Jack Monroe #542 A dullard talking about Vienetta

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MooBelle said:
I've put an angry emoji because it has obviously made me angry. However, when I really think about it, I am starting to realise these people deserve to lose their money.
They've had enough warnings and enough opportunities to cancel the DD. If after everything they still give over their cash then more fool them.
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A contract is a contract. Guest still owes everything that’s been promised.
 
MaineCoonMama said:
That long? She'd for sure be that person who starts a new job, goes for morning tea and is never seen again.
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These are from her old IG account! I was curious about them before, not sure they fit squig’s timeline as it was in 2012.
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(also reading between the lines she’s either quite dull or it’s still novel to her?)
 
MistyWindows said:
These are from her old IG account! I was curious about them before, not sure they fit squig’s timeline as it was in 2012.
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(also reading between the lines she’s either quite dull or it’s still novel to her?)
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Wait, what? This job is after the fire service. What happened to workless grinding poverty? Also squig says she was still using her old name, but according to The Origin Story (well, one of them) she changed her name the instant she left the cruel oppressive fire service call centre. Nothing adds up.
 
Mrs Peel said:
And this:

"They’re very litigatious so I’m cautious how I word things, but there are definite inconsistencies in their ‘beginning story’ for sure. They forget that there are people who knew them prior"

And this (when asked if they worked in the same dept):

"No I worked in Admin she worked in George clothing but I think she started on counters it was over 15 years ago. I knew her parents too they were advocates (poster faces) for foster care in Essex"
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Come on squig, either spill some proper tea or get off the pot!
 
That Man's only redeeming feature imo is that guest sees him as her nemesis.
Full disclosure: I've hated the sight of him since he first slid down his mockney post-Britpop banister to let his tosspot friends into his stupid flat.
It seemed to me that he didn't have much interest in his babies until the boy came along. It's no surprise that the Oliver kid getting the nepo treatment is the lad, not the older sisters.
Next, his unbearable teenage-boyness. He had a truck converted into a kitchen/camper with the pub sign "The Cock In Cider" hanging over the door. Hilarious. You're a grown man with young daughters FFS.
Last one: a show where he was in a school's cookery class. The teenage girls are a bit starstruck and giggly, but the way he behaves around them... creepy bastard. They're smashing up chocolate for the bain Marie if you know the clip. Mrs Bap stuck a big red flag on him that day.
 
MistyWindows said:
These are from her old IG account! I was curious about them before, not sure they fit squig’s timeline as it was in 2012.
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She's faffing around instead of working is how I read that!
Warehousing can be repetitive and boring, my hot tip to make the day go faster is to do some work, time flies when you put your head down and bum up.
Also if she thinks that hat is evil she'd die of fright if she saw some of the clothes I wear.
Goose.
 
BeardyBap said:
That Man's only redeeming feature imo is that guest sees him as her nemesis.
Full disclosure: I've hated the sight of him since he first slid down his mockney post-Britpop banister to let his tosspot friends into his stupid flat.
It seemed to me that he didn't have much interest in his babies until the boy came along. It's no surprise that the Oliver kid getting the nepo treatment is the lad, not the older sisters.
Next, his unbearable teenage-boyness. He had a truck converted into a kitchen/camper with the pub sign "The Cock In Cider" hanging over the door. Hilarious. You're a grown man with young daughters FFS.
Last one: a show where he was in a school's cookery class. The teenage girls are a bit starstruck and giggly, but the way he behaves around them... creepy bastard. They're smashing up chocolate for the bain Marie if you know the clip. Mrs Bap stuck a big red flag on him that day.
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No really thoughts on the red flags (not seen that clip either) but he’s adept at monetising himself ruthlessly and not really giving two hoots for the impact on anyone else. His only real commentary on his business failures has been how badly they hit him, nothing about the employees and suppliers affected.

