Jack Monroe #294 It's like 10,000 tweets when all you need is a life.

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Hollaaa

Hollaaa

jenny2603 said:
Also what is her writing challenging exactly? It's just some sort of twisted therapy for her and poverty porn for her middle class readers. Nothing is being exposed or threatened by anything she's said. I'm trying to be fair here, it may be that having grown up in a Tory part of the country saying anything even slightly left wing feels edgy and rebellious but it really isn't. Maybe she should try and broaden her horizons and be less parochial.
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Sometimes Jack reminds me of when I went to see Janeane Garafalo (of whom I am a huge fan acting-wise) do standup in Edinburgh. She was very much "check me with my tattoos and edgy left wing politics" and everyone in the audience was like, "yeah, we already do all that in the UK".
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TbilisiPeach

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Geetbo said:
How does Jack Monroe teaching the poors how to make meringues out of chickpea water help them eat may I ask?

Looking where fresh fruit and veg are the cheapest east week might, but Jack cba to do that as it would cut into valuable twitter time.
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Babe, she's not only the saviour of the poor, but also an eco-warrior. So using chickpea water instead of pouring it down the drain saves the planet, in the same way that using bleach in her washing machine does.
 
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definitelynotvlad

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Sorry, is she advocating you can use the juice of *any* bean to make meringue? I’ve heard of Aquafaba from chickpeas, but not any old bean? Any volunteers to try a kidney bean juice meringue? I’ll try baked beans and see how that goes.

Also, I am a midwife, and the wages are not £20 a week food budget terrible. And even if I were in dire straits, I’d be nicking food off the patients lunch trolley long before I resorted to trying any of her depressipes.
 
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Smeghead

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TbilisiPeach said:
Babe, she's not only the saviour of the poor, but also an eco-warrior. So using chickpea water instead of pouring it down the drain saves the planet, in the same way that using bleach in her washing machine does.
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If all of us used chickpea water when making meringue both jack and Greta would be out of jobs. And very pleased about it too.
 
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Hollaaa

Hollaaa

Griftymcgriftface said:
They absolutely should earn more but if someone is working full time as a midwife they will be earning a decent salary, enough to afford butter anywayView attachment 1220375
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Also quite famously, babies arrive on their own schedule, which means midwives sometimes can't just walk away at the end of their shifts. For which their terms and conditions (quite rightly) compensate very well, seeing as you can't simply 'print more time' in the same way that you can't solve socio-economic problems by printing more money. My NHS terms and conditions were much better than any charity or commercial job I've ever done.

Cross-post @definitelynotvlad, you are obvs in a better position to comment.
 
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Off to catch up with the Depp trial, something surprisingly she hasn’t jumped on and made her own poor me battle. YET
 
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jenny2603

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A couple of years back I was working in a place which held regular community food cooking groups. People would put forward ideas, a recipe would be picked and everyone would cook it together then have lunch and go up the road with a box of leftovers for reheating later on. Not once did I hear Jack's name mentioned or anything remotely resembling her slop requested. Generally people wanted to cook nice stuff that they like eating - fakeaways were always a big deal. Recipes were either brought in by people in the class or googled. The idea that people on low incomes are sitting like a helpless nest of baby birds waiting for Jack to fire slop at them is insulting and bears no resemblance to reality.
 
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definitelynotvlad

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Hollaaa said:
Also quite famously, babies arrive on their own schedule, which means midwives sometimes can't just walk away at the end of their shifts. For which their terms and conditions (quite rightly) compensate very well, seeing as you can't simply 'print more time' in the same way that you can't solve socio-economic problems by printing more money. My NHS terms and conditions were much better than any charity or commercial job I've ever done.

Cross-post @definitelynotvlad, you are obvs in a better position to comment.
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There’s also the bonus in healthcare that you can pick up extra shifts if you need to, which I know isn’t an option for everyone and I am lucky to have that level of flexibility available to me. You might not ever buy a £750k house with a spite orangery on a midwives wage alone, but there are far worse paid and far less rewarding professions to be part of! Plus the sick pay / maternity pay / pension security on top of a liveable wage.
 
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