Jack Monroe #150 Haven’t you got peas to discuss?

[Orphan_Black]

A lot of her early rhetoric was this idea of "I'm not like the other poors!" It's really gross, and it's a big reason she became the acceptable face of poverty. Take her famous Littlejohn rebuttal. Yes, Littlejohn is a vile turd, but the entire article is this Oliver Twist idea of "I'm special and middle class and not a typical single mum on benefits": https://www.theguardian.com/comment...littlejohn-wrong-about-jack-monroe-daily-mail

She gets so passive aggressive over being called out. It's really pathetic. If she took it on the chin, put her hands up and admitted some of her lies, she wouldn't be in the shitshow of her own creation now. Attention be attention tho!

 

[SamFoxStuckinaCloak]

Been thinking about Jack’s inability to deal with knowing that people are talking about (not to) her in various corners of the internet.

Not to triangulate myself as I’m basically faceless, but do a job that people talk about on forums and social media a lot. Sometimes they’ll tag me directly into criticism (and other slightly mad things). I think it’s natural to want to bite back BUT you just don’t. Because you know it’s unprofessional, and inappropriate. So Instead I mute and laugh at the thought of people shouting at me on Twitter. I wouldn’t go looking on forums for criticism the way Jack does here, because it’s an act of self harm. But she literally can’t help herself, and it’s that behaviour, their OWN behaviour, which has the biggest impact. Because people see how unprofessional she is. Then plays the victim. It’s all self inflicted and self perpetuating.

 

[Veronicaaa]

A lot of her early rhetoric was this idea of "I'm not like the other poors!" It's really gross, and it's a big reason she became the acceptable face of poverty. Take her famous Littlejohn rebuttal. Yes, Littlejohn is a vile turd, but the entire article is this Oliver Twist idea of "I'm special and middle class and not a typical single mum on benefits": https://www.theguardian.com/comment...littlejohn-wrong-about-jack-monroe-daily-mail

What a shame she didn't have a wife to look after the kids, as it should be.

 

[Brian Butterfield]

Been thinking about Jack’s inability to deal with knowing that people are talking about (not to) her in various corners of the internet.

Not to triangulate myself as I’m basically faceless, but do a job that people talk about on forums and social media a lot. Sometimes they’ll tag me directly into criticism (and other slightly mad things). I think it’s natural to want to bite back BUT you just don’t. Because you know it’s unprofessional, and inappropriate. So Instead I mute and laugh at the thought of people shouting at me on Twitter. I wouldn’t go looking on forums for criticism the way Jack does here, because it’s an act of self harm. But she literally can’t help herself, and it’s that behaviour, their OWN behaviour, which has the biggest impact. Because people see how unprofessional she is. Then plays the victim. It’s all self inflicted and self perpetuating.

The mute function on Twitter is a glorious thing indeed.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

The grapefruit lie is on par with the toaster lie. So unnecessary, I do think she can't help herself lying about every tiny thing.
Also the tar soap, generally it is used for skin conditions like psoriasis, I wonder if Jack is going for a subtle 'ickle smol pixie has a skin condition' implication.
Jack if you really are cleaning out the bunny, let's see a photo of him with today's newspaper beside him.

Not any more. It doesn't have coal tar in it.

If she wants to target my particular area of expertise, she's welcome to try. But it won't be pretty.

 

[BobRob]

She talks absolute shite.

So she was too ashamed to tell her parents that she was struggling and going hungry but not too embarrassed to set up a public Facebook event to sell all her worldly goods to raise funds and invite all her friends and family to?

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

 

[Walkdengirl]

but surely there is so little actual grapefruit in squash it wouldn't affect her medication?

You can't have any amount, so there would be enough to affect her meds.

 

[Misbehaving]

My other problem with stuff like homemade bath salts or whatever Jack is talking about is that it completely avoids the most costly thing for people experiencing poverty - time. Jack has all the time in the world because they do duck all every day, but when you're working two jobs and have children to look after, you are not spending time making homemade hummus or bath bombs or whatever because your time is precious and buying them is so much cheaper when you take convenience and time into consideration.

Exactly what planet is jack living on?
I think she envisages herself as a kind of kirstie allsopp with street cred?
Except instead of crafting she has frugal living?
Just give it up jack?
No one is (or will be) buying it?

 

[Sideboard Bob]

unless your arse cheeks were pyramidal (and steel or diamond-tipped) in nature.

