Jack Monroe #278 Pet Semetary in a backpack

[KingBabar]

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Bloody hell, I thought last weekend's YNWA version of Jack was the worst I'd seen, but this tit tops that. I'm in my 50s and as a small child lived in a RENTED house with an outside loo, tin bath, no hot water apart from the little heater by the kitchen sink, no heating bar a coal fire that we bathed in front of on a Sunday night, had to go up the yard and hope there were no slugs in the privy when we needed to go in the daytime, had to pee in a bucket at night, slept in a bedroom with 2 siblings and walls black with mold whilst wearing pyjamas, dressing gown, socks and hat, and a coat over the bed covers, and listening to my parents argue. The house was eventually declared unfit for human habitation.
She's a despicable ghoul and she sickens me.
Am I a poverty and trauma survivor too Jack, or someone who's just got on with life like the majority, and not made a bleeping career out of it?
Sorry for the me rail, and any mistakes but she's actually made me shake with anger with this and ME/CFS makes it hard to be coherent sometimes.

 

[FrumpyCat]

Clearly we are all so traumatised by our upbringing we've blocked the trauma! Jack can just feck off. She needs a long hard look at herself. She posts a stream of consciousness on twitter constantly contradicting herself, elevenerifing the experience of others. Calling for a revolution but then quietly deleting her posts, ignoring the fact she's previously boasted of spoiling votes and encouraged voters in her local by-election to vote Tory. Bemoaning the stress of the messages in her inbox (that she previously claimed not to read), whilst failing to offer any actual useful advice to anyone. Buying a rucksack full of food but seemingly preparing none of it, in favour of making a performance of making a junk food creation, involving the 3rd and 4th burgers of one day.... wasting vast quantities of food whilst her target audience are scrimping, saving and relying on food banks. Yet still the media give her air time, journalists fawn over her, ignoring her criticism of journalism. She hasn't got one single redeeming characteristic.

It really depends who Jack considers her real target audience.

Genuines Poors that Jack claims to write recipes and campaign for. The Poors that frequently turn up in her emails' direct messages and touching little street based vignettes. But are strangely absent from her Twitter time line.

Or the soft headed financially secure followers who will buy offensive merch and subscribe to her paetreon and expect nothing in return.

Or the blue tickers who I have to Google to find out who they are .

Or anyone who can offer her a money and/or media exposure.

 

[Froggies]

Not saying think of London/the south east at all here but what amazes me is despite the sheer volume of post war housing (and a lot of it was social housing probably why she’s clueless) in the SE? These houses weren’t build with central heating, there are still original owner occupiers living in houses without radiators and/or fitted kitchens now, even the original windows in some cases, and I’m not in a deprived area and some of those OAPs are driving very nice cars so aren’t hard up by any stretch of the imagination, it’s just how they’ve always lived so why spend tens of thousands fixing it now?

The country was very poor after the war. I was amazed when we took the carpets up that they’d painted the floorboards minus a patch and my MIL said that’s cos that’s all the carpet people could afford!

But these aren’t 5 bed detached houses so Jackie can’t be expected to be au fait with their history

You’ve described my mums house. No central heating, a gas fire in the living room, 1 electric fire upstairs. Constantly moans that she’s cold but won’t have central heating fitted (she could afford to but won’t because my Nan wouldn’t approve. My Nan is DEAD. My mum would get on well with Jack)

I grew up in a decent sized 3 bed 1970s built house with no central heating. We had electric fires, night storage heaters and a portable gas fire, but the electric fires didn’t go on often. I spent my childhood freezing. We were not poor, they just had skewed priorities

 

[Onestorytoomany]

My house was a RENTED Victorian, mill owned ( in northern Ireland) this was the 90s we bought a house in 2000. I am in my thirties now so working out the maths. It wasn't that long ago, we had coal fires electric fires and single glazing and a very happy childhood, as opposed to what seems like her rather privileged but miserable one!

 

[Pavlova]

Iqbal, Iqbal if you're out there, come join us ninnies! You'll get court date outfits of choice and hats on special days too

 

[Ninch55]

It really depends who Jack considers her real target audience.

