Jack Monroe #144 The man from Strictly, he say No

[Nottonightbabe]

I think we have all had a friend who retells a story where you were both present and it bears no resemblance to how you remember it. It is exaggerated out of all proportion. I certainly have.

I am sure that these things happen, drunk being loud in a beer garden, drunk being loud outside a station, but they are wildly exaggerated. She in no way would intervene in those situations though, she's a scared, smol lil pixie. Her getting involved is not exaggerated, it is fabricated.

She's also said herself, more than once, that she shouts and gets "furious" on Twitter but irl is a nervous little mouse. So which is it?

 

[MancBee]

@MancBee without myself I am working with him at the moment. I work in construction in a governmental advisory role, he knows duck all about actual development; he is/was a mouthpiece for channel 4 and somehow has become the poster boy for design. If you follow the industry, I'm central to the press announcement at the weekend on the new building / design standards in planning. He turns up at our meetings and we humour him despite him and his ego having no influence.

Really interesting to hear he has similar character traits whilst in work as out of it. Ego was off the scale. I think it is another of those cases where having the right connections, and being in the right place at the right time as to how he has got on. Certainly not his architectural talent.

He is as bad as Monroe regarding the Grenfell fire. He rushed there on the night shoving his nose in. He made some pretty outlandish claims about that night that have been disproved too.

 

[SoulRebel]

Reading through that mumsnet thread, it made me think about the way in which Jack uses message boards / forums (and of course the way it went down here in thread 31). She seems to log on with an attitude, ready to take her mood out on the people there, instead of seeing it as a community. She positions herself as the main attraction and talks down to everyone, it's clear she thinks she's better than the other posters, she doesn't even attempt to be nice. This may be all well and good if you're anonymous (though not really, in decent forums the horrible ones are generally pulled up); but when you're a public name, how on earth do you think you'll get away with it without being seen as a dick, WHEN YOU'RE ACTING LIKE A DICK? She uses people to tit all over them, gets her nastiness out, and then thinks she can walk away with it wiped from A. peoples' memories and B. the internet itself. It's so hilarious that she blames other people for their perception of her when she's the one creating that perception through her terrible personality and the way she treats and interacts with people.

All of this is so true, she created her on-line persona through social media and seems to be stymied when she's called out on the inconsistencies.
Needless to say that in her head she walks away having had the last laugh.
I'm still getting the giggles over the fact that angry vegans may yet bring her down

 

[Begborrowsteal]

George Clarke is an architect, not a building control officer, or structural engineer. He is not an expert on fire safety. These people know diddly squat about construction, and just need to keep their noses out. How would they like armchair experts telling them how to do their job?

I can't bear the man (George) met him at a party, surprised his head fitted through the door, talk about love himself. Arrogant doesn't come near to describing him. As an aside, he can't even stick to a budget on a house renovation.

I served him years ago. The arrogance was beaming out of him. So smarmy!

 

[Professor Slop]

I have sad news. I saw a magpie today and it was accompanied by some sort of rare butterfly. RIP SadFace.

 

[FrumpyCat]

It might have been Jack's attempt at satire. As she seems to have very little natural sense of humour a lot of her 'jokes' fall flat.

 

[Walkdengirl]

I've just reread the New Statesman article, here are a couple of funny bits.
Also, Jack has shrunk, she's teenier than ever, practically microscopic!

She's a card isn't she?

(Actually, she's a total bleeping bleep)

 

[Sideboard Bob]

My best monday morning wake up was a group hurling rotten fruit in condoms at tents. Fun times.

Probably similar to scenes at Del Monte Europe HQ these days.

 

[DrtCrl]

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I misread the user name on this to start with and thought that the name in bold was the one who posted, sort of defending Jack.
Then I realised she posted it herself and cringed myself inside out.

 

[HotesTilaire]

Maybe it was bench pressing the Queen that shrunked our plucky urchin. And to think just a few years later, she couldn’t even carry a few poorly made Kickstarter recipe books to the post office. Life can be so cruel. Just like the beautiful, gentle, soft birds we have lost. I feel quite melancholy.
ETA - I’ve got Radiohead’s “onion police” as an ear worm now.

 

[discolisa]

Diva, here you go, will post diff articles separately x

 

[PoorPatrol]

Did we have broken ribs on the list of fake injuries/ailments? “I’m sensitive today” we know, Jack! Every day is a day when people need to forgive you because..... bla bla

 

[discolisa]

Diva mark 2

 

[Brian Butterfield]

Did we have broken ribs on the list of fake injuries/ailments? “I’m sensitive today” we know, Jack! Every day is a day when people need to forgive you because..... bla bla
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What's a Tattler got to do to get that eye roll emoji, Admin?!

 

[Joan of Narc]

Hold on, did she literally mean she could bench press the actual Queen? What a weird bleeping thing to say. I was totally confused about it when I read it and assumed it was some kind of weightlifting terminology that I didn't understand.

Please can we have 'she could bench press the actual Queen' as a thread title?!

 

[discolisa]

Diva mark 3, the columns

 

[Ninch55]

Diva mark 2

That coy, supposedly sexy vegetable slice in the gob - really, no,Absolutely No and she wasntyourMama, she was your mum. Your MUM FFS

 

[discolisa]

Diva mark 4, the power list

 

[Walkdengirl]

Is this about Angel Strawbridge?

No, there's a thread about a chateux in the bloggers bit in here, they are proper grifters and very odd. They started off by appearing in escape to the chateux DIY with dick and angel

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

She has a very majority masculine leaning aesthetic in her push up bra on the cover of Diva.