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Jack Monroe #352 Hunger Hurts 2: The Difficult Second Album.
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Doesn't do the same, you appear yellow 'away' after no activity of about 10 mins.You can also change your status to busy by clicking on your status in Teams guys
There has definitely been a tweet from Jack at some point that said he housed the homeless which she framed as altruism but we realised means he took money from the state to house people in substandard conditions.
This comment from the piece about the sale of them implies the place had a terrible reputation and the article talks about what a terrible state it was in. I think weāve put two and two together along the way but Iād love to be able to find the tweet from Jack.
And there was more than one guesthouse so assume he had one nice one for families he deemed respectable and kept the other, shittier ones for the perceived down-and-outs.
eta @BlendedSlop has posted the tweet about the homeless
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Jack Monroe #352 Hunger Hurts 2: The Difficult Second Album.
Jack ~literally~ cannot lie. Apart from when sheās talking about nesting magpies in the tree she previously said she agreed to maintain in a joint cost agreement with her landlady. And didn't she do well to launch the 'nest' into the upper branches of that massive tree, when her shoulders are...
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perfect. But also not even a joke. And itās why her MO works among those who are out of touch. They donāt actually see the poorest people benefiting from Jackās actions (such as they are) They donāt see people in abject poverty actually saying āwow, Jack has really helped me to eat well on a budgetā, and they donāt see that even the concept of āthis is how to manage on almost nothingā reinforces theidea that itās possible.
what they actually see is that their idea of a poor person occasionally seems less poor and gets nice things. And they see that the existence of a cookbook aimed at the poor gives them a plausible way to believe that the poorest can eat well. And so they see that as demonstrating that sheās good at what she does - because sheās still poor, but occasionally gets the treats she ādeservesā.
they donāt understand that people in actual poverty have to really plan, but also ( and I donāt mean this to underplay the impact of having absolutely nothing) they donāt get that sheās laying it on very thick, because there are still some safety nets in society that generally mitigate against the absolute worst Dickensian situation that JM seems to talk about. Those safety nets arenāt good enough, and itās particularly depressing that food banks have to pick up the slack, but the actual reality of living in that situation is much more like grinding tedium and nagging worry about things getting worse - and, ironically, dealing with the actual Vimes Boots issue whereby basic essentials end up costing more - than like Jack making poverty seem like a series of sporadic crises resulting in selling material goods accrued during the Good Times, but the reality is that those situations, where she writes about poverty with the most emotive, heightened language possible, isnāt about poverty but about bad management of resources. And it really, really, isnāt helpful to the poorest to conflate the two.
i can see the seams in Jackās story because I can totally identify with impulsive spending and not being great at money management. Even now when Iām secure, I have a monthly budget because I know that without it Iād spend stupidly (and even within that, I have to remind myself not to buy nice trests at the start of the month, but to wait until Iāve got left over disposable income once iām three weeks in)
I think that this was in the era when housing benefit went directly to the landlord so I doubt it's the cutesty taverna style place that Jack fondly remembers with her misty eyed rhetoric.
always the heroes. Apple doesnāt fall far from the tree
i think wasting an estate agentās time is probably a tick in the āproā JM box, to be honest. But seriously, I donāt think thatās that bad. Itās definitely a good idea to get a feel for how estate agents etc works before youāre in the situation with real stakes
Did her grandad know about The Poverty before he died? Was it all an attempt to be left something directly in his will? Which didnāt work and lead to the mother of all hissy fits when Big Dave didnāt hand over what she felt she was entitled to. She has always said she was close to her grandad so maybe felt she was a special grandchild who deserved remembering.
As with everything, weāll never know the truth and her grandfather is DEAD.
ETA Jenny numbers beat me to it theorising it was a last ditch attempt to be added to the will. Go well, pal.
As with everything, weāll never know the truth and her grandfather is DEAD.
ETA Jenny numbers beat me to it theorising it was a last ditch attempt to be added to the will. Go well, pal.
Again this makes no sense as an estate agent is similar as a letting agent (often they'll have both let's and sales) so she should have ample experience what with all the times she's moved and not waste people's time. There are also plenty of articles, services such as the citizens advice for budgeting, etc and information online about buying houses,etc- absolutely no reason for practice runs.
Indeed. Grandad did also have a restaurant, called Bella Pais. If it's the same one coming up, it's still open as a Greek steakhouse.
He died in November 2012 which may have led Jack that she wouldn't have to work for much longer
i honestly believe she thought either grandpappy, big Dave or the council would bail out poor old single mamapapa Jack and the monster was born when none of them did.He died in November 2012 which may have led Jack that she wouldn't have to work for much longer
I am fascinated by what jobs these people doā¦ in the jobs Iāve had I have so many regular tasks that need to be done I could never get away with this (accountant)
Even Jack could do one of these jobs, surely.
Ah Iāve only used it while still using my laptop a bit
totally different dynamic though depending on whether your interaction is as a renter, a buyer, a landlord etc. not saying there arenāt other ways to work out approaches, just that it really doesnāt stand up as a āand now THISā.
its like the alcohol free beer thing from yesterday - as a total newcomer to this, when I saw direct contradictions, weird stuff around patreon and embarrassing obviously untrue things, that got me onboard. If Iād seen āshe wastes estate agent time and drinks o.5 speckled hen while claiming to be off the boozeā, Iād have eye rolled and thought āJesus, people were right when they said JM gets subjected to weird accusationsā
We'll have to agree to disagree. I actually work in housing and it's inappropriate to window shop for houses in this way, especially when there's a housing crisis and people in the housing industry are being overworked and trying to help genuine buyers. It's just another way Jack makes herself and her time more important than everyone elses.
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