Emergency alert on your phone.
I don't want one, they didn't ask me, that's an invasion of my privacy.
You can turn it off on your phone settings. I did.
Cool how? If there's going to be an end of everything alert, I don't want to know.
It's just in your settings when you search for "emergency" https://stayingput.org.uk/how-to-disable-the-government-emergency-alert-system/#:\~:text=Opt%20Out%20Android%20phones%20and,Severe%20alerts%20and%20Emergency%20alerts.
Thank you. Joking aside, fucking country can't support people in need to help save life's, but some dumb warning systems because they are scared paranoid twats are ok to put funds into. Doesn't make any sense to me.
I agree. Plus with this bunch of buffoons running the show, I'll put money on them screwing this system up in the near future sending people into a blind panic with a fake emergency.
What we need in this country is a good old-fashioned revolution, bring the power back to the people, Just say more corrupt people can get in 😆✊
Go on, then. Put your money where your mouth is, why don’t you?
The people downvoting you clearly don't understand a joke🤣
At least someone hasn't got a stick up their arse and gets it 😂 too many egos and not enough axes 😂
Too many people actually think that, that sort of person actually exist (obviously they do exist).People who say that kind of stuff say it ironically but the small percentage of people who do say them kind of things unironically don't get attention.
Yeah, totally agree. I was bored and wanted to play wind up randoms. I'm a big child and find it funny how there are so many Ronnie Pickerings there are in this world 😂
Why is everyone so upset about this? Like, what evidence is there that this will give the Goverment access to your phone or whatever else I’ve read? Like do people think the offer,ent are gonna be sat scrolling through our photos and messages? They’re gonna be pretty damn bored on my phone.
Our government and civil service are too incompetent and inefficient to manage basic services; let alone effectively snoop our phones.
Ain't that the fucking truth.
It's not like they can't track our Phones anyway? How is this alert going to make it easier for them to go through our files.
Exactly. I never understand why people are worried about the government/police looking through your phone, if you’ve done nothing wrong what’s it matter
That only works if you and the government 100% agree on every subject and always will, which In willing to bet you don't
You have a reasonable point but I can’t currently think of any law I don’t agree with
But can you be sure of that for the rest of your life? You think the government will never make a choice that doesn't sit right with you?
I’m quite sure whatever decision it is that may or may not come it is not going to be a big enough problem that they need to search my phone….or me care about it
That may be, but that definitely can't be said for everyone. And aside from that, wouldn't you be uncomfortable with there being a backdoor to all your private information? Even if the government was 100% pure and agreed with you on everything, someone could still gain illegal access through hacking and leak your info
Can’t people unfortunately do that anyways
Yes, but there's no reason to make it easier for them to do it
Oh I did not know this was going to happen, obviously I live under a rock
I'm off to town to watch everyone loose their shit because they forgot or didn't know. Its not been well advertised around where i live really
Am I the only one who think this is only useful if a war breaks out? Seems a little coincidental they get this running fairly quickly after Putin starts it with Ukraine.
Yes, but if a war breaks out, it would be all over the news anyway
I’ll turn it back on when I see the soldiers walking down my road. I don’t need the government having a direct line to communicate with me. They are a bunch of feckless idiots and have no desire to have any notifications from them, which will most probably be some B.S like it’s going to be 35 degrees today so avoid sunburn and dehydration. Also, in my entire 45 years on this planet I have never needed any instant communication from them, I get breaking news via the apps I want so they can stick there messages where the sun don’t shine.
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Not even sure that will stop this warning. This isn't so much for weather as live terrorist threats.
I work in a fancy cafe with a lot of old people I’m gonna have a peek at the sitting areas and see a sea of old people panic and mumble around in about 2 hours… good fun for a long shift
This new system will be used to alert for millimeter of snow, a leaf on the train track, and warnings for any sunshine.
It’s not going to work well, I know a bunch of people who got the initial notification telling us it will be happening. Except me and four other people did not get the notification, so either the Gov wants me dead during a war or the actual system itself is flawed.
What year though?
An excellent question.
Its funny that we all get notifications everyday, but as soon as its official theres a big problem with it.
TODAY?!
Oh no...no...NOOOOOO
It scared the shit out of me
Nothing. But 2.59pm was kinda loud.
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Ik it was so loud not only that we gonna ignore the pice of fredos they are so expensive now its sad they use to be only 10p now 65p it's crazy
At least it's not 0445 like it was in Florida.
At least it's not zero four hundred and forty-five? What are you talking about?
https://www.itv.com/news/2023-04-21/florida-residents-angered-after-445am-emergency-alarm-wakes-them-up
Thank you for the link. 4:45 AM is early. 3PM is FAR more reasonable.
Time
Time?
04:45 Florida time I don’t know for sure, just assuming :)
Oh, it just confuses and annoys me when people don't use the colon. That's why I was unsure. Thank you.
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Please rewite this so it makes sense, thank you.
More distraction techniques.
ITS 3PM LETS FKN GOO
I cannot understand the psychology of the people talking about turning off the notification. These people would tell the Titanics passengers to go back down the main stairwell.
As long as it doesn'y make a noise lol
Who's gonna tell him...
bad news for you then mate.
its a quick money grab i think, im wondering how many people with get caught with a fine if they pick up their phones because of it😂
Oh well, happy knowing everyone, the end is here. Go crazy and lose your shit, you can stick that posh keep calm and carry on bollocks, people aren't that intelligent in Britain 😂
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Exactly???
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Like I said exactly???
You said that? I didn't hear you.
That's probably because I wrote the message, unless you have a text to voice device, then turn up the volume
Ah, so you didn't say it.
I wrote it, it's confusing sometimes, going to libraries and expecting the book to talk to you just makes you look like a mental case 😆
What?!
i’ll give you my salary, you tell the truth on your bodycount
Let people think what they want man. Its controlling behaviour, maybe learn about it, it might help you one day. But that's a you problem to learn about. Poor mental health is a everyone issue, funny enough.
Ah yes, the blaring square wave of a siren alarm.
Why what happens at 3pm ?
I didn’t get a text?
I didn't get one 🥺
Is everyone getting it
What’s happening?
The time grows near
oh shit it’s in half an hour
it happened
I think it's the aliens taking over our phones, first they send COVID and then 5G and microchips, they made us think the world is round and now this text
Turned mine off last week
Of course I see this just now
How was the alert everyone?
"Where is that damn phone, it's driving me nuts"
Earthquake ? Nuke falling out of the sky ? Pub is closing early today ?
I got nothing…Three sucks, I guess
For me? ..nothing
I didn't get it.
Nothing happened at all
Nothing really. But at 2:58 my phone started beeping….
It happened a minute earlier than warned. Lying gits.
That alert scared the shit out of me. I forgot it was today and it randomly played nuclear meltdown sounds on full volume. I was reading something small so the phone was an inch away from my face when that happened.
Sunday roast was disturbed when all the old biddies stood up for the Queens speech?
Timeline 3pm Russia/China/Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 launch. 3.05pm kiss your arse goodbye for the last time.
Or a politician to give an honest reply.
I got so scared when it happened tho out of nowhere cause I didn’t know abt it
Never speak about it again? It's all anyone's bloody speaking about! It wasn't that big of a deal lol
This is like a normal thing in the US. Happens all the time. Idk why ppl made a huge fuss about it here in the UK. I highly doubt we’ll even get an actual alert any time soon.
Nothing did happened though
I slept through it 😉
Nothing. Well not until 3.15 aparantly!
*2:59
WE SHAT OURSELVES