Anyone listening to Jeremy Vine over the alert?

[princesspadam]

Dear god! The amount of hand wringing it’s caused with callers reporting their children screaming, one callers wife hasn’t slept all weekend

whats wrong with everyone? talk about snow flake

this is fairly standard practice in other parts of the globe (have had it several times in the US)

my DCs didn’t even mention it when I got home on Friday night (neither did DP)

the fire service have had to be supported by the army due to the number of fires they are dealing with, which I can’t remember in my lifetime before.
so would suggest this is a real and imminent threat.

Interesting. I haven't really heard the media telling everyone to believe that.

For me, most adults I know have common sense because I think we surround ourselves with like minded people, however most adults I see don't have common sense. They stop blocking doorways, at the top / bottom of escalators, have conversations blocking the aisle of the supermarket. There are thousands of examples. You only have to look at a packet of nuts in the supermarket with the message "may contain nuts" written on it to see how far the human race has come in a race to the bottom.

I see what you're saying and you make good points. However, I'm not convinced that people are as ignorant as we're portrayed to be and 'contains nuts' is a great example. No one can convince me that peanut butter stating 'contains nuts' is as a result of people thinking otherwise. I think we are being dumbed down and expected to think less of ourselves and others. I refuse to play the game.

I think some of this is driven by the litigation society. Someone in America (maybe not the best example) claimed on their insurance for "fire" having smoked their very expensive cigars. It went to court and they won. So the insurance company sued for arson, and they won. And them there's the woman who sued McDonald's because she spilled hot coffee and it was, hot (to be fair it was hotter than other establishments, but still).

I'm not even sure it is ignorance to be honest, they just don't consider anything other than what they want in the moment.

That’s true - they do have the capacity to send a normal text on to every one’s phone as I’m sure that’s what they did a few times in Covid. I wasn’t against the alert but thinking about it, this would have been a better way. And leave the emergency alert to send out to people in areas where the fires may have been encroaching (for example).

Did anyone else's start reading the alert after the siren went off? We couldn't find ds phone (i was clueless what was going on because ive literally never had one before im on the 3 network 😂) anyway I shut mine off looked for ds phone and it happily started talking reading the alert out loud? Is that supposed to happen?

As an aside I think it shouldn't go off loudly when your driving as long as you put your phone in driving mode i could see it making people jump

The woman who sued mcdonalds was absolutely right too she had horrible burns she was ridiculed for it but coffee shouldn't mean skin grafts

Blimey you've given yourself a right wedgie with those judgy pants

The woman going on about the terrified children in the car 🙄 Wake me up when you have a real problem

Yes, and no. It shouldn't have been that hot, but she also should have been more careful. I think she was unlucky in that it spilled on a particularly sensitive region, but who the hell puts hot coffee where it might spill on that region?

From what I see and hear and read all the time...

Yes, people really are that stupid.

And now Andy is testing it on us for unnecessary reasons, so if will become commonplace here too.
I didn't have my phone and am deaf, so just saw the dozen people I was with reaching into their pockets, all at the same time. Very strange.
Government mass messaging to, basically, an extension of ourselves, is a bit... Not quite 1984 yet, but definitely autumn 1983.

well publicised where ? Have a heart.

So we should let people potentially die in fire because people are jumpy? Honestly there’s nothing that surprises me now, most countries use the same system!

That alert didn't tell anyone to escape from a fire, it was a public information notice.

Which was clearly needed but still not listened too because people were STILL setting off fireworks and having fucking bonfires

I could smell either a bonfire or a field fire just this afternoon.
Thankfully we had some rain last night so things aren't as dry.
But really my thoughts were "FFS".

I don't listen to him, but he keeps popping up on my FB and it is refreshing to see he is talking about something other than people on benefits.

Anyway.... I do know of parents that have autistic kids who did flip out over the alert and it took them hours to calm them down.

I do think the alert could have just been a text like the hosepipe ban ones were. No need to use the same service and sound that signals to people they need to take immediate action/life is in danger.
In either case, I did not have the alert anyway. Phone too old.

In one area many people got an automated call from water company on their landline to inform them of hosepipe ban at 2am! That would be more alarming than the phone alert at 7pm

My autistic child was ok he was just asking why his phone was talking to him he also said he got a second alert i didn't think he did then I saw other people online saying they had a second alert too

The UK system has never been used for missing people. It has, before the recent use, been used in a targeted way to warn of imminent risk to live or severe danger, not as a public information channel.

https://www.gov.uk/alerts/past-alerts

Well I must be in the minority but I thought it was a good thing.
No it didn’t make me jump out of my skin. Do these fragile sorts not work? Fire alarm anyone. Usual neighbourhood noise such as noisy kids screaming and shouting whilst I’m about to fall asleep. Neighbour’s alarms waking me up. Dogs flaming barking.
These terribly shaken types must lead a very charmed life if they never, ever get their peace disturbed.
And no, not everyone is being responsible, believe it or not fucktards do exist. There are plenty of people who use disposable barbecues or don’t think twice about throwing their fag end on the ground.

It was pitiful. People have no perspective at all. I’m glad I’m not the presenter I don’t think I could have even pretended to be interested or in the least bit sympathetic over such a non event

Will it remind you to check the mirror first, before braking? 😝

And if you are driving when you receive the alert, that you must not check your phone to see why you are about to die until you are safely parked, even if the next motorway exit is not for another twenty miles?

”Frank, I just called you to remind you that it’s extremely dangerous to use your car phone when driving… Frank! Frank!”

I daresay that some people still remember the “pingdemic”, and that once they realised they could be “pinged” because someone in the car next to them had also been “pinged”, people were disabling the multi-billion pound pingdemic app as well.

If we're going to get these alert for non emergency things people will ignore them or turn them off. Couldn't they have sent the notification without the alarm - just the text?

Keep the alarm for imminent danger stuff - a war, terrorist attack, earthquake...not public service announcements.