Jack Monroe #24 Gets herself in a Twitter tizzy, book announced then deleted, she is busy.

[GrunkaLunka]

I fucking love you guys.

So much has happened, and there is no way I can comment on everything so these are my chosen mentions.

@heretoreaditall2019 Your chicken soup disaster had me in tears. The fear that the bin men had sussed out your crime and weren't going to take the bag.
I'm sorry you've had a difficult time and I am glad to see Tattle has given you support and distraction.

@LennyBriscoe I am so sorry I wasn't here for your 40th. I'm glad it was a lovely day and that the Tattlemonsters represented.

@Begborrowsteal I'm so sorry to hear your news, and I hope that time is healing.

@BeautifulTrauma I am so sorry for your loss.

I've been here, catching up with all the tears, laughter and drama. I read every post. What a ride.

 

[Spoonfulofjam]

I know I shouldn’t have because Jack needs to be accountable for being a shit, but I sent N a voucher code for £20 for amazon to buy the book and some treats. I’m not posting this for any reason other than I actually feel guilty because everyone feels that’s the wrong approach but she damn near broke my heart. Having looked at her twitter, she seems like a kind and generous person whose had tough times. I like to think one day she’ll pay it on. She seems the type.

Adding that I hope by the end of the day N is deluged by copies of the book that she can sell on eBay for profit and cake

 

[sineadf]

Like i said I don't follow either, but I get the feeling JK's stuff was well intentioned but clumsy. She seems to be reacting to the hate coming her way.
Yes, 100% JM and her wading in. She do love a bandwagon to hitch herself to!!!! She didn't comment untill a BIG character like J.Ross got involved. Again, I don't follow JR but his responses have been calm and well measured (even though his own daughter has been on tv slagging him off!!)
I'm of the opinion that JM has tried to get involved with another 'big thang' on t'internet that will look like she's some sort of saviour

JK isn't clumsy. She's been paying close attention to this for years and her tweet was worded carefully. She is fed up, as so many women are, of women losing the word "women" and being redefined as "menstruators", "cervix havers" and "pregnant people", while men mysteriously get to keep all their words. She is well aware of the vicious abuse heaped on anyone who questions this, and the misogyny behind it. But you know, what would a middle aged woman know about anything? She has to be "educated" by people with anime avatars who still live with their parents.

Jack is just a clueless bandwagon jumper as ever.

 

[SqualorVictoria]

Check out superfans latest tweet to her. This is heartbreaking

 

[Bellybutton lint]

And pay for the privilege

I would not put it past her.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

She can't breathe?


Really?




Really?

She CAN'T BREATHE?

 

[MancBee]

I've taken a few days off to get my act together. The actions and attitude of JM was beginning to become triggering for me. I removed myself from SM for my own mental health.

A close friend who has been struggling with lockdown has been sectioned over the weekend. He has no family and only a couple of friends who phone daily. His community psychiatric nurse is at full stretch and can only offer so much help. He suffers from other illnesses which requires him to shield, so has not left his small flat for 12 weeks. He was found on his doorstep having what can only be called a psychotic episode. This is what mental I'll health can do.

This made me reflect on the ridiculous manner that JM is behaving and as such was making me angry. She has so much support, family, friends, work colleagues and three mental health specialists on speed dial. If her MH is suffering, then she need to address the issue, not carry on with all the nonsense on SM etc. Her life is so dark, she is suffering, but all this adoration from her fans on twitter will make her life so much better. What a load of shit. People who suffer poor mental health can not be cured by a few sycophants telling you you're marvelous. She is just needs her ego boosting. Such a narcissist. She makes me so angry, I had to take a break for my own sanity.

She obviously reads these pages and is incapable of accepting that she is not universally liked. People in the public eye just have to accept, they are not everyone's cup of tea. She is clearly going through a relationship breakdown, we've all been there, it's horrible. But, and it's a big but, she is supposed to be a professional, and that's where she fails miserably. There has never been clear separation between her personal and professional lives. Happy to cash in and talk about Mrs J when things are peachy. But woe is me and you've no idea how miserable my life is and I don't want to talk about it, when things go pearshaped. (Hope you all like the fruit references there, should I make a peach and pear curry?)

I know that there is so much support on this thread, but even knowing that, I had to take a break away. It's great to catch up, though I will be reading back pages all day!

 

[PennyLoafer]

Go, badmum, go! You hum it, we'll play it.

 

[GrunkaLunka]

9 pages to catch up on this morning - I’m doing a @GrunkaLunka

Look, I don't mean to be a total Jack Elevenerife here but I powered through 4 threads equating to approx 200 pages. I barely had time to gasp in wonder at unexpected butterflies ffs.

