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Jack Monroe #343 A heavy dose of chickpea and loathing
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She's not that thoughtful. Do they do that in secondary?
She'd be remembered as the smol pixie who wandered around awestruck gazing up at the shiney lights. She quite often regaled tales of crew fondly chuckling at her childlike naivety and feeling protective towards her
Patently not true. I imagine they were all thoroughly irritated by her sheer lack of professionalism on any level.
I really hope she believes what she's posted tonight and that "something has shifted".
My issue is that the forgiveness and love and the understanding of human fallibility only seem to work one way with Jack.
I expect whatever has 'shifted' is sore guts and a fart equal to 10 on the richter scale after eating some of those cookies...
Literally toot toot
Grunking, but has anyone else spotted that Carole also... has hands?!
(Joking! She doesn't have time to be Jack's assistant she's been inundated with work, building the James Webb telescope)
Just dropping this here, a vegan Greek cookbook that has been positively reviewed by That Man! Jack take note.
Nistisima: The secret to delicious vegan cooking from the Mediterranean and beyond https://amzn.eu/223dX3j
I think there could be something in the pooch being SBs. There is a real dearth of pics from the overshare queen. Then there is the timing. Maybe she bought the dog for SB as a way to ingratiate herself/stay relevant in his life. It might be part of an attempt to rebuild their relationship or make up for something she did to him, however I'm surprised dad is ok with the extra responsibility unless Jack is covering all costs. We haven't seen pics of Cooper for a while, that feels suspicious.
Nistisima: The secret to delicious vegan cooking from the Mediterranean and beyond https://amzn.eu/223dX3j
I think there could be something in the pooch being SBs. There is a real dearth of pics from the overshare queen. Then there is the timing. Maybe she bought the dog for SB as a way to ingratiate herself/stay relevant in his life. It might be part of an attempt to rebuild their relationship or make up for something she did to him, however I'm surprised dad is ok with the extra responsibility unless Jack is covering all costs. We haven't seen pics of Cooper for a while, that feels suspicious.
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I keep reading this as ovenproof whiskey
not sure what situations that would come in useful.
I'm so pissed off with her performative recovery tweets tonight. I read them on twitter whilst thinking about all the inconsistencies mentioned on here about her alleged alcoholism like that she said she drank a bottle of gin a day, to saying she didn't like gin and now it's whiskey (or whisky previously). Not just any whiskey but he overproof stuff (from Asda even though they don't sell it) because everything has to be the most ever!
I cannot believe she just stopped drinking during 'the poverty' yet was an addict and bought booze to cook with without any bother. I've done some truly shameful things in addiction to ensure I fed the addict in me. The first part of recovery is accepting you are powerless over your addiction and you really are, finances, children etc aren't enough on their own. It's grim and I wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy!!
I'm just sick of the fawning from all the squigs and feel like we are the only sane people that see it all and I worry about the harm she might cause by the thoughtless bollocks she tweets.
10 meetings a week, over a year into your recovery. Why?? Someone might be put off seeking help from AA because they think that's necessary after a year sober! Even when you are a newcomer you might hear 'do 90 meetings in 90 days', but 10 a week sounds really scary to someone considering AA.
Where is Content during all these meetings? And her son seeing as she reckons he lives with her (we know he doesn't but she makes out he does).
I cannot believe she just stopped drinking during 'the poverty' yet was an addict and bought booze to cook with without any bother. I've done some truly shameful things in addiction to ensure I fed the addict in me. The first part of recovery is accepting you are powerless over your addiction and you really are, finances, children etc aren't enough on their own. It's grim and I wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy!!
I'm just sick of the fawning from all the squigs and feel like we are the only sane people that see it all and I worry about the harm she might cause by the thoughtless bollocks she tweets.
10 meetings a week, over a year into your recovery. Why?? Someone might be put off seeking help from AA because they think that's necessary after a year sober! Even when you are a newcomer you might hear 'do 90 meetings in 90 days', but 10 a week sounds really scary to someone considering AA.