Genuines Poors that Jack claims to write recipes and campaign for. The Poors that frequently turn up in her emails' direct messages and touching little street based vignettes. But are strangely absent from her Twitter time line.

Or the soft headed financially secure followers who will buy offensive merch and subscribe to her paetreon and expect nothing in return.

Or the blue tickers who I have to Google to find out who they are .

Or anyone who can offer her a money and/or media exposure.

I strongly suspect that she is bored with the Pov Queen image, but she’s nothing else of use, to garner attention, so she carries on.

 

[HotesTilaire]

Much to unpack.

So a twitter account called “Buy British EU_NO_MORE” has done a tweet, along the lines of “who remembers Raleigh Choppers/black jacks and fruit salads used to be ha’penny sweets” but for housing.
I haven’t looked at the twitter so I don’t know this accounts background, for whatever reason they’re trying to go viral, which they sort of have.
Apparently I understand that the Twitterverse has replied to the “who remembers being cold in the old days” by trying to quote the 4 Yorkshireman sketch back at the tweet. Fack has done this, ad infinitum, because: attention.

The 4 Yorkshireman sketch mocks those elevenerifing each other as to who had it worse. The tweeters and Jack have responded to “who remembers these actually true things” by mocking with ridiculous elevenerifing. So Jack is being the thing that the sketch mocks - an elevenerifing idiot.

Jacks reaction to the actual true situation of poor insulation and cold homes is to mock it, by quoting characters who were created as lampoons and whose words are silly examples an idiot would say.

In this scenario, of real poverty, Jack the anti-poverty campaigner joins in, to quote the words of idiots constructed to show a lack of understanding of poverty.

I think.

 

[MooBelle]

I have a question for Tax and Telly fraus.
With the Lorraine gig, will it be as freelance or is she an employee?
I know one off telly appearance is a lump sum but seeing as the caped crusaders thing is ongoing does this mean she now employed by them and getting a salary?
Just crossed my mind that if she is an employee then her income tax will come out automatically. If is the case she will then use it as 'proof' she does pay tax.

 

[Onestorytoomany]

To be honest I am actually shocked that her as a "woke" person would reference an old shows like Monty python and co. They are outdated by today's standards and often offensive to many people. I am not saying that people cannot enjoy them but referencing them to people especially during a crisis when many of those things are potentially many future and something they are terrified off. She just doesn't understand when to shut up and when to speak. She offends just to make a point. I don't get her angle at all, one minute she crying that the Poor's are cold and hungry and unable to afford to go to work and the next she's making jokes about it. Please someone make it make sense!

 

[Brian Butterfield]

I have a question for Tax and Telly fraus.
With the Lorraine gig, will it be as freelance or is she an employee?
I know one off telly appearance is a lump sum but seeing as the caped crusaders thing is ongoing does this mean she now employed by them and getting a salary?
Just crossed my mind that if she is an employee then her income tax will come out automatically. If is the case she will then use it as 'proof' she does pay tax.

Freelance. She will invoice them for her appearance fee.

 

[HotesTilaire]

I have a question for Tax and Telly fraus.
With the Lorraine gig, will it be as freelance or is she an employee?
I know one off telly appearance is a lump sum but seeing as the caped crusaders thing is ongoing does this mean she now employed by them and getting a salary?
Just crossed my mind that if she is an employee then her income tax will come out automatically. If is the case she will then use it as 'proof' she does pay tax.

Everything she does will be Freelance/self employed. I think Rosemary might be getting 15% of this gig.

 

[FrumpyCat]

Iqbal, Iqbal if you're out there, come join us ninnies! You'll get court date outfits of choice and hats on special days too

Yes' but he will have to bring receipts.

I am not sure if Iqbal is definitely referring to Our Jack' but it would be gloriously funny if it were true.

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

Much to unpack.

