It’s 03:11am as I write this. The BBC’s Test Card J is currently deafening me from my television a few metres away. It’s been a high-pitched noise and the speaking clock lady on BBC One, for the past half an hour or so. Here’s a picture I took.
I Googled this and it turns out nowadays you don’t see them much. In fact the last time this Test Card was broadcast was 18 months ago.
This is incredibly sad.
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Thank god someone else saw this, I know this is going to sound strange but i have just had major surgury and i remamber comming home from hospital altohoug still feeling rather groggy, i was in my bed and my partner put the tv on for me although not wanting to watch it or in a state to watch it, it was left on. i woke in the early hours feeling thirsty and the first thing i saw and heard was the test card girl the high pitched beep and the speeking clock. I know it sounds realy silly but i started to panik that i was in some sort of sereal life on mars episode. Iwoke this morning and asked others if the saw the test card but everyone just laughed saying it was the after effects of the opperation i have searched the internet and found you my saviour who has confirmed that it was all real. Thank you for setting my hospital druged mind at rest.
It’s absolutely fine.
[...] I then posted said picture on Twitter, along with a short diatribe about how amazed I was. I then searched “Test Card J” on Twitter to see if I was one of the only people up late enough to notice. Luckily I wasn’t. Charlie was. And later we got chatting about the event and we followed each other. After a week of speaking to Charlie over Twitter, he #ff’d me and Amy followed me, then Beth did. And I’ve never looked back. Until tonight when I wrote this so I could get my facts straight. Then I wrote about it on my website, which you can find here. [...]