National News Government alert system: are you bothered?

[Oxymoron]

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....

 

[Marked Ox]

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....

Just have to hope Abingdon Army Base is still active or that they miss Benson by quite a bit!

 

[Malc]

They still have this in the Czech Republic.

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.
I live in a district that still uses the sirens, and last month they forgot to do the test. I really missed it!

 

[Peterdev]

I used to work at Crowthorne in the 90s and they would test the escape siren for Broadmoor hospital every Monday.

They haven’t tested that for around three years now.
I know there have been two breakouts in thirty years. They also take selected detainees out for the day in Crowthorne High Street. At Heatherwood they occasionally have a patient escorted by four burly guards

 

[ZeroTheHero]

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.

 

[mooro]

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.

It's really clever....it can detect which people are sat together and therefore save on message quantity by only contacting some of you...

 

[ZeroTheHero]

It's really clever....it can detect which people are sat together and therefore save on message quantity by only contacting some of you...

If only my faith in those who organise such things was as rosy as yours

 

[MarkG]

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.

 

[Berliner]

Its not filmed in my front room.

How is that unfunny, racist c*nt still relevant?

 

[ZeroTheHero]

That bloke is a plonker. How can an alert about imminent danger be 'controlling'? Especially when you can turn them off? I bet he moans about being told what to do by traffic lights and 'Danger of Death' notices on substations as well!

 

[Oxymoron]

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.

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.

 

[Sarge]

nothing, zero , zilch yesterday in Skevagas- 3pm came and went without a sound

think the venue/ host hotel is a wifi deadspot ?- I had no internet access when the match was on , Saturday afternoon ( probably for the best)

 

[Bath Yellow]

My daughter had hers go off again in her class this time, much to the amusement from the kids asking if it was real could they go home.

 

[Discoland]

I think the real question is why is the alarm system contract being supplied through Infosys, the company Rishi Sunaks wife owns...

 

[Scrongo]

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

 

[m]

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 should go back to bed mate, everything's on fire out here.

 

[IsleofWightYellow]

I think the real question is why is the alarm system contract being supplied through Infosys, the company Rishi Sunaks wife owns...

I think you know the answer to that question.

 

[Sheik djibouti]

I think you know the answer to that question.

Hmmmm.

 

[Scrongo]

I should go back to bed mate, everything's on fire out here.

Aaaarrrrggghhh!!! HELLLLP!!! HELLLLP.
Is the Oxford / Cheltenham game still on ??

 

[Bath Yellow]

If the alert sounds, put your head between your legs and kiss your a**e goodby.