Jack Monroe #5 Tin Can't Cook

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Lanie said:
I know this sounds silly but I also hate the fact she calls her gf Mrs j. I'm married and I'd hate for my husband to call me Mrs A. I have a shared surname with him to make it easier when filling in forms with the kids and stuff but I do in fact have my own first name. I don't know why she doesnt she call her by her name, also who's to say if they were to marry that she d take jacks name. Shes entitled to keep her own.
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I feel exactly the same, it’s not silly. I got a letter from a relative this week and was incandescent with rage that they’d addressed it to Mrs *initial* *married name* (eg Mrs J Smith) not *first name* (eg Jane), the first name everyone actually refers to me by?

People have weird and uncomfortable politics around marriage & women as a result of all the weird socialisation and internalised misogyny we’ve ingested. I’ve only been married less than a year but have found it very unpleasant to navigate with some women of a certain generation.
 
Was it ever about her not being a chef? No it was about her comparing herself to a chef who was allegedly stealing her ideas and her usp. From what I’ve seen she’s not a nice person but nasty and manipulative.
she’s work shy, hence why she doesn’t update her blog, doesn’t do YouTube, doesn’t perfect her craft, she’s on twitter at 1am instead of practicing her bleeping lines.
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edited to include the Kickstarter disaster, how did I forget that? Oh and a compulsive liar.
 
heretoreaditall2019 said:
I feel exactly the same, it’s not silly. I got a letter from a relative this week and was incandescent with rage that they’d addressed it to Mrs *initial* *married name* (eg Mrs J Smith) not *first name* (eg Jane), the first name everyone actually refers to me by?

People have weird and uncomfortable politics around marriage & women as a result of all the weird socialisation and internalised misogyny we’ve ingested. I’ve only been married less than a year but have found it very unpleasant to navigate with some women of a certain generation.
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I don't mind being called Mrs ***** when being officially addressed but not under familial acquaintance. Id also expect my husband to call me by proper name when talking about me to people. He often says this is my wife ***** . Not long after i got married my step mother in law was messing around and she called me Mrs ****. Took me a minute to realise who she was talking to. 😅
 
coconochanel said:
So do you think she really will try and take us to court?
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Well, she would. If she ‘can be arsed’. Let’s not forget that she works 70 hours a day (69 of those are spent on Twitter. She has to cram colour coding her bookcase, posting her photos, begging for money, printing off pages and pages of her thread on Tattle and preparing for her tv show into the remaining 60 minutes).
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Mycuppatea said:
The thing is who cares how a chef chops onions, pronounces french words, or flings salt around? Being a good cook is not about "being rich enough" to attend a cooking school but about using the best ingredients you can and understanding the basic rules of cooking, like sauteeing your onions to soften and sweeten them, or putting new potatoes in boiling water not cold. She is allegedly writing for home cooks who want to feed a family for 11p, not trying to educate Michelin starred chefs. I love food, cook every day and my family think I'm the best cook in the world which is all that matters. Nigella has never stroked my ears but then I've also never thrown a massive public tantrum that Jamie Oliver got into my niche (oooh error, missus!) either. Sometimes ego gets in the way and trips one up.
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You’re spot on. Those ‘fancy’ techniques shouldn’t matter to her. She’s a food writer, and her mission has always been to ensure people have access to affordable, healthy meals. Now all of a sudden she’s about show casing herself... what for? If she wants to play alongside the big boys she should have started out by not slagging one them off publicly whilst trying to get a foot in the door.
 
FrannyGallops said:
Well, she would. If she ‘can be arsed’. Let’s not forget that she works 70 hours a day (69 of those are spent on Twitter. She has to cram colour coding her bookcase, posting her photos, begging for money, printing off pages and pages of her thread on Tattle and preparing for her tv show into the remaining 60 minutes).
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I think the court would laugh her out of the room. We are not bullying her we are sharing opinions. Nobody is calling her name's in the racial, sexual, homophobic or otherwise. We put sharing opinions based on her cooking and the manner in which she composes her self on sm. If anything is is a critic and if she can't handle that cooking is not her fort'e as food critics are the harshest.
 
