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I used to have a friend who would be insanely competitive with me at work/outside of it. When I took up boxing (for fitness) so did she. When I decided I wanted to go into edit producing years back, suddenly she did too despite never having expressed that desire before.

Needless to say we aren't friends anymore because I found it exhausting and unpleasant behaviour.


Jack's friends account has a ring of truth to it for those of us who have had similar experiences with friends. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that she would worsen/fabricate illnesses for attention.
 
Cack Conroe said:
I firmly believe that Jack is engineering a second The Poverty. Hence tax dodging, not paying rent and racking up CCJs. She’s deliberately destroying herself financially because she wants to be an authentic poor. Being a poor single mum is her whole identity. That’s why she was trying for another baby.

She may not have got a puppy with The Poverty 2 in mind. But the fact it will likely lose her her rent deposit, or at least lead to further trouble with her landlady, is certainly a bonus for her impoverished smol urchin act.
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Just one small flaw in her pov mark two plan. She's bleeping loaded. I think the not paying rent is just because she's so chaotic. Not filing tax returns same

I don't think she would get away with it time. She's said that she pays 1.5k a month in rent. Not poor. Bought a dog. Not poor. Mini breaks. Not poor.

Book 8 in the pipeline. Not poor. She shouldn't be asking people to pay for her just because she's unstable. She can ask her landlord dad instead
 
Cack Conroe said:
I firmly believe that Jack is engineering a second The Poverty. Hence tax dodging, not paying rent and racking up CCJs. She’s deliberately destroying herself financially because she wants to be an authentic poor. Being a poor single mum is her whole identity. That’s why she was trying for another baby.

She may not have got a puppy with The Poverty 2 in mind. But the fact it will likely lose her her rent deposit, or at least lead to further trouble with her landlady, is certainly a bonus for her impoverished smol urchin act.
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nah, she likes her lifestyle too much. No way would she deliberately put herself into poverty

OwlRightsReserved said:
Sometimes I wish she'd just get really into jam. Normal/fun jam, not like parsnip and egg jam or whatever. She'd be one of those people where making homemade jam was her whole personality, and I'd still detest her, but at least it wouldn't be the grift.
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and there would always be jam for SB
 
OwlRightsReserved said:
Sometimes I wish she'd just get really into jam. Normal/fun jam, not like parsnip and egg jam or whatever. She'd be one of those people where making homemade jam was her whole personality, and I'd still detest her, but at least it wouldn't be the grift.
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I still remember the greengage jam. Cooked in a slow cooker. I would say a lowpoint for Jack, but it probably wouldn't feature in the bottom 25 things shes cooked.
 
Always fascinated by Schrodinger’s Jack;

Teeth cracking and hair falling out yet an expert in nutrition.

Famously good with money but £34.44 in the bank and still racking up CCJs.

A fabulous cook but exists on maize snacks and tinned fish.

There are so many more but wouldn’t these at least have a casual squiq (as opposed to the fully indoctrinated) wondering HOW is it all possible?
 
upsidedown33 said:
I am surprised at Jack’s absence from the Guild of Food Writers Awards last night. This may be one reason for silence.
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I’m bleeping not. She can’t write and her food belongs in a Pasolini movie (soz, after Theorem the other day I’ve been incorporating Jack into all manner of hellish scenarios and she’s still the most cuntingly disturbing element.)
 
I think the radio silence is because she knows she was a complete dick to that guy the other night. Dropped a huge bombshell and now can't just go back to posting twee photos of her dog.

Plus she has the Glastonbury problem to deal with. All I can say is her wonky puppy brain will need to figure it all out by Saturday night. How to go to a paid gig and not look like a twit for leaving a new puppy at home

Get it right up you.
 
Geetbo said:
I think we're all just giddy with excitement about Jack's lecture about jam at Glastonbury.
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"Morning boys!" I wandered over to the Women's Institute tent opposite ours, swigging half a bladder of non-alcoholic fizzy tea I'd made from thrice boiled beetroot water, an ASDA Smart Price tea bag and some flat yellow lemonade I found in a bottle just outside my canvas flaps this morning. "Can I tempt you to a lecture on how the price of jam has gone up by 4p since 1998? I'll be giving it on the Leftfield stage right after I've sung a duet with Billy Bragg on what it's like being a Socialist with no real principles whatsoever". They eyed it suspiciously. "No thank you" said Valerie, 67, who'd brought her award winning cocaine shortbread to show. "I'm off to get twatted with Lizzo". I took off my stab vest and the lights went out.
 
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