Jack Monroe #324 How many times can one newspaper publish what is essentially the same bloody piece by the same author

[Amanda Lin]

*smol pixie sad voice “once I went to Asda and Jam had risen by 4p”

“when did that happen?”

“it was ten years ago, but the trauma is still so raw”

“Jack, I specialise in overcoming serious trauma therapy, you might be with the wrong therapist “

“THAT IS SERIOUS TRAUMA PAL”

 

[Soapy Dolphin]

All hail, Messiah Jack! Thank you oh bountiful one. Did yesterday's devotion rather go to her head?

The Guardian article was terrible. We could have probably all written it ...and then pointed out the inconsistencies. And so wonderfully, beautifully, typically Jack to promote herself to CPTSD! Oh no, poorly shoulder alert - who will save us now?

Yeah, I'll happily ping over other people's stories. I harvest them on a regular basis.

 

[Orphan_Black]

That's me haha I am a relatively grubby git though!

Spoiler: You grubby git

Also, on topic, wouldn't she have braces etc if she was diagnosed with arthritis? I got all my support stuff straight off my NHS physio, even my insoles. And on a long train journey you'd take them. I need a memory foam neck cushion on any journey longer than a couple of hours else I'm in agony.

 

[hellosailor⚓]

She picked up on ACEs a while ago and obviously thinks she knows everything. Someone has mentioned this book to her (no doubt she has it, not read it of course, it will just be there in her endless performative towers of never-read books) and now she is the expert.

Don’t let her get to you. I was spitting mad this morning but I know that the people who matter are the ones who are actually doing the research, putting the numbers into SPSS and writing the papers that she wouldn’t have a hope in hell of understanding. Just like we get upset when she goes on about food banks, the people who are there day in, day out are the ones who matter.

Her life is meaningless to those who need it most. From the children and adults who are reeling from the ACEs and didn’t have protective factors, to those who live in the towns she has never heard of (and would never, ever visit) who just quietly struggle as the news gets worse and worse. Her life can be summed up as a picture of a normal hand pretending to be an injured hand taken for likes on a pretty average Thursday afternoon.

Thank you. I needed that

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

Just found this. For those who remember...

18 sept 2019
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4 october 2019
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The clock not working is even more annoying than the handles not matching.

That house is giving me serious ick vibes.

 

[Jelly Bean]

'Stands the clock at quarter past three
And is there Pumble still for tea?'

From Elegy on a Southend Slop Kitchen.

 

[Feck]

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"I REALLY hate to nitpick but you're giving out out-of-date and wrong advice."

Technically, you would think a self-confessed poverty campaigner would know all this... Forensic, fact checker, etc, etc.

 

[MooBelle]

There are not enough eyerolls in the world

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There is a Boots at Euston.
You're welcome Jack.

 

[hellosailor⚓]

There is a Boots at Euston.
You're welcome Jack.

It's ok, some prick's already in there buying their entire stock and mini box of Lindor to meet Jack off the train. Bit awks for Harold tbh.

 

[confusedlady]

Hello! Chronic lurker here but thought I'd give some info as I knew it existed, I just saw her say about the Guardian article paying buttons (poor Jack) and there's a Union for Journalism in London, and they post what they get paid for articles for price transparency - http://www.londonfreelance.org/rates/index.php?work=Words,+per+1000&sect=news&arch=N

Just had a quick look for the Guardian in there, and I think her feature was ~1000 words:

So looks like she'll be getting around £300 at least, how big is her bath?

 

[BlendedSlop]

I need to grunk but I ran straight here after seeing her kumquat in the Guardian yet again, and this thread title is




I'm certain she has a word doc containing the standard wording of her single column that she spends 5 minutes tweaking for each new commission then bangs in her invoice.

 

[KebabGirl]

Someone's mentioned this New York Times bestseller to Jackie, eh? She's found a new angle/depth to plumb and I can honestly feel my face getting hot.View attachment 1347318 I don't understand how she gets away with this

Edit: this is me, not Spratt!

Not read this as such, but my sibling has and sends me screenshots of interesting bits. I recall a section on the effects of foster kids on other family members. Perhaps Jack read that paragraph too?

I have mild arthritis & fibromyalgia. I would not leave the house for more than 6 hours without meds. And I stress, most of time my symptoms are very mild. There are paracetamol in my bike tool bag just in case. There's always current meds in my laptop bag, and in the top pocket of my overnight rucksack. If I was bad, I would not have agreed to that much travel - although the benefit of a train is you can walk, stretch and not spend all the time on a device.

