Jack Monroe #255 Irritation that the press were not interested in your uninteresting life

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traumatised sideboard said:
Oh no, the real one, darling. Friend of a friend of a friar. I'd tell you the story but it's SO MUCH. He gave me some ornate holy chalice as well that I use to drink my grapefruit squash.
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I can't believe that Friar. I made that tapestry as a GIFT for him. How dare he!

Yes, yes it twas I that made it. Took ten years no less! Totally legit, I've got pictures as I went. I can prove this but I shan't.
 
Jelly Bean said:
It is baffling. Especially as she had a spare Emin tucked away that, you know, might possibly be worth something. Enough for her son not to be cold and hungry anyway. Funny that she had more loyalty to the person who gave her the Emin (her principles meant she would never sell a gift) than to her child.
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Don’t forget the laptop, she supposedly sold, but recently revealed she still has, she claims at times to have sold the sea master but recently the story was she pawned it 🤪
 
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Onestorytoomany said:
Also the people don't normally rap your door unless you have completely refused to contact or work out something with the company. If she has said I will pay 10p a month because that's all I have and the company agrees then no one will be at anyone's door. So in my opinion the former only happened because she was too bone idol to phone up and talk things over with the bill company's.
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The thing is, it wasn't her house. So meter changes would have had to go through her landlord and if it was a fairly affluent area as it sounds, there's no way in hell the landlord would have wanted them to install key meters (very off-putting for tenants). If it wasn't and the landlord was cool with it, they'd have just told her when it was and then arranged entry themselves so neither doorbell nor breaking in story adds up at all...

ETA: To clarify the off-putting, they are more expensive, it's often tricky to switch supplier with them and this is much less of an issue now, but I'm pretty sure (not enough for a court of law!) that back when Jack is talking about it most of them didn't have ways to top up via smartphone and you had to actually go to a shop and faff. And of course, social stigma around them which shouldn't be a thing yet is.
 
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TurnedUpInTipp said:
I had to google 'Come From Away'
There is a musical about the 9/11 attacks?
Holy tit.
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Oh I’ve heard about this. It’s actually about a small town in Newfoundland where there’s this huge relic of an airport from the days planes couldn’t quite make it the whole way across the Atlantic and used to stop there to refuel. All the diverted planes after the twin towers went down got sent there & the townsfolk took the passengers in, so the musical is about that.
 
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