Jack Monroe #193 Mama, pass the UNICEF statistics and the Hansards!

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Jack wrote a whole article about how we should all look our for our neighbours, if she had spoken to any of hers, you'd think this kind of thing (help yourself to rosemary!) might have come up in the conversation.
This week have been feeding next door’s cat because they’ve gone to Southend (they’ve similarly aged children) so find it so odd she’s spending the end of half term creating slop... Their house is also packed with child/teen paraphernalia which makes Jackie’s weird grey gardens bungalow so much creepier.
 
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Your neighbour has a rosemary bush that you would like a piece of and you need to know what the etiquette is. Were you suggesting stealing some? Why would you not just ask? Or are you suggesting that the neighbours are not friendly. Even though you have kindly allowed the community skip to be located on your drive for them to use. Even though they leave soap on your doorstep (for which I would be offended, are they trying to tell you something?)

I smell something and it ain't an overcooked cassoulet.
 
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I am no expert - but if (as we are lead to believe) Jack has been in recovery - is it the wisest thing to have wine in any form so soon? Surely just the taste and smell could be problematic?

Again apologies if I'm talking out of my backside about this - it just seems a really bizarre choice.
Dunno why she doesn't do the thing she and she alone came up with in her maverick little science brain, and use tea.

This week have been feeding next door’s cat because they’ve gone to Southend (they’ve similarly aged children) so find it so odd she’s spending the end of half term creating slop... Their house is also packed with child/teen paraphernalia which makes Jackie’s weird grey gardens bungalow so much creepier.
Oh my god, it's totally grey gardens!! only infinitely less glamorous.
 
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Looks like swede. It is one of those ready cut up bags of veg from Asda. https://groceries.asda.com/product/prepared-roasting-veg/asda-vegetable-soup-mix/910001595559

She has used it before and pretended she has cut it all up herself. She is a compulsive liar.
🕵️‍♀️The chunks look suspiciously square, like they've been precut. You can tell she chopped the celery with a blunt knife though.

I can think of nothing blander on this Earth than a slow cookered pot of root veg with some dried mixed herbs on top. She really hates flavour.
 
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When you let down your fans with your manky old pans, that’s a moollllllle
I wonder if she is making up her own verses,

When I cook cassoulet
The cabal they all say
Where's the moleeeee?

When on Sundays I tweet
And give the cabal a treat
Where's the moleeee?

When the cassoulet's cooked
In the bin it is chucked
like my moleeee

Now the cabal all know
where my cooking does go
holy moleeee
 
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Jack totally is a one-woman Grey Gardens LARPer. But not in a good way. Worst Edie.
 
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Maybe your rosemary died because you spent nearly two months living in a hotel, Jack? Just a thought.
 
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Funnily enough I'm actually making a stew in a slow cooker as well. The main differences are that 1) I'm using left over fresh veg that would only get binned otherwise (and also, buying those pre chopped veg packs isn't actually cheaper) 2) I know how to use a slow cooker in a way that doesn't result in brown goo and 3) It's got beef in it. I don't feel the need to say that I'm 90% vegan because of that.

In other cookery news, I did actually try that idea of using Red Bull instead of honey in a sweet and sour thing. It wasn't vile, but I dont think I'll do it again.
 
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It's BAFTA day and the C4 news are nominated.
Is there such a thing as a thot cassulet shot?
 
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Speaking of Hattie Gladwell - I wonder what’s happening with HER wonderful (and overdue) book that she crowdfunded over fifteen grand for, via Unbound? I know she turned up here a while back - so she either reads or has a Google alert on her name. ‘Edits’ seem to have been happening for a very long time! Publication is still TBA. And she set up Breakdown in the meantime. I have said it before, but it’s worth repeating - internet funding for anything, be it GoFundMe, Patreon or any other, is a bleeping scam on par with pyramid schemes and MLM. Tattle has done me a massive favour in ensuring I never give to these again.

Influencers and folk that monetise sympathy for their ‘battles’ belong in the same boat, for me. In fact, if you are ‘selling’ help, support and guidance for people that may well be struggling financially, as well as physically and mentally, well - it is worse, in my opinion, than selling tit make-up with photoshopped pictures.
Wow, I just googled it and over £15 000 raised in 2018 and still no book.

I've seen a lot of people try to monetise their mental health struggles on the back of their blog. A good friend of mine had a book published (by a publisher specialising in mental health) but never crowdfunded or ripped people off. Someone else I know is in the process of researching and publishing a book on an unusual sleep disorder we both share.

£15 000 is a hell of a lot of money to have gone walkabout.
 
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Can't believe she's left Paul and the rest of the world hanging like this...my pet theory is she's got Pythagoras' theorem mixed up with something else, realised her mistake but is too embarrassed to correct it

Bonus: the closing paragraph from that article from the other day where she made up a conversation with her son on the train.
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I have been pondering on those train conversations Jack supposedly had with SB and comparing them with conversations I had with my children and now grandchildren on trains.
These usually go “take your feet off of the seats, sit down, don’t lick that, don’t pick your nose”. Sometimes “look cows” never once have we discussed important world issues. Jack seems to want people to think of SB as a child prodigy and a toddler at the same time. Make it make sense.
 
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