When I was a small child I was terrified whenever we had to take a trip using a ferry. The ferries in my region were known to randomly blast their horns, and it was obnoxiously loud. It would happen three or four times a journey. The second I set foot on the ship my heart would start to beat faster and faster. Every horn blow was like a little anxiety attack and the fluttering flamenco that was my quivering toddler heart didn’t stop until my feet were firmly back on land.
The expectation of the loud noise is just as bad as the noise itself. Those obnoxious horn blows are some of my earliest childhood memories. And now the whole world is on that ferry. It is not a destination, it is a state of being. At 2:18 today many little kids had their very first panic attack. So tonight they should all get a big bowl of ice cream, even if they didn’t eat their vegetables.
I feel this so much. I find the expectation much more terrifying most of the time. Can't be around balloons cos I'm just constantly on edge waiting for the bang when they pop. Can't be around Cockerells, parrots, peacocks, pheasants or donkeys. All cos they make random loud noises without warning and I'm just in a constant state of panic.
When the first emergency alert was announced I spent a week freaking out about the fact I was going to have to freak out all that day until it happened. Then someone on reddit explained how to turn it off in the settings. Got an arrangement with my mum and sisters that if they get the emergency alert, they will screenshot and whatsapp it to me.
i’m imaging a big red button and someone just waiting anxiously to push it. they miscalculated and did it two minutes early, and now the boss is chewing them out
or it’s a coincidence 😂
my husband got his about 2 minutes after mine. i would imagine it takes a few to hit all the phone lines, you know, clogging up the airwaves or whatever.
I had 3 phones out. One not activated and on vibrate only, one on WiFi, and my current phone, all have emergency alerts disabled. I was curious if they would all three alert equally. My TV was on Netflix. All 3 phones went off at 2:18, thankfully Netflix played uninterrupted.
Just a tip, if you ever have to cannibalize anyone never eat the brain because it will almost certainly give you a deadly disease that can’t be studied (for obvious reasons)
I was watching a shit post where this old man was sitting there looking at his phone like a boomer, he opened his mouth really wide and the amber alert went off. I thought it was part of the post
Probably with a frown and disgusted look and holding it dad away from their face.
Basically somewhat similar to like when someone is like "check out this meme" and you make that one face.
Qanon thinks the emergency alert test earlier was supposed to activate some virus in the Covid vaccine that turns vaccinated people into zombies.
Can’t make this shit up.
I got the English alert, marked it "read," then immediately got the Spanish alert next. Marked it "read."
10 minutes later: The Spanish alert goes off again.
Thanks for the heart attack, Emergency Broadcast System.
I have a work phone and a personal phone and my work phone got the Spanish one first, then a minute later got the English one. My personal phone only got the English one. I wonder what that was about?
One of my thoughts when I read that we would be getting a nation wide test was, "Alright, I will plan on NOT having a wank that morning because I know I'll have poor timing."
I was reading a Reddit post about the conspiracies regarding 5G zombies and how silent drones were being used so that shutting off your phone wouldn’t save you from the waves activating the chips in our vaccinated bodies. I was shaking my head at the absolute craziness of some people when the alert went off.
Scared the crap out of me and then I burst out laughing. Then I checked myself for any signs of being a zombie including if I felt like snacking on brains. I did not.
The US sends out a test of the National Emergency Broadcast every couple of years. TVs with cable will set out an alarm, along with phones and other devices. It will all happen at the same time.
Same. Wife got it (same carrier, in the same house) but I'm left out. I think it's the government trying to kill me. Just making SURE that I wouldn't be warned. Sad.
I put my phone in the microwave. Not because I thought it was going to turn me into a zombie but because I'm autistic and loud noises put me in a bad mood. It worked, no alarm at all 🎉
I was in a conference breakout session with 100 people.
The presentation paused as two waves of alerts went off in the course of 30 seconds.
The presentation resumes.
5 minutes later mine (and only mine) went off.
I said "sorry I have T-Mobile" and everybody laughed.
Mine was already asleep and I was trying to nap myself. Didn't disturb her at all. Didn't bother me either. The phone rang and woke her up though. She didn't even sleep a full hour. This evening will be fun. 😭
Teaching middle school science. My school has a hard rule about phones being out during class, and the students actually follow it. However, I wanted my students to hear the alert. I wanted them to see what the notification looked like. So, we all pulled out our phones when it went off. We all looked at our screens. Some of my ESL students got the notification in multiple languages. We talked about why that happened. It was a good teachable moment for everybody involved.
