Hubris, Jack Monroe is thy name.
Hubris, Jack Monroe is thy name.
Couldn't afford milk, but asked a café owner to put 6 spoons of sugar in her tea as it is the only calories she would have that day. How much is a cup of tea in a café? Not embarrassed to ask a café owner for six sugars, but family and friends must never know she is struggling as it is embarrassing.
I don't know why I try to make sense of it all, it is just exaggerated drivel.
And that says it all. Jack doesn't understand anyone's job, or qualifications and experience that would be needed to do it. She has no clue as to the complexities involved in following a real career.
My thoughts exactly!But...but...she says she asked someone at the foodbank to give her 6 sugars as she wouldn't have any other calories that day. But if she was at the foodbank....surely she would be collecting...food???
ETA: Sorry @MancBee, I don't want to sound like a mithering ninny!
I'm pages behind (been BUSY in my PAYE job) but hello there Jack!
For that alone, Jack should forever feel ashamed. Putting herself before the wellbeing of her child. Despicable (if it were true)Oh she's being such a terror.
We had periods of financial instability when I was a child. I don't equate it to poverty because it wasn't. It's not poverty when you have a way out, and especially not when you choose not to take said way out like Jack.
Good parents will do anything they can to keep their child safe, warm, fed, happy and healthy. That doesn't mean that not being able to give your kid one (or all!) those things makes you a bad parent; on the contrary. But denying your child that safety, food etc. because of your pride is beyond the pale.
Exactly. Either it's true (despicable) or she's lying (despicable).For that alone, Jack should forever feel ashamed. Putting herself before the wellbeing of her child. Despicable (if it were true)
She has boxes and boxes of little bits of blank paper, which may well well have been receipts, onceHow can she have 'literal receipts' from 10 years, when they're printed on thermal paper and last a max of about 1-5 years IF stored properly (we know she's not got expertise in this area.)
So I guess she has them scanned on to her laptop, except... Oh. No, that was stolen. So maybe they're saved onto her cloud... But... Oh, no didn't she lose her actual book draft because she hadn't backed anything up?
.... Odd
Sadly I believe out of the whole sorry mess of her backstory that particular element is true.For that alone, Jack should forever feel ashamed. Putting herself before the wellbeing of her child. Despicable (if it were true)
Idk how she can be so vile and blasé, the calibre of candidates for that job will be absolute
Wouldn't it be BRILLIANT if she wrote for them. The inconsistencies and arrant nonsense would be there for all to see and she'd be eaten alive! Yaaaass!
Catching up after a busy day at work so apologies if this has been said already: her 10m views and retweets from celebs are based on her local supermarket alone? That’s her RESEARCH? Oh how the mighty will fall.
Thread title nomination!Poor Chris Giles, Jack has actually caused him to resign.
I would actually pay to read some of her articles if she were to be given a trial probationary period as Economics lead writer for the FT. Can you just imagine.Idk how she can be so vile and blasé, the calibre of candidates for that job will be absolutenot some shit thicko like her? These publications and data journalists are creating industry/practice leading content and it’s upsetting to see them being spoken to so poorly and lambasted with highly triggering threads.
an old acquaintance from school writes for Reuters on economics, surprisingly he has an economics degreeAnd that says it all. Jack doesn't understand anyone's job, or qualifications and experience that would be needed to do it. She has no clue as to the complexities involved in following a real career.
"Economics lead writer, I can do that, piece of piss."
Jack, you are not a genius, you do not have unrivalled abilities Ya Prune.
I don’t think Hugh Grant has had these horrible experiences.
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