[Misc] How did you react to the emergency alert?

[Sid and the Sharknados]

What did it say?

 

[Scappa]

It went off 30 seconds early.

Could hear my ignorant neighbours coming out into the hall and chattering about it. Clearly no idea it was happening.

What in the U.K. could possibly warrant this level of scare mongering?

Floods? Do we get flash floods in the U.K.?

Forest fires? Not an issue

Earthquakes? They happen once every ten years in Yorkshire and measure about 0.001 on the Richter scale.

Terrorist attack? I don’t want my phone blaring out a signal to guide an attacker towards me thanks.

Nuclear attack? I’d rather not know thank you.

Just stop interfering in my business, my phone, my life.

The second I retire, this smart phone is being flung into the Adur. Hate the bloody things.

A dinghy of brown people approaching the Kentish coastline

 

[BrightonCottager]

How do you turn it off then? On a Samsung?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Joined in with a rousing chorus of “die in a minute, we’re gonna die in a minute” at the Green Man.

Didn’t get the alert myself though as I’d turned them off

 

[Bodian]

Didn't hear it- pub was too loud

 

[SK1NT]

What did it say?

 

[cloud]

Ah OK, it sounded like there was a T&C section which I didn't see.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Forgot to take the phone out so heard nothing. If it had been a nuclear attack I would have been nuked.

 

[Eeyore]

I was having me afternoon nap, so the phone was switched off.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

How do you turn it off then? On a Samsung?

Yeah I can't find that option either.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Didn't get it

A mate of mine Project managed the rollout of the messages. Reading things like this pleases me no end.

 

[bWize]

How do you turn it off then? On a Samsung?

If you click on your messages icon there are 3 dots to the right hand side (next to the search icon) - Click the 3 dots, then settings and you should see Emergency Alert settings.

 

[driddles]

What in the U.K. could possibly warrant this level of scare mongering?

Wonder if they're setting you up for what we call "Amber Alerts" over here (do you get those already?) Emergency texts that go out to alert people to snatched children/child in danger scenarios "be on the lookout for a silver car leaving Brighton license plate _______" etc...

 

[bluenitsuj]

Didn't notice

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

I screamed for a policeman

 

[beorhthelm]

about half past heard it on a few phones which seemed odd. but at different times, twigged people had set the tone as a notification sound.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Switched the alerts off weeks ago. Didn’t hear anyone else’s either.

Likewise

 

[METALMICKY]

So what we can conclude is that when the zombie apocalypse hits a lot of us will go down in the first wave seeing as my alert arrived 3.23 and my wife didn't get one at all!

 

[Djmiles]

Wonder if they're setting you up for what we call "Amber Alerts" over here (do you get those already?) Emergency texts that go out to alert people to snatched children/child in danger scenarios "be on the lookout for a silver car leaving Brighton license plate _______" etc...

I can’t remember the last time there was an Amber Alert here in Kitchener..

 

[Bob'n'weave]

It went off 30 seconds early.

Could hear my ignorant neighbours coming out into the hall and chattering about it. Clearly no idea it was happening.

What in the U.K. could possibly warrant this level of scare mongering?

Floods? Do we get flash floods in the U.K.?

Forest fires? Not an issue

Earthquakes? They happen once every ten years in Yorkshire and measure about 0.001 on the Richter scale.

Terrorist attack? I don’t want my phone blaring out a signal to guide an attacker towards me thanks.

Nuclear attack? I’d rather not know thank you.

Just stop interfering in my business, my phone, my life.

The second I retire, this smart phone is being flung into the Adur. Hate the bloody things.

This.
Pavlovian bullshit alert.