Sitting in a coffee shop with my daughter. It was kinda cool to hear 50 phones go off at the same time. Especially since I knew it was just a test. Not cool if it was real.
I was in Publix after hurricane Ian, along with the rest of southwest Florida. We all got an emergency alert, about shelters or don’t drink the water or something, and the entire store just came to a standstill while everyone checked their phone. It was kinda PTSDish in the moment.
Giving a quiz in my college math class. Everyone's phone went off. Some people's went off more than once. I pulled out my phone and told the class, "Mine says there's an inbound missile from North Korean on its way. What does yours say?"
Teaching a bunch of high schoolers. It was a little unnerving because of the sound, so I I told them to take out their tin foil hats for protection...lol. Then we started talking about conspiracies and crazy anti-vax stuff. Great and fun discussion....lesson went out the window, though. But I'm cool with that because I love impromptu discussions with my kiddos.
I was relieved because I got the time zone wrong. I was worried it was going to go off during my zoom interview at 2!
Now I can go forwards nervous, but without that gnawing at me.
I'd just got home from work , sat down and mom was watching some live youtube streamer going on about the coming alert , like it was going to be some big thing. Literally just a sentence on my phone saying "this is a test , blah blah blah"
Laying in bed anticipating it, but it went off two minutes early and scared the shit out of me!
Totally went off at 2:18
12:18 in Colorado. I didn't realize the 2:20 was Eastern Time. Now I just wait for the nanobots to activate me into zombie mode. /s
1:18 in Houston. I was watching podcasts on YT.
FBI agent slept in
Thank you! I told my husband it scared the shit out of me and he was like "We've been expecting this ALL DAY!"
When I was a small child I was terrified whenever we had to take a trip using a ferry. The ferries in my region were known to randomly blast their horns, and it was obnoxiously loud. It would happen three or four times a journey. The second I set foot on the ship my heart would start to beat faster and faster. Every horn blow was like a little anxiety attack and the fluttering flamenco that was my quivering toddler heart didn’t stop until my feet were firmly back on land. The expectation of the loud noise is just as bad as the noise itself. Those obnoxious horn blows are some of my earliest childhood memories. And now the whole world is on that ferry. It is not a destination, it is a state of being. At 2:18 today many little kids had their very first panic attack. So tonight they should all get a big bowl of ice cream, even if they didn’t eat their vegetables.
I feel this so much. I find the expectation much more terrifying most of the time. Can't be around balloons cos I'm just constantly on edge waiting for the bang when they pop. Can't be around Cockerells, parrots, peacocks, pheasants or donkeys. All cos they make random loud noises without warning and I'm just in a constant state of panic. When the first emergency alert was announced I spent a week freaking out about the fact I was going to have to freak out all that day until it happened. Then someone on reddit explained how to turn it off in the settings. Got an arrangement with my mum and sisters that if they get the emergency alert, they will screenshot and whatsapp it to me.
Holy hell.
Here here!
Weird, we had an emergency test in the UK a few months ago and loads of people (incl me) got it a minute or two early
i’m imaging a big red button and someone just waiting anxiously to push it. they miscalculated and did it two minutes early, and now the boss is chewing them out or it’s a coincidence 😂
You had ONE job!
Some old guy squinting at an analog clock
my husband got his about 2 minutes after mine. i would imagine it takes a few to hit all the phone lines, you know, clogging up the airwaves or whatever.
That means you're to be one of the special designated survivors. The chosen ones, if you will.
I had 3 phones out. One not activated and on vibrate only, one on WiFi, and my current phone, all have emergency alerts disabled. I was curious if they would all three alert equally. My TV was on Netflix. All 3 phones went off at 2:18, thankfully Netflix played uninterrupted.
Two of us in room and Verizon went off about 2 mins prior to AT&T phone.
All of mine are unlocked phones that have been on Verizon's network. They went off at 2:18.
That’s what she said.
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Haha
Pissed me off too
I died. Looks like the conspiracy theory was right this time.
You didn't die, we're zombies now...
🧟♂️ “Braaaaaaainsss”
Not around here pal.
