At less than five miles as the crow flies from the RAF HQ and command bunkers in Naphill, I'm sure we will be getting an extra large one lobbed in our direction....
I've lived in the Netherlands since 1978. Every first Monday in the month, at middag the sirens go off to test the system. The last few years they are gradually switching over to text messaging. Except for the first time in 1978, when I did not know that it existed, it has never bothered me.They still have this in the Czech Republic.
They havenโt tested that for around three years now.I used to work at Crowthorne in the 90s and they would test the escape siren for Broadmoor hospital every Monday.
It's really clever....it can detect which people are sat together and therefore save on message quantity by only contacting some of you...I was sat with three other people when the alarm was supposed to go off. Two of us got both the audible alarm and the message, one just the message (about 20 minutes later) and one got nothing at all. Brilliant.
If only my faith in those who organise such things was as rosy as yoursIt's really clever....it can detect which people are sat together and therefore save on message quantity by only contacting some of you...
How is that unfunny, racist c*nt still relevant?
Its not filmed in my front room.
If you think of all the differing networks, the varying levels of traffic in different regions and the multiple number of "hops" the message would have to make to reach any given device, that was never going to happen.I was a bit disappointed, i was expecting dozens of phones all to sound the alarm at once. Instead it was like a bad firework display with phones randomly going off, rather than one big bang.
I've just got a text!!
Is everything ALRIGHT!!!
Is it safe for me to come out of my house,
Or is it the end of the world
I think you know the answer to that question.I think the real question is why is the alarm system contract being supplied through Infosys, the company Rishi Sunaks wife owns...
Aaaarrrrggghhh!!! HELLLLP!!! HELLLLP.I should go back to bed mate, everything's on fire out here.