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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

OP posts:
Tortington · 05/06/2009 16:18

office pod

scottishmummy · 05/06/2009 16:20

well quite imagine all the irate huns bumping gums if they had your number

whomovedmychocolate · 05/06/2009 16:21

Will do Justine.....but it's umm in a small number of places - however one is very obvious....hang on.....

Tortington · 05/06/2009 16:22

they are all really midgets living at the bottom of carries garden

TrillianAstra · 05/06/2009 16:23

BetaDad - you made them sound like sluts as in definition number 1, not number 2!

slut
One entry found.

Main Entry:
slut
Pronunciation:
ˈslÉ™t\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English slutte
Date:
15th century

1 chiefly British : a slovenly woman
2 a: a promiscuous woman ; especially : prostitute
b: a saucy girl : minx

whomovedmychocolate · 05/06/2009 16:24

Justine regrets organising a cheap girls night out to the tanning salon

Tortington · 05/06/2009 16:27

maybe they live in the shire

Tortington · 05/06/2009 16:28

got it - its perfect

eye of sauron

whomovedmychocolate · 05/06/2009 16:28

Oy Custardo, that looks remarkably like my house

Fimbo · 05/06/2009 16:28

I imagine it to look a bit like the penthouse flat on The Apprentice but an office version all sleek lines and minimialist.

Buda · 05/06/2009 16:31

scottishmummy - that's the one. Or it would be if it showed it. Fruitshootsandheaves - I do too!

ABetaDad · 05/06/2009 16:34

Trillian - thanks. I didn't know it could mean definition 1 which I was alluding to of course .

I always imagine MN Towers in RL looks a lot like a minicab office under the railway arches near where I live.

Swedes · 05/06/2009 16:36

wmmc - I know about teeth whitening, but I hadn't realised eyebrow whitening was quite so popular.

Swedes · 05/06/2009 16:37

Abetadad -

LeninGrad · 05/06/2009 16:38

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Slubberdegullion · 05/06/2009 16:44

It's like mission control at Houston. There is a giant screen with active convos scrolling away. Each mnhq minion is seated on a gigantic lazy-boy lounger and has a plethora of smaller screens attached to their chair for their personal flicking through of threads.

Underneath the giant screen is a scrolling ticker with the names of all the posters on line. Posters who post more than 500 posts per month are in yellow. Everyone else is blue. If you are a minion on duty and you get more than 50 yellow posters on line simultaneously then a small door opens in the barker lounger and a Ferrero Rocher comes out on a little rising table.

All the minions have to wear blue scrubs with a white tabard over the top. Once a day Justine or Carrie come in (they wear normal clothes) and go through numbers of newbies, flouncers and kick offs (like a doctors round). If there are more flouncers than newbies on a minions watch then your barker lounger is removed for one day and you have to sit on a primary school chair with your arse hanging over the sides.

There is a plastic spider plant in the corner.

MadameDefarge · 05/06/2009 16:44

I imagine the office is in a converted victorian school, one room, painted white, high windows and cheap blue industrial carpet circa 1985. Sorry about the carpet bit.

Tortington · 05/06/2009 16:47

lenin - i suppose a vulva would be apt and nothing that can't actually be done with a little photoshop ( although - who volunteers for the picture?)its actually the eye of sauron - its a LOTR thing

huge tower - big eye watching over the land

fruitshootsandheaves · 05/06/2009 16:47

mumsnet towers

BecauseImWorthIt · 05/06/2009 16:49

I think you've got a massive whiteboard, tracking everyone's name changes. It's manned on a rota basis, and names are moved around, a bit like they did during the war with model ships/planes.

NationalFlight · 05/06/2009 16:51

Really sorry, but since you asked, my mental image has just revealed itself as somewhat bizarre. Your office is in a building not unlike the tower of London, Gerry is sitting in it alone on the ground floor with a knackered old CRT in front of her, half a can of Fosters on her left and her eyes half shut (radio 2 in the background)

She has curly auburn hair, a rather slouchy pink cardigan and a Very Nice Handbag. She is rather attractive, despite being almost asleep.

It is 2am, someone has just asked her to delete seventy three messages in random threads.

She is ringing Justine but Justine is telling her to piss off as she is getting some.

Olivia is in Acapulco for the weekend and doesn't care.

Helen and Carrie are simultaneously having a heart to heart regarding Gerry's handbag addiction and a Dyson rep who fancies Justine (despite Dysons getting regularly trashed on here) in a downtown cafe in Harlesden.

Have I got anything right yet?

LeninGrad · 05/06/2009 16:51

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Tortington · 05/06/2009 16:51

Maybe it was the vulva of Sauron and we just all read it wrong

NationalFlight · 05/06/2009 16:53

Slubber, LOLOL at little rising table

I'm actually a bit scared now I've posted all that. I wasn't even aware I had all that going on till they asked.

Niecie · 05/06/2009 16:53

This is how I see MN Towers.

Or one of those creepy castles from Scooby Doo.

Don't ask me why - perhaps I have ishoos with authority.

And this ensures that the children never interfer with the drinking gin important work that needs to be done.

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