Jack Monroe #195 She basically writes fan-fiction about herself

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They have articles on the Breakdown website “the best post-lockdown subscription boxes” do me a favour. Using a trendy font and nice pictures doesn’t paper the content cracks.
I’m so glad I’m Gen X
 
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Let us not forget the forensic study of Jack's weight-based feats including the carrying of a 93kg sideboard, the dragging of a 70kg sideboard up a spiral staircase, bench pressing the Queen and doing an unspecified exercise with two tins of beans. For future reference in case we start counting sideboards I don't have a single one. I myself am a sideboard in name only.
I have one Sideboard.
It was free from the book of the face. A man friend collected it with me. Refused any cash, said I could buy him a pint. He then sent me several flirty messages. He has a long-term girlfriend.
Anyway, it's a lovely sideboard, I added new KNOBS.
Even more off topic: when I was a kid I thought that sideburns were called sideboards.
You don't get a good sideburn anymore, hipsters are so half arsed.

If we are talking thread titles, is anyone talented enough to take Switchstreetz's lead and pen a #196 SHE SHAN'TY to mark the anniversary on Thursday?

Oh bleddy Nora. Her clever all-knowing expression. Trying to show exasperation and wisdom at the same time. She really called everyone's bluff with that pic and email address intel didn't she. 🙄
How has she not grasped the anonymity factor of anonymous fora yet?
Am I to assume that during my brief self imposed jack break there is still no chaos?
Midweek full moon coming up..
 
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Clotted cream is a food of the gods. I would sooner eat it with a spoon than dump it in a curry. Plus, if kept in a fridge, cream is very forgiving of its date and I often use it way past after a little taste to make sure it isn’t sour!

Of course, it’s Hatties grifting at fault. I imagine hearing from a “premium brand specialist” PR company and being promised acres of national coverage would be very persuasive. Problem is, the PR company is barely three months old, flogs tat and dubious products. The journalist is a swindler that’s sat on £15k worth of Kickstarter money for a book that’s less likely than any of mine to get published, and her “magazine” is an internet page that probably doesn’t scrape into double digit visitor hits most days. Her biggest platform going private is just icing on the cake, really.

Another lesson learnt and another reason to pat Tattle on the back. These people are the new travelling caravans selling snake oil with dancing ladies and shills in the crowd espousing how wonderful the oil is.
Yet point out their grifting and shilling and holes in their stories and you are a bully. As you say thank goodness for Tattle. Otherwise the public at large just see wee snippets of stuff presented to them by these people and don't often join the dots. Therefore Jack is poor and an activist (neither true as far as I can see). Hattie needs free holidays for some reason as she can't work. Yes obviously people can be poor and have mental and physical problems, but they shouldn't take advantage of other people's kindness and goodwill by playing victim to give themselves quite the cushy life.
 
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Imagine how much hair collects here with seven dogs and two cats plus me with mine to the waist!
Avatar BlurpDog looks like a firelighter-toilet -roll -hair factory alone!
🥕pls call Root Veg Police There is a FELON about!
 
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Avatar BlurpDog looks like a firelighter-toilet -roll -hair factory alone!
🥕pls call Root Veg Police There is a FELON about!
Grace, the Great Escaper, on her way home from a walk she took herself on! 🤞 that extra fence posts cemented in and a lock on the paddock gate continues to keep her in 😈. Bits of fur were coming out of her in my hand today.
 
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Speculation says this was young Saffron B. Silly girl. She’s just bought a house for a cool million at 20.

Ihave to say, I’m impressed with JMs continued absence from the socials. I’m hoping it does her nothing but good. I also hope it encourages her to get a “proper” job and leave the grift life.
Indeed another ignoring lockdown, travelling hither and yon, multiple bubbles etc etc in fact I am sure I was stood next to her in boots in London recently

Avatar BlurpDog looks like a firelighter-toilet -roll -hair factory alone!
🥕pls call Root Veg Police There is a FELON about!
I guess that’s me 🥺
 
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I’m considering counting days. Not personally but there are websites which do it for you.
Days since Dash last seen 🐰
Days since Cooper last deployed
Days since patreons should have been sent a thrifty shades of beige exclusive postcard
Days the shopping trolley was sent to the Agents office
Days since Jack said she was going to support Full Time Meals
 
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So her account is private 😲
Well well.
I wonder what line she span the glamping place to make them bite. It is utterly shameless when companies have been on their knees for about a year and a half. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
I also fail to see the point of her 'review' - as now UK holiday holiday destinations are getting incredibly booked up so she isn't really doing them any favours - just blocking paying customers. Yes the company may have been gullible but she is the one at fault here imo.
What makes me laugh is would they do something for free . Imagine hey pet we really need you to do a job, you will need staff ( and pay them) ok cool. Now the thing is, it will be entirely unpaid from our end but we will send you snaps.

Not bloody likely they would refuse to do anything if i didnt line their pockets well.
 
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Morning all, now we've turned into the Now That’s What I Call Jack thread, thought I'd revisit the purple prose that is the Top Tips book:
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Paid by the word, eh? 🤔
 
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As part of my "Small Creative Business", I occasionally get asked to donate items to charity auctions. It's not a wholly selfless act - the organisers usually promote my website and Instagram, and that's great publicity for me, as well as supporting the charity, and it's such a great way to help raise money. I've had some real shockers in the past tho:

I gave what I considered to be one of my best pieces to a friend who was running an auction for a small charity she was the treasurer of, and when I went along to the auction, my work wasn't there. When I queried it, she said, "Oh we liked it so much we kept it but made a donation to the charity". Naturally she wouldn't tell me how much, and because my work wasn't on show I lost out on all the publicity.

On another occasion I took a long taxi trip with a piece, and when I got the charity office was told buy the organiser to "sling it on the pile", and he didn't look up from his phone or say thanks.

Another donation was made to a person raising money for a child needing medical care. Mine sold for £350, and the total raised was in the tens of thousands, then the organiser fucked off to Greece with all the dosh.

It's such a shame, because the good feelings I get from helping to raise money are just...tarnished...by crappy stuff like that, and put me off doing it again.

I just don't get the absolute nerve of people begging for holidays and stuff. These idiots (Instagrammers) aren't even trying to raise money for anything worthwhile. - just for themselves. I'm glad that businesses don't feel they have to bend over backwards for some nobody to say their holiday was "Fabulous, Guys!!!"

Rant. Over.:D
 
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I actively avoid companies that engage heavily with influencers. Isle of Wight tomatoes springs to mind along with those awful Lucy and Yuk jumpsuits. I am still recovering from the sea of gifted paeonies on Insta last year.
 
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Midweek full moon coming up..
June 24th is not only the anniversary of thread 31, but also a full moon
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get your strawberry soleros and safety hats at the ready, we could be in for a mega chaos if the stars align
 
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I tried Gousto boxes for the first time recently and one of their curry kits uses clotted cream (!!) When I opened the box, my first thought was that jack had been given a job on their production line and that she must have been responsible for this heinous culinary assault on my home soil.

Incase anyone is curious I made said curry with said clotted cream and it was edible but I would never choose to eat it again.
Back to my Grunk, Love you cabal❤

View attachment 628301I thought Jack had invaded the BBC good food Facebook group with that comment! And I’m baffled at the idea of putting clotted cream in a curry as the first suggestion!
 
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Ooh, lunar chaos! I shan't be having an iced treat. It's really cold here so I'm going to have a strawberry 🍓 tea and possibly wear my knitted Viking beanie.
 
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