To be a bit excited about the 3pm alarm?

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I'm interested to hear what it sounds like. For it to be going off all over the country at once, in all households and shops is exciting.

It's something completely new and feels kinda like something from Black mirror.

Maybe I'm just weird 😂

I had tornado warning alarms on my phone, when I was in the US, about 12 years ago. You phone will work fine, trust me!
Im not in the UK, but I do have a UK phone number, so I wonder if Ill get it!
They tend to be quite loud, judging by the tornado alarm I once got while on holiday in the US!

Good way of getting out of an interminable service - pretend you don't know anything about it and run out screaming all the way to the pub.

😂

Really? Why?

I will let you know! I am abroad, but I do have a UK number!

Do you normally scream when you hear a text beeps through or a phone ring? Do you when you hear someone's car alarm or burglar alarm go off?

You're joking right? The government are testing the smart phone Emergency Alert system at 3pm today. Smart phones will go off and you might get a text. There's not Emergency. Pretty much all smart phones. It's built in software. Prepare for the alarm (not sure what noise)

Saw a tweet this morning
'What happens if there is actually an emergency at 3pm' 😀😃😄

It's supposed to come through even if set to silent.
Shouldn't do if turned off or in airplane mode.

I've turned my tablet on to see if it'll come through that as it's got a sim card in it.

I think most people will just look at their phones.

I don't get the big deal of watching other people's reactions.
Most people know what it is anyway.

Not sure what people are expecting.
It's not worth wetting your pants over.

No, it's regional based. So the emergency alert is based in the phone being in the UK. If abroad it won't sound.
In future emergency alerts with be based in your location - so you won't get an alert that is for another part of the country if it doesn't apply to where you are at that time.

I'm watching the football but it's going to go off during half time. I wonder if the pundits have turned theirs off.

I think they missed a trick not putting on Jools Holland Hootenanny so we could count down to it.

I was hoping to do the same but I managed to do the shopping this morning instead. Almost feel like rushing there again! 😆
Will sit in the garden and listen to how people react (my phone is not disabled but is upstairs in the bedroom so I won't hear it).

I'm sitting in costa waiting for it.

Oooh!

Oh

I tell you what wankers everywhere , some people ,yes other people not just you , will and can react to alerts in different ways . It may be unexpected and could trigger a quick fright or someone who suffers with severe anxiety may panic for longer. I think that comment is very selfish , clearly you must be resilient

I'm on the bus..... I think I will still be on it at 3 😂📢

I'm just about to have a shower. It's a new vey powerful shower. I wonder what will be louder.
My sis is seeing Newsies. We wondered whether they will stop the show or time the interval so it coincides with that, or just "must let the show go on"!

My phone is an old nokia I borrowed in 06... But in a minute I'm going to hang out of the window of my high flat and see if I can hear anything (and also to check for asteroids, nuclear missiles and flash floods).

That actually makes a lot of sense.

As NATO/EU/US are busy hurrying us to WWIII without voters having any say in the matter, it's exciting but not in a good way.

It's 10 seconds..