Jack Monroe #127 No-spend year

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Ah, bless him! Excellent angry face but I'm afraid I can only give him 3 out of 10 for the rather lacklustre pointing. He put a helpful map on the bin and everything. :)


OMG, I remember this one! They do, at least, seem to know that they look like complete dicks.
 
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single mum! Piano in the background! Touching some sort of shabby chic suitcase! Hair! BINGO!

That is one of the poses that used to be seen in every local newspaper. Woman with glum look because something isn't going her way. Similarly there's the one with a family with sad faces because something didn't go their way. Or man with angry face because something didn't go his way.

It screams provincial newspaper photograph. The photographers must do some sort of course in clichéd poses.

ETA, I wonder what these photographers are doing now local papers have all but disappeared.
edit- I see you have already seen below! Playing catch up from my time zone in the future—

Have you seen the ‘Angry People in Local Newspapers’ FB page? He posts one every day, sorting into genres: sent home from school for wrong TRAZZERS, pointing at dog poo, etc. This is a classic- poor Ron http://apiln.blogspot.com/2014/04/wont-pay-for-porn-anger.html?m=1
 
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She’s just a teenage dirtbag, baby

I think the thing I'm looking forward to most when we get our fraus day trip to the court room, is someone wheeling out a TV and showing all of @Alansbigplate masterpieces in one hit

Particularly if they have to provide a text description of each one - preferably written by someone who has no sense of humour or concept of modern popular culture
 
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Just thinking about this whilst I spend another break on my own to avoid the plague pits. She went very quickly from losing her job to balifs? Surely that takes a while? I don't have any experience of balifs but I recently refused to pay a bill because it was wrong (I didn't owe anything) and there was months of them threatening, sending me to collections department, pretend offical letters etc before it was sorted. They don't just send a guy to bang on your door the day you jack in your firefighter call handler job after maternity leave and don't pay your Kays Cataloge bill.


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Just thinking about this whilst I spend another break on my own to avoid the plague pits. She went very quickly from losing her job to balifs? Surely that takes a while? I don't have any experience of balifs but I recently refused to pay a bill because it was wrong (I didn't owe anything) and there was months of them threatening, sending me to collections department, pretend offical letters etc before it was sorted. They don't just send a guy to bang on your door the day you jack in your firefighter call handler job after maternity leave and don't pay your Kays Cataloge bill.


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You’re right, it does take a while. Bullshit Billy doesn’t think her lies through, that’s why there’s tons-up threads about her on Tattle. To drag a brief period of hardship out this long, when she’s better off than most now is offensive and she needs to pack it in.
 
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For anyone else who’s been frightened by the door knocking and worrying who’s there, I have a great deal of sympathy , been there once or twice (HMRC).

Jack’s a liar and playing for the sympathy, if she could have had a violin as a background when she wrote that she would have.
 

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She sure as tit opens the door when Cotswold / Ocado / Sentient mirrors / John Lewis / M&S / Amazon / Nike / Apple et al. come a-calling. Doubt she’s snarling like a feral tomcat then.

Agree with @heretoreaditall2019 - if she really does turn into She-Wolf when there’s a knock on the door, perhaps it’s time to seek out therapy, instead of bringing it to the fore of her followers’s consciences every month or so - just to remind everyone.
 
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She needs to keep reminding people cos it's another tip jar shake. How about promoting a charity helping people in that situation NOW not THEN?!
 
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That is one of the poses that used to be seen in every local newspaper. Woman with glum look because something isn't going her way. Similarly there's the one with a family with sad faces because something didn't go their way. Or man with angry face because something didn't go his way.

It screams provincial newspaper photograph. The photographers must do some sort of course in clichéd poses.

ETA, I wonder what these photographers are doing now local papers have all but disappeared.
Skipping ahead but this picture story is a favourite -


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She sure as tit opens the door when Cotswold / Ocado / Sentient mirrors / John Lewis / M&S / Amazon / Nike / Apple et al. come a-calling. Doubt she’s snarling like a feral tomcat then.

Agree with @heretoreaditall2019 - if she really does turn into She-Wolf when there’s a knock on the door, perhaps it’s time to seek out therapy, instead of bringing it to the fore of her followers’s consciences every month or so - just to remind everyone.
This! If she has such PTSD (I’m not using the term lightly I just can’t think of how best to describe what she alludes to gothrough on a regular basis) perhaps she ought to seek professional help. She is “stuck” in place never moving on always defaulting back to her past, clutching at it like a security blanket.

Awful things happened to her. She survived. She was left damaged by the experience no doubt but she shouldn’t make it her sole personality trait. The fact that she does is sad.

She has a platform most people don’t and all she does is make promises she never keeps. Instead of Twittering about with cattos and doggos she could easily spend her day sharing details of existing services to help people through lockdown/COVID/even debt management- no one needs her to produce a list or worse a promise of help that never comes.

(I’ve spent much of the last two days randomly bursting into tears. She has annoyed me no end but you guys have given me some much needed giggles - Danke!)
 
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"Never leaves you"? What not even when you were living it up with your millionaire girlfriend in a west London home?