 

[Lucy Aeroplane]

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The sheer bleeping arrogance - and ignorance (?) - to make out like there isn’t already an enormous body of actual peer-reviewed publications in this field, produced by actual professional researchers with proper training in research methodology and ethics sweet baby jebus HOW can someone be this up themselves? Jack, you desperately need to let someone talk you down from your ivory tower. You are an absolute embarrassment to yourself.

 

[Elthi86]

I’m sorry to tell you that although your bank balance may be in the black one day, so too will your head.

Quote from the Guardian piece, what a miserable, ghoulish wretch they are.

Ultimately, being skint in your early 20's is, and was then, perfectly common. I'm just slightly older and people I knew, regardless of whether they'd been to University or left school at 16/18, nearly always lived in house shares or maybe at home, with not much money if any at all to spare. Yes, Jack had SB, as plenty of other people do with much less family money behind them, but all that 'Mummy works' crap made her (or didn't depending on what day it is) not claim to what she was entitled to, it was all her own doing.

In some ways I think that Fire Service job was probably the worst thing that could have ever happened to her. It seems to have ripped away any chance of her being capable of growth.

 

[Lucy Aeroplane]

Jack suddenly remembering she's meant to have arthritis

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Jack, real chronic pain patients don’t go anywhere without meds squirrelled away in bag compartments, jacket pockets, purses, etc. You just cannot stop lying, can you?

 

[Jelly Bean]

I have mild arthritis & fibromyalgia. I would not leave the house for more than 6 hours without meds. And I stress, most of time my symptoms are very mild. There are paracetamol in my bike tool bag just in case. There's always current meds in my laptop bag, and in the top pocket of my overnight rucksack. If I was bad, I would not have agreed to that much travel - although the benefit of a train is you can walk, stretch and not spend all the time on a device.

Crazy isn't it? Anyone with a chronic condition simply would not go on a long journey with an overnight stay without their aids/medication. Almost the first thing you pack.
I don't have arthritis but do occasionally get awful migraines (with visual/aural disturbances) and the thought of being two days away from the only medicine that touches them would make me so panicked. Come to think of it doesn't Jack also have convulsion inducing migraines? And why no pain on her for the constant toothache that flares up?


ETA snap @Lucy Aeroplane

 

[Katkat]

As a new chronic illness Frau, she is FULL of bollock sausage bullshit. Every trip I take is forensically plotted to accommodate my body. I wouldn’t dream of going anywhere without all the stuff that helps me get through the day should I have a flare.

 

[Nottonightbabe]

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A few things -

Jack, duck off with your lever arch files, they're just the hard copy version of you using your unread junk email tally to cosplay a busy working person.

You don't hear from 1000s of people whenever you talk about poverty, most people don't even know who you are, let alone want to consult you for advice. Thankfully.

You looked like shite at the awards ceremony in your dirty t-shirt. They don't have to tell you to make an effort, it's an award ceremony and, duck knows why but you've attended many. You know how people dress for them. Just smacks of look at me, I'm rebellious, attention seeking. Grow up.

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

As a new chronic illness Frau, she is FULL of bollock sausage bullshit. Every trip I take is forensically plotted to accommodate my body. I wouldn’t dream of going anywhere without all the stuff that helps me get through the day should I have a flare.

If anyone follows Liz Earle’s daughter Lily, she shows exactly what it is like to live with chronic pain.

She suffers from a multitude of conditions and often has to cancel appointments/make alternative plans/get family and friends to help if a migraine hits.

She shows the crippling reality of living with chronic pain alongside how your life expectations (in that I mean what you expected you might do with your life) might have to adjust once your diagnoses come. She is a shining light in my Instagram feed.

Unlike Jack.

 

[OwlRightsReserved]

Who uses lever arch files anymore?

I know this is obviously bullshit, but just indulge it for a minute: if she's producing 8 lever arch files of research for an unfinished project (Book 8), let's say she's a third of the way through. So, 24 lever arch files in total.

I looked on Rymans and the average lever arch file is 80mm deep. 80 x 24 is 1920, which would mean one project takes up 1.92 metres of shelf space.

If she's producing the same lever arch output for every book, that would mean she'd end up with 15.36 metres of lever arch files.

Common units of measuring the size of historical archives are no. of boxes and length of shelf space. You can fit an astonishing amount of paper onto a metre of shelf. I've worked with archives that are smaller than the amount of research she's supposedly done.

Absolute crock.