View Full Version : Turn off your burner phones today!
dave2010
23-04-2023, 11:22
See https://www.gov.uk/alerts
I had a message from giffgaff giving lots of details, and scenarios I hadn't thought of before.
Firebottle
23-04-2023, 11:30
My phone won't be giving me an alert because I have turned the Emergency Alerts off.
Easy enough to find in Settings.
was reading about this on tinternet. Someone asked what happens if their phone is switched off, answer was it will automatically switch on for the alert.
What people can believe is just amazing.
My phone won't be giving me an alert because I have turned the Emergency Alerts off.
Easy enough to find in Settings.
but if there's a real emergency (Tidal wave, comet impact, zombie plague) you might not find out about it until it's too late. Look at all that bother Brad Pitt had in 'World War Z.' That was because he'd switched off emergency alerts on his phone. Probably.
was reading about this on tinternet. Someone asked what happens if their phone is switched off, answer was it will automatically switch on for the alert.
What people can believe is just amazing.
yup, daft idea??.... if you destroy it, it will still come back and go off too.. its the living dead
yup, daft idea??.... if you destroy it, it will still come back and go off too.. its the living dead
I wouldn't want to be in a phone shop or repair centre at 1500 today!
I get flood alerts on my landline as I live in a 'Flood Zone'. Except I don't.
First time it happened I did go down to the river to take a look. Absolutely no problem whatsoever, it would need to have risen about another sixty feet before it became an issue.
Boy who cries wolf.
Pigmy Pony
23-04-2023, 11:58
I wouldn't want to be in Wales - it looks like they'll get it in English AND Welsh. If I was chatting on my phone and it suddenly burst into Full Harry Secombe mode, I really would think the end of the world is nigh.
im 150 meters above sea level and no major rivers or even minor ones really.. the nearest is likely livingston. certainly nothing thats gonna flood the place tmk. a good distance from sea too. zombies; well its way too late to worry about them.
Pigmy Pony
23-04-2023, 12:09
im 150 meters above sea level and no major rivers or even minor ones really.. the nearest is likely livingston. certainly nothing thats gonna flood the place tmk. a good distance from sea too. zombies; well its way too late to worry about them.
We're about the same altitude as you... I suppose we're more likely to be hit by a low-flying plane, otherwise should be ok.
I'm sure it's all deadly serious, but the alert doesn't need to be all doom and gloom. They could be region-specific. Up here the alert could be "Trouble at t'mill", southerners could have "Gordon Bennett!" or something. Don't know about the rest of the country. Apart from Burnley, where it could be "Oh no what now".
walpurgis
23-04-2023, 12:13
I keep my mobile turned off unless I make one of my four a year calls :).
Anyway, if there's a real major emergency like 10 minutes to being hit by a nuclear attack, we won't be told because it will create a panic!
We're about the same altitude as you... I suppose we're more likely to be hit by a low-flying plane, otherwise should be ok.
I'm sure it's all deadly serious, but the alert doesn't need to be all doom and gloom. They could be region-specific. Up here the alert could be "Trouble at t'mill", southerners could have "Gordon Bennett!" or something. Don't know about the rest of the country. Apart from Burnley, where it could be "Oh no what now".
'Aliens are landin' int park. Get thee clogs on un terk cuvva.'
In Texas that would be, get your guns and shoot at them....
In Texas that would be, get your guns and shoot at them....
waste of ammo if they are any variety of Dr Who alien. Never understood why UNIT even bothered issuing firearms.
Pigmy Pony
23-04-2023, 12:36
In Texas that would be, get your guns and shoot at them....
...and in West Virginia it would be "Climb off your cousin and vacate your meth lab NOW".
I keep my mobile turned off unless I make one of my four a year calls :).
Anyway, if there's a real major emergency like 10 minutes to being hit by a nuclear attack, we won't be told because it will create a panic!
although in that situation it wouldn't matter if there was a panic. How much panicking can you do in ten minutes and after that it's all over anyway.
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I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords
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good ol' Kent
apparently it was an anti-climax.. some got it, some didnt... some early, some late and it wasnt particularly doom and death in style(so im told)
I got it, wasn't that scary, bit disappointing really.
Mine went off one minute before time. Some female explaing what it was and all I had to do was to click on 'OK', and that was that. My little Nokia phone didn't respond, but then it's 1.5G. :lol:
All quite painless and not the end of the world.
Mikeandvan
23-04-2023, 19:03
Clearly everyone is too scared to mention the real and very obvious reason for this practice emergency alert - nuclear attack from the Russian bear, who the UK govt. is doing their damnedest to piss off. I think it's first duty should to protect UK citizens, not some fucking ex Soviet shit hole.
no reason to warn anyone of incoming, even if we had time. there is nowhere to shelter anyway. this country decided not to bother with shelters for the commoners.. just for the elite
Clearly everyone is too scared.
yeah that must be it.
Happy Threads Day to all those that celebrate.
https://i.imgur.com/9SnCIGH.jpg
''Generation X-er a bit disappointed that apocalypse turned out to be temporary and nothing like Threads'':
https://www.thenewselephant.co.uk/generation-x-er-a-bit-disappointed-that-apocalypse-turned-out-to-be-temporary-and-nothing-like-threads
IIRC the money shot was that traffic warden armed with the SLR. The rest of it was nothing like as interesting.
Mikeandvan
23-04-2023, 21:22
IIRC the money shot was that traffic warden armed with the SLR. The rest of it was nothing like as interesting.
It's not exactly Hollywood material is it? That's why there's so few films about nuclear apocalypse, but the TV movie Threads is the best. Another British film well worth watching is the psuedo-docu 'The War game', in fact that's probably better, artistically speaking.
Mikeandvan
23-04-2023, 21:25
yeah that must be it.
My bad, may be earthquakes? The British Isles is has one every few million years.
''Generation X-er a bit disappointed that apocalypse turned out to be temporary and nothing like Threads'':
https://www.thenewselephant.co.uk/generation-x-er-a-bit-disappointed-that-apocalypse-turned-out-to-be-temporary-and-nothing-like-threads
:D
dave2010
24-04-2023, 12:57
I was in a cinema yesterday - and I confidently expected at least one phone to go off during the showing. Absolutely Zilch! As far as I can see there's nothing on my phone [which was switched off] to show that I missed an alert call.
I was in a cinema yesterday - and I confidently expected at least one phone to go off during the showing. Absolutely Zilch! As far as I can see there's nothing on my phone [which was switched off] to show that I missed an alert call.
there wouldn't be if it was off.. cant be communicated with if off or in airplane mode
Pigmy Pony
24-04-2023, 20:08
no reason to warn anyone of incoming, even if we had time. there is nowhere to shelter anyway. this country decided not to bother with shelters for the commoners.. just for the elite
Only room for one under my dining table. Everyone else will be toast...
Available from Debenhams, C&A and Woolworths whilst civilisation lasts...
https://i.imgur.com/VMfz1Tm.jpg
dave2010
24-04-2023, 21:27
there wouldn't be if it was off.. cant be communicated with if off or in airplane modeYes - maybe - but there were enough other people there to make it likely that there would be some noise. There is usually at least one which rings in most performances, though there was always a very slight chance that everyone would have turned theirs off.
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