Not even when you were spending vast amounts of money in celebrity haunts, on high end clothing, buying ugly but expensive trainers?

Not when you are buying expensive water rowers, expensive unnecessary gym equipment, fridges, crockery, gifts?

Not when you are sharing your home with a successful highly paid Head of Channel 4 News, even after she ceased to be your girlfriend?

Not when you are buying umpteen sideboards and other furniture to cram into every available space?

Not when you are paying a huge rent for a massive four bedroomed two bathroomed home far in excess of the space required for a mum of one?

Not when you are going on your (never been on) holidays, jaunting up and down the country on expensive overnight sleeper trains, staying in expensive hotels and eating in (not a chain) restaurants?

People that have had a child die, that never leaves them. People that see a loved one die, that never leaves them. People that have endured and escaped from war, that never leaves them. People that have experienced any number of unspeakable abuses, that never leaves them. People that have been imprisoned because of their politcal views, sexuality, or religious beliefs, that never leaves them.

Having a brief period in relative poverty doesn't have to define you for the rest of your life. Yes, it will change your views, and hopefully make you more empathetic. Yes it should make you aware of what others can and do go through, and have more compassion.

It should make you a better person, not turn you into someone who will forever make personal gain from emotionally blackmailing people on SM for financial gain. You are no different from those that beg on the high street.

Get a grip, you self absorbed emotional vampire.

Sorry for the long post, but I've got one on me today.
 
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"Never leaves you"? What not even when you were living it up with your millionaire girlfriend in a west London home?

Not even when you were spending vast amounts of money in celebrity haunts, on high end clothing, buying ugly but expensive trainers?

Not when you are buying expensive water rowers, expensive unnecessary gym equipment, fridges, crockery, gifts?

Not when you are sharing your home with a successful highly paid Head of Channel 4 News, even after she ceased to be your girlfriend?

Not when you are buying umpteen sideboards and other furniture to cram into every available space?

Not when you are paying a huge rent for a massive four bedroomed two bathroomed home far in excess of the space required for a mum of one?

Not when you are going on your (never been on) holidays, jaunting up and down the country on expensive overnight sleeper trains, staying in expensive hotels and eating in (not a chain) restaurants?

People that have had a child die, that never leaves them. People that see a loved one die, that never leaves them. People that have endured and escaped from war, that never leaves them. People that have experienced any number of unspeakable abuses, that never leaves them. People that have been imprisoned because of their politcal views, sexuality, or religious beliefs, that never leaves them.

Having a brief period in relative poverty doesn't have to define you for the rest of your life. Yes, it will change your views, and hopefully make you more empathetic. Yes it should make you aware of what others can and do go through, and have more compassion.

It should make you a better person, not turn you into someone who will forever make personal gain from emotionally blackmailing people on SM for financial gain. You are no different from those that beg on the high street.

Get a grip, you self absorbed emotional vampire.

Sorry for the long post, but I've got one on me today.
 
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"Never leaves you"? What not even when you were living it up with your millionaire girlfriend in a west London home?

Not even when you were spending vast amounts of money in celebrity haunts, on high end clothing, buying ugly but expensive trainers?

Not when you are buying expensive water rowers, expensive unnecessary gym equipment, fridges, crockery, gifts?

Not when you are sharing your home with a successful highly paid Head of Channel 4 News, even after she ceased to be your girlfriend?

Not when you are buying umpteen sideboards and other furniture to cram into every available space?

Not when you are paying a huge rent for a massive four bedroomed two bathroomed home far in excess of the space required for a mum of one?

Not when you are going on your (never been on) holidays, jaunting up and down the country on expensive overnight sleeper trains, staying in expensive hotels and eating in (not a chain) restaurants?

People that have had a child die, that never leaves them. People that see a loved one die, that never leaves them. People that have endured and escaped from war, that never leaves them. People that have experienced any number of unspeakable abuses, that never leaves them. People that have been imprisoned because of their politcal views, sexuality, or religious beliefs, that never leaves them.

Having a brief period in relative poverty doesn't have to define you for the rest of your life. Yes, it will change your views, and hopefully make you more empathetic. Yes it should make you aware of what others can and do go through, and have more compassion.

It should make you a better person, not turn you into someone who will forever make personal gain from emotionally blackmailing people on SM for financial gain. You are no different from those that beg on the high street.

Get a grip, you self absorbed emotional vampire.

Sorry for the long post, but I've got one on me today.
Just like Alan’s work, this needs to be somewhere obvious.

So that when some of us feel pangs of guilt or need reminders of why we are here we are brought back to earth with a bang.

Thank you for summarising the last 127 threads in a few paragraphs.

❤
 
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Get a grip, you self absorbed emotional vampire.
Indeed. The thing is she wants us to be sympatheitc for her and make some excuses because she was once poor and is disabled etc.... but she also wants us to fawn over her like a celebrity who is an expert on all matters.
 
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Honestly? I just want to know why she’s sorting through boxes of old newspaper clippings while she’s supposedly on a writing deadline.

I thought I was the procrastination queen but she is something else entirely.
 
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