Jack Monroe #343 A heavy dose of chickpea and loathing

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Baffling.

She's such an odd sock
 
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I didn't realise Jack moved out at 16. I always thought "thrust into the world of minimum wage work" meant her parents made her get a job when she couldn't get into 6th form
 
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Gifted and talented is no match for goals and hard work. Doesn't matter either from where you obtain your qualifications, but how you use them.

Jack, your regular reminder that being employed is fine
Not in the world of thumberlina peapod, she considers it beneath her, and her sense of entitlement
 
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What evidence is there that Jack actually moved out at 16? Surely this would have been hard to afford for a smol pixie, and she probably wouldn't have been entitled to any help. Unless she's counting staying in one of her grandad's properties as "moving out"?
 
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Going back to Roger Red Hat, would that still have been the reading scheme at that point? I thought they had moved to the likes of LetterLand by then.

I'm a true #1978truther and did RRH, I didn't think it lasted that long after me.
 
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She also claims she was expelled, but her parents were unaware
 
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I didn't realise Jack moved out at 16. I always thought "thrust into the world of minimum wage work" meant her parents made her get a job when she couldn't get into 6th form
My son was 'thrust into the world of minimum wage work' at 16 . By that I mean, he didn't like college, fair enough. But he was told by us he needed to do something. He wasn't going to be able to sit around in his pants, eating biscuits and playing FIFA on his PS5 . Doesn't have quite the same 'woe is me' ring to it though, does it?!
 
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oh phew- I thought this was just me! Watched the Stuart Lubbock documentary last night and lots of talk on it about how Essex police fucked up the investigation, then these ads started appearing. It freaked me out! Should’ve known it was more likely releated to the smol pixie. Also if you haven’t seen the doc- (Body in the pool, All4) it’s Horrifying, sad and amazing.
 
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Going back to Roger Red Hat, would that still have been the reading scheme at that point? I thought they had moved to the likes of LetterLand by then.

I'm a true #1978truther and did RRH, I didn't think it lasted that long after me.
My 33 year old son learned to read with the Roger Red Hat scheme.
Just to address that point of Jack claiming to read adult books at 4/5 years old, we were asked not to teach our children to read. That's because it entails a proper structure where children learn to read from the basics upwards, otherwise they tend to just guess at words and not really understand how language works. I do get the sense that Jack sometimes uses words without really understanding them.
 
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She’s showing how unlikely it is she is autistic by making out she was like rain man which is an incredibly outdated and untrue version of autism
 
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Methinks coops and content are not best buds
 
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I don't know why everyone is doubting Jack's reading abilities, judging by her book collection she is so far evolved she can now read books without opening them!
 
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She said on that radio programme (the one in which she threw a pencil case at Kelvin McKenzie as JFT96) that she first rented privately around aged 17.

Tomorrow is the second anniversary of when the Greek mezze was on special at the Co_op.

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Yes those old Greek classics i know from my own childhood, padron peppers and garlic pizza bread.
 
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I didn't realise Jack moved out at 16. I always thought "thrust into the world of minimum wage work" meant her parents made her get a job when she couldn't get into 6th form
I mean, weren’t we all thrust into the world of minimum wage work when we got our first jobs? Well, except for those of us who got them before the minimum wage (at £2 an hour I was a bargain). Unless you’re born into extreme privilege, you aren’t walking into a CEO job, and even the trust fund kids do unpaid internships and have to learn the ropes. It’s called working. An alien concept to Jack, I know. I’m honestly surprised she hasn’t cottoned onto and misunderstood the whole antiwork thing yet.

I’m wondering what she thinks her parents should have done in her situation. Let her live at home until she figured it all out? Wait for her poetry career to take off? Wait until someone wealthy came along to take care of her?
 
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Was listening to Kiri Pritchard McLena interviewed on the Off Menu podcast earlier and Jackie gets a mention! Fair enough, it's to say that, while tasty, her vegan belly pork is nothing like belly pork, but, hey, there's no such thing as bad publicity!
 
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