for ignoring the nuclear attack siren which is currently going off?

[Kladdkaka]

I'm not entirely sure what I'm supposed to do but I know which I'd choose given the choice of death by radiation fallout and entering the spider infested, unlit bunker at the end of the garden.

Is your neighbour always a bit odd?

He sits on his deck in shorts and flip-flips when it's sunny but -30C and thinks surströmming is the best food ever invented.

Are you in Malmo? I used to hear the monthly siren check there.

meh!

seeker

I remember siren test day. I couldn't work out what was going on. I got into trouble from our caretaker man Herr Shorts. We didn't have 12 litres of water and 2kg of sultanas.
He couldn't understand why I would rather take my chances on being radiationed than try to survive a nuclear winter on a piddling amount of water and dried fruit which we don't eat.

Red I'm in the wilderness beyond civilisation in the Göteborg region.

Madam yes, I used to live in the Broadmoor area. The first time I heard the siren was terrifying.

It's gone off here now. So much for their early warning system. The country is on high alert and still everyone completely ignored it. (OK me and the neighbour, but that is everyone hereabouts)

rips do you have to share a bunker with your neighbours? That's almost as bad as having to share it with the spiders.

It could get worse - you could be locked in the bunker with just 'surstromming' to eat.

the wilderness beyond civilisation in the Göteborg region.

Is it getting quite cold now?
And what does kladdkaka mean please? I keep reading as CloudCuckoo!

Death would be a blessing.

Ahh Sweden. The home of Plopp chocolate and Krapp toilet paper.

klad, no we each had our own little cages, you would have been able to see your neighbour using his or her bucket [vom]

I live in Scotland, we have no nuclear sirens (infact no sirens at all apart from smoke alarms), I dont know anyone with a bunker and ive never ever been told what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. We're pretty unprepared!!

(if any terrorist with plans to nuke Scotland is reading this though what I really meant was we are really very much so prepared that you shouldn't even bother attacking, ever)

CaptainNancy it's currently 26C in the back garden, although that could be the radiation. It's flippin cold at night though 8C last night.

Kladdkaka mean 'sticky chocolate brownie cake'. It is the most unassuming chocolate cake you will ever come across, but it is to die for. [Drool]

StrandedBear my husband works in one of those places. I confess that my first thought when I heard the siren was 'oh god, what's he done now'. :o

StrandedBear I would think it if it ever turned out that it WAS the life and death emergency he would phone you and bollox to it - how could a phone make the End of the World worse? (unless you're in Cell by Stephen King of course, in which case, Don't Answer!)
I read once that Switzerland is the only country in the world that actually has the facilities to get the entire population undercover and reasonably considering safe in the event of a nuclear war. Everywhere else, it's the politicians and other such parasites important and/or useful people only and the plebs can fend for themselves.

We have a nuclear warning siren at the dockyards that goes off every Monday at 11.30am.

It reminds me to start getting ready to pick my son up from nursery!

Back in the UK my mum used to be a high enough level civil servant to have her place in the secret emergency bunker guaranteed. (The one under the shopping centre behind the green double steel doors as you drive into the carpark with the warning saying keep out´dangerous machinery) They used to have practise drills for getting there but she always said that in the real event there was no way she was being locked up with that lot. She'd rather take her chances at home with her family.

26C? Wow... how lovely!

Thanks for name translation

[looks out the window]

It's definitely not nuclear-ing here. You are probably OK.

I worked at a science facility in the UK with nuclear sirens too (DH is still there). If that goes off, you have to stay in and shut doors and windows. If the fire alarm goes off, you all go outside. I guess if both go off at once you hover in the doorway?

I'm curious to whether it's near you strandedbear except we were never given the warning about electrical items.

This reminds me of a terrifying incident a few weeks back. I was innocent sat drinking a cup of tea and mumsnetting working around 10pm at night when I heard the air-raid siren going off. REALLY loud it was too. I'm a bit paranoid about war etc anyway so my heart immediately repositioned itself into my mouth and I went to open the back door - silence came back inside and there it was again - assumed I was going crazy went to open the front door - silence.

I then realised DS was playing some world war 2 game upstairs and had the sound on full blast I was bloody terrified.