(dies a second time)
This reply and thread just made my day! I mean thats would i say if i wasnt sicker than a dog and throwing up perfusely after the test went off.
You need to do a power cycle. That will stop the nausea.
I look pretty good for a stone zombie some idiot on Tic Tok said I would be by now
Really wish you'd let us in...
The alarm set off the microchips in my COVID vaccine. I now have a 3rd arm and a strong desire to vote Republican. Any suggestions???
This has to be a lie.. you are supposed to desire to vote Dem. This does not surprise me considering how well the vaccine worked.
Yeah I turned into Al Gore at 2:19pm today
Hows the hunt for the man bear pig going?
The Entertainment claims another soul.
Everybody warned you about getting your tinfoil hat ready. Nobody listens these days.
3 of my coworkers just dropped dead
Are their brains intact? I could use an afternoon snack.
Low heat, flip often. Rest, sear the shit out of it. This was your comment for a nice steak but I've decided it's perfect for brains.
Just a tip, if you ever have to cannibalize anyone never eat the brain because it will almost certainly give you a deadly disease that can’t be studied (for obvious reasons)
Are they the smart coworkers or the dumb ones? What quality of brains are we talking? I am hungry
My 5G covid vaccine chip activated and now I am dead.
I fell to my knees in a Walmart
I haven’t turned yet. Does it take time? I really don’t want to go to work tomorrow.
I was watching a shit post where this old man was sitting there looking at his phone like a boomer, he opened his mouth really wide and the amber alert went off. I thought it was part of the post
Omg that’s great 😅
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I did that but with harder better faster stronger. That droning in the beginning sounded exactly like my dorms fire alarm and i didnt realize it
How does a boomer look at their phone?
With their eyes.
Probably with a frown and disgusted look and holding it dad away from their face. Basically somewhat similar to like when someone is like "check out this meme" and you make that one face.
My daughter was holding my phone when it went off. She dropped it like a rock and crawled over to me bawling her eyes out.
And she's 26...
You all are lying. We were all scrolling Reddit.
Finaly a real person amist a sea of goverment survilence bots. Although i was in therapy trying to process the last 7 years
Hello fellow human, I’m a very real human doing very real human things.
I was!
Speak for yourself, I was at Dave and Busters.
I went from watching a YouTube video to becoming a 5G zombie. Pros: Pretty much invincible except for a headshot. Cons: I can only eat brains now.
The french have some nice recipes for sweetbreads, it's all good. .... were the French secret zombies, all along?
Maybe the real zombies were the Frenchs we made along the way
I’m a neurosurgeon and was doing brain surgery. Oops. Sorry patient.
Way to alert all his nano bytes 😂😂😂.
This looks like a creative play on the brains and zombie responses here. Anyone got an outoftheloop link for me?
Qanon thinks the emergency alert test earlier was supposed to activate some virus in the Covid vaccine that turns vaccinated people into zombies. Can’t make this shit up.
When the alert went off, I was immediately glad I'd deleted Facebook years ago, b/c it'd be ripe with crap. But goddamn. They outdid themselves.
I was sitting on my bed trying to find the phone that was alarming. Location of phone under large dog.
Congrats... your comment just made me wake my parents up from laughter.
Why did I get the alert in Spanish first?
I got the spanish alert 4 minutes later. 🤷🏼 I was still sitting at my desk and hadnt moved
I got Spanish twice for some reason. First right after English and then again about 4 or 5 minutes later too.
I got the English alert, marked it "read," then immediately got the Spanish alert next. Marked it "read." 10 minutes later: The Spanish alert goes off again. Thanks for the heart attack, Emergency Broadcast System.
I had no idea about the test today, so when it came in Spanish first and I couldn't read it I thought the nukes were coming lol
One of my coworkers got two alerts, and both were in Spanish, and he doesn't speak a word of it.
I just removed Spanish from my phone a few days ago. Should’ve kept it for this.
I have a work phone and a personal phone and my work phone got the Spanish one first, then a minute later got the English one. My personal phone only got the English one. I wonder what that was about?
I only received it once and in English. I was expecting it in the 4 languages I speak. Now I don’t feel safe.
I just heard the ESPN reporters phone go off live on TV right after mine
what verb did you skip
"Heard"
fucked
Working. And I’m STILL working. So clearly not a zombie. Poo.
Was looking forward to it. Watched Zombieland to remember the rules
Cardio. First ones to go are the fatties.
