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

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It reminds me of those Big Sleep Out events (which incidentally Jack has done) where middle class people play at being homeless for the night. Although God forbid a homeless perspn actually tries to join them... they get moved on.

In such poor taste.

Oh, I hate those. I know some of my workfriends were really into it and did not want to piss on their party, but I find them bad taste as well (also, the first one had artists I don't like perform. Like John Cleese* reading a bed time story. I also had/have issues with what they were fundraising for at the time: tiny houses in a special neighbourhood for the homeless, presented as some sort of supersolution. To me it seemed more like a gettho. I think everyone deserves a proper home in a general community, not something separated form others. But I digress).

*John Cleese is not on my hate list per se but the 'grumbling old white man'vibes from him are too much for me.
 
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I’m glad I missed sex work Jack. I’d query how she had all the time to don all these different misery-hats being a poor smol single mumma but then I remember she’s only that a couple of days a week.
I often wonder if she was just a bit premisicious? I honestly don't know why a person with ample support would choose this path? It's unsafe, so if any supporting friend or family knew this was your only other option I think they would help
 
Having said that, I do think it is important when you are campaigning, volunteering or fundraising that there is some enjoyment in it (I always enjoy the social aspect of going to a protest with friends, and I don't feel bad about that enjoyment). So I get it that if you are wanting to raise (a lot of) funds for a cause there is a case to be made for making it into a fun event (and we are living in an 'experience' consumer society as well, where every enjoyable social activity is monetised). But selling an awfull experience as entertainment, knowing the next day you're back in your warm home and bed is bad taste. ( I recently saw someone do a sponsored parachute jump for a good cause as, which I thought was a bit of a piss take. Not the same, but also very cringe)
 
I forgot or I didn’t think about it at the time but a relative of mine is a big cheese at Asda ( ha see what I said then !) she has got as far as you could go to the top without actually being at the top.She phoned me this morning about her new bath that aims water at you and a new rose wine that Asda are stocking . No clawing or wailing because of a pipsqueak who is going to wave her performative hands and gather the angries of Twitter to bring them down. Careers ruined, jail etc for the Directors. Everything is fine at work. I did ask sort of vaguely if she was finding things difficult lately because of maybe bad Press ? Nope. Not at all. I am not sure if she knows about Jack because she didn’t say and I didn’t ask. She must do, though.
 
I forgot or I didn’t think about it at the time but a relative of mine is a big cheese at Asda ( ha see what I said then !) she has got as far as you could go to the top without actually being at the top.She phoned me this morning about her new bath that aims water at you and a new rose wine that Asda are stocking . No clawing or wailing because of a pipsqueak who is going to wave her performative hands and gather the angries of Twitter to bring them down. Careers ruined, jail etc for the Directors. Everything is fine at work. I did ask sort of vaguely if she was finding things difficult lately because of maybe bad Press ? Nope. Not at all. I am not sure if she knows about Jack because she didn’t say and I didn’t ask. She must do, though.

That bath sounds amazing. Jack already has 3.
 
This one dear heart! It also died.

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This OT

But there's a homeless man in my town, has been a while, he's about my age. He's clearly got some bad MH issues, because one day he's ok and the next he's talking to himself or random objects, but he's nice enough and as bad as it sounds I got used too seeing him around.

Recently I haven't, and I am concerned because the last time I did see him was before Christmas on a very wet, very very cold night, so bad in fact( and I felt do guilty for doing so literally got changed as soon as I got in because I was wet and cold). The reason I felt bad as he was having an episode and he was walking around singing with a t-shirt and joggers on that's it.

People like her will never understand the true nature of having nothing. I worry this bloke is very ill on hospital or dead due to this night. That's the reality.
 
Someone, please give me a wall to bang my head on.

Yeah, it's all a massive conspiracy, supermarkets hate selling stuff.

Would love to see how these people imagine Asda's corporate strategy meetings to be. "We're going to send customers away and sell tit no one will want! Hopefully the poor will die in their 1000s and we'll never have to think about them again. The shareholders will love it!"
 
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