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

[ohcomeon99]

I hate to state the obvious/live in reality here but how does she propose the government fund this marvellous wish list of hers that will apparently solve all the world’s problems? It’s honestly beyond parody, she is NOT a true campaigner/activist: she just posts things she wants to happen without any real ideas or plan as to how (we can all do that) and has a cause of the minute before moving on to the next one.

 

[HotesTilaire]

I hate to state the obvious/live in reality here but how does she propose the government fund this marvellous wish list of hers that will apparently solve all the world’s problems? It’s honestly beyond parody, she is NOT a true campaigner/activist: she just posts things she wants to happen without any real ideas or plan as to how (we can all do that) and has a cause of the minute before moving on to the next one.

I’m getting annoyed with the wankers of limited life experience who think they’re doing some kind of blue peter project “let’s get a network of people checking their local asda rice price every week” ok boomer

 

[Shawads]

bit like her hired help, Mini me and girlfriends… She’ll be introducing her MR Right next- it’s been awhile since hetro Jack made an appearance



instead of Cash for questions or S£x maybe for Tatts?
But seriously- when did she have the time? Was it before SB if so did she need the money then?
thought poverty Jack came about after she had him??

To me, considering how gauche she can be and all her talk of flaps , 7 dildo drawer, and imaginery hot AA therapists, jack seems like a very unsexy non sexual person.
With her sweary slam poetry, mockney accent and hard hitting slogan tees, calling Eamonn mate and talking about booting train doors, throwing chairs and pulling radiators off walls it feels put on and try hard
Like someone who had a perfectly decent middle class upbringing and was a Sunday school teacher and dreamed of being cool
Becoming a faux poor celebrity has been an opportunity for her to play her dream persona/ personae, aping people who she wishes she were more like
Just realized I'm only saying what we all know and say constantly

{Insert Jarvis Cocker singing common people duet with jack Monroe gif here}

 

[indigocat]

I hate to state the obvious/live in reality here but how does she propose the government fund this marvellous wish list of hers that will apparently solve all the world’s problems? It’s honestly beyond parody, she is NOT a true campaigner/activist: she just posts things she wants to happen without any real ideas or plan as to how (we can all do that) and has a cause of the minute before moving on to the next one.

And that is the definition of a whiner.

 

[traumatised sideboard]

That's reminded me that in the wake of her tin opener/ring pull conspiracy rant, I bought four tins of Branston beans (fancy) from Sainsbury's (also fancy). Two of them were ring pull, two required a tin opener. I was about to go on Twitter with my tin foil hat and join in the frenzy but then I remembered firstly I'm not an enormous penis and secondly it obviously varies between batches, having nothing whatsoever to do with forcing the poors to howl and literally claw at the tins for their dinner or else starve to death.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

I’m sure it will be more of a heart problem or tomato allergy

Nah, she's been breadcrumbing seizures for a while.

 

[Mogmog]

I reckon that the sex work was along the lines of a casual sex friend loaning/giving her money, possibly after the deed but unrelated to the deed, ie as they were leaving

 

[colouredlines]

The tin opener thing is so insane. If you don't have one (maybe you sold it along with the lightbulbs? Bit shortsighted) then...buy one. It's a one-off purchase. You don't need to add it to your regular shopping list and buy a new one each week.

I'm not a literal expert () but I would wager far more people have a tin opener than a slow cooker or a Nutribullet, both of which Jack considers essential...

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

The tin opener thing is just weird even I’ve got one, My sister got me a set when I moved into my flat - I think it was aimed at students going to uni- there was a tin opener, some clicky tongs and other utensil bits that get trapped when I’m trying to close the door.

 

[Shawads]

Yeah I think it was a paid collab. Added bonus being she could cosplay a chef and say she had a 'pop up restraurant'.

Non binary chef jack Monroe

What happened to 'writer! single mother! activist! former food bank user!' ?

Fixed that for them.

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Funking heck, that meal experience / initiative launch looked dreadful.
all those people having their food snatched away, what a tacky and clumsy parody of what it's like to be poor. What did those people really take away from that event I wonder? Other than another talking point for the chattering classes, which helps them to feel altruistic and liberal: an interactive event with a girl called jack who is now non binary jack

Also shoe horning in her non binary bit, never to be spoken of again since.
Interesting that her voice still sounds as tremulous now as it did then.

 

[Powershower]

Finally finished my very long grunk and am back in the present.

Have nothing to add other than to state I have a tin opener.

Also hazy on the timelines, did Jack invent the fuel vouchers before or after she invented healthy start vouchers?

 

[BeautifulTrauma]

Can we have a survey at the start of the next thread just to ask who has a tin opener?