Now I want Damien Hurst to create a version of “For The Love Of God” (linked below), but of a bum.

Spoiler: Creepy skull

 

[Veronicaaa]

So apparently SB's dad's dad used to work in a coffee shop and gave Jack one of her first ever jobs and when he found out about the POVERTY "he absolutely bollocked me, he was like 'and WHY didn't you come to me and ask me for a job?' And I was like 'I couldn't. I just couldn't.'"

Sorry to quote myself but I don't understand this at all. Why couldn't she have gone to her father-in-law (ETA by which I mean her son's grandpa, not actual F-i-L) for a job? She says she was applying for coffee shop work and all that, so why didn't she get one from someone she'd worked with before when it was there for the taking?

 

[Cunderthunt]

What the duck? The clear implication here is that if you're not looking after your "black baby" (WHAT THE duck??) and blond 9 year old for someone else - if they are, indeed, both yours - then you are in fact a "slut"??

Indeed. It seems like she was trying to make a big point about mythical right-wing strangers persecuting her, but she's ended up calling women with different fathers of their children sluts. And being racist in the process.

None of this happened. Batshit as she is, I doubt her parents trusted her to babysit much. No mythical judgmental strangers - who would definitely not think an adult saying "I'm a virgin actually" is a good comeback. Plus imagine saying that in front of children.

Yet again she's wrongly calling herself a foster carer, and implying that the children are awful saying her parents need 5 minutes peace.

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

You can't have any amount, so there would be enough to affect her meds.

I wouldn’t put it past her to still drink it though. She absolutely shouldn’t, but she easily could. Unless they read her Twitter, it’s unlikely to be something she’d even be particularly asked about by GP/speed dial therapists etc.

ETA: I mean that she might not be lying, just being reckless. Both are equally plausible for me when it comes to her

 

[colouredlines]

This guy is like the grandfather of the cabal. 2013 doubter, I salute you!

 

[HotesTilaire]

Well a lot of excellent work by the canal of bullying ninnies today in collecting receipts and sorting them out.
Can’t believe how many people have judgementally told her she should keep her legs shut. Perhaps she tried to bake them all cakes?

 

[Veronicaaa]

Can’t believe how many people have judgementally told her she should keep her legs shut. Perhaps she tried to bake them all cakes?

It's really quite the projection on her part, and tells us more about her attitude to single mothers than it does about anyone else's.

 

[OpalMushroom]

Spoiler: Kitten content including photos

I've watched videos of people who rescue kittens - a kitten of the poor mite Jack had would have required regular feeds around the clock with special equipment and help with their toileting and most of all, kept warm, not locked in a bathroom on their own

And yes, she allowed her other cat to be territorial and aggressive under the guise of being cute and brotherly. She had no bleeping clue.

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Utterly selfish, irresponsible and cruel of Jack who had no bleeping idea of the care any vulnerable kitten taken too young from its mother would have needed, let alone one with deformities

But when did that ever stop Jack with her thirst pics?


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I’m still livid about that poor kitten. People who use animals like that for attention are disgusting.

 

[Flivver]

We’re really on the Monrollacoaster today.

I’ve been back in time to look for a reference to the ‘should’ve kept your legs shut’ thing. As we know, she accused Michael Portillo of saying the very same thing.

Thanks to @Silver Linings and @PoorPatrol for these July 2020 receipts. JM’s Tweet and what MP ACTUALLY said:

 

[Veronicaaa]

I’m still livid about that poor kitten. People who use animals like that for attention are disgusting.

Vonny did the same thing with a kitten last year, and she's got a history of using her cat for litters and likes. I haven't posted my screenshots on that thread yet simply because it's so *dark*.

 

[colouredlines]

We’re really on the Monrollacoaster today.

I’ve been back in time to look for a reference to the ‘should’ve kept your legs shut’ thing. As we know, she accused Michael Portillo of saying the very same thing.

Thanks to @Silver Linings and @PoorPatrol for these July 2020 receipts. JM’s Tweet and what MP ACTUALLY said:

Let's not forget this gem from Potatoes:

My brother was in the RAF last time we spoke, a couple of Christmases ago, when he described Iain Duncan Smith as the best thing to happen to this country and told me I had chosen to have a baby outside of marriage so deserved everything I got. It’s fair to describe us as ‘estranged’ these days.

She's a magnet for them!

 

[Captainmouse]

This was the worst one for me -

Just how unwell does that poor kitten look