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Looks very much like this...

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Fuking hell.
The jumper.was £350...
 
FrannyGallops said:
Well, she would. If she ‘can be arsed’. Let’s not forget that she works 70 hours a day (69 of those are spent on Twitter. She has to cram colour coding her bookcase, posting her photos, begging for money, printing off pages and pages of her thread on Tattle and preparing for her tv show into the remaining 60 minutes).
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Christ she winds me up. Talking about her on a separate bleeping forum is not harassment. It's hard to even sue a gossip mag because you don't actually have up read it. Yet she just throws out words like libel to silence her critics because they've been a bit mean. We've all said naughty things about her so she'll go and tell the teacher about the notes we're passing around
 
FrannyGallops said:
Well, she would. If she ‘can be arsed’. Let’s not forget that she works 70 hours a day (69 of those are spent on Twitter. She has to cram colour coding her bookcase, posting her photos, begging for money, printing off pages and pages of her thread on Tattle and preparing for her tv show into the remaining 60 minutes).
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Don't forget deleting tens of thousands of tweets.

The jumper looks like Hush, which could feed a family for a week if needed. Doesn't quite fit in with her poor aesthetic though does it?
 
Lanie said:
I think the court would laugh her out of the room. We are not bullying her we are sharing opinions. Nobody is calling her name's in the racial, sexual, homophobic or otherwise. We put sharing opinions based on her cooking and the manner in which she composes her self on sm. If anything is is a critic and if she can't handle that cooking is not her fort'e as food critics are the harshest.
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she won’t have evidence of the CPS and harassment stuff she claimed on twitter to link to here because It didn't happen, not on tattle anyway.
 
Steerpike88 said:
Not a chance in hell. She can't stop people bitching and speculating about her... On a separate forum. Unless someone is sending her nasty private messages on their own accord (which I don't doubt as twitter is a nasty place) then she really can't do much. Even then the police don't have time for this BS "they said I brought my cat on for attention and that I'm bleeping Nigella"... You wish.

It's all a shame. I used to like her recipes, they were cheap and quite tasty and she should have stuck to her niche. She did a few fake away ideas, cooking if you just had a microwave, etc. There's nothing wrong with not being chef. She just went weird with stuff like adding tea instead of wine to everything when you can just leave it out, the ingredient that makes it taste like chilli to me is enough cumin and paprika anyway. She just thinks she's so clever that she should share a platform with the likes of celebrity chefs without having to earn it.

She never updates her blog. And that was her bread and butter that's what got people to buy her books but in reality unless you're kissing her arse on twitter or giving her money she's not interested in her readers.
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Unfortunately the police can only do very little. A few years back someone publicly put on FB that if they saw my husband (at a public venue they named, one they knew he attended as part of this sport) they’d love to knock him out on sight, we contacted the police because it’s an outright threat and the man looked like he didn’t have much to lose tbh and it was at a time where he had a lot of hate online so if you’re a loser it’s probably a valid plan to hatch? Anyway where the bloke lived out of the our force’s radius it just became too arduous to do anything - even though it was a public Facebook status with a full government name attached to it. But then I’ve heard of people being (rightly!) done for posting anti Islamic sentiment on Facebook following terrorist stacks so there doesn’t seem to be any consistent resolution for online crimes?

We’ve had far worse anonymously, like Tattle is I suppose, we had a really creepy thing someone had taken the time to make and posted that was so chilling I cried, police came to the house and took it incredibly seriously but the social network didn’t co operate with the investigation so we never knew who did it. The network did take it down as malicious content when we reported it though, after about 2 days. And this isn’t even starting on what a shithole dive Facebook groups can be, they all need shutting down. I’ve never had public socials because I’ve seen what they send other men’s missuses and it’s vile.

Again Tattle is NO WHERE on this level of abuse and if the police have been useless at helping us. I’ve never tried the civil route for any of this stuff but if my relative nobody husband is getting this level of grief I don’t understand why footballers and TV presenters aren’t starting civil cases left right and centre as it could potentially double their income, surely?
 
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