I’m really worried the squigs are planning on living a cult like life, don’t drink Jack’s Kool-Aid folks!

 

[Shawads]

I had a meter growing up and I remember if you ran out over the weekend it kept ticking over until Monday and you got some. These was also an emergency credit button that gave you a few quid until you got to the shop during the week. I remember using it as teen when my mum and dad were both at work and it ran out. It's maybe changed now though. This was the 00s

We had coin meters, I remember scrabbling around for shillings for the meter, this was after decimalisation because the landlords were too tight to replace the meter.
It moved on to 10pence pieces and then fifty pees.
By the time I was living on my own I'd moved on to pound coin meters.
When I was a child, someone dodgy taught my parent how to 'fiddle the meter'.
The landlord caught on and called the police . We were very poor and I saw a lot of desperate low level criminal activity growing up. even took part in some myself as I moved on into bedsit land as a young teen, it seemed par for the course among my peers and the adults around me.
It has been strange growing up and realising that a LOT of people have absolutely no comprehension of what it's like to be absolutely abjectly deprived and neglected.
I'm a single parent now ( from a long line of single parents) and we are not well off at all and don't have a lot of the things that my kids see other families enjoying but compared to my childhood, my children live like kings. And compared to many families around us, we look like millionaires. I can't even afford to drive and there are some times when I worry about bills and food but I don't have to use coin or key meters anymore and I am so bloody thankful that my kids are cushioned and privileged in many ways.

 

[Captainmouse]

Omg she is SO rude.

You sound surprised

 

[BeautifulTrauma]

We had coin meters, I remember scrabbling around for shillings for the meter, this was after decimalisation because the landlords were too tight to replace the meter.
It moved on to 10pence pieces and then fifty pees.
By the time I was living on my own I'd moved on to pound coin meters.
When I was a child, someone dodgy taught my parent how to 'fiddle the meter'.
The landlord caught on and called the police . We were very poor and I saw a lot of desperate low level criminal activity growing up. even took part in some myself as I moved on into bedsit land as a young teen, it seemed par for the course among my peers and the adults around me.
It has been strange growing up and realising that a LOT of people have absolutely no comprehension of what it's like to be absolutely abjectly deprived and neglected.
I'm a single parent now ( from a long line of single parents) and we are not well off at all and don't have a lot of the things that my kids see other families enjoying but compared to my childhood, my children live like kings. And compared to many families around us, we look like millionaires. I can't even afford to drive and there are some times when I worry about bills and food but I don't have to use coin or key meters anymore and I am so bloody thankful that my kids are cushioned and privileged in many ways.

This is Jack’s problem in a nutshell though. She doesn’t realise how LUCKY she is to have a home, can put the heating on when she wants, can impulse buy to her hearts content. She constantly wants more, she sees someone with something bigger or shinier and has to elevenerife it. And that comes from believing material worth equals happiness. It doesn’t, nothing will ever fill the black hole she’s created because she feels her parents didn’t give her enough attention. It will always be this way, constantly looking for ways to get their attention and nothing will ever be big or good enough or fill that hole. At this point I doubt psychological help would help at all as it’s so deep rooted for her.

 

[TurnedUpInTipp]

Does anyone else remember her evacuating a club?

 

[Onestorytoomany]

I hate to state the obvious/live in reality here but how does she propose the government fund this marvellous wish list of hers that will apparently solve all the world’s problems? It’s honestly beyond parody, she is NOT a true campaigner/activist: she just posts things she wants to happen without any real ideas or plan as to how (we can all do that) and has a cause of the minute before moving on to the next one.

This is exactly it, we keep saying her level of work is akin to a school child, alot of it is aimed at that level.
Like when your teacher give you a project " how to make the world better, discuss" and you all pull all these marvelous things out of your arse about how an " ideal" world should be. Only for your teacher to day but what about funding it, how would you fund it all?" And then your standing there looking stunned at the thought that all of this costs money..... She is like Cher from clueless, "yeah we can totally party with the Hadians"

 

[Wooh]

It's sad, isn't it. The squigs are so full of hope... And we know exactly what's to come.

Ooh, I feel as if I'm being really snippy towards Jack this eve. Oh well, never mind.

I'd love if she did ask for their proprietary information and received a simple "no, this is proprietary, commercially sensitive information", and then see her spin on THAT

 

[Captainmouse]

There has been no follow-up mention so far, but those meetings with Asda and Sainsbury's must be happening soon...

Can’t believe sainsbos would give her the time of day after last time

 

[OwlRightsReserved]

Does anyone else remember her evacuating a club?

Send ambulance-o, this has absolutely done me in.