 

[PennyLoafer]

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Oh Lord.

"He's not a prop for my activism..."

I was not expecting to laugh this hard before I've even finished my first coffee of the morning.

Jack, you are so transparent, you should be using Windolene instead of moisturiser.

I would love to see this "tonne of protective measures". Are they going to climb inside her sideboard, chant a spell and go back in time to pre-Coronavirus days?

I thought she did her own hair with a beard trimmer* because she didn't have any proper hair clippers?
*of course she has three of those. Of course. Although fuck knows why.

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

9 pages to catch up on this morning - I’m doing a @GrunkaLunka

 

[FridayFunDay]

Jack you fucking tool. And I'll say that in court. Your brother might be family but he is not part of your household. You are not meant to be within 2 metres of him.

Also, there is an actual hairdresser telling you they wouldn't attempt Afro hair. It is a speciality in it's own right. And you're like 'yeah I'll learn'



The fucking arrogance is blinding.

Wanker.

 

[GrunkaLunka]

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This makes me feel sick. My opinion... There is no point to this Tweet other than "I have a person of colour in my family" She is hitching her wagon to Black Lives Matter, with the surname changing, #publishingpaidme and now the afro hairdresser. Not only that, but she attempts to stall anyone saying this by stating that HE'S A CHILD so don't even think about coming for him. No one will come for him, you bellend. But there's no way I won't call out your disgusting manipulation, attempting to get in on what you see as a popular movement but what is in reality a matter of life and death for people. Black Lives Matter isn't a trend for you to use, you fucking monster. Sometimes I feel sorry for her, and worry about her mental health. Then she does something like this, and her true nature shines through.

 

[Ellabella]

I cannot believe that she's literally done the thing black people have told white people to STFU about: "I'm not racist, I've even got a black brother".

 

[choccydigestive]

I have always liked Jack and still do, but I am really cross about this haircutting business. I don't know the reasons why she or her mum (who presumably lives with her brother) are immunocompromised but depending on the REASON they are immunocompromised they will have received the shielding letter from the government as well as direct contact from the national shielding helpline and potentially their local council and GP as well.

I know this because my husband is immunocompromised and was told to shield. This was nearly two months ago. In that time we have slept in separate bedrooms and haven't even been able to hug or to kiss each other FOR TWO MONTHS because I am going out to public places (mostly just the supermarket) and although I am careful and mask up and wear gloves and shower when I get home I absolutely cannot risk any sort of transmission to my husband.

There have been times when I have been really scared for what this physical separation is doing to our relationship and I have wanted nothing more than a hug on some horrendous days, but I have NOT done it because the advice is to SHIELD which means to protect the extra vulnerable.

So I have no sympathy for Jack on this. There is no "I'm sure it will be OK" rule, Jack. We all want the closeness and to help the ones we love but you have to suck it up like everyone else who has someone close who is shielded, whether that is you or a family member. FFS.

 

[Lurker1985!]

LMAO - Front page of the BBC website “expert tips to take the humble sandwich to the next level”

hello everyone, plucked up courage to make my first post.

 

[lipsticktaser]

Woooo Hooo @GrunkaLunka great to have you back in real time with us.
Now can Jack calm down for the day. I’m on my way to our BLM March and I can’t be doing with 3 new threads by the time I’m home.

I'd love to see Jack turn up at my door, I live on a council estate (actually quite a nice area, mainly pensioners and familes), she'd be horrified at some of the properties if she thinks her bungalow is shitty.

I’m Glaswegian. We have a special kiss for people who turn up at our door uninvited.

 

[doop]

How many of us have come here from her twitter? It's all been quite eye-opening.

 

[TriviaNewtonJohn]

Jack Monroe #25 worst paid advance, posing in her pants, at least Hellmans have given this 10 year newbie a chance

 

[AmTellinYa]

And there goes my final bit of empathy towards THAT woman.

She is apparently immunocompromised, as is her mother (or at least she has health problems severe enough to be shielding) yet she is going to cut her brothers hair?! And don't dare come at her or him about it you bunch of racist trolls... Because that is what she is basically saying!! Funny she hadn't mentioned this brother before, but now suddenly because of BLM he is suddenly part of the 0.01% of her life that she shares online?! But she isn't using him as a prop for her activism oh no. She's accusing people here of being the type who would bully and troll a 14 year old, and yet two nights ago had the nerve to post the hashtag #bekind.

I am so angry I just can't. She is so fucking triggering, I have severe MH problems myself and I have never in my life carried on the way she does. She's an outright scammer and a fraud.