She’s even repurposed the serenity prayer. Lord that is SHADE
Jack Monroe #332 A doctor, a teacher and a ceramicist walk into a bar
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But where is that poor puppy? Crated in Dash's old cage whilst she skips off to London, then to a meeting?
Coiffed and caught up. Jenny numbers post about Jack shagging everyone caused a very large hoot.
Good work everyone, I laughed, I cringed, I rolled my eyes. Classic
Good work everyone, I laughed, I cringed, I rolled my eyes. Classic
My tip don’t buy dishwasher tablets, they are a shocking price, buy the separates, they are much cheaper, and you will be using the correct amount of salt for your areas water.
Oh my, I had to watch that through my fingers.
Is the jewellers story a brand new tale of fiction or have we heard it before?
I used to work in a jewellers - not a swanky one, a cut price place - and all the sales staff dressed smart and were well presented. Also, we spent a lot of time helping customers try on bracelets, watches, necklaces and things so often had to touch them so you'd really want staff to at least look like they'd had a wash. Maybe if she'd popped in on the off chance I could believe her, but she had her CV on her so was looking for a job but knew her face was 'grimy'?
Is the jewellers story a brand new tale of fiction or have we heard it before?
I used to work in a jewellers - not a swanky one, a cut price place - and all the sales staff dressed smart and were well presented. Also, we spent a lot of time helping customers try on bracelets, watches, necklaces and things so often had to touch them so you'd really want staff to at least look like they'd had a wash. Maybe if she'd popped in on the off chance I could believe her, but she had her CV on her so was looking for a job but knew her face was 'grimy'?
Potential IRL Frau Klaxon Alert! I was once the perpetrator of such a misdeed in the bar I used to work
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Spaniel friend.
Her story doesn't make sense. Which is no news to the canal, I know, but how does selling/binning forks and plates help with rent arrears? I'm poor but I've never thought of owning more than one mug each as an indulgence we can't afford when I've got an overdraft or whatever. My money is on it's all performance art or histrionic display.View attachment 1380574
Hunger Hurts. (July 2012)
Today has seen fourteen job applications go in, painstakingly typed on this Jurassic mobile phone, for care work, shop work, factory work, minimum wage work, any kind of work, because quite simply,…cookingonabootstrap.com
(1) because she publicly represents their “leftist” “be kind” worldview, so their own worldview feels under attack if she is criticised
(2) because she presents herself as fragile and marginalised and in need of protection. The squigs of (1) see her as the type of multi-marginalised individual they should be “uplifting” and righteously defending
(3) because they’re middle class and they don’t have a clue what working class people look like. Also, they’re all supporting each other’s working class identity delusions
(4) because middle class leftists are often ignorant of the fact that their worldview is uncommon among actual working class people. Because middle class leftists hate people who don’t think exactly like themselves, this makes them subconsciously hate working class people. They are relived to find in Jack a “working class” person who is just like them, which relieves them of the cognitive dissonance of finding that they always hate working class people, while identifying as somebody who supports the marginalised.
(5) People on Twitter think that Tweeting is activism. So by defending Jack, they are being an activist and protecting the marginalised and making the world a better place.
(6) I think some are simps who fancy her.
Are those her beer goggles?
I’m confused. It’s like she’s taking style and teeth inspiration from Luca from Love Island.
Only he’s naturally beautiful and she needs to use FaceTune and still can’t get rid of the bags under her eyes.
Only he’s naturally beautiful and she needs to use FaceTune and still can’t get rid of the bags under her eyes.
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To be fair, it's not easy to go from burglar to sports coachJack the PE teacher
I’m just really glad she’s out of those bleeping hideous cuffed combat jeans tbh.
The before and after photos remind me of infomercials where you see the person struggling with a normal product and it’s filmed in black and white, then the new product is shown by someone in bright colours, all tan and teeth.
So today she has a life beyond her wildest dreams? Ok then.
Step 9 is all about making amends - don't think we've had an apology yet for her calling us Dickwads? Or Ninnies, or Mavens, or - addicts?? I'm sure she'll get around to us.
I’m so excited to read all your hot takes on The Poverty Princess Live Show this morning! Work is hella busy so I have a puppy brain but because I like to be forensic, I made some quick notes:
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Oh my this is all so true. Especially point 4. In my experience (and I appreciate this is not representative) as a WC girl who started properly encountering the MC and UMC at uni, first in my fam to go, I found that MC people have a very weird idealised idea of what WC people are like. It's a fictional ideal basically created by Ken Loach. The ideal WC is a nurse, international socialist, goes on Pride and anti-racism marches, swears and drinks a little bit but basically is very well-behaved, respectable, community minded, and above all ever so grateful to their bien pensant MC overlords.
None of the actual working class people I grew up with are much like this. They appreciate family, location, community, financial success, the acquisition of material goods and awesome travel experiences, sharp (and often uncomfortably personal) humour, good banter, good music and sport. Showing the proper amount of mutual respect is very important, as is straight talking. If you default on either of these things, they will not easily forgive you. They're a good bit less racist or sexist than MC people I've met, although they might side-eye you and demand to know exactly what you mean if you tell them your pronouns are xe / xir. They might've voted Brexit, they might've thought Corbyn was a bit of a woolly wally. Or maybe they didn't. You know? What they're not anything like is the cringe-worthy portrayal of the 'honest respectable working class' in terribly worthy BBC dramas. And that's fine. There isn't just one, approved way of being in the world.
MC Guardian types, the Nigellas and George Monbiot and Zoe Williamses of this world, don't understand any of this and it scares them. But with Jack they have a nice, colonised, 'safe' 'WC' person, so they can virtue signal by showing her love on Twitter without having to take the risk of engaging with a real WC person who might start asking them difficult questions (anyway it's OK; there aren't many WC blue tickers on twitter, or in media these days full stop).
It's disgusting really - no one these days would get away with idealising and misrepresenting POC this way, and rightly so. But it's OK when it comes to class.
Someone at work just said go well on teams 
I don’t have an OH. HE LEFT.
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