I thought the same tbh…
“I find it unfathomable that someone with the work you’ve done, the books published to acclaim etc, should find herself in such straits”
Well yes quite Nigella, I think we all find it unfathomable.
Jack Monroe #350 Can you crochet a web of lies?
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“I find it unfathomable that someone with the work you’ve done, the books published to acclaim etc, should find herself in such straits”
Well yes quite Nigella, I think we all find it unfathomable.
At the rate we're filling up this thread, I'm putting in a thread title nomination for:
No one should be donating to a character from a Pulp song.
Regular fresh flowers delivery...?.
Wonder if there are any other outgoings that have been “forgotten”
Weekly Ocado
Netflix
Amazon prime
Hello Fresh
Able and Cole order
Fabletics subscription
Maybe she just really buys a lot of polish. Like for her eye.
Private prescriptions
Street drugs
Probably because she's melting soap to make shower gel?
lip fillers
Wonder if there are any other outgoings that have been “forgotten”
Weekly Ocado
Netflix
Amazon prime
Hello Fresh
Able and Cole order
Fabletics subscription
tanning sessions
botox
This has to have been one of her most blatant lies and there was a fair amount of pushback at the time on Twitter and mums net if I recall.
She really needed to shine on DKL to justify that tantrum and as we know she was like a competition winner who wished they'd just taken the cash prize instead. Every opportunity she's had since has been similarly half arsed, it comes to a point where word gets round enough and the work starts to dry up. Even if the current chaos hadn't happened, at some point saying the VBI is nearly ready just doesn't cut it any more.
It was the use of 'unfathomable' that gave me that impression too!
Absolutely x
Mixed bag of mithering in this thread.
But it's Jack's public tweets. It's literally just keeping a record of things Jack has said. It's not like her twitter or blog is private, she shares basically everything she does.
It's a goodie! My fave is the one about her son so upset about breaking her mum of the year award (or was it person of the year?). In true lifetime tv movie style jack reassured him that he was the best proof of what amazing mum she is. Or something like that!
I came across it in the wild before I saw your post and I agree - the lady in question is everything that Jack could have been (and I think on some level thinks she is)
She's being so much quieter than usual isn't she ninnies. Like Bobby Fischer, considering her next move.
It's actually not that obvious what her next move should be. If I were her, I'd see several options, but they all have drawbacks:
1. Try to style it out and come back after 24 hours with the usual weak banter about favourite Oreo flavours / easter egg brands, generally act as if nothing's happened. Drawback: people will keep asking questions and making criticisms, and it will look bad to let them go unanswered.
2. Address Molly in more detail, explaining why their thread was 'false' and 'abusive'. Drawback: really hard to refute your own words, or to claim that everything's been faked. She could argue that the Twitter screenies have been faked (athough quite hard to claim this about tweets which many others will recall seeing), harder to do with an archived WaPo article or a podcast made by someone else.
3. Announce her retirement fromgrifting campaigning. Drawback is that this may come with refund demands from Patreon supporters. Can she afford to do this given that the Patreon money has likely all been spent over years of impulsive spending decisions?
4. DFE and go dark. Drawback is that Jack is physically unable tolie live without Twitter attention and seems not to have IRL friends.
5. Do a chaos or have a Jaccident. But people are increasingly wise to this deflection activity.
She's actually not in an easy position. If she'd been called out four or five years ago, she'd have had more options, but her behaviour has just continued becoming ever more outlandish and rapacious, the lies have got stupider, and she has backed herself further and further into a corner.
I hate the phrase 'you have no one to blame but yourself' as it's so often used to shame people who are victims of bad circs and vulnerability. But in jack's case, I can't really think of a phrase that is more apt.
It's actually not that obvious what her next move should be. If I were her, I'd see several options, but they all have drawbacks:
1. Try to style it out and come back after 24 hours with the usual weak banter about favourite Oreo flavours / easter egg brands, generally act as if nothing's happened. Drawback: people will keep asking questions and making criticisms, and it will look bad to let them go unanswered.
2. Address Molly in more detail, explaining why their thread was 'false' and 'abusive'. Drawback: really hard to refute your own words, or to claim that everything's been faked. She could argue that the Twitter screenies have been faked (athough quite hard to claim this about tweets which many others will recall seeing), harder to do with an archived WaPo article or a podcast made by someone else.
3. Announce her retirement from
4. DFE and go dark. Drawback is that Jack is physically unable to
5. Do a chaos or have a Jaccident. But people are increasingly wise to this deflection activity.
She's actually not in an easy position. If she'd been called out four or five years ago, she'd have had more options, but her behaviour has just continued becoming ever more outlandish and rapacious, the lies have got stupider, and she has backed herself further and further into a corner.
I hate the phrase 'you have no one to blame but yourself' as it's so often used to shame people who are victims of bad circs and vulnerability. But in jack's case, I can't really think of a phrase that is more apt.
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