Jack Monroe #166 Comments are off

[Emmapism]

It wasn't a birthday live. It was a contractual obligation you pushed to your birthday because you forgot to buy chicken/had to prepare for a TedTalk the same evening.

Nice attempt to get people to watch though

 

[kachoochoo]

oh god, the green rice just came out of nowhere didn't it?! just don't understand how you can knock up a weird dish in 5 mins, then present a "here's one I made earlier, only there's more stuff in it now, which I won't properly explain"

 

[Sideboard Bob]

121. I repeat 121.

And now 127. I love this, we’ve done teeth, chairs, and now we’re counting... ourselves!

 

[Flash123]

Someone has probably already said this but she has posted It on Twitter and she will get maximum sympathy because she is nervous because of her history/trolls. Genius. She is a genius.

 

[Lanie]

And now 127. I love this, we’ve done teeth, chairs, and now we’re counting... ourselves!

Next week pubes?! Oh no have I gone to far?!

 

[ReginaPhalangee]

So I was a very virtuous Frau and didn’t skip my exercise class at 6 (because I want a glass of wine tonight guilt free dammit). I just watched the video on Mel Donte’s Insta and I actually feel quite bad for her. Oh girl. It was...not good. Hope she had a big chunk of Colin cake after to take the taste of embarrassment away

Away now to pour a wine and catch up on all the cabal commentary, I’m sure I’m in for a treat!

 

[Vanelope]

Lovely dish

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That is nice - Christmas list!

 

[Lumpyspaceprincess]

I think we’ve done her a favour, imagine the viewing figures without us!

 

[Vanelope]

Omigod what if ALL the viewers were cabal! When she grunks this later she might have a fit!

 

[SpamNugget]

That is nice - Christmas list!

I really liked that dish tbf but desperately trying not to order one ,hope Sophie Contain sells stuff in

 

[BlendedSlop]

As a fellow anxiety sufferer I did feel sorry for her towards the end. As much as she infuriates me I don't enjoy seeing anyone visibly distressed (especially on their birthday). Having said that, she's been doing this long enough now to have either a) devised a working strategy to manage her anxiety in these situations, or b) realised that playing to an audience simply isn't for her. There's no way I could ever do a live presentation, which is why I don't accept five-figure sums of money to do just that.

My top 5 moments:
5) The raw chicken juice flying all over the shed
4) Her having to run out to grab the (pre-used) roasting tin
3) Her somehow still being 10 minutes late to a rescheduled event that she STILL wasn't 100% prepared for even once the camera was rolling
2) "No need to grate the ginger"...while grating the ginger
1) THE TAMPON PINEAPPLE

Still, nothing will ever top the first ever Hellmans shitshow in the cringe stakes: the Eye of Sauron, the constant heavy breathing, the running off screen to button herself up, spending an age tidying the shed with her back to camera (as if she'd been given ten minutes to prepare for the gig, not several weeks), the nervous babbling about spider plants...my hole is clenching just from typing about it.

 

[Sideboard Bob]

Next week pubes?! Oh no have I gone to far?!

LANIE!

 

[Thank(space)you]

Once I realised I had missed an entire thread because I was suffering with an ouchy head (SEVERE migraine) I cancelled an online date (face time first date).

That's how SEVERE my FOMO dedication to the cabal is

 

[Bombastic]

Don't worry, she parceled up the chicken for her neighbours! Ufff.

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

As a fellow anxiety sufferer I did feel sorry for her towards the end. As much as she infuriates me I don't enjoy seeing anyone visibly distressed (especially on their birthday). Having said that, she's been doing this long enough now to have either a) devised a working strategy to manage her anxiety in these situations, or b) realised that playing to an audience simply isn't for her. There's no way I could ever do a live presentation, which is why I don't accept five-figure sums of money to do just that.

My top 5 moments:
5) The raw chicken juice flying all over the shed
4) Her having to run out to grab the (pre-used) roasting tin
3) Her somehow still being 10 minutes late to a rescheduled event that she STILL wasn't 100% prepared for even once the camera was rolling
2) "No need to grate the ginger"...while grating the ginger
1) THE TAMPON PINEAPPLE

Still, nothing will ever top the first ever Hellmans shitshow in the cringe stakes: the Eye of Sauron, the constant heavy breathing, the running off screen to button herself up, spending an age tidying the shed with her back to camera (as if she'd been given ten minutes to prepare for the gig, not several weeks), the nervous babbling about spider plants...my hole is clenching just from typing about it.

I would like to make this a top 6, because the fact she felt the need to scratch her chin while narrating what she was doing is definitely a top moment

 

[SpamNugget]

I really liked that dish tbf but desperately trying not to order one ,hope Sophie Contain sells stuff in

Sophie Conran. ...auto grrr...

 

[Pixieboots]

It's not just that pic though, it's something I've been noticing for a while. It just seems to have widened enormously in the past few months . But I shall say no more about it

I've been thinking the same thing. If we're seeing things, at least we're fugueing together.

 

[Raydog]

I started watching it (not live) I then stopped it was pure torture the breathing the fannying around the being offscreen and not being prepared ! Make it make sense does no one research anyone

 

[EllaEm87]

Do you know what... she wasn’t terrible.

She was evidently nervous and reading prompts, and I do think the pineapple was meant to go underneath to justify the name, but she was ok. She’s not a born presenter and I think at the end she was just thrilled it was over without any major rooster ups. I do think she should accept she’s not a born presenter though and stop trying to flog that dead horse. But these lives she does is the least problematic hat she wears, in my opinion. It’s her Twittering and trying to insert herself in any trending hashtag going that I don’t like.

Well done Jack! Now go enjoy your birthday.

 

[fauxpoor]

My top(bottom) moment has to be when she produced the roasting tin with brown bin juice in it
before she tipped the gross chicken concoction into it,