So a twitter account called “Buy British EU_NO_MORE” has done a tweet, along the lines of “who remembers Raleigh Choppers/black jacks and fruit salads used to be ha’penny sweets” but for housing.
I haven’t looked at the twitter so I don’t know this accounts background, for whatever reason they’re trying to go viral, which they sort of have.
Apparently I understand that the Twitterverse has replied to the “who remembers being cold in the old days” by trying to quote the 4 Yorkshireman sketch back at the tweet. Fack has done this, ad infinitum, because: attention.

The 4 Yorkshireman sketch mocks those elevenerifing each other as to who had it worse. The tweeters and Jack have responded to “who remembers these actually true things” by mocking with ridiculous elevenerifing. So Jack is being the thing that the sketch mocks - an elevenerifing idiot.

Jacks reaction to the actual true situation of poor insulation and cold homes is to mock it, by quoting characters who were created as lampoons and whose words are silly examples an idiot would say.

In this scenario, of real poverty, Jack the anti-poverty campaigner joins in, to quote the words of idiots constructed to show a lack of understanding of poverty.

I think.

Being perfectly honest, I don’t understand half of what or why Jack tweets (I think it is the character limit) and it took me at least 4 reads to fully understand your post (gone are my Haruki Murakami days unfortunately) but thank you Hotes.

(No long words either )

 

[jenny2603]

To be honest I am actually shocked that her as a "woke" person would reference an old shows like Monty python and co. They are outdated by today's standards and often offensive to many people. I am not saying that people cannot enjoy them but referencing them to people especially during a crisis when many of those things are potentially many future and something they are terrified off. She just doesn't understand when to shut up and when to speak. She offends just to make a point. I don't get her angle at all, one minute she crying that the Poor's are cold and hungry and unable to afford to go to work and the next she's making jokes about it. Please someone make it make sense!

The thing with Jack is she doesn't really believe in anything. Any belief she professes to hold is simply as a stick to beat someone out there with. She never does anything positive- with her Twitter presence she could easily give her account over to someone from a marginalised group in a regular Twitter Takeover or she could highlight recipes from smaller food bloggers and so on but there's no reward in that for her. Far better to pile on some hapless tweeter who has said something stupid than do anything to raise anyone up. She's a spiteful fraud and a bully that I find increasingly difficult to find any scrap of sympathy for.

 

[Malkiavelli]

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Just the jaw-dropping audacity of Monroe - middle-class raised, poverty performer extraordinaire - taking aim at the idea of exaggerating one’s experience of destitution. It’s almost admirable how much chutzpah she has.

 

[jenny2603]

Yes' but he will have to bring receipts.

I am not sure if Iqbal is definitely referring to Our Jack' but it would be gloriously funny if it were true.

I did wonder if it might relate to one of her house shares and they're going after Jack because she's the one with the profile. I mean I fully believe Jack shits in bags as a hobby but it seems like a lot of damage for one smol pixie and I just can't imagine Jack at an orgy.

 

[HotesTilaire]

Being perfectly honest, I don’t understand half of what or why Jack tweets (I think it is the character limit) and it took me at least 4 reads to fully understand your post (gone are my Haruki Murakami days unfortunately) but thank you Hotes.

(No long words either )

With those tweets She’s done the equivalent of turning up, this morning, at a food bank dressed as a Marie Antoinette saying “let them eat cake, LOL, amirite?”

 

[Ninch55]

Just the jaw-dropping audacity of Monroe - middle-class raised, poverty performer extraordinaire - taking aim at the idea of exaggerating one’s experience of destitution. It’s almost admirable how much chutzpah she has.

We here were wondering if it was also a dig at all the Northerners who despise her, including theYorkies. Hope so, hi Jack, we despise you even more for doing that. Never letting that one drop, trust us.

 

['EllsBells]

Today is the anniversary of the start of The Falklands War. Will military-around-the-edges Jacksie mark the occasion in some way?

 

[jenny2603]

Today is the anniversary of the start of The Falklands War. Will military-around-the-edges Jacksie mark the occasion in some way?

I hope not, I don't think we're ready for Goose Green Jack.