Ahh I'm not up on ancient Monroe history. So she quit in November but still has £175 (or £86 if she just got a day ticket) to spare in March 2012 to pay for festival tickets. Plus presumably travel costs and a bit of spending money.
Jack Monroe #314 Take care on the stairs you pretend to fall down repeatedly
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Too EARLY!
This though is the fundamental problem for our smol pixie isn’t it?! Desperate to be unique and quirky but fundamentally bland and dull.
She really fancies herself as Veronica Mars doesn’t she? Ya not though, Jack. Using Google to find news article does not a Deep Dive nor PI nor Paralegal make
I think we all need to go to a school hall, get some scissors and glue, get given a piece of A3 paper and month each from 2009 and do a giant timeline.
This is fecking mind blowing.
(obvs gel pens and highlighters too)
Then we need some serious digging pre 2009 to find the ~origins~.
This is fecking mind blowing.
(obvs gel pens and highlighters too)
Then we need some serious digging pre 2009 to find the ~origins~.
The funny thing is that she briefly got a part-time job in a pub in March (this is what led to her getting into debt as it caused issues with her benefits. She quit after a few weeks). I wouldn't be at all surprised if she got the job and immediately bought festival tickets to celebrate.
In the fb sale posts she mentions “other people buying my food”
No mention of a foodbank but I suppose the words could be twisted.
No mention of a foodbank but I suppose the words could be twisted.
If I remember right, V fest did a limited number of early access tickets for the following year not long after that years’ festival had finished. So it’s possible she bought the ticket for the 2012 festival in August/September 2011. Then the main sale would have gone live in March 2012.
That sounds about right.
I'm generally one for saying people should spend their earnings/benefits how they want, but equally when people who claim to be budgeting experts from a time of poverty are doing things like that...
The foodbank came later, IIRC first mentioned in December 2012. At this point she was still getting an Abel & Cole veg box. What was that phrase again? Notoriously good with money?
I wish I had the time to build a giant timeline with receipts for jack's story, so we could see the 5 different dates for each event etc
Is Jack claiming that the garlic jam recipe is from her new cook book or just using on old recipe to demonstrate her editing process (and forgetting to mention it)
if you Google bootstrap cook and garlic jam you can see It is really similar, wording included, if a recipe from 8 years ago.
I would call Jack ingenious, but she never said it was from her new book Did SHE!
Because middle class people think being on a key meter is the worst thing ever. You see this all the time on mumsnet. Absolute rubbish. They're the ones crying now because their DDs have doubled . I'm putting pretty much the same on my key as I was this time last year. So thankful I kept my key meter, even though I paid my debt off many years ago.
The funny thing is she just copy/pasted it from her website. The recipe in the photo she shared yesterday has random underlined words like baking sheet, heavy-bottomed pan, and tea towel. They're underlined because they were affiliate links on her blog (until the great crash, send crack team of engineeros).
I wondered why they were underlined. I thought at first it was because they were essential items (non-food related) needed for the recipe but that didn’t make sense.
She really is the laziest writer ever.
That’s why there’s still wine in it then. She’s just using old content. That’s really not cool if you’re selling this to people. Still this is the woman who thought eggy bread and pizza toast were acceptable as “recipes”
to hark back to her saying she had a breakdown from self publishing…literally thousands of people self publish now, and they don’t have 68k to play with!! I mean, she didn’t even have that many backers really did she?? It’s hardly difficult.
I noticed it because her aff links always used to make me laugh. She did them in such a half-assed way, for all kinds of random stupid items. Who's gonna buy tea towels on Amazon FFS?
Wow @colouredlines , that Facebook find is spectacular. The very very first grift.
@Orphan_Black your Facebook find was great too, really good evidence against the poverty claims.
@Orphan_Black your Facebook find was great too, really good evidence against the poverty claims.
Here's your gift, a miserable book on poverty, disgusting food and things to do with tumble dryer fluff.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Hmm we may be past the point of doing this analogue. We need some sort of productivity software so we can keep track of the different years and multiple stories. Then we can hire a project manager to oversee and collate the info, and get a custom database made so we can cross reference the LIES upon LIES.
You just know we're going to get a picture of all of those things presented as a home made meze.I hope OH with the big car hasn't left, someone should take jack down to Lidl as it's Greek week. Check your Lidl plus card for 10% off Greek food! Cream cheese rolled in green olives with a feta and kalamata center
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