He has stuck it out with the school meals campaign, hasn’t abused/maltreated a string of animals that we know of, doesn’t go apeshit at people who question him on SM and his food is mostly edible (even the cheap n cheerful recipes) though. So in some ways not like guest at all.
 
RandomFishOils said:
Bless him, I acknowledge that he can’t help the way his face is made, no more than I can. Otherwise, I certainly would have picked a better one myself. I am unbelievably ugly and I would actually prefer his face to my own. True story.

On another note, we own one cook book. It is a JO one that my husband specifically asked for a couple of Christmases ago, as although I happily do almost all of the cooking, he wanted to expand his admittedly minuscule repertoire. In anticipation, he went and excitedly bought little copper measuring spoons, digital scales and other astonishing culinary accessories we’d mysteriously never needed until then.

He’s never used either the book nor the cookery trinkets once. It’s not so much a cookbook, I found, but more a “menu”. duck that. My best mate asked to borrow it and as far as I’m concerned, it’s hers.
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Can I have the little copper measuring spoons?

Just before Jack puts dibs on them - we all know what she's like for SPOOOOOOOOOOONNNNSSS !

Thank(space)you in advance.

*clears space in drawer*

*looks contemptuously at plastic measuring spoons and makes a rude "pffffffttt" noise*

*arranges comfy chair beside letterbox to await spoon bounty*
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hoopdedoo said:
A few years ago, one of the supermarkets on this side of the pond had a JO promotion. If you spent X amount on a shop, you got Y numbers of stamps on a little card, and when the card was full you could redeem it for free pieces of cookware. I remember thinking at the time that someone somewhere was not paying attention when this promotion was set up, because the reward levels were so low that you could basically get a piece of cookware with every weekly shop. Anyway, thanks to that promotion, we have a nice set of JO crockery and several really well made JO kitchen knives that we use all the time.

If guset tried a deal like this, it would take eleventy billion stamps to even get a teacup. And the crockery would fall apart in the dishwasher and the knives would always be dull.
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If guset tried a deal like this, it would take eleventy billion stamps to even get a teacup.

Speaking personally I would buy even raisins one at a time to ensure that I never accidentally spent enough money to qualify for any stamps. I have a suspicion that the supermarket would have to pay burly rugby teams of people to wrestle customers to the ground and force them to put the stamps onto their card, and having done that, hold their children hostage until they redeemed said card for their "prize".

The local bins, skips and canals would be full of abandoned "jackshit".
 
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MistyWindows said:
These are from her old IG account! I was curious about them before, not sure they fit squig’s timeline as it was in 2012.
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The way she talks about working at the Asda I assumed she was in school bleeping about for pocket money, not a twenty-something mother!
 
DisgruntledGoat said:
The way she talks about working at the Asda I assumed she was in school bleeping about for pocket money, not a twenty-something mother!
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Same, we have to add this to the wiki timeline. Was she was working at Asda at the same time as she was selling everything she owned in her big house sale? Because she really made it sound like she was unemployed after being a call handler, until she got her trainee journalist job with the Echo.
 
Mrs Peel said:
If I started working 'on counters' and then somehow ended up behind the scenes in the warehouse it would make me question my customer service skills. :D
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That would be where they put lazy people they want to quit.

Edit: No disrespect to lazy people, I'm lazy as duck myself and have viewed almost every "straight" job I've had as pointless. That's why I'm a freelance writer. I traded money for being able to pick when I work and post on tattle in my pants at 10 in the morning. If only Monroe was slightly more creative and better at writing, she too could enjoy a life of riley/ genteel poverty.
 
Veronicaaa said:
Same, we have to add this to the wiki timeline. Was she was working at Asda at the same time as she was selling everything she owned in her big house sale? Because she really made it sound like she was unemployed after being a call handler, until she got her trainee journalist job with the Echo.
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"Unemployed Mum Sells Off Belongings" was 23 August 2012, so during her Asda employment.

ETA: Was she sacked before the Mirror piece in December 2012 or did she lie by omission by not mentioning it?
 
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