Jack Monroe #322 Mr T Roll and the Mitty Bungalow Mystery

[Cookiecookie]

From the comments in the linked article. Imagine going to your GP and have them direct you to Jack Monroe's website! This is worse than bloody Shipman.

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I've encountered, through various family members and myself, some absolutely appalling GPs and doctors over the years. I think this one is somehow the worst.

 

[Griftymcgriftface]

Just for shits and giggles whilst she's quiet-


Nah, seriously, read her last paragraph on this one-

Spoiler: Job Hunt fun

I'm Going On A Job Hunt

I'm going on a job hunt, I'm going on a job hunt, I'm not scared, i'm not scared... So, for what feels like the millionth time since I left the Fire Service, I'm trawling the Internet and the High ...

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Fear not though, she got a trial that very day!-

Spoiler: Toot Toot!

Job trial! Job trial! I've got myself a job trial!

You can hear the exultation in my title post, can't you? I've been a busy bee today, nagging and begging and handing CVs in, and I'm not going to say too much in case it doesn't work out and I look...

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Waiting by that phone again, will she get the job?-

Spoiler: They didn't want her back

Job Trial Completed

So that's the job trial over and done with, three hours and thirty three additional minutes of can't-quite-bring-myself-to-leave. Pouring pints, loading a dishwasher, polishing wine glasses and cha...

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The degree comment at the end one makes me a real 1978 truther

 

[WTFDidIJustSee]

Like she said it's none of my business but I am not convinced she is sober! This is my own opinion and not trying to out her. I just don't believe her.

She posts on Twatter about it so she makes it everyone else’s business.

After reading that article, I’m convinced she’s not even an addict, is doing a Marla Singer and merely needed something else to wang on about that she could never be called out on because Anonymous

 

[Shawads]

OH’s part-time retail work sounds very lucrative

J1g
Too short, spurious accusation based on other spurious assumptions

 

[LavaFlake]

I’ve noticed there are loads of account on FB, IG and TikTok doing cheap meals. All fast, minimal prep, bright and look tasty. I don’t know where she fits in with her endless plates of brown sadness.

Yes I don't know his @ but there's this Brummie guy that comes up on my TikTok that does meals for 4 for less than a fiver and they look edible, filling and actually cost a fiver for all ingredients.

 

[Boyo]

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Mr Asda is in so much trouble when Jack sees this.

I think you’ll find that they reached out to her, actually. Just cos they’re her supermarket of choice - that’s just coincidence, like when they arsed about with their essentials range right about when she was bleating on about value brands disappearing.

 

[Pavlova]

Jack is the most tragic Greek since Oedipus.

Christ, I need glasses, I thought that said octopus... and been trying to figure it out

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

She'd be looking a long time, the nearest Sainsbury's to Inverness is in Nairn! Tesco has a near-total monopoly in the Highlands after land banking for years. There's the odd Aldi, Lidl and small Co-Ops, but other than the aforementioned Nairn Sainsbury's, an Asda in Tain and a Morrisons in Inverness, pretty much every other supermarket across the whole of the Highlands is a Tesco.

Sounds like where I live. Four Tescos in a 3 mile radius.

No Asda unless she hot foots it up to the hills and there is NO WAY she is going up to Stanley. She would be frozen with fear and then cold.

 

[Captainmouse]

Oh btw there's a Lurker Frau who will be attending the thing Jack's meant to be at next Wednesday. I will report back if I can't convince Lurker Frau to post about it herself. In the meantime, how would you react if you happened to come about her on official business? What could you even say? Suggestions!

Point and laugh?

 

[TbilisiPeach]

Niet Dordrecht, jou gedroogde pruim!

 

[Dogmuck]

Is that dinner for one? Hope that’s zero alcohol beer you’re drinking - is that a bottle of wine too (second photo)

 

[trueblue222]

That screenshot really pisses me off- I'm not vegan but I really respect people who are and this screenshot just shows how ignorant Jack is considering much of the third world essentially lives on plant based if not vegan diets- that's not a privilege it's necessity to get the required nutrients. It's only a privilege when you're eating 4 mcplant burgers FFS!

