Jack Monroe #597 Ghoul, Interrupted

[Foxvint]

Think this and the red OFFICE hat from June are the most recent? (Two of these are not selfies. I know, it’s impossible to tell)
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Spoiler: Dear LJC forgot how tedious this was…

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Edit: here she is at THE COUNCIL from August
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Jack Monroe #588 Slop making sense

Thread title by @VeniVidiVicki. You win a restaurant voucher so you can eat some pasta not cooked by guest. Recap! Guest returned to social media with new slop: watery pasta covered in some sauce that she slowly, gently, forensically, painstakingly, behind the scenes made herself and totes did...

tattle.life

She looks like the temp security guard every single pic now. Who spilt his lunchbox on the proper kecks and had to slip into emergency ones.

She looks like a slob who slumps in front of the telly 6 days a week and wants a medal for doing something on day 7. Which I'm sure is exactly what she is.

 

[For the truth]

Think this and the red OFFICE hat from June are the most recent? (Two of these are not selfies. I know, it’s impossible to tell)
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Spoiler: Dear LJC forgot how tedious this was…

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Edit: here she is at THE COUNCIL from August
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Jack Monroe #588 Slop making sense

Thread title by @VeniVidiVicki. You win a restaurant voucher so you can eat some pasta not cooked by guest. Recap! Guest returned to social media with new slop: watery pasta covered in some sauce that she slowly, gently, forensically, painstakingly, behind the scenes made herself and totes did...

tattle.life

Gosh she looks really tired and bloated in those council pics. She’s a young woman in the prime of her life. A lot of time misspent I think. She needs to rediscover her fitness Jack arc and ditch the data nerd fantasy.

 

[Elsie Ben Felyn]

She looks like one of our school trip coach drivers from the 80s. Even down to the uniform. This is how Gwilym sat when he had to wait in the cafe for us to finish counting keystones in Conwy Castle.

 

[houseofhoop]

Guest being Andy Dufresne with her prison library is both infuriating and hilarious. All her secret contacts through 'work'

And really are there very few good book-to-TV adaptations? I can think of loads of excellent ones. One minute's thought has come up with:
Wolf Hall
I, Claudius
Pride and Prejudice
Brideshead Revisited
Normal People
A Suitable Boy

To name but a very few. But she's the expert

Pride and Prejudice is a personal favourite of mine. Assume you mean the 1995 version. I was unable to watch it when it originally aired (for ~reasons~) but have played it over and over again since. Delighted when they eventually put it on iPlayer

 

[Lumpyspaceprincess]

And, let's face it: Jack is young, doesn't have health problems that require extended in-patient stays, and has no need of complex treatment involving multiple specialities. Even if all of her many purported ailments were actually being treated solely on the NHS, it's still very likely that her proposed calculator would show that she's not getting her "money's worth" - and she'd be raging about it.

I know plenty of others have already pointed this out, but she's completely missed the point of universal healthcare.

My brother in law spends a lot of time complaining about the NHS. Does anything not to pay tax. Complains that it’s poor value etc

anyway, Facebook thinks I’m looking for a dentist in Southend

 

[noweverythingsucks]

I just went down a rabbit hole investigating how donations to prison libraries work in the UK. Short answer: they don't.

Families and friends can send books directly to a named prisoner, and the prisoners themselves can choose to donate them to the library once they're finished with them.

There are a number of charities which provide books & educational resources to prisoners - again, the material usually goes direct to individuals (or, much less often, to a specific class, reading group, or book club), but might later be passed on to the library.

The two organisations I've found who explicitly mention working with her "local" (actually, an 8-9 hour yomp from the bungamansion) prison, HMP & YOI Chelmsford, are the National Literary Trust who provide books from a short list mostly made up of Booker Prize winners, and Haven Distribution who provide educational material. Neither appears to accept donations of second-hand books from the public.

Then there's the 'Give a Book' charity which, although it mostly works with publishers and bookshops, does occasionally accept gifts of new books from the public - but they're only interested in large print, easy-read, or dyslexia-friendly editions. They "may" also accept general fiction, novels, and graphic novels in Albanian, Polish, Romanian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Latvian, and Punjabi (but not English), but want you to contact them first to discuss suitability.

However, donating to prison libraries is a thing in America - there are a number of programs listed by the American Library Association, and googling brings up lots of results.

TLDR: this is her fantasising about comissary tamales all over again, isn't it?

There was a storyline in Sherwood about donating books to a prison. No doubt she has seen it.

 

[rage naan]

As ever Jack will be lying but correcting a few Frau misconceptions here:

Firstly, living somewhere for ages doesn’t mean you’ll have an NHS dentist, if your dentist closes completely then you’ve got to find another and having lived there for your whole life doesn’t give you any sort of priority. So people the country over find themselves in the situation of having to find a new NHS dentist whether they’re new to areas or not - and it doesn’t mean they’ve been feckless and not bothered registering their child until the child needs dental treatment either in many cases. Lots of people also got bumped off NHS lists over COVID by unscrupulous dentists who used the situation to their advantage without being penalised using the “they didn’t attend checkups” line even though they were only offering emergency treatment.

