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[Alex Atkin UK]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEC4bY1o-W8

[Weaver]

 

I talk to them every couple of months or so about problems since the lightning strike of early 2020. I had four lines, now three, so that means four times as many calls as the usual end user. And I often have questions about things I don’t understand. So they know me really well and are extra friendly given that we’ve been with them eleven years now. And I sent them some really good uisge beatha. They know my wife Janet too, and her business, "Skye Shepherd Huts". I don’t ever gee them up, as I know they have to struggle with BTW + OR. I sometimes have FB2900 questions too.

So hopefully, it’s not DEFCON x when I contact them.

[Alex Atkin UK]

I should have linked to his blog post too: https://www.revk.uk/2021/10/defcon.html

I get a DEFCON depending on who is in the house. DEFCON 1 for presence of the those who shall not be named (anti-vax).

Yeah, anti-vaxxers wouldn't get my WiFi password as they wont be coming anywhere near this house.

[Ixel]

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I talk to them every couple of months or so about problems since the lightning strike of early 2020. I had four lines, now three, so that means four times as many calls as the usual end user. And I often have questions about things I don’t understand. So they know me really well and are extra friendly given that we’ve been with them eleven years now. And I sent them some really good uisge beatha. They know my wife Janet too, and her business, "Skye Shepherd Huts". I don’t ever gee them up, as I know they have to struggle with BTW + OR. I sometimes have FB2900 questions too.

So hopefully, it’s not DEFCON x when I contact them.

Yeah the staff at AAISP have always been helpful when I've contacted them. I needed some assistance with my FB2900 a while back and one of them on IRC spent a while sorting something out that I was trying to do but couldn't figure out how to do.

I should have linked to his blog post too: https://www.revk.uk/2021/10/defcon.html

Yeah, anti-vaxxers wouldn't get my WiFi password as they wont be coming anywhere near this house.

That feels like a somewhat hostile name to use . However, the same argument can also be said about those who don't have flu jab though. At the end of a day it's a choice and everyone has their own reasons for choosing to have any of these jabs or not to. I don't have the flu jab but that doesn't necessarily make me an 'anti-vaxxer' .

The usage of such a word, 'anti-vaxxer', probably doesn't belong here though. I see it used a lot on social media and it tends to create and has created quite a divide.

[Black Sheep]

Give oo'er - pro-vaxxer, anti-vaxxer - it does what is says on the tin. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

The usage of such a word, 'anti-vaxxer', probably doesn't belong here though. I see it used a lot on social media and it tends to create and has created quite a divide.

Fair point, I wouldn't normally have brought it up but its what he posted.  My personal opinion of anti-vaxxers notwithstanding, its my own and specifically my mums safety that is of prime importance in my own house.  Its actually anti-maskers that bother me more, as they made me feel unsafe to leave the house and their reasoning is based purely on none-scientific rumours, whereas at least there ARE genuine risks with the vaccine.

[Black Sheep]

That is the action that concerns you though, Alex .... not the terminology.

Anti-vaxxers are just that, opposed to the jab .... couldn't give a stuff if they wish to partake in the programme or not, but I'm not having it that the wording itself causes divide.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Indeed, its just shorthand so you can type it quicker, but I don't want to start an argument on this forum.  Its probably the most civil forum on the Internet.