I’m surprised it’s took this long to get these in the UK.
Can’t help but feel the timing is impeccable though.
If this is about a nuclear arsenal heading our way I’d rather not have the warning. The maximum advanced warning time would be 15 minutes. What are you going to do other than bend over and kiss your ass goodbye?
Don’t even try to survive, life in a nuclear wasteland would be unthinkable.
I’d rather just be completely oblivious until the blinding white flash.
Hopefully it is used with less enthusaism than the BBC News apps “breaking news” feature.
Jesus, this is grim. Putin needs to be put in a home.
Actually anytime a world leader threatens to use nuclear weapons he should be stripped of his role and be put on trial.
Already got my caves to go to if there is an impending doom. Hopefully I won’t be at work as I’ll be fucked. As long as doomsday is after 630pm.
Can we schedule it for then please?
I have 6m sewers under work…..that could do at a pinch
Nothing to do with Nukes right?
*Threads 1984 has entered the chat*
The way my life is going right now, I hope the nuke lands directly on my forehead.
Im surprised we haven’t had this before. Doesn’t have to be danger related either, America use them sometimes for missing kids
I feel like the *proper* British approach to this would be a giant “phone tree” with everyone’s mum on it.
Well that’s something I’ll be immediately disabling then as I doubt they would restrict usage of it to things that are actually an emergency.
Short of a nuclear strike what else exactly would be useful to know? We don’t get earthquakes or tsunamis here. We get plenty of notice of incoming dangerous weather and I don’t want a fucking siren going off every time they make a minor change to the covid rules.
I look at my phone so infrequently I’d probably notice the mushroom clouds before I notice my phone.
I would love to control this. Would simply say.
Do Not Think About The Event
[The Cabinet Office introduced this on their YouTube channel last summer](https://youtu.be/9yLd2AjGzYI). It’s not new, and it only seems to be a handful of local news sources reporting on it today. Feels like nuclear war scaremongering to me.
They had this in Toronto when I lived there and I was in a crowded bar when it went off. I didn’t know our phones could be so loud and 100 odd people’s phone’s going off at the same time scared the shit out of me.
If the world does get nuked to shit I’m not bothered for doing any of that mad max survival shit so I could use these as my warning to go stand directly in the blast and get it out of the way
Good. Weird we haven’t had them before. I’ve had alerts come through when overseas (“WILDFIRE MOVE SOUTH IMMEDIATELY”) and yes they are useful.
9/11
7/7
2008 financial collapse
*something shit no doubt happened in this gap*
Trump
Brexit
Covid
Mental inflation
Nuclear winter.
Can we just have a summer off, just a little break ffs.
And this why we should have nukes, if we go, we taking Russia with us.
Will this work through my phone being on airplane mode every night as I like to sleep and don’t really want to be disturbed unless it’s the end of the world.
I see a lot of people mentioning the blast radius and how they would rather be killed off straight away. but does anyone know what the typical blast radius really is?
I assume something like 5 miles for a nuke, nut i’d love to know for sure.
The last 2 years full of futile covid measures, all to get nuked at the end of it anyway.
I’m from the UK but live in Ontario, Canada.
The Govt here always uses this fucking thing for stuff like child kidnapping, the provincial police use it a lot. Very annoying being woken up at 2am because some child has gone missing 500km away from you.
I got one of these alerts during a storm last January when the river broke its banks. I woke up thinking the world was ending or something. I’ve not been right since.
I turned my emergency alerts off the moment I heard about them, which was some time last year. Nowt’s gonna happen where I live, including flooding.
Hopefully can opt out?
Rather just die unknowingly than have this shit wake me up, or knowing the morons in charge they send out an accidental one at 3am
Nope.
Don’t tell me I’m going to die. I’d rather not know.
ps: It is piss easy to permanently disable every type of emergency alert. Have a gander at [xda-developers](https://forum.xda-developers.com)
Imagine when that system gets hacked 🤔 Also, in the event of a Nuclear missile attack, who would actually want to know they had 15mins to panic because no bomb shelter is really going to matter anyway!?!
Can’t wait for hackers to figure out how to be highly obnoxious with this
Everyone keeps talking as though they’re gonna be in the epicentre of the blast zone. What is this, r/London? Some of us live in unimportant provincial crappy towns that nobody is going to bother sending nukes within 50 miles of.
This is for all dangers to life, not just war. It could cover all the red weather warnings as well
We get these in Japan.
So far mostly earthquake and tsunami warning, but also the odd missile from North Korea. They can be a bit annoying if they get the algorithm wrong but otherwise they’re quite useful.
You’re a serious cunt for posting this now and people upvoting should have a look at themselves.
This is an over year old bit of ‘news’ that is being reported now to take advantage of peoples fear. You know there are real people out there reading this with their own set of problems such as anxiety right?
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I’m surprised it’s took this long to get these in the UK.
