Jack Monroe #120 Jack and trace

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Congratulations to @Hollaaa for the thread title! 🎉 Your prize: front-row seats and tickets to The Sloppies after party (which is in Southend).

Recap of thread #119
  1. She got the ‘Rona.
  2. She’s been ‘practically ~ neurotic ~ about staying safe ... and there’s no point trying to identify where it came from.’
  3. She wasn’t going to ‘share every gritty detail’ but then ... she just couldn’t help herself.
  4. Fever Dream Jack listed all of her childhood comfort foods. And I mean all of them. No stone was left unturned by her forensic mind. Head cheese featured. Head cheese.
  5. She came to the attention of an academic mailing list. Screenshot here, with permission of email author.
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    For new joiners to the thread, here is @Passive_Aggressive_Lemon ‘s ‘Jack for Dummies’ post (edited to include updated info):

    Thought it might be useful for new followers to have a post at the start of each thread with some info.
    Limegoss article about Jack versus Jamie Oliver : https://limegoss.com/jack-monroe-jamie-oliver/

    Thread #31 is the infamous one in which Jack turns up to talk to us directly. She makes her appearance on p. 17.

    For anyone wanting to relive the glory days of her two-week stint on Daily Kitchen Live (DKL), have a grunk a through threads 2-9.

    *** JACKISMS ***

    Jack’s most oft-used reply to questions on recipe substitutions:

    Yes, absolutely x

    Some other favourite Jack quotes:

    ‘Babe, same’
    ‘I did a chaos’
    ‘My maverick brain’
    ‘My sad little face’
    ‘I’m BUSY’
    ‘I HOOTED / I am FIZZING’
    ‘I laughed up a lung’

    ** NEW **
    ‘Literally hella embarrassed AF’ about ‘Brexit and flip-flopping Covid flippancy’ and she ‘didn’t even vote for it’.

    She likes to describe herself as ‘puppyishly honest and naively enthusiastic’

    As of late November 2020, Jack conceded she is not poor, but living to a budget as she is saving for a forever home for her and SB.

    *****

    One of Jack’s followers once referred to Tattlers as sad hausfraus and Jack herself has likened us to a cabal. Therefore we have become the Cabal of Hausfraus™️. She also recently referred to us as ‘gossip mavens’ (so, we are gossip trusted experts). ** Recent additions to her terms of endearment for Tattle: conspiracy wankers, obsessive groups of completely unhinged bullies, bullying ninnies, and malign, vicious bullies **

    To ‘GrunkaLunka’ your way through a thread means to catch up on posts. Named after a member who rather epically caught up on many threads in a short period of time (and is also a fearless pioneer of the space-time continuum. She really was here both Now and Then).

    Jack once threatened to use her Liam Neeson skills to TRIANGULATE our whereabouts in order to intimidate us, so that’s what we mean by that. * She may also threaten to take us to court - do not be afraid, this is not the first time and it won’t be the last. *

    Jack once sideboard modelled a Vivienne Westwood dress, seeming to infer that it’s what Viv would have wanted (as if she were dead), and then got snippy when corrected otherwise. There may be some ‘RIP Viv’ jokes (she is, of course, NOT dead)

    We sometimes joke about being on Vladimir Putin’s bitcoin payroll list for being evil trolls.

    During her stint on Daily Kitchen Live, Jack produced a godawful looking lasagne, with a thin white sauce that never thickened up, just disappeared. It was widely likened to ‘horse spunk’ - there may be some horse ‘spirit’ lasagne jokes.

    Her last-uttered line to Matt Tebutt on DKL was: ‘Thank you so Matt much, Matt’, which made us all HOOT.

    Jack ended a tweet that listed her (not unimpressive) four-and-a-half GCSE results (A*, A, B, B, C) with: ‘Now duck off’. We sometimes like to use this in our own posts for comedic effect. We are NOT telling other fraus to duck off, simply paying homage to Jack’s own genteel humour.

    *Back in the mists of time, one funny frau used a Jimmy Nail ‘She’s Lying’ picture to illustrate their thoughts on one of Jack’s latest tales. @Alpha Beta thought it was Novak Djokovic, the cabal hooted and Novak Nail was born. You may see reference to Jimmy Nail, Novak Djokovic, or the combination of both: Novak Nail. All demonstrate that she’s lying.*

    Also:
    • She grew up in a 5-bed (mortgaged/owned) house
    • She got a ÂŁ4.5k Omega watch for her 21st birthday
    • Her dad's a bleeping LANDLORD (an oldy, but a goody)
    • Jack and Louisa are no longer in a relationship - in Jack’s words: ‘She [Louisa] left’.
    • ** NEW ** However, during Lockdown 2 (November 2020), a bubble buddy, ‘buddle’ (BB) came to stay with Jack. BB is pescatarian, cycles 200 miles a week, and works in London. Jack is teaching her to cook, while also using her as a figure of gentle ridicule. She cannot cook, she cannot iron, she cannot clean the television properly, she left the hose out and it got eaten by a fox, and she doesn’t know the difference between wet and dry ingredients.
    • Her record for staying off Twitter since the start of these threads is 114 hours and 47 minutes.
    • She is 90% vegan. The other 10% likes to nom nom on Five Guys burger and discounted chicken slices.
    • During her appearance on DKL, she was asked why some mince has a higher fat content. ‘It just does.’
    • The information held on her by Companies House has her year of birth WRONG. She was born in 1988, not 1978.
    • She recently claimed she found her Burberry scarf in a muddy puddle.
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    Here is a link to Jack’s Tattle Wiki page, which also includes clips of Matt Tebutt muttering ‘Terrible!’ on Daily Kitchen Live, courtesy of @Yel) and @Bookweevil ‘s hilarious Glossary of Jack.

