Jack Monroe #228 The winter of our fishcontent

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That was quite a grunk! I’m glad we are getting content for the 2022 sloppies already!
 
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I suspect Jack's picked up a lot of her notions from American TV shows. They tend to show things like therapy and recovery in a very over the top way. Her whole language and behaviour around the subject is off somehow.
O/T: Looking at YOU Pose Season 3. On topic: Jack is a poser.
 
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Cat follows human to warm bed in northern hemisphere winter. Another groundbreaking moment from Jack. She was hoping for responses including references to guardian angels, support animal, "they always know when the light has gone from your eyes"

 
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I'm a bit ill, not enough to retweet that fact repeatedly, but enough to spend all day on the sofa. Earlier I was digging through some Jack Instagram archives.

There's some stuff that only becomes truly fucked up in hindsight, like the pets that get introduced, photographed 20 times in a month, then are never spoken of again. But I don't want to go into that too much...

I was curious about how long her veganism actually lasted. It started as Veganuary (although she didn't mention that in the infamous Guardian piece). By the 12th of February she was judging a kids' LGBT-themed baking contest (?), with plenty of non-vegan cakes:

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Then it gets a bit messy and full of contradictions. Non-vegan food (and face cream!) shows up quite regularly for the rest of 2016, and by the time we get into 2017 we see:

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I feel like she lied about being vegan a LOT longer than she actually was vegan...

If I'm still unwell tomorrow I might tally up the number of times she talks about her newfound sobriety. It happens a LOT - note the date here, October 2016:

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"How to completely trivialise addiction" - by Jack Monroe.

I don't believe her tales about alcoholism at all. She's a dangerous idiot 😡.
 
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The Bristol Sports Foundation seems like an interesting beast. I can't be bothered to look into it in great detail, but I'm not sure what qualifies them to teach kids about cooking and nutrition.
Depressing that Bristol Council chose to spend the money there instead of just giving the cash to families to feed themselves.
 
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Lol @ the idea of cracking addiction in two weeks.
TBF, this is double the time she cracked it at the start of 2019. Still can't believe the Guardian saw fit to publish a piece in which she said: "It hasn’t been easy. At the time of writing this, I have been sober for exactly a week. The change has been remarkable."
 
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"How to completely trivialise addiction" - by Jack Monroe.

I don't believe her tales about alcoholism at all. She's a dangerous idiot 😡.
I can believe that Jack has issues with alcohol.

But I can also believe that they're exaggerated to garner sympathy.
 
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I can believe that Jack has issues with alcohol.

But I can also believe that they're exaggerated to garner sympathy.
I can believe that she sometimes drinks too much and acts like an even bigger hole than she actually is. And... that's probably where my belief ends.
 
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I never understood how Jack gets accredited with being a campaigner, activist, charity supporter etc. It would be interesting to know how much money she has actively donated/raised/contributed to a charity.
PS, I know how much really, apart from the labeled tins.
 
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I can believe that she sometimes drinks too much and acts like an even bigger hole than she actually is. And... that's probably where my belief ends.
Maybe, although I think that doing that comes under "having a problem with alcohol".
 
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Maybe, although I think that doing that comes under "having a problem with alcohol".
Maybe, but in that case the vast majority of people have a problem with alcohol. Which may be correct (my view is skewed by where I live, I mean I don't want to pander to stereotypes but ... aye 😂)
 
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OK, so here we go - the sobriety timeline.

January 2016: Jack does Dry January...and her accounts! Truly a different era.

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February 2016. Dry January is over, time to celebrate.

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August 2016. Jack goes sober.

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...but not for long.

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September 2016: Jack limits herself to one drink a day.

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It doesn't last, either.

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October 2016: Jack has a drinking problem!

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December 2016: Gin o'clock

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March 2017: Jack is off the booze for Lent. Notice that last October's sobriety has been downgraded from recovering from alcoholism to just Sober October.

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7 days later. Lent is not over, sobriety is.

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April 2017. Jack goes sober again, this time for longer, and celebrates with sexy kumquat pics.

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October 2017. She's starting again.

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December 2017. No she isn't!

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Then nothing until January 2019 and the infamous Guardian column:

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Had to share this, I think it may be the least appetising thing she's ever cooked.

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OK, so here we go - the sobriety timeline.

January 2016: Jack does Dry January...and her accounts! Truly a different era.

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February 2016. Dry January is over, time to celebrate.

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August 2016. Jack goes sober.

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...but not for long.

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September 2016: Jack limits herself to one drink a day.

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It doesn't last, either.

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October 2016: Jack has a drinking problem!

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December 2016: Gin o'clock

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March 2017: Jack is off the booze for Lent. Notice that last October's sobriety has been downgraded from recovering from alcoholism to just Sober October.

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7 days later. Lent is not over, sobriety is.

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April 2017. Jack goes sober again, this time for longer, and celebrates with sexy kumquat pics.

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October 2017. She's starting again.

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December 2017. No she isn't!

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Then nothing until January 2019 and the infamous Guardian column:

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Had to share this, I think it may be the least appetising thing she's ever cooked.

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This is all truly shocking, but the most appalling bit is the thought of Jack as a houseguest dipping a grimy finger into someone else's face cream. That is not a question of taste, it's basic decency (more accurately, the lack of it).
 
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