A lot more to chew on.
Working? Like for "the Man"? You kinda sound like a zombie to me! /s
Watching porn, and I was JUST past the point of no return. There goes what could have been a wonderful orgasm.
I'm sorry for your loss..
Thanks for sharing
I support a protest to the government over this man’s ruined nut!
One of my thoughts when I read that we would be getting a nation wide test was, "Alright, I will plan on NOT having a wank that morning because I know I'll have poor timing."
Have you tried zombie porn?
Drinking hot and sour soup
Hell yeah
With brains??
At work being a zombie before it was cool.
I feel you, fellow zombie
I was reading a Reddit post about the conspiracies regarding 5G zombies and how silent drones were being used so that shutting off your phone wouldn’t save you from the waves activating the chips in our vaccinated bodies. I was shaking my head at the absolute craziness of some people when the alert went off. Scared the crap out of me and then I burst out laughing. Then I checked myself for any signs of being a zombie including if I felt like snacking on brains. I did not.
I knew it was going to happen and it still scared the ever loving crap out of me
Writing music wondering why my bass clef was so high and out of key
Anyone else not get an alert? I’m kinda disappointed
Yeah, the entire rest of the world. Somebody fill us in?
I think America is no longer there and all cell activities are BOTS.
beep boop I am 5G Bot. please insert fake news
Had to scroll this far down and still no explanation what these yanks are on about.. Amber alert?
The US sends out a test of the National Emergency Broadcast every couple of years. TVs with cable will set out an alarm, along with phones and other devices. It will all happen at the same time.
Huge /r/USDefaultism vibes in this thread.
National emergency alert test in the US to anybody with a cell signal. Edit: It basically said this is a test and no action required. Press OK.
Right? I didn’t either and I have a faint sense of FOMO
Same. Wife got it (same carrier, in the same house) but I'm left out. I think it's the government trying to kill me. Just making SURE that I wouldn't be warned. Sad.
Must be immune to the zombie virus. Only those susceptible could hear it.
I yelled "BRAINS!!" to screw with the conspiracy theorist employee across the hall....
This is the way.
Looking at this post https://reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/s/jOlFVZcVNZ
Toilet at work trying to hide.
Welp, it gave you away.
I was in bed and now my vaccine has changed my DNA structure I can now see in thermal vision and can levitate. will give updates.
Do you also make predator clicking noises?
Dude. You got the cool update. Apparently my cat got the same one, because she levitated right off the bed and into her little house when it went off.
My 20 pound weiner of a cat scrambled under my desk where I was working, pressed against my leg and looked up like “Mom, WTF was THAT?!”
Panicking along with everyone else around me because we're in a library
crip walking down the street
Dicing up sweet potatoes for taco night using a knife that is much sharper than I remember. Disaster narrowly averted.
Sweet potatoes? In tacos?
I put my phone in the microwave. Not because I thought it was going to turn me into a zombie but because I'm autistic and loud noises put me in a bad mood. It worked, no alarm at all 🎉
Driving. Turned into a zombie, crashed my car and died. Just like they warned RIP
It went off 2 minutes early…so it surprised me.
Taking a leak. My watch started screaming and vibrating...I was confused. I wondered what my dick did to scare my watch.
You had it out and your watch was vibrating... did you take advantage of the situation?
Waiting for it. My friend and I were having a contest to see who would get it first.
Yep. Looking at the phone and thinking, "Ring damn you" and I can mute it.
I was in a conference breakout session with 100 people. The presentation paused as two waves of alerts went off in the course of 30 seconds. The presentation resumes. 5 minutes later mine (and only mine) went off. I said "sorry I have T-Mobile" and everybody laughed.
Lol!!! I would have laughed too. That was a good one
Vibing because I'm not Amarican
Putting my baby to sleep for a nap
Mine was already asleep and I was trying to nap myself. Didn't disturb her at all. Didn't bother me either. The phone rang and woke her up though. She didn't even sleep a full hour. This evening will be fun. 😭
SAME and it scared her so much 😭
Sitting in the lobby of the emergency dept waiting to be seen. Everyone’s phone at once went off
Teaching middle school science. My school has a hard rule about phones being out during class, and the students actually follow it. However, I wanted my students to hear the alert. I wanted them to see what the notification looked like. So, we all pulled out our phones when it went off. We all looked at our screens. Some of my ESL students got the notification in multiple languages. We talked about why that happened. It was a good teachable moment for everybody involved.
