Jack Monroe #145 Mamapapa, why is all the food brown?

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PoorPatrol said:
Omg there’s a captain Tom thread! I dare not look, was he secretly evil or....what’s the gist?
ETA I love captain Tom and cried when he died, I’m not mugging him off
Ok so ETA more, I’ve looked and now I’m now enlightened. I cry!
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I'm glad the thread is just talking about the whole aspect of his fame and not him as a person! I think he was an admirable guy but his celebrity status was just so overblown, and kinda distracts from the huge amount of deaths we've had already?
 
It’s The Truman Show said:
Yes I was an accident. And also was told if I’d been the first I’d have been the last !! Nice


Has the book been handed in then? That she has time for all this tit?
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That makes no sense. So your mum had other children but had a hiccup with her birth control and had you? Then she said she says she would have controlled her ability to have children ...

I am so sorry for all the children of fucked up mums on here and so sorry that it never leaves you. All of us big funny girls still affected by things we had no control over.

One thing is for sure, we will never use our children for personal gain, never mock and grift off poor people though x
 
LyraBalaqua said:
I don’t want to sound like a twattish jobsworth , I have faults like drinking and shopping too much but we always pay what we owe on time.
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Jack will no doubt blame one of her many ailments for not paying on time 🙄🙄🙄 but I call utter shite on that. I’m chronically disorganised but I grew up seriously poor aged 8 onwards and I have a pathological fear of ending up like my mum, drowning in debt, trapped in awful situations because of finances, and having to deal with bailiffs and debt collection companies chasing you over the phone and at the door. My PayPal credit payment didn’t go out the other day for some reason and I immediately rang them in a panic, frantic that it might escalate. I check my online banking multiple times a day just in case anything unexpected puts me in the red.

Jack wanks on and on and on about the trauma caused by being poor (that bleeping ridiculous pile of envelopes, hiding behind the sofa when the doorbell rings) but if she was really that affected then she’d vow never to be in that situation again, which clearly isn’t the case as she isn’t paying her rent despite raking it in. When I get additional money I’m a serious spender, but I never, ever go beyond my means because I’m so fearful of it spiralling and having nobody to bail me out.

Her financial behaviour screams the exact opposite of lingering trauma, to me (especially given the supposed three therapists): it absolutely oozes entitlement, arrogance, and the knowledge that her wealthy parents could bail her out if it came down to it. She’s disgusting.
 
Cunderthunt said:
I strongly suspect Jack deliberately doesn’t pay her rent reliably, as part of continuing poverty cosplay. I reckon she would love to be evicted.

We know she sees deadlines as guidelines, and I bet she doesn’t see rent as essential as her endless luxury household shite, or as essential as saving for her Forever Home.

Edit to add: if you think about it, not paying rent is a win-win for her. Every month she doesn’t pay saves her about £2000. Plus she gets to pretend her followers she’s struggling with rent, so that they donate her more money. Any consequences of not paying rent can only go in her favour.
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Completely agree. I flat shared with a girl who always had money to put petrol in her Jag but never enough to pay for her own drinks and even tried to argue her way out of the electricity bill saying we (the other two in the flat) were using it already so we should pay and she was just sharing. Big grift energy. Except my flatmate never pretended to be poor, her reasoning was that she 'shouldn't have to' or 'you don't have a car, but I need money for mine'.
 
cheapwetham said:
Apologies if this has already posted as I'm about 10 pages behind, but my Chrome suggestions just bestowed me with this

www.stylist.co.uk

Jack Monroe on how to spend smarter – and still enjoy life’s little luxuries

A few easy tips to get you started.
www.stylist.co.uk www.stylist.co.uk
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She's hopeless at this. One second she's hiding her debit cards and shopping on a strict budget, and the next...Del Monte! 😂
 
Marmalade Atkins said:
I wouldn't pay too much attention to that. I logged into an old account to zero everything (unfollowed everyone) and that got the account suspended (probably an automatic one for 'unusual' activity).

She's got several unused/old Twitter accounts in her name.
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I can't handle bill paying, I find it too stressful but I have everything on direct debit, and check my account everyday and I am quite relived when everything is paid even if I am a bit skint.
 
HarderFaster said:
Come to think of it I wonder how much tax she has (legally, unfortunately) avoided over the years by putting absolutely everything she buys on expenses? It must have cushioned her bank balance quite considerably against the profligate spending.

Clothes - ✅ for all the sideboard photoshoots
Make up - ✅ for fabricating ouchies/general lady-doctor-prescribed mood-lifting
Furniture - ✅ to accommodate the rest of the tit she buys filming and cooking equipment
Food - ✅ for the thorough recipe testing process
Tech - ✅ for starting beef with David Walliams disseminating the vital recipes to the povvos
Trips to Edinburgh - ✅ for research and charitable endeavour (giving slop to the homeless)

Bet she’s a slippery little git when it comes to her accounting. Probably learnt from her slumlord forebears.
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Yep - absolutely certain she does that. Most small businesses do. And they claim the vat back if they can. However i don’t think Jack is organised enough to do VAT returns. Her taxes will be quite complex and hard to do because she’s so disorganized, Patreon is taxable, bet she doesn’t know that.... Kickstarter probably is too, especially if people are paying for an eventual product. Soon as she puts a foot wrong, or HMRC get wind of her, she will be up to her ears in an investigation. Then of course she will go bankrupt to avoid paying. Amazed she hasn’t gone bankrupt already considering how bad her finances are, but then that’s probably something her inner Tory can’t abide, like taking benefits.
 
Can’t believe they’ve done an advertorial in which they counter the very basis of Jack’s entire career as a budget cook by making her suggest that everyone should spend a little more branded products because they’re synonymous with quality...

Seriously, who came up with this campaign?! Also shows that her agency are desperate to offset the workload she creates with some actual fees, because there’s no way a good agent wouldn’t spot that and warn a client off (I speak from experience as a former agent 🔺) unless they needed the dollar.

Little Mx Integrity, as ever.
 
I only go out once a week, and yet I found this - one of the exotic ones flying south for winter I guess. Drowned and or run over, left in the gutter.
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@traumatised sideboard thanks for the reassurance. The thing is that the Onion Police were trying to get me because they want to recruit me and make me one of them, and I’ll sing “the onion is a felon chop chop chop” with them.

Just to recap, things that scare me - Gene Wilder as willy wonka, as before but with Jack’s face (TYVM Alan) Salad Fingers, Onion Police, Jack’s fingernails, Jack’s home full of stuff, food Jack “makes”.

Edit- I will join onion Police if I can chop this felon 🥕🔪
 
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moosesauna said:
I'm glad the thread is just talking about the whole aspect of his fame and not him as a person! I think he was an admirable guy but his celebrity status was just so overblown, and kinda distracts from the huge amount of deaths we've had already?
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I agree. I hate the honours system. unlikely that he could have been a wife beater or worse, but I think sometimes honours are bestowed without a extensive background search.
 
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