Jack Monroe #114 i, slopbot
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Dear Blurp,
this sounds like a terrible rollercoaster to be on. I can imagine how desperate you feel now but I am full of hope for you that a very capable person in the health service system can work something out for you that gets you on the right track. My friend got thrown around like this for a while but she eventually got the help that was right for her. Please don't despair. And please don't let what we discuss here affect you to make it all worse. Imagine how the coven is going for a long walk with sheep Nibbles and her mates, making insider jokes, giggling and laughing like hyenas. The latter is my favourite thought on a sad day.
Okay, the “to reiterate” gaslighting has enraged me and I’m feeling slightly fixated but had to google jack + butter for my own sanity, to find those woe-is-butterless-me tweets but found this hilarious article instead. Kinda explains the butter angle. It’s called Poverty: The Butter Test. Apologies if this article has been shared before.
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
Memorably section:
“Monroe is now largely vegan, but she remembers the moment she first realised she was "properly poor" - and it involved butter. "It wasn't that I'd had the heating off for a year, it wasn't that I couldn't replace the light bulbs in my hallway, and it wasn't that I'd basically sold everything me and my son owned to try and pay the rent...”
“It was when I was in the supermarket and realised I couldn't afford to buy butter any more - I lost my s***. I was like, 'That's it, I'm properly poor now, I can't afford butter', and I refused to buy margarine. That was my rock bottom. It was the last luxury to go. I gave up heating and lighting before I gave up my weekly block of butter. I realised if I put that back, I could have an extra bag of pasta, a tin of carrots and some button mushrooms. It was awful - I bought some 40p lard for cooking with and was slightly disgusted with myself."
I guess I’m not properly poor. Got butter in the fridge. Good lord.
Poverty: the butter test
Ella Walker chats to outspoken recipe author and campaigner Jack Monroe about kitchen confidence, and why her rock bottom involved a pat of butter
Memorably section:
“Monroe is now largely vegan, but she remembers the moment she first realised she was "properly poor" - and it involved butter. "It wasn't that I'd had the heating off for a year, it wasn't that I couldn't replace the light bulbs in my hallway, and it wasn't that I'd basically sold everything me and my son owned to try and pay the rent...”
“It was when I was in the supermarket and realised I couldn't afford to buy butter any more - I lost my s***. I was like, 'That's it, I'm properly poor now, I can't afford butter', and I refused to buy margarine. That was my rock bottom. It was the last luxury to go. I gave up heating and lighting before I gave up my weekly block of butter. I realised if I put that back, I could have an extra bag of pasta, a tin of carrots and some button mushrooms. It was awful - I bought some 40p lard for cooking with and was slightly disgusted with myself."
I guess I’m not properly poor. Got butter in the fridge. Good lord.
Got to be a thread title- “The uprising of the squiggles”So what was 2020 like grandma? well it was the year of the dreadful pandemicand the uprising of the squiggles
Oooh... ”Jack Monroe #115 - It's the uprising of the squiggles” for a thread title?
@Blurp God knows what happened to my earlier post, please remember she isn't important enough to take up space in your head . Also please be kind to yourself , which is about the best advice I ever got from a MH team. That and you don't have to speak to difficult members of your family when you are on your knees
Don’t get me wrong, good work is done here. Good work is also done elsewhere. It is a team effort. We should be mindful to not patronise others on the same page.
Terminator Squiggle...
Edit: Gah sorry, it’s been posted!
Edit: Gah sorry, it’s been posted!
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I keep thinking of Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Actually, what the Squiggle is saying is almost word for word what I wrote earlier...
. I just want to say....it isnae me!
Actually, what the Squiggle is saying is almost word for word what I wrote earlier...
. I just want to say....it isnae me!
The Origin Story of No Butter. With thanks to our revered @silverlinings keeper of the most receipts.
Please note that the budget couldn’t stretch to it. She’s fine. She’s coping.
Edit WoW @TVC15 actually has found the origin story!
Please note that the budget couldn’t stretch to it. She’s fine. She’s coping.
Edit WoW @TVC15 actually has found the origin story!
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Don’t worry! This thread is an eternal grunk today. I hadn’t checked since last night and have just read terminator squiggle posts and haven’t read the article yet and I have pages to go on here and I am thinking this could finally be the moment...... she is actually being called out.... anyway another 8 pages to go and I will see where we are at this evening!!!
Well, that explains where the “lard as butter substitute” lie came from.
Thank you and thank you. These are the tweets that finally made me question things. I’m now shocked I wasn’t questioning things before. She’s quite good at keep sympathy on her side.
Also “soft and sloppy” mayo eggs
No butter? That’s her go-to pretend poverty playOkay, the “to reiterate” gaslighting has enraged me and I’m feeling slightly fixated but had to google jack + butter for my own sanity, to find those woe-is-butterless-me tweets but found this hilarious article instead. Kinda explains the butter angle. It’s called Poverty: The Butter Test. Apologies if this article has been shared before.
Poverty: the butter test
Ella Walker chats to outspoken recipe author and campaigner Jack Monroe about kitchen confidence, and why her rock bottom involved a pat of butter
Memorably section:
“Monroe is now largely vegan, but she remembers the moment she first realised she was "properly poor" - and it involved butter. "It wasn't that I'd had the heating off for a year, it wasn't that I couldn't replace the light bulbs in my hallway, and it wasn't that I'd basically sold everything me and my son owned to try and pay the rent...”
“It was when I was in the supermarket and realised I couldn't afford to buy butter any more - I lost my s***. I was like, 'That's it, I'm properly poor now, I can't afford butter', and I refused to buy margarine. That was my rock bottom. It was the last luxury to go. I gave up heating and lighting before I gave up my weekly block of butter. I realised if I put that back, I could have an extra bag of pasta, a tin of carrots and some button mushrooms. It was awful - I bought some 40p lard for cooking with and was slightly disgusted with myself."
I guess I’m not properly poor. Got butter in the fridge. Good lord.
To be fair, at least she’s not claiming her budget currently doesn’t stretch to lightbulbs.No butter? That’s her go-to pretend poverty play
"Genuinely thrilled"...right you are, Jack! As opposed to what?! Toe curlingly howl inducingly jealous?
Also hello Cabal
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