We're coming to the end of the No Spend Year and I, for one, think it's been a marvellous success! 
Jack Monroe #234 A Grifty Kind of Self-Love
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Asda
Lips
A&E makeup
Excruciating squig interactions
Asda
Lips
A&E makeup
Excruciating squig interactions
For those keeping score, the following things put the light back in Jack's eyes after a bout of crippling depression:
- cooking slop
- playing with makeupand facetune
- Nintendo goose games
- late-night sober parties
All I can really say is that her experience of depression is vastly different from mine.
- cooking slop
- playing with makeup
- Nintendo goose games
- late-night sober parties
All I can really say is that her experience of depression is vastly different from mine.
Well, she's achieved one thing with all her IT woes - I realised my site backup has expired and I've renewed it, so thanks Jack.
I'm sure it's been said 1000 times already in this thread but I'm annoyed, so I'll rant...
Jack doesn't want to move on from her cereal and water story. A lot of people who follow her have some form of poverty induced trauma. She has a national platform and she could do so much good work, she could champion specific people who have faced similar situations and showcase how they survived and overcame them. She could do specific segments on people who have overcome specific struggles - such as people who don't have access to a hob/microwave, or people who don't have access to a fridge, or people who were in temporary housing, or asylum seekers, or people in very rural situations.
But the most annoying part is that she makes it seem like you can't ever heal from your trauma, not even slightly heal. If Jack, with all her many therapists can't leave behind her poverty trauma then Glenda down the street with her low paid job, stuck on an NHS mental health waiting list and following Jack on Twitter is going to think that she can't heal either. So why even bother?
I'm not saying that Jack needs to pretend that life is sunshine and rainbows, but she has such a big platform now that she could feature people who are doing well, and give her followers some hope that their lives won't be tit forever.
Jack doesn't want to move on from her cereal and water story. A lot of people who follow her have some form of poverty induced trauma. She has a national platform and she could do so much good work, she could champion specific people who have faced similar situations and showcase how they survived and overcame them. She could do specific segments on people who have overcome specific struggles - such as people who don't have access to a hob/microwave, or people who don't have access to a fridge, or people who were in temporary housing, or asylum seekers, or people in very rural situations.
But the most annoying part is that she makes it seem like you can't ever heal from your trauma, not even slightly heal. If Jack, with all her many therapists can't leave behind her poverty trauma then Glenda down the street with her low paid job, stuck on an NHS mental health waiting list and following Jack on Twitter is going to think that she can't heal either. So why even bother?
I'm not saying that Jack needs to pretend that life is sunshine and rainbows, but she has such a big platform now that she could feature people who are doing well, and give her followers some hope that their lives won't be tit forever.
So the recipe wants us to cook this for potentially 1h20? That is mental and does not explain why it looks both wet and incredibly dry at the same time.
Itās also baffling how someone can make a ārecipeā and put it straight on the internet without so much as trying it in different pans and actually have people interested in what she has to say. I donāt think sheās interested in food in the slightest, if she was her recipes would actually be good.
For anybody who might be finding the recent picture of Jack posted hard to deal with here is an actual picture of her.
Once again, this is a challenging time for many. If Jack wants to discuss her MH she should warn people and use TW. Insomnia, particularly that caused in part by depression or other condition, is no joke. It does not allow you to get up and faff around with hair dye for hours. It leaves you writhing in the dark, wondering when the night will end, your mind picking over every word you have spoken or written to others, in the depths of shame. When the light eventually comes, (in winter, that time being agonisingly further away) it takes everything for you to be persuaded into a shower. But, if she can muster the energy to dye her hair, then put on a face of make up, take a load of selfies and reply to people on the hellsite then credit where credit is due. d
Ffs, what a f*****g drama queen. Youāve had your hair done, TWICE, at vast expense, bought a new wardrobe of clothes, seemingly, put make up on every day and endlessly tweeted. Meanwhile, here in the real world, there are people, including myself, who canāt even motivate themselves to wash their bloody face, let alone piss about like some hormonal teenage twit. Just duck off.
Here's another one from the newly-unearthed archives, Jack's Guinness brownies.
Just a couple of things here. For the #TinCan'tCook files, Jack thinks putting Guinness on a medium-low heat will result in it reducing by half. She explicitly instructs her readers not to turn up the heat. They'll be waiting a very long time for that reduction then...
Now imagine you're making a recipe for St Patrick's Day, using a very Irish main ingredient. Which word would you definitely not use in your recipe description?
Whoops.
Another one and done recipe she started working on the same day that she posted it. Plus, further proof that "begosh and begorrah friends, would yous be recommending me your favourite dishes from the Emerald Isle, so it is?" is one of her go-to Tweets when she needs attention.
Oh, and there's also a lengthy bit about how she refuses to compromise on stout and will only buy Guinness, and how much she loves the boozy smell of her brownies (
)...and yep, this recipe was posted well after her first periods of performative sobriety.
She really is stuck in an endlessly repeating cycle, isn't she?
Just a couple of things here. For the #TinCan'tCook files, Jack thinks putting Guinness on a medium-low heat will result in it reducing by half. She explicitly instructs her readers not to turn up the heat. They'll be waiting a very long time for that reduction then...
Now imagine you're making a recipe for St Patrick's Day, using a very Irish main ingredient. Which word would you definitely not use in your recipe description?
Whoops.
Another one and done recipe she started working on the same day that she posted it. Plus, further proof that "begosh and begorrah friends, would yous be recommending me your favourite dishes from the Emerald Isle, so it is?" is one of her go-to Tweets when she needs attention.
Oh, and there's also a lengthy bit about how she refuses to compromise on stout and will only buy Guinness, and how much she loves the boozy smell of her brownies (
)...and yep, this recipe was posted well after her first periods of performative sobriety.She really is stuck in an endlessly repeating cycle, isn't she?
Some of us are working, even though public transport isnāt, it took me 3 hours to get to work this morning, 3 hours! I would love to piss about at home all day whilst others funded my lifestyle
This. Depression and anxiety is different for everyone. But personally I wouldnāt be out and about on trains into London and at hair appointments, it would be too much for my anxiety to even contemplate. I wouldnāt even want to put my face on Twitter to be judged by thousands of people if I was feeling that bad.
Scuse me, she put the bins out and is going to Asda, this counts as work in MonroeWorld.Some of us are working, even though public transport isnāt, it took me 3 hours to get to work this morning, 3 hours! I would love to piss about at home all day whilst others funded my lifestyle
Our Jackie....
Ooh,me with a mask. Just popped on for a look.
More like a crap team.
Just happened to have Jerome Russell B Blonde and Schwarzkopf Live U71 and Bleach London Silver Conditioner lying around, nothing planned about this at all!
The hair colour looks nice.
To quote Raja from Drag Race, Jack currently has garage doors as eye make up... aka a large block of a block colour smeared right across her eye and upper eyelid.
I am by no means good at make up; if I posted all my make up experiments on social media everyone would think I went to clown college. Not everything has to be shared though.
To quote Raja from Drag Race, Jack currently has garage doors as eye make up... aka a large block of a block colour smeared right across her eye and upper eyelid.
I am by no means good at make up; if I posted all my make up experiments on social media everyone would think I went to clown college. Not everything has to be shared though.
Looking forward to Spend Year although that might just be shelling out money to her crack team of IT specialists and hopefully HMRC.We're coming to the end of the No Spend Year and I, for one, think it's been a marvellous success!
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