How many spies do you reckon you've seen in your life?

Do you think you’ve ever brushed past a proper 00 agent or the real life Harry from spooks or anything?

Wonder how many there are.

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I work near MI5 and MI6 so absolutely loads

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Six

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Stella Rimmington

weird how spies is just pies with an s at the front

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I’ve seen her, while being interviewed by John Humphries.

misread this as “spices”

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She was a guest at a conference I attended, gave a really good speech. She looked like Miss Marple.

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One of their buildings has a back door and every time I see someone going in it I want to run over and be all “ARE YOU A SPY???” :man_detective:

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Why were you being interviewed by John Humphrys?

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John Humphries is the plural

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Stop saying that guntrip of course he’s the fucking spy!

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the MI5 building is one of the most famous in europe, if not the world. it’s 136 metre tall towe–

That’s MI6

MI5 are here

That’s what I walk past every mor-

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Loved these books as a kid - was pretty sure I had a spy based career ahead of me

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Official-Spys-Handbook-Usborne-Handbooks/dp/1409584380

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looking back it was lacking chapters on “how to destabilise a socialist state” and “how to fund civil war with drug money”

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i had one like that, it made being organised sound a lot more fun than it really is

Yeah I’ve seen loads of spies

MINCE PIES!

[Works better aloud]

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Oh yeah! Write in lemon and then hold it against a radiator! Flawless spying.

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