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"MI5 should recruit from Mumsnet..."

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KateMumsnet · 05/03/2015 10:48

Hello all

There's a rather fabulous story in the news today, which suggests that the security services could benefit from MNers' skills. What do you think - time for us to make a [false beard] emoticon?

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PausingFlatly · 26/05/2015 12:50

Shock Have you seen the job advert currently just there ->

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AmIbeingTreasonable · 09/03/2015 03:35

I see my name has been taken in vain Shock

DontCallMeBaby · 08/03/2015 22:19

BoffinMum, my mum could do that. The pub thing, not tell blonde women apart, though I'm pretty sure she can do that too. She's amazing at getting people's life stories. She told me my hairdresser's daughter's name, age, where she was at school, etc ... after one appointment, while he'd been cutting my hair for about two years and I didn't even know he had a child. Blush

She once gave a colleague a ten-mile lift and got three generations' worth of life stories out of this woman. She was wasted as a maths teacher, I swear.

BoffinMum · 08/03/2015 20:45

I think all women, and especially all blonde women, must look the same to their editors.

Lweji · 08/03/2015 20:35

I checked the DM.
Guess who doesn't actually watch Spooks?

Hermione Norris plays a former MI6 officer - called Ros Myers - who joins an MI5 counter-terrorism division in the TV show Spooks
while true, it doesn't match the figure it was supposed to be the legend for.

Clearly don't recruit agents from the DM

"MI5 should recruit from Mumsnet..."
Lweji · 08/03/2015 20:28

M15 needs is spies who can't keep their big fat yappers shut ?

MI5 needs MNetters. Disinformation is key. Secrets are not the problem.

BoffinMum · 08/03/2015 20:07

Which of you here could walk into a pub in a town you don't know, sit down near a stranger, and within half an hour have winkled out their personal details and passport number out of them?

ShatnersBassoon · 08/03/2015 20:00

Christ, I've been quoted on the DM online. I want to bleach my fingertips (the two I use for typing).

duchesse · 08/03/2015 19:22

Someone here's quoted in the Fail today (I found it on a train, ok!) might have been trying to spot secret messages concealed within.

Littleham · 08/03/2015 18:25

Lips are sealed.

"MI5 should recruit from Mumsnet..."
IreneA78 · 08/03/2015 18:10

M15 needs is spies who can't keep their big fat yappers shut ?

windchime · 08/03/2015 13:54

Would I have to brush my hair?

BoffinMum · 08/03/2015 09:35

Littleham, 20 laptops of data equals one illegal fag behind the garage .... Grin

BoffinMum · 08/03/2015 09:34

Is Spooks wrong then? Shock ShockShock

I thought all spies looked like Matthew McFadyen and all databases were crackable and comprehensive ....

I can't begin to express my utter disappointment. Grin

Catsize · 08/03/2015 06:33

I spy with my little eye...

sportinguista · 08/03/2015 01:43

I remember I also score really highly on House of the Dead, that's got to count for something...

Littleham · 07/03/2015 19:20

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I'm looking forward to the side benefits of being a spy.

shadow43 · 07/03/2015 18:59

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Clarinet9 · 07/03/2015 11:36

spy is also one of the careers I have wanted

together with foreign office

quite like code breaking too

margaritasbythesea · 07/03/2015 10:23

Personally, I think it should be small girls from the age of four up. Nothing, but not the smallest nothing, gets past my DD.

HermioneWeasley · 07/03/2015 10:02

What we have learned from this discussion

  • some MNetters fancy themselves as Ros Meyers
  • some MNetters fancy themselves as Ruth
  • some MNetters just fancy Lucas

99% of what we know about the security services is from watching Spooks.

catbite · 07/03/2015 08:38

Having watched a few James Bond movies with the kids recently it doesn't surprise me that the security services don't get many female applicants. They need to sort out a few issues with sexual harassment among existing personnel first!

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HappydaysArehere · 07/03/2015 02:35

I have reached the age when I appear to be invisable. I can go anywhere so long as it doesn't clash with Corrie! What's the money like? I could mug up on codes which I could send to other spy mumsnetters - dh dd ds op could all take on different meanings. I am applying today so watch for my coded messages in the near future as I am sure they will realise I am just what they want.

Theladyinthebath · 07/03/2015 01:54

i need that job
i'm bloody observant
minutiae is my middle name
Oh and I've had my kids - loads of the buggers
I'm sooo MI5...

Karenthetoadwhisperer · 06/03/2015 23:58

My CV is ready - I am waiting to be recruited - still job hunting. Smile