"MI5 should recruit from Mumsnet..."

[KateMumsnet]

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?

Oooh! Oooh! MI6 - 92%

can't be arsed to take the test but I'd like to be considered for the job because I already have all the necessary gadgets-

Rucksac full of crap,I''ll just add an explosive devise or two and I'm done,
I always wear Dm's so can run away quickly and I have one of those blue torches for seeking out cat pee- TA DAH!

James Bond eat your heart out.
Bet you didn't pack wet wipes for a clean up ,did you?

Not to be a twat, I did notice on the virtual admin task 3 quiz they had spelt Café wrong in the explanation, I should point this out to them.

Now we must remember TSSDNCOP

You know they have updated the article to reflect some comments from this thread...

"I wonder what hazels nn is?"

Squirrel Nutkin?

Kraggle - I thought that too (we should get extra points!).
Wonder if it is an extra unofficial part of test?

LMLytton - REALLY???

Wow, that's um... well, rather a negative take on the lighthearted comments here.

While ignoring the posts like RedToothBrush's list of genuine structural issues which may affect diversity of recruitment...

The journalist's update to the article, I mean.

Libra0000 finding out how to apply is probably one of the tests to apply. (But asking outright as you did might just work - I love that as a possible new direction in covert operations!)

And now I look more closely, one of the comments the journalist turned into

'One said she was "too boring and frumpy" to be a spy'

was actually

"I would LOVE to be a spy. Like actually LOVE it. And no one would suspect me. I am too boring and frumpy."

Null points to Tom Whitehead for accurate analysis of intelligence...

Yep, and I bet he didn't get the Nethuns reference, either...

Way to completely lie there. FFS.

Boring and frumpy is my cover, you pillock!

Sorry, should have given a fuller quote from the article, because it shows just how far sliceofsoup's words were misused:

'However, others were less optimistic about a successful recruitment scheme including a mother who suggested she couldn’t even hold water let alone international secrets.

'One said she was “too boring and frumpy” to be a spy"'

LOVE am I being treasonable.

Ideal job, please contact me ;)

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/05/mumsnet-mi5-mi6-spies_n_6806900.html?1425558109&utm_hp_ref=uk

oh my god gaggia you're famous!!!

Huffington post gets it.

I will await a private message!

Also have two teenager who specialise in memorising entrance codes (when they see someone going through a secure door). They don't use them honestly, it is just a mental challenge to them!

RedToothBrush GCHQ is in Cheltenham if that's more your cup of tea

Is it me or has the world gone circular?

Ooh sign me up.

I have the kind of demeanour that makes people tell me their life story if I'm next to them on the bus. I'm ever so dull and unthreatening but also dead observant. Plus I'm super good at faces. (Not names, though, sadly).

Plus I am always equipped with a little notebook of shopping lists (codes and shizzle could be written down and no one would know really).

LOL oh please make a spy-related emoticon.

Security Services, please get in touch. I am short, like Judi Dench, so would make an excellent M. And my surname begins with an M as well, so I should prob get the job. But don't kill me off after the third film or whatever it was.