Where is Content during all these meetings? And her son seeing as she reckons he lives with her (we know he doesn't but she makes out he does).
Goodnight, and button it. Please.
She has to fill her 20 hour work day. That’s the one and only point. Except she doesn’t and it isn’t
Nah his dad would have sorted that, sb and his mates will use them for conker practice
resentments in the bin, yeah right! 
so bitter and twisted
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Lights are flickering back ON then. Jaysus, we've been running in this hamster wheel for years now. We're tired, we're so tired 
I always fire off word salads into the twitter ether when I am feeling very peaceful.
That is exactly what I thought.
She is using the AA meetings as therapy. I know they are meant to help people in need but with her I feel that by going to 10 meetings a week she is just using them as an opportunity to talk about herself over and over again as a replacement (or an addition) to actual therapy. What about the others at those meetings? If she is all about kindness at the moment, surely she is not showing much by hogging the limelight and not letting the others talk or getting what they need from AA?
She can’t have it both ways. I know we are told (and it is a perfectly valid concept) that people who are struggling often don’t look like they are struggling. But this isn’t what is happening with her. In fact this is never what she has presented. She has shown a reductive idea of “struggling burglar bull Jack” vs “fixed, lights on, smiling Jack”. But she repeatedly claims she has a bonfire of a life but simultaneously a life beyond her wildest dreams. Which is it?
Her life is lived out on Twitter, for Twitter. That’s clear for anyone to see. When you construct something for external validation, it a) will not give you long term satisfaction and b) will not be able to be maintained for long.
I just hope the meetings thing is a lie because I feel for the others there and I hope Content isn’t hers because I worry about him every day.
Quick Google suggests that AA meetings last 1-1.5 hours. So 10 - 15 hours per week on top of her 100 hour work week.
And she's caring for a puppy, has a child and other pets.
OK then.
ETA: this leaves 7.5 -8 hours per day (including weekends) for sleeping, eating, personal hygiene, shopping, cooking, cleaning, spending time with her family and animals, watching umbrella academy, tweeting, reading Marxist manifestos, listening to sea shanties, stitching denim shirts and knitting shreddies blankets.
Chapeau, Monroe.
And she's caring for a puppy, has a child and other pets.
OK then.
ETA: this leaves 7.5 -8 hours per day (including weekends) for sleeping, eating, personal hygiene, shopping, cooking, cleaning, spending time with her family and animals, watching umbrella academy, tweeting, reading Marxist manifestos, listening to sea shanties, stitching denim shirts and knitting shreddies blankets.
Chapeau, Monroe.
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Plus the time to get there. Jack can’t walk 1.7 miles to get to her nearest Aldi/Lidl and it seems to take her 45 minutes to walk 1.1 miles to get to Asda so WFK.
edit-I know people walk at different speeds but this is Jack we are talking about who seems to have different standards depending on what she is prepared to do. 25000 steps around the house- fine. 1.1 miles to Asda- equivalent of the marathon des sables.
I work an actual 37.5 hours per week, which ends up being more like 45 really. I don’t have a child but I do have pets. Between work and caring for myself by ensuring I cook, exercise and wash daily (my nails are clean) and give myself downtime to read, watch telly and sleep, oh and socialising once or twice a week with friends - between all of that I can barely keep up with these threads.
Now we are meant to believe she works 100 hours a week, attends over 10 hours of AA meetings and cares for her kid?
She just lives a sad, meaningless existence on Twitter. There are physically not enough hours in the day for her to be as productive as she claims and then to tweet constantly. Put your phone down Jack and go have a wash, pay special attention to your nails. A long soak in the bath should do it!
Now we are meant to believe she works 100 hours a week, attends over 10 hours of AA meetings and cares for her kid?
She just lives a sad, meaningless existence on Twitter. There are physically not enough hours in the day for her to be as productive as she claims and then to tweet constantly. Put your phone down Jack and go have a wash, pay special attention to your nails. A long soak in the bath should do it!
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