October 4, 20232 yr On the bright side, I get to keep all my freeze dried food for the next zombie scare, so I got that going for me. Time to start investing in gold.
October 4, 20232 yr Welp. Can’t wait for this stupid system to be abused. Holy cow that was loud and in a room of like 20 people with phones going off differently by carrier long.
October 4, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said: Try being in a classroom with 32 high schoolers. 1/4 phones went off at 1:17. After those were done, another 1/4 went off at 1:18, followed by the rest at 1:19. Good times. Did you tell the class to hold on and put down their pencils because you have to post this on Surly right now? I hope you did.
October 4, 20232 yr They should do this during UT home games. Right after the drone show but before the fireworks and smoke cannons. Liven up the place…
October 4, 20232 yr The amount of time people are going to spend talking/bitching about a 5-second alarm today is wild.
October 4, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, FirstTimeCaller said: The amount of time people are going to spend talking/bitching about a 5-second alarm today is wild.
October 4, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, The Dog said: Guess who's back? Back again? Texas back, tell a friend
October 4, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said: The amount of time people are going to spend talking/bitching about a 5-second alarm today is wild. It's either bitch about this or get back to work.
October 4, 20232 yr 7 minutes ago, Hermanator said: Did you tell the class to hold on and put down their pencils because you have to post this on Surly right now? I hope you did. We're 72 hours away from the OU game. Do you think I'm doing any actual teaching this week?!?
October 4, 20232 yr That was intense. Was waiting outside of the dealership waiting for them to drive my vehicle to me and all of the mechanic phones blew up at once. Lulz
October 4, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said: That was intense. Was waiting outside of the dealership waiting for them to drive my vehicle to me and all of the mechanic phones blew up at once. Lulz
October 4, 20232 yr Ok, shows over. What's the next unnecessary freakout? Quinn’s first incompletion against OU this weekend.
October 4, 20232 yr Huh. Didn't think it would activate my vibrating buttplug. I mean....SOMEONE'S vibrating buttplug. That's what I meant.
October 4, 20232 yr 43 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said: Holy cow that was loud My phone was on silent and it didn't make a sound. If I hadn't been on the crapper reading Surly, I would have missed it.
October 4, 20232 yr Author I just walked down to the taco truck near my house and they were completely sold out of cerebro tacos. FUCK!
October 4, 20232 yr That was somewhat annoying, not nearly as much as when I was chaperoning a band overnight lockin at the HS; and about 3:30 am the state police decided to send an amber alert for a little kid who had been missing for 12 hours from a city over 100 miles away. About 100 phones go off at once & of course the kids go full panic.
October 4, 20232 yr Guys I was having a nice day and then that notification went off. Next thing I know I’m in Brooklyn! Someone named Q told me I’ll know where to go next!
October 4, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, HornOnTheBayou said: We're 72 hours away from the OU game. Do you think I'm doing any actual teaching this week?!? 3 sleeps.
October 4, 20232 yr 4 hours ago, Deej said: My phone was on silent and it didn't make a sound. If I hadn't been on the crapper reading Surly, I would have missed it. What’s crazy was my phone was on vibrate. Think it pinged my watch then went bananas. was weird
October 5, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said: The amount of time people are going to spend talking/bitching about a 5-second alarm today is wild. Well, 30 minutes after the Alert my Spectrum TV, Internet, and Landline bundle went down. And as of 7:15pm it is still down.
October 5, 20232 yr Should be able to opt out. That's all I have to say. Blasting my phone is bullshit.
October 5, 20232 yr On 10/2/2023 at 3:16 PM, Chopper said: What's the over/under on how many "discretely hidden" burner phones are going to get discovered on Wednesday? So if you turned it off around in advance, and waited half an hour to turn it back on, everything was cool.
October 5, 20232 yr 57 minutes ago, slorch said: Should be able to opt out. That's all I have to say. Blasting my phone is bullshit. are you sure you dont live in Austin, because you literally just reposted what the 2 anti-gov loonies who lurk on my neighborhood page just posted.
