Poll: Public emergency alerts to be sent to all UK mobile phones

Did you receive the Alert?

  • Yes

    Votes: 137 55.7%

  • No

    Votes: 109 44.3%
  • Total voters
    246
Philtor said:
Anyone else think the timing of this is a little strange given recent developments? Does the UK Gov think they need to warn us at short notice if Putin comes after us? :confused: Seems a bit over the top with a siren noise!

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2 hours before the event it will be on Twitter, 2 hours after the event the government system will finally activate unheard by the already perished population.
 
Philtor said:
Anyone else think the timing of this is a little strange given recent developments? Does the UK Gov think they need to warn us at short notice if Putin comes after us? :confused: Seems a bit over the top with a siren noise!

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Ukraine war: UK defends sending depleted uranium shells after Putin warning

The UK says the depleted uranium shells, which it is sending to Ukraine, are "standard".
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No, we're catching up with the rest of the World.
People should stop reading between the lines.
And also you can turn it off, worry if you can't.
 
Sooo, what happens if you're wearing headphones at the time? Hopefully it cuts them out and just uses the speaker?
 
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SexyGreyFox said:
Apparently we are one of the only countries that doesn't already do this, behind everybody else again.
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I didn't realise the UK didn't have such a system.

In the Netherlands and Finland we have them. In the Netherlands it gets tested the first Monday of the month at 12.00. Tourists or new arrivals think it's the end of the world. It's mainly used for severe weather, e.g. storms causing major disruptions (like preventing flights from running).

I expect in the UK people will get a severe weather warning for a bit of snow and to not go out on the roads unless necessary, and then everyone will rush out to buy white sliced bread before it runs out.
 
110% said:
I expect in the UK people will get a severe weather warning for a bit of snow and to not go out on the roads unless necessary, and then everyone will rush out to buy white sliced bread before it runs out.
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Only if they've ran out of toilet paper. Avoid the the crusty bloomer is my advice.
 
110% said:
I didn't realise the UK didn't have such a system.

In the Netherlands and Finland we have them. In the Netherlands it gets tested the first Monday of the month at 12.00. Tourists or new arrivals think it's the end of the world. It's mainly used for severe weather, e.g. storms causing major disruptions (like preventing flights from running).

I expect in the UK people will get a severe weather warning for a bit of snow and to not go out on the roads unless necessary, and then everyone will rush out to buy white sliced bread before it runs out.
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I was sitting in a park in Amsterdam after visiting a coffee shop when the alarms started going off, as you can imagine I was freaking out and thought about running for shelter at that point :cry:

I only realised it must be normal when everyone else was walking around ignoring it!
 
110% said:
I didn't realise the UK didn't have such a system.

In the Netherlands and Finland we have them. In the Netherlands it gets tested the first Monday of the month at 12.00. Tourists or new arrivals think it's the end of the world. It's mainly used for severe weather, e.g. storms causing major disruptions (like preventing flights from running).

I expect in the UK people will get a severe weather warning for a bit of snow and to not go out on the roads unless necessary, and then everyone will rush out to buy white sliced bread before it runs out.
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So the ideal time to attack the Netherlands is the first Monday of the month at noon?

I'll add that to the notes for taking over the world :)
 
SexyGreyFox said:
No, we're catching up with the rest of the World.
People should stop reading between the lines.
And also you can turn it off, worry if you can't.
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Sure you can turn your's off but you can't turn other people's obnoxious alarms off and you just know there's going to be plenty of people using it falsely as well by trolling with it.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
How?

(Sorry for asking the question)
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Well I'm sure the government can't possibly be that dumb to not have legislation restricting what is essentially digitally shouting fire in a cinema so maybe it wouldn't be as bad as I think, but then again the loss of respect in the police and post-covid rabid youths may compete with that.

But if your literally asking how... someone is going to record it and then it will be broadly available, certainly if a trend shows up on the likes of TikTok it will be pretty much all at once before the cringe sets in and it dies, so even if it does happen unlikely to be a long-term irritation.
 
It was REALLY useful in 2016 in Taiwan. I was there for Computex (was actually in hospital at the time trying not to die) and I had just wheeled myself into the loo... got an alert on my phone saying there was an earthquake imminent and to follow earthquake procedure.
I didn't know what that was, but figured being in a room with loads of stuff that could fall off shelves wasn't great... managed to wheel myself out of there and started to head towards my bed and the quake hit. First quake I'd ever been in and it was so surreal. I am glad I wasn't on the can when it happened with my IVs, falling books and equipment and 0 warning. It was great!
 
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So is it true you can turn these off (at least on an Android device). I've seen a few conspiracy nutters (the same ones with all the Covid theories) putting videos on social media "teaching" people how to do it.
 
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