Jack Monroe #378 Where can I lodge a complaint about Jack Monroe?

[Falkor]

Thread title courtesy of a squig, nominated by @Semi_literate_bot

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Jack started the day asking whether you could install a gas cooker in place of a radiator, breadcrumbed an overnight guest, did some big maths about how much it costs to run a fridge freezer, demonstrated a total lack of knowledge about voltage, claimed to have been brought up in a tiny one-bed flat, claimed that Big Dave had to hitchhike to work as a fireman, took on Kirsty Strickland only after Kirsty publicly said she'd muted the thread and has generally been spewing random shite all over Twitter. I'm sure there's actually more, but those are my personal highlights from today.

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Mod addition:
When the threads are this busy, please resist from posting about how much you’ve had to grunk, how much you have left to grunk, that you’ve just been out and now have to catch up, that you’ve been at work, etc., etc. as it adds nothing and just creates more to catch up on. Thanks all.

 

[ishant]

Can someone please insert that tweet with toiletries pricing. Because is she really trying to tell us her household, including a 12 yo and two adults, at least one of whom is menstruating regularly, is using 12 rolls of toilet paper in a month?

ok found it

And only one bottle of diluted washing up liquid a month! With all the cooking that comes with her ~ profession ~?????

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

If she has been spending £20 a week for 10 years on food and toiletries (just like patreon, she’s ignoring the pet food issue), then her outgoings she admits to are £10,400 for that 10 yr period.

Where has the money gone Jack?

 

[MsGilmore]

Yes who itemises their toiletries and cleaning stuff like this - no one!

 

[Limey]

She is absolutely drowning on social media. No idea how to deal with the tide turning on people's perception of her.

 

[Veronicaaa]

She's still going on

 

[ishant]

Here’s one I’ve made earlier

 

[Falkor]

Poll added, as requested by someone on the last thread.

 

[whereforartthoupumble]

Can't believe we started the day with gas in ma radiator pipes and now we are here! What a day!

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

She's still going on

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You haven’t been feeding her that the whole time though have you?

Coops?

 

[Pimpinella]

I have nothing to add as I missed most of the last thread BUT I think what we are seeing today is a masterclass on how to look a complete idiot on SM - especially the Kirsty Strickland fiasco.... you would think some of her "celeb friends" would stage an intervention here but sadly they are nowhere to be found... odd that eh?

 

[Cobbles]

Yes who itemises their toiletries and cleaning stuff like this - no one!
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Why does she need to dilute soap into hand soap and shower gel and not just….use the soap.

 

[Bugger13]

I think of all the people who enable Jack’s behaviour, the flying monkeys are the most repulsive. Inserting themselves in other people’s tweets on behalf of a woman in her 30s. Not only nauseatingly patronising but also just pathetic. I wouldn’t even start shouting at anyone who was debating with Mr B.
Eta even if they called him a head or something. I’ve called him far worse and we‘re both grown ups I’d be hugely pissed off if he started inserting himself in my Twitter debates.
ps sorry-brought over from the last thread as it closed while I was editing goddamn it!

 

[Veronicaaa]

Gaslighting smear campaign.

 

[Limey]

Why does she need to dilute soap into hand soap and shower gel and not just….use the soap.

Your mistake here is to think about what a normal person would do

Why use a bar of soap as intended when you can do some weird Dickensian cosplay of boiling soap DURING A bleeping ENERGY CRISIS ?

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

She's still going on

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Running down the freezer she recently gave to a friend, or one of the other two freezers which she jacked in?

 

[PeepholePringle]

750g of table salt seems a lot for a month.
Perhaps she's confusing it with msg.

 

[Onestorytoomany]

Poll added, as requested by someone on the last thread.

Thank you it was me.

 

[Thank(space)you]

Sorry to be a pain, roughly what page in the previous thread does the jack arguing with kirsty Strickland stuff start please.

Also, I'm sick of hearing about the asda just essentials stuff. It's all over my Facebook too. They've rebranded smart price, what's so special about it?

Also, I appreciate that Jack in NB (I think?) But I'm presuming she menstruates still due to the miscarriage bread crumbing so where are the period products included in her shop? For most people who menstruate, these are a monthly item that needs purchasing, no?

And where is the pet food?

 

[Hoopful]

Former squig reporting for duty! Been grunka-ing for weeks, even watched some DKL from the wiki. On the verge of going full frau many times... but today sealed it. A good friend came to box up her books that had been resting in my flat as she shifted accommodation. Now, I first heard of JM through this friend. My friend is a woke soft butch in her thirties who loves to cook and so naturally she fancies the Vivenne Westwood right off Jack. It even used to be a running joke between us that if she wasted food she'd never have a chance with Jack Monroe. Ah, those innocent times.

My soul has been burning with two questions: one, has my friend encountered the chaos? Been abroad this month so maybe not! Two, did she ever cook anything from either of the 2 cookbooks (Bad Food For Bad Days and Tin Can't Cook, since you're wondering) that I know she owns?

Since she was boxing up books today and even reminiscing about certain cookbooks, I was able to casually ask as BFFBD passed over her hand: Did you ever cook anything from a Jack Monroe book?

Actually no, she replied. I was unsurprised but then she continued... "I did cook loads of recipes from her blog and they were delicious."

Frauen und Herren, is this sheer lust speaking? Or are the blog recipes in some way less vile than the book ones?

And will my friend ever admit it to me if she encounters the chaos? I am certain she hasn't as of today - but it may happen.