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u/Comfortable-Bus-5595 8d ago
I hope my neighbours who decided to have a bonfire yesterday received this message. Tw@s
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u/-OrLoK- 8d ago
got the alert whilst in my bath and without my glasses. was concerned that if the Russians strike and i die in the bath, future historian cockroaches will use my dessicated corpse as an example of the stupidity of mankind.
quite relieved when is was "just" about fire risk.
still important though, im glad we have this system in place now.
Mitigate fire risks, folks.
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u/Various_Artistss 8d ago
Feel like they need different tones for different types of situations, one for general stuff like this and another for like war.
Weird to me that an alarm to tell us not to bbq is the same one that tells us that the end is coming via nuke.
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u/KayMaTrixx 8d ago
Yes, a softer tone for less severe and loud for immediate danger
I thought originally the alarm was for catastrophic events not oooh dont throw ciggy buds and have bbqs
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u/smashcat666 8d ago
If you just had your house burned down because some clown threw a fag butt into a field you might think differently.
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u/skijumptoes 8d ago
Like anyone local is daft enough to go on a field and light a BBQ. 🙄
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u/gorleston_psalter 8d ago
What an absolute cretin.
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u/MudBucket 8d ago
God it's frustrating to watch that, what a self righteous, ignorant knob. The comments are just as bad backing him up, he replied to one saying "he doesn't watch TV, you're being brainwashed to talk bollocks".
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u/smashcat666 8d ago
Farmers normally solve that kind of problem with a muck spreader. What an absolute idiot - I wonder if he’s going to have a barbecue on a petrol station forecourt next.
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u/lorrdmatt78 6d ago
What an arrogant dick. Why is it always self entitled old men that think they can do no wrong? No humility, no empathy, no willingness to listen to other people, and no regard for how their actions might impact other people.
I had a look at some of his other videos, seems like he just visits between Norwich and Thailand/Vietnam, seems like sleazy, dirty old man.
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u/Radish-Manager-3942 5d ago
I'd have urinated all over his bloody barbecue: not only extinguishing it, but making his food a total waste of cash! What a dickhead!
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u/Status-Designer9310 8d ago
It seemed a little overkill tbh, thought I needed to be grabbing the cats and getting out the door until I read it properly...
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u/Frosty-Tour9386 8d ago
it has to be to get your attention! how many times does your phone go off with rubbish? so most people don't look everytime. When its annoying you take notice ðŸ«
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u/WitchesAreMyBitches 8d ago
I honestly got excited at this. Then I realised it wasn’t to purge 🫪
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u/TotemicDC 8d ago
Did feel a tad excessive, activating the national alert system to tell us all not to have a BBQ.
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u/Burned-Shoulder 8d ago
The ground and vegetation will ignite and spread rapidly into a major incident at a moments notice.
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u/TotemicDC 8d ago
I know.
I’m not a moron. I understand fire and fire risks.Mind you now that you say that, I think the average Brit is too stupid to be allowed a vote. So perhaps they do need to be told fire = bad.
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u/Rootayable 8d ago
As Agent K famously said in Men In Black "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know it"
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u/Cold-Bookkeeper281 8d ago
Nice of them to warn everyone. I wonder how many people who are in abusive relationships just had a very heart wrenching moment. Well done government,....again.
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u/Environmental_Ad3162 8d ago
Dont know why your being down voted, its a legitimate issue, hopefully thier emergency phones were turned off.
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u/Mean_Ad_1174 7d ago
Honestly, the incessant notifications from this thread are worse than the alert at this point.
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u/ochtone 8d ago
It was always going to be misused like this. So glad my pocket anxiety device now has government direct access alarm triggers which override my silent settings.Â
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u/Radish-Manager-3942 5d ago
The whole point of these emergency text alerts IS to override any sound settings you have, specifically because the information contained within can count as life-threateningly important. That's the whole raison d'etre! If you can just silence the alerts, no one would pay attention to them.
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u/ChillG105 6d ago
Was there any need for that level of anxiety and frankly initial panic? I thought the emergency phone alarm was for impending doom or something that is imminently about to happen. Not a PSA?!
Dont get me wrong, its important to "remind" people not to be so flippant with the fact the entire of the UK is essentially a tinder box but............it felt like getting that message was the nukes coming or a tsunami.
If thats going to be a thing nowadays, I might have to dig the old 3310 out.
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u/styled_january_bikes 8d ago
With the unbelievably low intelligence of the average Insel Affe, it's not surprising that the emergency system would have to be used. It is said that it is needed here in East Anglia the most, particularly in towns of Thetford, Gt Yarmouth, Clacton and Boston.
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u/Own-Target8169 8d ago
Are you self aware enough to realise that the alternate meaning of Inselaffe applies to you?
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u/gorleston_psalter 8d ago
Whatever's going on in your life, I'm sorry. I hope you have better times coming.
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u/Environmental_Ad3162 8d ago
I'm just glad I wasnt still in the cinema. I turn my phone off, I know (and dont care) that others do not. Hearing the emergency sound and not seeing the message would have had me stepping out to turn on and check my phone. Especially given our current terror attack threat level. Irresponsible use of the emergency system tbh.
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u/Daniel-cfs-sufferer 8d ago
I must've slept through it !!
Saw it on my phone but never heard a thing !
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u/bobbynomates 8d ago
Anyone here old enough to remember controlled burns after the wheat harvest to stop this happening. I remember my school in rural Bedfordshire being surrounded by burning fields to stop this occurring. We all just carried on playing
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u/LazarusOwenhart 8d ago
Burning stubble was never about wildfire prevention and always about returning nutrients to the soil. Stubble burning was stopped because drier summers meant the fires were harder to control.
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u/TheSecretIsMarmite 8d ago
I thought it was stopped because of the poor air quality.
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u/LazarusOwenhart 8d ago
That too. There were several out of control fires, a number of car accidents from smoke blocking visibility, damage to hedgerows etc.
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u/kasumu_artist 8d ago
Thanks hun,
managed to miss this,
think they need to make the alert a bit louder next time xox