Secondly if you do lose your NHS dentist, the wait for a new one for an adult is far longer than for a child. A lot of NHS places periodically take on children only - so it’s not at all unusual for a parent to give up either on their dental treatment entirely or pay privately while trying to find an NHS one for their child - if your kid is going to need braces, you want an NHS dentist to refer onto an NHS orthodontist. So plenty of children now are registered entirely separately from their parents due to that even if the parent does later find another NHS surgery for themselves. People also tend to believe the myth that if a parent is paying for private treatment at a surgery that also offers NHS treatment they have to take the child as an NHS patient. They don’t, and in many cases they won’t.

Finally you tend to have to take whatever NHS dentist you can, be it for adult or child. If SB only has to travel closest to his mums for an NHS dentist, whether he lives with her or his dad most, he’s a lucky lad. I know people who have to travel much further than that to get to one, and it’s not unusual. Having one registered in the same town or city but at the other side of it to where you live is beyond common now due to the shortage.

TLDR: Jack will be lying because Jack but nothing she’s said about looking for a dentist for SB is implausible given the current state of NHS dentistry and if you aren’t aware of that you should consider yourselves v lucky.

I'm sorry - all excellent points. Thank you for taking the time to set the record straight

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

I'm sorry - all excellent points. Thank you for taking the time to set the record straight ❤

Thank you I’m sure someone will pop up to tell me Southend is a rare haven for dentists and none have retired or closed since before SB was born etc etc but I had to get it in.

It’s a harsh reality for a lot of people now that NHS dentists are really hard to come by, I’ve had at least 4 and I’ve lived in the same town my whole life (not same street but none of them have been particularly close to me) purely because they either close entirely or they stop offering NHS services. It’s tit, Jack could probably get a lot of sympathy and attention over on whatever site she wants if she went down that path instead of her ridiculous US vs UK guff, but it’s Jack

 

[Lazarus]

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The most recent selfie she’s put online is her BlueSky profile picture

That picture is almost 9yrs old, babe.

 

[IcanSpellBéchamel]

Pride and Prejudice is a personal favourite of mine. Assume you mean the 1995 version. I was unable to watch it when it originally aired (for ~reasons~) but have played it over and over again since. Delighted when they eventually put it on iPlayer

What I love best about the whole thing is that in the scene where Elizabeth has walked to Netherfield Park to see Jane and her boots and petticoat are muddy and Darcy meets her in the park, the director told Colin Firth to act/walk as if he had an enormous erection. My mind is in the gutter.

 

[Hold my beans]

That picture is almost 9yrs old, babe.
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The hand

 

[mchops]

The amount we pay in all dentistry should have always been free. Unfortunately when the NHS was set up dental health was seen as a side arm.
Jump on that comrade jack.

 

[TurnedUpInTipp]

Guest being Andy Dufresne with her prison library is both infuriating and hilarious. All her secret contacts through 'work'

And really are there very few good book-to-TV adaptations? I can think of loads of excellent ones. One minute's thought has come up with:
Wolf Hall
I, Claudius
Pride and Prejudice
Brideshead Revisited
Normal People
A Suitable Boy

To name but a very few. But she's the expert

A Passage To India.
I really loved that.

 

[Nottonightbabe]

OMG. You know prison Jack boils my piss as I am an actual prison Frau.

This is not how it works. You cannot donate books to prison libraries directly due to security. There are however a handful of registered charities that can facilitate this though. How about mentioning them?

Prisoners were prevented for a long time from having books sent in until a successful campaign by long-term prisoner Barbara Gordon-Jones. Now they can be sent in from a very select list of suppliers.

No Jack you massive lying prat. You don’t just ring your local prison. And no Jack, you don’t have a ‘relationship’ with a couple of prisons. You are LYING.

duck OFF you monumental moonboot

She says that prisons are 'understandably wary'. No Jack, they aren't just 'wary' they have a whole host of strict policies and procedures that they have to adhere to. Which means you can't just drop off your books, regardless of your relationship with them. But you wouldn't know that, as you have no relationship with a prison, and you don't donate anything unless you can slap your name across it and post it on the internet.

I have a friend who is a vicar (a lady one!) who works in the prisons here, and even she wouldn't be able to donate things.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

Well, intensive and ongoing therapy for a kid who has been subjected to so many adverse childhood experiences at the hands of his mother does tend to cost a bit.

 

[griftalo]

ooof, it’s all gone a bit kicked up the bum for guest

Delicious!

 

[bracrumbs]

If you have refractive glass in your frames, they will push or pull your face in, dependent on your prescription. Here’s Anne Hathaway to demonstrate…anyway, weird how Guest has never mentioned how poverty impacts on accessing prescription glasses, isn’t? Lovely LinkedIn profile pic anyway…

 

[Seaford Haggington]

Blocked by 280

That's 22 more just this afternoon. People are finding out the scammer has rocked up on BS and aren't impressed.

ETA: New mod list

 

[Foxvint]

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Well, intensive and ongoing therapy for a kid who has been subjected to so many adverse childhood experiences at the hands of his mother does tend to cost a bit.

Oh yes she announced to all of twitter he was receiving counselling/therapy didn't she. That was lovely.

 

[traumatised sideboard]

A few years ago I thought that I had been chosen to be single-handedly responsible for bringing down the government and the government knew this and were sending out assassins. Even that is more believable than the VBI ever coming into existence.