Jack Monroe #155 What a sad little life, Jack

[Emmapism]

Maybe these articles are a bit like casting in TV, these days it's often left to more junior people in an effort to save cash.

Ironically you then spend money down the line trying to fix things that more experience would have told you aren't a good idea.

Perhaps similar to social media PR/research. If you never go beyond Wikipedia you're never gonna know any better.

 

[FeelingPrawny]

How dare it be implied that Jack wears dresses and skirts but just wanted to be difficult with regard to the fireservice. She only wears traaazers, cuz she's a bird. (Had to grit my teeth to write that ). See these beautiful trousers that she is wearing that are most definitely NOT skirts or dresses.... this feels far too easy.

 

[FrumpyCat]

Realise the discussion has moved on a bit but I took an interest in Camilla Batmanghelidjh / Kids Company etc. Having read 3 interviews with 3 different journalists at different times I noticed a common feature. Each interview was interrupted by an urgent phone call from a severely upset kids co client who would only speak to CB.
Funny that...

Oooh, I never noticed that. Must revisit. I know she used to come down ' survey's and present the results as facts.

 

[LennyBriscoe]

How dare it be implied that Jack wears dresses and skirts but just wanted to be difficult with regard to the fireservice. She only wears traaazers, cuz she's a bird. (Had to grit my teeth to write that ). See these beautiful trousers that she is wearing that are most definitely NOT skirts or dresses.... this feels far too easy.

Lest we forget Victorian ghost child Jack (please tell me someone else remembers this?? I remember a hilarious photoshop but I’m scared it’s all just been a sick dream )

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

How dare it be implied that Jack wears dresses and skirts but just wanted to be difficult with regard to the fireservice. She only wears traaazers, cuz she's a bird. (Had to grit my teeth to write that ). See these beautiful trousers that she is wearing that are most definitely NOT skirts or dresses.... this feels far too easy.

She looks stunning in that final one- so relaxed and comfortable.

 

[Orphan_Black]

Lest we forget Victorian ghost child Jack (please tell me someone else remembers this?? I remember a hilarious photoshop but I’m scared it’s all just been a sick dream )
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The trainers?! Really, Jack?! No other shoes that would have looked 100% better than those grubby fucks? GTFO!!!

 

[Peachy9]

How dare it be implied that Jack wears dresses and skirts but just wanted to be difficult with regard to the fireservice. She only wears traaazers, cuz she's a bird. (Had to grit my teeth to write that ). See these beautiful trousers that she is wearing that are most definitely NOT skirts or dresses.... this feels far too easy.

I thought she actually looks quite nice in that last photo.... Then saw the dead falcon in her hair

 

[Jelly Bean]

I was looking for the photo I mentioned in my post and found this instead - Jack ranting about people pretending to be poor!

The next time you think about doing a bit of working class tourism and dressing up in 'poorface', read this

Poverty only looks at its own feet, in too-tight shoes that let in the rain, and I speak from bitter, horrible experience. I lived in poverty for around two years with an infant son, moving from a flat to a smaller, mouldy flat to a friend’s sofa to a mattress on the floor

www.independent.co.uk

She even quotes "Common People"

This article
If true, still makes me so sad to think she chose to inflict a large amount of misery on her child. Again, if true, has she ever satisfactorily explained why she did not ask her parents or son's father for help?
It is hardly as if she lived on a different land mass - she was relatively near them. Fair enough she put herself through this, but a child? I get MH problems mean you can make unwise decisions, but I then don't get why she is living off this desparately sad period of time. And therefore making her son relive it.
No new reflections here I know, but it hits me every time that if true she had ways and means of not selling her son's shoes and making him cold and wet.
*entirely unfounded theory alert* I said before I wondered if she was pissed off with Daddy for not stepping in and saving her job (that she resigned from) and this was a case of 'look what you did'.

 

[Jay-cloth Cow]

She looks stunning in that final one- so relaxed and comfortable.

I thought the same! She looks so happy and healthy there. Hair length really suits her too.

 

[FeelingPrawny]

Have we seen this? Apparently it's happening on the 8th March. I scribbled out the name of the person tagging her before realising that they are the organiser of this event . Surprised they tagged this name rather than the Monroe one.... maybe she goes via that for a more private social media? (Either that or she has no idea about it and I've just flagged it to her ) I don't know if this means she's made a video, is talking at this event or what. But found it quite interesting....

ETA. I did definitely check it was her and not some other person with the exact same name, just incase.

 

[ChampagneBox]

Ooh that’s fascinating too! I know someone who sees time on a line and they say they always remember dates because of it, I bet you’ve got a great memory for birthdays etc.

Who knew Dr tattle would diagnose me with synthesia!

 

[FeelingPrawny]

She looks stunning in that final one- so relaxed and comfortable.

She really does look genuinely happy and healthy here. The hair really does suit her that length too. Cross Post @Jay-cloth Cow. Virtually the same thing

 

[PoorPatrol]

Have we seen this? Apparently it's happening on the 8th March. I scribbled out the name of the person tagging her before realising that they are the organiser of this event . Surprised they tagged this name rather than the Monroe one.... maybe she goes via that for a more private social media? (Either that or she has no idea about it and I've just flagged it to her ) I don't know if this means she's made a video, is talking at this event or what. But found it quite interesting....

But. But! She’s... not Northern?

 

[FeelingPrawny]

But. But! She’s... not Northern?

Have you not learnt anything from these threads.... all areas, places, directions and hemispheres are the same!

 

[NP]

But. But! She’s... not Northern?

She travelled to Manchester to interview MR. That basically means it’s her third home now (after Edinburgh of course)

 

[colouredlines]

But. But! She’s... not Northern?

Maybe she once ate a hotpot?

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

But. But! She’s... not Northern?

If she starts trying to claim butter pie, I will riot

 

[Pantomimehorse]

But. But! She’s... not Northern?

Northern Southend darling

 

[I’MBUSY!]

Holy cow. Show me the pictorial definition of "Delusions of Grandeur".

Haven't squigged SB's face, as this shot is in the public domain AND she's posted it.

Her poor son. Her poor parents. She just does not know how to stop.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

Oooh, I never noticed that. Must revisit. I know she used to come down ' survey's and present the results as facts.

Purely hypothetically, if I had a colleague (or boss, for that matter) who appeared to be quite so personally involved with vulnerable kids, even ignoring press reports of favourites just having money given to them with what seems like little appreciation of the implications of that, I'd be doing a Safeguarding referral because of the boundary issues. It's fraught with danger, having an 'only one person can help' dynamic.



I wonder how on earth women in the military ever coped with having to wear skirts as dress uniform, though. I know there were campaigns to change the requirement, but surely they didn't all refuse to attend because it was part of the bloody job to do as you were told regarding hair/makeup/uniform in different circumstances? I suppose none of them were ever as special as JM and were simply all happy to express their feminine aesthetic.