Jeez her farts must stink.
Jeez her farts must stink.
Or "dahn the boozer wiv me mates" in Jack parlance.It must be noted that there are two different versions of the Brexit ballot paper story. In both versions she watched the results come in at the Groucho Bar, like a regular old pleb.
“one of my first jobs... about 14... “
Is she deliberately being more vague so the timeline cannot be?
Social change? Does brainwashing a bunch of squiggles count? They never question her, they defend her, they even make up lies for her!Although it seems she hasn't yet featured in The Breakdown, she has at least got a bio on there ...
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YES to every you said! I read a few articles like this when I started to seek help for my mental health, hoping to gain a better understanding while I was on a waiting list. And they’re just so useless! For all the reasons you said. They’re always somehow both vague and OTT descriptive. I was lucky that I was old enough for my BS detector to quickly see though it. But I feel bad for younger people who are really struggling, reading things like “the breakdown“, won’t help. And on top of that, it just encourages people who are like the writers, to self-diagnose, pathologise things like everyday anxieties.The entire premise of the Breakdown just reminds me of this Dril tweet:
Rich girls who’ve done restrictive eating and have anxiety and maybe got prescribed Prozac and then their parents paid for therapy for them so now they feel they have the authority to talk about “self-care” without anything more than a cursory acknowledgment that self care is a dereliction of responsibility on the part of institutions, placing the onus on the individual to make themselves better while nothing is done to address the structural reasons that so many people struggle with mental health.
So. Very. Jack.
Darling, no ts xOr "dahn the boozer wiv me mates" in Jack parlance.
That's her level of activism too, being the victim. "It should not have happened to someone like me", rather than "Our system sucks, let's change it!"She's the perpetual victim. Most people who live throughthetraumaof signing on for a few monthsare proud of being survivors. She always has to be so bloody hard done by. I'm a pessimist with depression and I'm more bloody cheerful than she is (I can cook better too!)
The weird thing is that even with basic things like onions, she doesn't do the things with them that makes them yummy. Like properly frying them (boiled onions for your gravy, still can't believe it).YES! BINGO! Also mentioned that it’s not costed properly yet.... she’s not on a deadline, why not finish of the sums and then post it?
Also... why is everything so revolting? We used to eat really cheaply when the kids were little and I only worked part time ( massive mortgage two kids at nursery ) and we never ate anything horrible. It’s like she deliberately makes it over complicated and stressful. Egg on toast is a perfectly normal thing to eat, why add yucky poor quality food to make it worse?
I agree with everything you’ve said, which is why we never mentioned the “gifted” thing to him as it didn’t really mean anything and never came to anything. He has his strengths in certain subjects and struggles in others, like any child. He might get a good result in a maths test but he’ll always come last at Sports Day and who cares? For Jack to still carry it as badge of honour all these decades later is embarrassing. I won an art competition in Year 4. Maybe I should write an article about it.The whole 'gifted' thing is such a load of BS. Many children are great at many different things. Because the educational system insists on having very specific targets for certain age ranges, it inevitably means that a number of children exceed these targets. To suggest that those children are gifted is ludicrous. All it means is that the kids at that stage in their lives are doing more than the 'average' child at that age. It's lovely, be proud of it as a parent, but don't draw any conclusions. My older one was working at 'two years above his age' in maths for ages in primary school. He's now a teen and doing fine. He's good at maths but not brilliant. Other kids have surpassed him. I actually think his talent lies much more in other areas, some of which he was 'behind' in primary school (he was a late reader).
Anyway, I realise none of you care about my son and neither should you. It's just a small example how easy it is to distort the truth.
My son is a mathematical genius.
vs
My son really enjoyed maths and grasped concepts quickly when he was a child.
But she co parents, and receives supportShe only told that story to bring up, yet again in case anyone missed it, that she was (for under 1/5 of her son's life now) 'a single mum scraping by on benefits'. Move on.
You're so right - so many words yet every single article I read says absolutely nothing of value at all. Presumably anyone who decides to read a magazine called The Breakdown is already familiar with mental illness and doesn't need to read an article explaining what OCD is like nobody has ever heard of it before. Who is this aimed at?!YES to every you said! I read a few articles like this when I started to seek help for my mental health, hoping to gain a better understanding while I was on a waiting list. And they’re just so useless! For all the reasons you said. They’re always somehow both vague and OTT descriptive. I was lucky that I was old enough for my BS detector to quickly see though it. But I feel bad for younger people who are really struggling, reading things like “the breakdown“, won’t help. And on top of that, it just encourages people who are like the writers, to self-diagnose, pathologise things like everyday anxieties.
Sorry if this doesn’t make sense, I am a bit busy (not BUSY!), but it’s just such a relief to see that other people recognise what a load of crap this kind of ”journalism” is, and explain so clearly why!
According to the newspaper articles, her grandad owned a restaurant, called the Bellapais. This is still open as a Greek Cypriot steakhouse/restaurant in Colchester. FANCY chipshop!IIRC, and i can’t remember where receipts are, but that was her Grandfather’s Chipshop, obviously
Once again displaying her many facesBecause in HER prejudiced worldview, working class people don’t have such lofty thoughts, so therefore for her cosplay, she affects this
But isn’t this a bit feckin’ duplicitous to be complaining about the reduction of low-cost basics range meanwhile she’s just publicly endorsed an OVERPRICED BRAND in a campaign
But she co parents, and receives support
Give her her due, she has sliced the egg very neatlyOh babe. It is boring.
This is perfect. These types of articles somehow manage to miss the mark on two fronts. As you say, they never address the structural reasons (or if they do, there's never any discussion of possible solutions to those structural issues). They also place the responsibility on the individual, but ALWAYS in exactly the wrong way. It's always shit like 'if you do X, you'll get better', which is not true and essentially blames people who suffer from MH issues, because they clearly can't do X. But at the same time these articles perpetuate the whole 'I have ADHD therefore I'm a chaotic mess' type crap, which is reductive and doesn't give people an out.The entire premise of the Breakdown just reminds me of this Dril tweet:
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Rich girls who’ve done restrictive eating and have anxiety and maybe got prescribed Prozac and then their parents paid for therapy for them so now they feel they have the authority to talk about “self-care” without anything more than a cursory acknowledgment that self care is a dereliction of responsibility on the part of institutions, placing the onus on the individual to make themselves better while nothing is done to address the structural reasons that so many people struggle with mental health.
So. Very. Jack.
I've got a feeling it was a restaurant and chip shop in the property empire, just going off the fact the family seem to have a lot of property assets.According to the newspaper articles, her grandad owned a restaurant, called the Bellapais. This is still open as a Greek Cypriot steakhouse/restaurant in Colchester. FANCY chipshop!
It's definitely done with an egg slicer.Give her her due, she has sliced the egg very neatly
Please do. I reckon it would be more interesting than her crap.I won an art competition in Year 4. Maybe I should write an article about it.
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