Why is the MI6 building so damn obvious?

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  @osullivanluke · 2 months ago · pinned

  Let me know if you know what the windowless building in Aldgate is. My guess is a █████████████████. Also, get your travel eSIM now with eSIM io: <a href="https://go1.esim.io/Lltr/lukeosullivan2">https://go1.esim.io/Lltr/lukeosullivan2</a>

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  @QuincelSC · 2 months ago

  If MI6 can dig a tunnel under the Thames for £12.5m they should get out of the spying business and just do that.

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  @Saturday-The14th · 2 months ago

  They use that building as a distraction. The real MI6 building is an abandoned Gala bingo in Burnley.

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  @Amelyy_2137 · 2 months ago

  I absolutely love the architecture of the building. It really does look like an office fortress

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  @safebox36 · 2 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM746MPE5FQ&amp;t=82">1:22</a> For anyone wondering, MI-13 and MI-18 were never assigned because it was determined the 3 and the 8 could look ambiguous when handwritten or smudged on a typewriter. So instead of assigning one but not the other, they left both unassigned and simply skipped to the next number.

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  @MrWillNeedham · 2 months ago

  Security through obscurity doesn&apos;t work in the modern world. If your enemies are going to be able to find your building anyway, there&apos;s no point trying to hide it

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  @borgstod · 2 months ago (edited)

  The lunchtime drunkenness of civil servants requires that they have an obviously shaped building to stagger towards.

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  @northamericangp1997 · 2 months ago (edited)

  Fun fact; when in The World is Not Enough, Skyfall and Spectre the building was destroyed, the SIS/Mi6 staff cheered on the special screenings held for them.<br><br>Update: HOLY SHIT THANK YOU FOR ALL THE LIKES Y’ALL.

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  @Dribbleondo · 2 months ago

  The windows on the main building look like the ones from computer games where the devs just leave it green or blue to imply a curtain, or some kind of opaque window.

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  @ShOrt_RoUnD · 2 months ago

  Next video: “I Woke Up in a Basement in a Distant Country”

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  @pradyunsg · 2 months ago

  &quot;an NHS dentist&quot; 😂

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  @RAFMnBgaming · 2 months ago

  It always kinda amuses me how many countries made their secret services official secrets, like... either we all know that we have a secret service, or we are to assume our country is too incompetent to have a secret service.

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