Jack Monroe #322 Mr T Roll and the Mitty Bungalow Mystery

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bowiethesdmn said:
According to the Github, this appears to be the entirety of the VBI so far:
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Listening to LBC recently, I have heard a presenter talk about his weekly shopping checkup. Each week he checks the price of 12 items in a basket. I think he has milk, bread, apples, cheese etc, basically 12 highly bought items.

He has a snazzy name for this item, so snazzy that I can’t remember it! But he just does a weekly check up on how much that basket will cost.

A simple, effective way to cost check the increase in prices. He has been doing it for a while now. Sometimes there is no increase.

This is something Jack could have done, but it would require persistent and consistent effort and there isn’t a lot of rage to be had as sometimes there is no increase!
 
bowiethesdmn said:
According to the Github, this appears to be the entirety of the VBI so far:
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Couple more days work should see it done! 🙄

Pocahontas said:
See, I had imagined Mr T Roll as Mr T’s lesser known cousin from Georgia
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As an aside, Mr T (RIP) grew up in a poor household as one of 12 children. Can imagine him taking fool Jack to task 😂
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My SB occasionally needs Melatonin and that must have been what they put in Mr T’s drink to get him on the plane. My son can’t speak but if he could, I’m sure his first words of the day would be “How’d I get here?”
 
OhhBacon said:
Listening to LBC recently, I have heard a presenter talk about his weekly shopping checkup. Each week he checks the price of 12 items in a basket. I think he has milk, bread, apples, cheese etc, basically 12 highly bought items.

He has a snazzy name for this item, so snazzy that I can’t remember it! But he just does a weekly check up on how much that basket will cost.

A simple, effective way to cost check the increase in prices. He has been doing it for a while now. Sometimes there is no increase.

This is something Jack could have done, but it would require persistent and consistent effort and there isn’t a lot of rage to be had as sometimes there is no increase!
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That's the thing exaclty. Every week she focusses on something else, leaving her with nothing really (well, apart from paid appearance gigs it seems)
 
😂😂😂

Too short
 

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OhhBacon said:
Listening to LBC recently, I have heard a presenter talk about his weekly shopping checkup. Each week he checks the price of 12 items in a basket. I think he has milk, bread, apples, cheese etc, basically 12 highly bought items.

He has a snazzy name for this item, so snazzy that I can’t remember it! But he just does a weekly check up on how much that basket will cost.

A simple, effective way to cost check the increase in prices. He has been doing it for a while now. Sometimes there is no increase.

This is something Jack could have done, but it would require persistent and consistent effort and there isn’t a lot of rage to be had as sometimes there is no increase!
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Sound pretty much like what the ONS do 😂 All this reinventing the wheel.
 
I'm still completely mystified by the Violet Bollocks Impulse - help!
Nothing about it makes sense...
Jack's collected thousands of shopping receipts from her insane horde of supporters
She will (presumably) tabulate all these in an excel spreadsheet or similar (or possibly some pink Bratz notebooks using glittery gel pens, when her hurty arthritic fingers allow).
She will then be in possession of loads of prices of things from ages ago.
Which will be used to ... do bleeping what?
 
Polly Morphus said:
I'm still completely mystified by the Violet Bollocks Impulse - help!
Nothing about it makes sense...
Jack's colleced thousands of shopping receipts from her insane horde of supporters
She will (presumably) tabulate all these in an excel spreadsheet or similar (or possibly some pink Bratz notebooks using glittery gel pens, when her hurty arthritic fingers allow).
She will then be in possession of loads of prices of things from ages ago.
Which will be used to ... do bleeping what?
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The intent is to prove that the price of "value" ranges of foods have increased by more than the published rate of inflation and, therefore, the "true" rate of inflation is higher for the poorest.
 
L3moning said:
The intent is to prove that the price of "value" ranges of foods have increased by more than the published rate of inflation and, therefore, the "true" rate of inflation is higher for the poorest.
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She really is (a) insane
(b) thick as pigshit
(c) both a and b
The public rate of inflation is (by necessity) a rather crude indicator. But this is typical of Jack's extremely limited understanding of how food production, markets, and costings actually work.
 
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