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Mumsnet Towers - what do you imagine it to look like?

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OliviaMumsnet · 05/06/2009 14:17

We ask because obviously we know the harsh reality but we're looking to reveal all put a pic on our Twitter page. So, we'd love to hear your ideas on what you want to see at Mumsnet Towers.
The Shed?
Justine's untidy desk corner office?
Our Studio60 style countdown clock to the full moon?
MNHQ's feral children creche?
TIA as ever
MNHQ

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ABetaDad · 05/06/2009 15:52

Swedes - I don't think that and am sorry if it read that way.

Hassled · 05/06/2009 15:52

No, it's an idyllic rural thatched cottage with chickens outside and roses up the wall. The computers are all edged in broderie anglaise and bunting.

PortAndLemon · 05/06/2009 15:48

I'm with the Malory Towers group.

scottishmummy · 05/06/2009 15:46

wmmc,yikes that is scary.imagine that in wrong hands.irate posters squawking why did you delete my post

nylon · 05/06/2009 15:41

Oddly I've always pictured Justine as looking like the flustered and just-slightly mad mother of twins and wife of lunatic in that old TV show, The Brittas Empire.

The office is a dowdy dive with too many filing cabinets and one computer.

The shed is obviously this place, and that is Geraldine Mumsnet at the back.

whomovedmychocolate · 05/06/2009 15:41

scottishmummy - actually I was testing an exciting little search app I'm developing. Apparently it works!

Sazisi · 05/06/2009 15:38

Oh and it's probably in a nice old redbrick building

Sazisi · 05/06/2009 15:38

I think it's an airy open-plan office, with a tasteful sofa and plants

Sycamoretreeisvile · 05/06/2009 15:37

It's like Bree Van Der Camp's kitchen/work space, and you are all in pinnies baking muffins whilst ruthlessly building your online empire

You all have twice the limbs of normals for your endless multi-tasking.

If we come and visit you will offer us a choice of herbal teas, decent coffee, wine or vodka.

You all pretend not to be bothered when one of your children lobs a lego brick into anothers face then secretly go off and start a thread about it behind their back.

When a thread starts to go tits up, it's a bit like that scene in UNITED 93 where just the watching of the screens at air traffic control is tense enough to give you a heart attack.

Eventually, the troll outs themselves and PHARP!!!!! The big red button is pressed, a thread is deleted. Justine wipes sweat from her brow, Carrie slaps her back and congrats on another job well done. They crack open a brewski before sloping off home to their little DH's for some meatloaf and apple pie a la mode.

Swedes · 05/06/2009 15:33

ABetaDad clearly thinks Mumsnet towers workers are sluts.

scottishmummy · 05/06/2009 15:31

wmmc,were you stalking justine or randomly searching mobile numbers

are you going to text her when you are drunk?
call for a you dont know me but...chat

scottishmummy · 05/06/2009 15:29

Buda you think MNHQ lookey likey this page

whomovedmychocolate · 05/06/2009 15:22

Well I might not know what it looks like but I just found Justine's mobile number online so I could probably locate her and narrow it down from there....but that would be funny creepy!

ABetaDad · 05/06/2009 15:09

I want to see the seamier side of MN Tower.

The fag ash, the overflowing nappy bin, discarded gin bottles and the 1994 Chippedales calender pinned on the back of the door. Oh and the wires hanging out the back of the overloaded MN server hidden under a pile of empty pizza boxes with a desk fan blowing over to keep it cool.

scottishmummy · 05/06/2009 15:08

i see a palatial open plan studio with yoga suite/etheral music, waft of patchouli oil

the Saag Aloo Guru dispensing wise words and head massage

group hugs and reflective supervision

a veneer of calm and transcultural harmony to concel the fact that it is a nest of vipers and you all hate each other.and get arsey if someone uses your desk/your cup

the creche like all nurseries on MN threads is run by reprobates and shortly someone will rock up claiming to have worked in MNHQ creche.shouting they beat dem children dont cha know

Flamesparrow · 05/06/2009 14:56

what was deleted?!?!!

BCNS · 05/06/2009 14:54

oh and it never rains where you are either

BCNS · 05/06/2009 14:53

this but with bunting, cupcakes and LDC and wooden play things in the creche area.

mostly just imaging you lot at a rather large oldie worldy kitchen table.. and a huge country kitchen.. that opens out onto a neat but child friendly garden

Buda · 05/06/2009 14:50

I give up. The Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom.

Buda · 05/06/2009 14:50

Blast! will try again.

Like [http://www.magicalmountain.net/WDWPictures/WDWPhotoDisplay.asp?name=Cinderella+Castle&url=WDWPictur es%2FMagicKingdom%2FCinderellaCastle%2Fcinderella-castle.jpg this!]

spicemonster · 05/06/2009 14:49

It's Malory Towers in my head. But knowing in reality that it's in Tufnell Park, I reckon you're above the Boston Arms and pop downstairs regularly for a quick game of pool and a go on the one armed bandit in your tea breaks

Buda · 05/06/2009 14:48

Like [[http://www.magicalmountain.net/WDWPictures/WDWPhotoDisplay.asp?name=Cinderella+Castle&url=WDWPictu res%2FMagicKingdom%2FCinderellaCastle%2Fcinderella-castle.jpg this!]

largeginandtonic · 05/06/2009 14:48

High tower (obv) with lots of rooms. HUge screens in every one with buttons down the side, one for calm one for all kicking off.

Desks heaped with Boden clothes, crocs and bottom butter.

Tech in the turret with spiders round the eves

LeninGrad · 05/06/2009 14:48

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Swedes · 05/06/2009 14:43

It's a squallid bedsit in Ladbroke Grove. A cot in one corner, a child-bed in the other, a huge horsehair mattress in the middle. A Stokke highchair where sits a baby doing its own baby-led weaning. Justine is on the computer at the table wearing White Stuff dress and Fly wedges, composing AIBU to let my 2 year old do the ironing.