Jack Monroe #52 Am I awful and nobody has ever told me?

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I’m surprised nobody has yet made a parody account of jack on social media. The contradictions are so numerous it’d be like shooting fish in a barrel-I hobble with a stick/I regularly do 26000 steps...I’m a vegan, ooh factory farmed chicken on offer...I’m poor, now look at my Patreon etc.
 
HarderFaster said:
I will bet a million pounds that a man who refers to his kid's school teachers as "masters" and puts every single qualification and honorific he has after his name was not driving Jack to school in a white transit van, as she claimed.

I do wonder about Jack's admin assistant but I strongly suspect that, as a narc and a neurotic one at that, Jack insists that she maintains control over stuff like postage even though she's tit at it. I had a boss like this for a year or so: she wouldn't even let me contact clients who I was account manager for, so I literally just sat and twiddled my thumbs all day until she resigned and it turned out she hadn't been in contact with them either so everything was in chaos. Given Jack's "concerns" over money it would really make sense for her to try to get some actual value out of the woman she's paying a salary to, rather than just using her as a human shield against angry folk from Kickstarter.
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Quite.
Also if she is so proud of her "Working Class" roots. Surely she would not be embarrassed by being taken to school in the working man's van.
 
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It has taken me this long to realise that Jack has muddied the waters a little with her trademarked name Cooking on a Bootstrap. Whether on purpose or not who knows?
I have done a little preliminary research and the original phrase is of course 'cooking on or living on a shoestring' which as the name suggests means living on a very limited or restricted budget. Of course 'on a shoestring' might be copyrighted already.
Bootstrap comes from what is now a much more loaded phrase (pull oneself up by one's bootstraps) that has racist connotations these days. 'Anything is possible if you just pull yourself together' ignoring any class, race, social movement, education, financial or elitist restrictions which ensure that poor, working class and BAME people remain at the bottom of the pile.
Interestingly the bootstrap phrase originates in 1834 and referred to a person attempting an impossible task (like making Jack's food look edible) and was in turn inspired by an incident in the fantasy fiction book The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen by Rudolf Raspe (1781). The eponymous hero pulls himself and his horse of a swamp by pulling himself up by his hair. Of course it is ludicrous and suggests the impossible (again see Jack's cooking).
It took less than 10 minutes for me to discover this and I find it intriguing that Jack either does not know or care about how offensive the bootstrap reference can be.
Also the concept is alien to her, she landed on her feet and has been happily using the system to get ahead ever since. No pulling of bootstraps by Jack, not even the pulling of a pair of £180 trainer laces got her where she is today. Her class, her ethnicity, the people she knows haven't prevented her success, one might even say it all helped....
 
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Lemonsweets91 said:
Has she always had an agent from United Agents? Looks like she has a "presenting" agent representing her from the email address on her Twitter prof.

Rosemary Scoular | United Agents

www.unitedagents.co.uk www.unitedagents.co.uk

ETA: looks like she's been with her for a while she's also Allegra's agent... And Jack's bio has not been updated for v long time.

She deffo trying to get presenting gigs though.
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I had a little giggle most of the other people they represent have quite professional looking headshots, while Jack’s looks like someone has got their camera phone out on a Friday night after school, during a meet up on the back fields with friends, drinking cider and have crafty smokes. (No judgement your honour, I myself have partaken in the teenage rite of passage).
 
Shesaidwhat? said:
I had a little giggle most of the other people they represent have quite professional looking headshots, while Jack’s looks like someone has got their camera phone out on a Friday night after school, during a meet up on the back fields with friends, drinking cider and have crafty smokes. (No judgement your honour, I myself have partaken in the teenage rite of passage).
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That photo is years out of date too. But but Monica Galetti....swoon!
 
MellowD said:
Quite.
Also if she is so proud of her "Working Class" roots. Surely she would not be embarrassed by being taken to school in the working man's van.
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But her dad wasn't a 'working man', her dad had a full time senior position in the fire service, if he did have a van it was a leisure vehicle so quite a luxury, tbh.

Transits are at the cheaper end of the market and obviously you get different sizes which will be cheaper, but you'd be looking at £30k+ new for the standard transits u see about, vans are expensive because they're usually commercial vehicles + leased/financed. Resell value is still high, so even a second hand van would be tens of thousands of pounds. We know someone that sold a transit that is on the brink of being written off & needs a huge amount of chassis work for £6k (!) resell is that strong. It's the only reason I 'let' my husband get our camper, as I thought it was an obscene expense tbh.

I've mentioned before but insurance is huge for it, especially if it's personal insurance because it's such a niche there aren't really off the shelf insurance products for it - we had to go to a specialist for the first few years of having ours (and paid a LOT) & have only just been able to switch over to my normal car insurer to cover it. Fuel efficiency is tit, toll roads etc are more expensive, services mad, I've written this all before but honestly if her dad *did* have a van it only goes to show they've got quite the disposable income rather than some WC scallywags that she's so desperate to portray them as.

As someone else pointed out, that snippet to a school alumni mag reads upper middle class to me sorry 🤷‍♀️
 
heretoreaditall2019 said:
But her dad wasn't a 'working man', her dad had a full time senior position in the fire service, if he did have a van it was a leisure vehicle so quite a luxury, tbh.

Transits are at the cheaper end of the market and obviously you get different sizes which will be cheaper, but you'd be looking at £30k+ new for the standard transits u see about, vans are expensive because they're usually commercial vehicles + leased/financed. Resell value is still high, so even a second hand van would be tens of thousands of pounds. We know someone that sold a transit that is on the brink of being written off & needs a huge amount of chassis work for £6k (!) resell is that strong. It's the only reason I 'let' my husband get our camper, as I thought it was an obscene expense tbh.

I've mentioned before but insurance is huge for it, especially if it's personal insurance because it's such a niche there aren't really off the shelf insurance products for it - we had to go to a specialist for the first few years of having ours (and paid a LOT) & have only just been able to switch over to my normal car insurer to cover it. Fuel efficiency is tit, toll roads etc are more expensive, services mad, I've written this all before but honestly if her dad *did* have a van it only goes to show they've got quite the disposable income rather than some WC scallywags that she's so desperate to portray them as.

As someone else pointed out, that snippet to a school alumni mag reads upper middle class to me sorry 🤷‍♀️
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My Dads second hand transit is costing him 14k. I actually did get dropped off to school in his van, and actually liked it because Ive always respected his work ethic and was proud that he was a grafter 🤷🏻‍♀️
 
Begborrowsteal said:
My Dads second hand transit is costing him 14k. I actually did get dropped off to school in his van, and actually liked it because Ive always respected his work ethic and was proud that he was a grafter 🤷🏻‍♀️
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I'm surprised you don't have a 5-book deal to discuss your emotional scarring from the horrors!

She needs to get on auto trader to fact check her own long tales. I'm sure she probably maintained a google doc estimating each classmate's family's net worth, including years on plates, to berate her parents with. But mama, Jemima got a new mercedes for her 17th WHERE IS MINE??
 
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