Really cheeses me off too. Vegans don't scoff macaroni cheese and then call themselves vegan. I actually believed that she was vegan for a time but I don't now. She was possibly vegetarian the lying cheese scoffer.
She will use any excuse to play victim

She also says she tastes all the meals for her books so she wasn't vegan

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

I’m grunking so don’t know where this will land (also I was visiting my mate who doesn’t live there anymore so I’m not scared of a flock of flying monkeys raining down on me)
Jack, I was at Aldi in Armley, Leeds four months ago, whilst deciding on the protein for our stir fry my friend and I were suddenly met with the foulest fart smell you can imagine.
We quickly made our escape as it made us both retch something dreadful. We returned ten minutes lately, but alas the smell was still at large so we abandoned our dinner plan.
We still cannot agree if it was some bad ham or a fellow customer, who was clearly rather unwell, releasing noxious gas.
I need your advice posthaste on how to proceed, surely it violates my rights as a consumer?

Yours sincerely,

M Windows

The kids here have phases of running into shops and supermarkets and setting stink bombs* off, perhaps a third option in which case Aldi surely need to hire StrongWoman FireJack as their security now.

(*I don’t know if these exist outside of seafront tat stores anymore but they’re easily found in said tat stores)

 

[NellieBoo]

I barely register if the mother gives her surname for the child on the claim form but it's the father's surname on the birth cert, as long as she's getting chb for the child

I completely agree with you.

We had to claim housing benefit years ago. Weirdly, I work for the LA I was a tenant with and had to claim through. I was the tenant but my partner claimed as he'd been made redundant. It really wasn't that difficult. Our son has my partners name (his Dad). Apart from a little blip over one piece of paperwork that needed to be photocopied, it was fine.

 

[Rekyavikgirl]

Lolol BLESS

 

[Ostapbender]

POV - you're Harold. Jack has promised to stay off her phone on this lovely (and expensive, you've sold a lot of pig hats this week) break away. You nip back into the restaurant to order another bowl of anti-slop (thank Christ you didn't book an apartment with any cooking facilities) and two more 0.0% beers. You glance back lovingly at your smol lil pixie and your heart suddenly sinks. Jack's phone is propped up on the table and she's grimacing wildly down the lens.

Get those teeth out and get to bed early, Harold, you've had a big weekend of horrors x

 

[Lumpyspaceprincess]

I’ve also checked the local authority library services near me. Most towns have one copy of her first book, all available. One town had 4 books and they’re all available.
Loads of Jamie Oliver books, lots on loan!

 

[People-huv-tae-know]

Sadly I think she's gallivanting around somewhere and doesn't give a fuck about the chaos she's left in her wake.

Agreed, she is like dug shite on a shoe, you can never quite get rid of it all.

 

[Captainmouse]

We may not have heard from Jacqui but her neighbour’s got in touch with the mirror

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I have spent almost a week trying to find out where my parcel was. I would have collected it delivery day, if only I knew where it was. I am currently working from home, so was home, they left it in my porch, except I don’t actually have a porch.

 

[Cack Conroe]

That is very much wide of the mark about his mother.

'I saw hate in mum's eyes' Scots writer reveals how he survived childhood terror

Darren suffered PTSD after life with his drug addict mother but he went on to thrive thanks to his dad's struggle to raise three kids.

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I don’t believe anything in the media without evidence. This all seems a bit “a child called it”. Self-indulgent misery porn. His mother is not here to give her account.

Also his obsession with his working class childhood is off-putting and should not make him a poverty spokesperson. He’s been in the media for 18 years now. He’s been to university for God’s sake. Whatever his life was like a quarter of a century ago it is not relevant to working class people now. I don’t care if this is harsh. Middle class luvvies droning on about being working class once upon a time are tedious as hell.

(Edit: this following part was supposed to be a separate post) Something I’ve noticed: there is no group of people on this planet more obsessed with class, than would-be middle class people who have fallen on hard times. Caitlin Moran and Jack herself are prime examples.

One of my friends would have grown up middle class, except his dad became severely disabled when friend was a toddler. Said friend now a communist.

Another friend had privately educated parents, but his mum had learning difficulties and died young, and his dad abandoned him. He’s now obsessed with categorising people and is attracted to young working class women (who he felt rejected by at school) and older middle class men (who he aspires to be like).

Darren McGarvey says that his parents owned a house but his mum squandered the mortgage on drink, so they ended up in a council house.