    We are terrible for going off on tangents and using too many gifs, so there is another thread where we don’t discuss JM but instead talk about biscuits and stuff. For good light relief when JM is doing too much chaos, come to the Food & Drink threads in Off Topic.

    • Lastly, but importantly, when submitting ideas for the next thread title, please use the words ‘thread title’, as it makes it easier to search. Just using the number won’t be enough. We also can’t have swears in the title, and try to hold off until around p. 40 for your suggestions, if possible. ThankYOU.
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Now that I can see screenshots I have 120 pages of receipts to catch up on!



Just off to tell my supervisors that they can expect my thesis some time in 2024.

Edit - THREADS not pages
 
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Now that I can see screenshots I have 120 pages of receipts to catch up on!



Just off to tell my supervisors that they can expect my thesis some time in 2024.
I submitted my PhD at the height of Jack chaosi. You can do it! (You just need to forego sleep)
 
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Your email made me SO happy, especially as so many 'critical thinkers' take Jack at face value. But it's also frustratingly understandable that they do - nobody *expects* someone to be a lying narcissist, so people just assume she speaks the truth, and because she can write emotively and looks the part (white, attractive etc) everyone just believes her story unless they look deeper 😖

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Jack, right now ...... signing up to a forum for critical and radical geographers. Look out for a new member, posting in a white hot fury and powered by the fire of a thousand suns. Maybe you can play 'Spot the Sock Puppet Account' that will also no doubt sign up to support the narrative Ă  la Mumsnet 2013.


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I love this thread title so much @Hollaaa I salute you, comrade!

Can we start placing bets as to when Jack will make a miraculous recovery? She’ll have a super rare thing called long-but-short Covid. She’ll get bored of pretending to be dying and want to scamper, hence the short part. Then she’ll need to have long Covid for the sympathy likes, and to excuse her pathological laziness. She’s a medical marvel. A knitter who “permanently lost the use of her hands”, and someone who chucked their walking stick away when they hooked a CH4 sugar mama 💃🏼


 
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I LOVE the thread title. And welcome to all radical geographers. Wish there were more of you.
 
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If Jack comes after me please can one of you find me a job next year??? The job market doesn't look great even without me being branded a professional troll 😔

Thanks for the welcomes. It's a sad day when the only people talking any sense are dismissed as a bitchy gossip forum. Will be back later for the sloppies!
 
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When are the results of the Sloppies announced?

I'm very BUSY today, but I need to know what to wear.
 
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Now that I can see screenshots I have 120 pages of receipts to catch up on!



Just off to tell my supervisors that they can expect my thesis some time in 2024.

Edit - THREADS not pages
You’ll never do it! Read the recaps at the start of each thread, or you’ll miss The Sloppies, Christmas, and New Year. Whatever else you read though, DONT MISS THREAD 31!
 
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Congratulations to @Hollaaa for the thread title! 🎉 Your prize: front-row seats and tickets to The Sloppies after party (which is in Southend).
Ooh a merry early Jackmas to me and thank(space)you very Poca much Poca for an excellent recap as ever.
If I leave Scotland now I can bring added chaos and probably a police escort to Southend by Sloppies o'clock.
 
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I vote we sack off “the academy” (hi, Vonny) and bid for funding for the establishment of a new GRRC (Grifters Rehabilitation Research Centre).

All chancers scrutinised. PhDs not necessary: simply a desire to dig into tall tales. We’ll all have twirly bankers chairs and Dyson fans. The cafeteria will not serve Jack’s creations.
 
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Popping back straight after saying I had to go( a la Mackie)...am trying to get grant funding for the canal without outing us. I’m calling us the
Society for
Questioning
Understanding &
Investigating-
Grifters
Gobshites
Liars
Embellishers
Slopslingers
 
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If Jack comes after me please can one of you find me a job next year??? The job market doesn't look great even without me being branded a professional troll 😔

Thanks for the welcomes. It's a sad day when the only people talking any sense are dismissed as a bitchy gossip forum. Will be back later for the sloppies!
I think there's people reading who don't comment plus the article which didn't specifically name Jack but it was obvious who it was about.

She can't come after us as nobody is posting anything she has not said herself. Plus we have copies of tweets she posted but also deleted.
We also have opinions about her but that is not a crime.
 
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Jack, right now ...... signing up to a forum for critical and radical geographers. Look out for a new member, posting in a white hot fury and powered by the fire of a thousand suns. Maybe you can play 'Spot the Sock Puppet Account' that will also no doubt sign up to support the narrative Ă  la Mumsnet 2013.


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What is this hospital job she talks of? Is that a new one to add into her very long and glittering career before she entered her twenties.
 
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