Can’t help but feel the timing is impeccable though.
If this is about a nuclear arsenal heading our way I’d rather not have the warning. The maximum advanced warning time would be 15 minutes. What are you going to do other than bend over and kiss your ass goodbye?
Don’t even try to survive, life in a nuclear wasteland would be unthinkable.
I’d rather just be completely oblivious until the blinding white flash.
Hopefully it is used with less enthusaism than the BBC News apps “breaking news” feature.
Jesus, this is grim. Putin needs to be put in a home.
Actually anytime a world leader threatens to use nuclear weapons he should be stripped of his role and be put on trial.
Already got my caves to go to if there is an impending doom. Hopefully I won’t be at work as I’ll be fucked. As long as doomsday is after 630pm.
Can we schedule it for then please?
I have 6m sewers under work…..that could do at a pinch
Nothing to do with Nukes right?
*Threads 1984 has entered the chat*
The way my life is going right now, I hope the nuke lands directly on my forehead.
Im surprised we haven’t had this before. Doesn’t have to be danger related either, America use them sometimes for missing kids
I feel like the *proper* British approach to this would be a giant “phone tree” with everyone’s mum on it.
Well that’s something I’ll be immediately disabling then as I doubt they would restrict usage of it to things that are actually an emergency.
Short of a nuclear strike what else exactly would be useful to know? We don’t get earthquakes or tsunamis here. We get plenty of notice of incoming dangerous weather and I don’t want a fucking siren going off every time they make a minor change to the covid rules.
I look at my phone so infrequently I’d probably notice the mushroom clouds before I notice my phone.
I would love to control this. Would simply say.
Do Not Think About The Event
[The Cabinet Office introduced this on their YouTube channel last summer](https://youtu.be/9yLd2AjGzYI). It’s not new, and it only seems to be a handful of local news sources reporting on it today. Feels like nuclear war scaremongering to me.
Was thinking about the old [Protect and Survive](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_and_Survive) campaign of my youth last night.
This is the modern equivalent with knobs on.
They had this in Toronto when I lived there and I was in a crowded bar when it went off. I didn’t know our phones could be so loud and 100 odd people’s phone’s going off at the same time scared the shit out of me.
If the world does get nuked to shit I’m not bothered for doing any of that mad max survival shit so I could use these as my warning to go stand directly in the blast and get it out of the way
Good. Weird we haven’t had them before. I’ve had alerts come through when overseas (“WILDFIRE MOVE SOUTH IMMEDIATELY”) and yes they are useful.
9/11
7/7
2008 financial collapse
*something shit no doubt happened in this gap*
Trump
Brexit
Covid
Mental inflation
Nuclear winter.
Can we just have a summer off, just a little break ffs.
And this why we should have nukes, if we go, we taking Russia with us.
Will this work through my phone being on airplane mode every night as I like to sleep and don’t really want to be disturbed unless it’s the end of the world.
I see a lot of people mentioning the blast radius and how they would rather be killed off straight away. but does anyone know what the typical blast radius really is?
I assume something like 5 miles for a nuke, nut i’d love to know for sure.
The last 2 years full of futile covid measures, all to get nuked at the end of it anyway.
I’m from the UK but live in Ontario, Canada.
The Govt here always uses this fucking thing for stuff like child kidnapping, the provincial police use it a lot. Very annoying being woken up at 2am because some child has gone missing 500km away from you.
I got one of these alerts during a storm last January when the river broke its banks. I woke up thinking the world was ending or something. I’ve not been right since.
I turned my emergency alerts off the moment I heard about them, which was some time last year. Nowt’s gonna happen where I live, including flooding.
Hopefully can opt out?
Rather just die unknowingly than have this shit wake me up, or knowing the morons in charge they send out an accidental one at 3am
Nope.
Don’t tell me I’m going to die. I’d rather not know.
ps: It is piss easy to permanently disable every type of emergency alert. Have a gander at [xda-developers](https://forum.xda-developers.com)
Imagine when that system gets hacked 🤔 Also, in the event of a Nuclear missile attack, who would actually want to know they had 15mins to panic because no bomb shelter is really going to matter anyway!?!
Can’t wait for hackers to figure out how to be highly obnoxious with this
Everyone keeps talking as though they’re gonna be in the epicentre of the blast zone. What is this, r/London? Some of us live in unimportant provincial crappy towns that nobody is going to bother sending nukes within 50 miles of.
This is for all dangers to life, not just war. It could cover all the red weather warnings as well
We get these in Japan.
So far mostly earthquake and tsunami warning, but also the odd missile from North Korea. They can be a bit annoying if they get the algorithm wrong but otherwise they’re quite useful.
You’re a serious cunt for posting this now and people upvoting should have a look at themselves.
This is an over year old bit of ‘news’ that is being reported now to take advantage of peoples fear. You know there are real people out there reading this with their own set of problems such as anxiety right?