October 5, 20232 yr 20 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said: are you sure you dont live in Austin, because you literally just reposted what the 2 anti-gov loonies who lurk on my neighborhood page just posted. LOLz. yeah, my thoughts are not wrapped in tin-foil. My questions are a lot more pragmatic. I turn notifications off on virtually every ap and device I have. When I want to look at the weather report, I know where to look, hell there's even a window in my house. If I want to check my bank statement, I know where to look. If something is fucked up in traffic, I will check a navi ap. i don't need the interruption. Just let people opt out. Why is it necessary? It's a service I do not want. Edited October 5, 20232 yr by slorch
October 5, 20232 yr Author 44 minutes ago, slorch said: LOLz. yeah, my thoughts are not wrapped in tin-foil. My questions are a lot more pragmatic. I turn notifications off on virtually every ap and device I have. When I want to look at the weather report, I know where to look, hell there's even a window in my house. If I want to check my bank statement, I know where to look. If something is fucked up in traffic, I will check a navi ap. i don't need the interruption. Just let people opt out. Why is it necessary? It's a service I do not want.
October 5, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, Beau Vine said: That's what my phone does. Yell at clouds. Thanks for the new feature, I guess. Nobody can rationally tell me why I need this/ life is better because of it.
October 5, 20232 yr 33 minutes ago, slorch said: That's what my phone does. Yell at clouds. Thanks for the new feature, I guess. Nobody can rationally tell me why I need this/ life is better because of it. So get rid of your phone. I mostly agree with you. We don’t need these things.
October 5, 20232 yr 9 hours ago, HornOnTheBayou said: Try being in a classroom with 32 high schoolers. 1/4 phones went off at 1:17. After those were done, another 1/4 went off at 1:18, followed by the rest at 1:19. Good times. F's for everybody.
October 5, 20232 yr Instead of this, a service the gov't needs to provide, that would be of real social benefit, would be to periodically and randomly send every phone pics of hot naked women. That way, when your phone buzzes with pic of your mistress sending you a preview of the weekend's menu, and your wife sees it, you can gripe loudly "Goddammit, another one of those stupid government tests! I wish we could just opt out!" I have lots of good ideas. Another one is "feed tuna fish mayonnaise."
October 5, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said: Instead of this, a service the gov't needs to provide, that would be of real social benefit, would be to periodically and randomly send every phone pics of hot naked women. That way, when your phone buzzes with pic of your mistress sending you a preview of the weekend's menu, and your wife sees it, you can gripe loudly "Goddammit, another one of those stupid government tests! I wish we could just opt out!" I have lots of good ideas. Another one is "feed tuna fish mayonnaise." This type of brilliance is up there with Eli Lilly making "Daily Use" Cialis. If you take it every day, your wife can't count your pills...
October 5, 20232 yr I’ve had two different people talk about how we didn’t have these national emergency tests until the past few years. Both of them are younger, but still, I had to point out to them that at some point, they had their Daniel Tiger show interrupted by a test of the Emergency Broadcast System and that olds like me grew up terrified of this sound
October 5, 20232 yr 8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: I’ve had two different people talk about how we didn’t have these national emergency tests until the past few years. Both of them are younger, but still, I had to point out to them that at some point, they had their Daniel Tiger show interrupted by a test of the Emergency Broadcast System and that olds like me grew up terrified of this sound Can't be anyone older than 40 (which is most of the people bitching about this) because we've all heard that test a million times while listening to the radio or watching TV. Seriously... selective memory or just a bunch of olds who need to bitch about something. LOL from 6 years ago...
October 5, 20232 yr 41 minutes ago, Brisketexan said: Instead of this, a service the gov't needs to provide, that would be of real social benefit, would be to periodically and randomly send every phone pics of hot naked women. That way, when your phone buzzes with pic of your mistress sending you a preview of the weekend's menu, and your wife sees it, you can gripe loudly "Goddammit, another one of those stupid government tests! I wish we could just opt out!" I have lots of good ideas. Another one is "feed tuna fish mayonnaise." C'mon man - you need a phone for your wife to know about, and another "work" phone that is for the call-in late night projects and such. Just don't leave it out on the couch, I mean otherwise we have learned nothing from the exploits of one Tiger Woods. Or like my friends in gov't work, their FOIA phone and their non-FOIA phone.
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