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

[People-huv-tae-know]

She'll be looking for anecdotes to steal, particularly from the more personal/memoir type books. The Marx and theoretical stuff is just for show.

Good point. She is a proper plagerist. It reminds me of someone I went to uni with who would use Amazon's 'Look inside' function in order to lift quotes from relevant books and cite them in the reference list.

 

[mobyplay]

I was poor growing up. We are a very basic diet, cheap. But you know, it was tasty food and sometimes I miss it. Cheap food isn’t slop. This is how I know she has never been truly bones of her arse, no way out of it, poor.

 

[Captainmouse]

In response to earlier poster re Iceland delivery, Iceland's not free unless you meet minimum order but yeah, then it's free delivery. Let's face it Cack will deffo be meeting minimum order, we know she doesn't survive on that poorly cooked crunk. Then again, she probably thinks of herself as more of a Waitrose shopper, except when she's pov cosplaying to her legions of adoring squigettes.

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[jenny2603]

Exactly. I actually thought Poverty Safari was really good but its target audience is very obviously not 'people who are already poor'. Maybe she'd know that if she'd read it

The writer of Poverty Safari refers several times during it to the pressure he feels to share details of his past, particularly the problems with his mother, in interviews etc and how he feels about it. I'm now fully braced for Jack to steal this and claim it's the media making her bang on endlessly about being poor for a brief period of time ten years ago.

 

[Griftymcgriftface]

Introduction to Marxism?! Is she gearing up to burn down the pillars of the house or what?

I was on a bus (!!) the other week and there were a couple of teenage goths talking about Marxism and it was like they were the first to personally discover it and they had all the answers. Bit like Jack!

 

[Grizzlybear]

Very proud of those 20-odd books isn’t she? Reading age of 7 when she was 5 for crying out loud! Now look at her! She sometimes sends this picture to her old librarian who laughed at her when she tried to take out The Republic by Plato aged 8. Needless to say she had the last laugh.

 

[ohcomeon99]

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CRITICISM OF JACK MONROE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

Do are you are told. MATE. I would be taking my shoe off at this kind of tit. The audacity of these people but we are the rude awful trolls?

 

[Mr Krabs]

Does everyone believe if she got a regular tv slot, like Saturday Kitchen but on a Wednesday at midnight would that finally make her happy? Or if she owned her own home without bills and could paint her front door?

I’m just musing about what it would take to get this odious little runt away from Twitter and dangerous portion sizes.

Literally nothing would make her happy.

Own TV show? “Waaah I have to work 100 hour weeks to film 10 minutes of myself rinsing beans and chopping an onion. So very tired” *Fails to show up for work*
Buys own home? “My mortgage is crippling and there’s SO much to be done around the house. Maintenance costs. Pls donate.”
Someone raises the funds and gives her that giant duck off house with the orangery? “Rattling windowssss. Can’t afford to decorate. Mah arthritis. Need help with energy bills but I couldn’t possibly ask my followers. 🥹”

 

[Grizzlybear]

I was on a bus (!!) the other week and there were a couple of teenage goths talking about Marxism and it was like they were the first to personally discover it and they had all the answers. Bit like Jack!

A bus? (Skims Marx Wikipedia page) Were you appropriating the drivers surplus labour for purposes of exploitation, comrade?! (Sticks tongue out)

am I lefting right?

 

[miniriot]

Welcome, delighted you chose kumquat for your avatar

Thanks. Been lurking for about a month, absolutely addictive in the weirdest way but also strangely anger inducing. She's so obnoxious, how can people fall for her crap for longer than 5 mins? Anyway, had to join, you're all completely hilarious, in the best way possible of course

 

[floozifer]

Oh Lord she's got the pile of books out again.

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I see lowborn by kerry hudson in there. I've on and off been reading bits of that fir a while. Can't really cope with it. I am absolutely sure Jack has read it. And nicked bits for her own story.

 

[undertheedge]

I was poor growing up. We are a very basic diet, cheap. But you know, it was tasty food and sometimes I miss it. Cheap food isn’t slop. This is how I know she has never been truly bones of her arse, no way out of it, poor.

Same here... my parents never had much money but there was always a lovely evening meal. The meat would usually be a cheap cut of meat like breast of lamb, belly of pork etc but always served with veg and potatoes. Neither of my parents had a car either so we had to walk to get the weekly shop. This was way back in the '60's and we never really considered ourselves as 'poors'.

 

[Veronicaaa]

 

[Cucumberthunder]

I was on a bus (!!) the other week and there were a couple of teenage goths talking about Marxism and it was like they were the first to personally discover it and they had all the answers. Bit like Jack!

I made my housemate at uni cry once because I pointed out that socialism is almost impossible to achieve in reality due to the way structures are set up, the fact greedy people exist etc etc. I'm also a big ol' lefty but I'm quite practical about it.

I wasn't mean about it to be clear, I just pointed out some key challenges with her argument

 

[TillyMiffin]

Her superpower is turning herself into a puddle of slop so she can seep under doors into the Groucho club.

I wish she’d STFU about her gaping wound…

 

[TraceyJacks]

Potat-er hater

I potater hate-her

 

[trancejunkie]

Whataboutery really pisses me off.The sign of someone who has lost the argument or can’t articulate their facts effectively.Attempting to deflect the valid points made against them by trying to make the other person feel defensive and or guilty.The argument derails or the person backs down. Either way it takes the heat off the points being made. In this case whether the person involved does sfa for charity etc is utterly irrelevant. Opinions are allowed. Always.
For example Monroe , I don’t need to be a chef or a cook to know if I’ve been served a bad meal . A pertinent example when it comes to your food you pathetic greetin faced fanny.That’ll do.

 

[Shawads]

Her superpower is turning herself into a puddle of slop so she can seep under doors into the Groucho club.

Reminiscent of the shapeshifting cockroaches in Borat the movie...

 

[Stormageddon]

Also a midwife earning a comfy £40k plus unsocial hours/call-out rates and overtime and besides I would be tucking into a freshly birthed placenta before I touched any of Jack’s slopshit.

 

[Captainmouse]

Same here... my parents never had much money but there was always a lovely evening meal. The meat would usually be a cheap cut of meat like breast of lamb, belly of pork etc but always served with veg and potatoes. Neither of my parents had a car either so we had to walk to get the weekly shop. This was way back in the '60's and we never really considered ourselves as 'poors'.

Apparently I was a bit of a terror, during the shop, we didn’t have a car either. in those days you didn’t take your push chair into the shops to shove into the shins of other shoppers, or block the aisles.

I somehow discovered that if I let myself out of my pushchair, wandered off, got found by a policeman, gave them my name and address, I got a ride home in a police car