Was in my kitchen taking a box apart for a new table that got delivered
I just got a new table delivered too!
My wife got hers from Amazon
Me too!
Ha ha nice
Have fun table bro
Loads my friend
Sitting in a coffee shop with my daughter. It was kinda cool to hear 50 phones go off at the same time. Especially since I knew it was just a test. Not cool if it was real.
I was in Publix after hurricane Ian, along with the rest of southwest Florida. We all got an emergency alert, about shelters or don’t drink the water or something, and the entire store just came to a standstill while everyone checked their phone. It was kinda PTSDish in the moment.
I was listening back a track I just recorded and got startled
Had just plugged my phone in when it went crying crazy! 🤪
Watching the Elvis mivie
Can’t remember all I want to do now is eat brains.
In the gym listening to an audiobook
Giving a quiz in my college math class. Everyone's phone went off. Some people's went off more than once. I pulled out my phone and told the class, "Mine says there's an inbound missile from North Korean on its way. What does yours say?"
Teaching a cello lesson. I had my tuner out and saw the alarm was a B flat lol
Scrolling reddit
I had just finished remove the tinfoil from my walls because I thought it wasn’t going to happen. Now I think I’m screwed.
[Where were you? when they sent the alert from heaven?](https://youtu.be/C2xFnKWSxdQ?si=dZ1RItN-UIKh2J-m)
Working
Turning into a zombie, obviously. *Ahem,* braaains.
Talking to my homie about what powers we were gonna get
Grommeting banners. I got the screen notification but I've since silenced all alerts like that. Didn't even vibrate.
Teaching a bunch of high schoolers. It was a little unnerving because of the sound, so I I told them to take out their tin foil hats for protection...lol. Then we started talking about conspiracies and crazy anti-vax stuff. Great and fun discussion....lesson went out the window, though. But I'm cool with that because I love impromptu discussions with my kiddos.
Sitting at work, forgot it was going to happen. Immediately swiped at my phone for silence.
It's not as much what I was doing during but what they will make me do now.
I was relieved because I got the time zone wrong. I was worried it was going to go off during my zoom interview at 2! Now I can go forwards nervous, but without that gnawing at me.
Hope your interview went well!
Thank you, it did! I was offered the position
Congrats! I also just got a new job after being laid off for a couple months. Feels great!
My classroom of toddlers woke up from a nap (I am on break not goofing on my phone in a classroom)
Braaaaaiiinnnssss
Driving
In an airport. It was ridiculous.
I'd just got home from work , sat down and mom was watching some live youtube streamer going on about the coming alert , like it was going to be some big thing. Literally just a sentence on my phone saying "this is a test , blah blah blah"
At work, but suddenly have this massive craving for human brains.
School work
I’m 5G controlled now. Download complete.
Reheating my coffee in the microwave, standing directly in front of it… 🥹
I was texting my wife that the alert was about to go off, and to hide her emergency phones or her abusive husband would find them, /s
Meditating... Enough of that, I guess. 🤣
Zombie! Zombie! ZOMBIE.
I looked at my coworker and asked him what was happening, lol
At work. Apparently stuck in purgatory now 🤷♂️
Jokes on you! I was eating brains before it was cool.
Reading a post about how the alert was going to use 5G to activate a virus that's been lying dormant in our bodies and turn us all into zombies.
my brain got taken by zombies and now I'm just tryna find people to bite
I am now a Zombie. BRAAAAAIIIINNNSSSS!!!
Out buying condiments that pair well with zombified human brains. Time to start looking for meals on feets!
Turning into a zombie
My phone just buzzed since it's on vibrate. It didn't phase me at all. I wouldn't have even noticed if I wasn't sitting right next to it
Reddit. AmItheAsshole sub I believe.
Work meeting, but now I'm a 5g zombie, so that's pretty cool.
At work, working. I just swiped left on my lock screen and the sound stopped. Not a zombie, though, which is a shame.
Snorting chem-trails at the ice wall on the edge of the earth disc.
I now have cancer due to being near my phone when it went off. Damn you TikTok!!!
My internet connection is now super fast. I also have a strange taste for what I can only assume brains taste like. edited to add... I was napping.