Jack Monroe #389 She's like Boris but with worse hair

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She was brownnosing an American named Linda Tirado at the time, copying her. Tirado wrote a well-regarded piece about how poverty affects teeth.
Probably not permitted here, so pls delete if necessary, but looking at LT, it seems to me that the two have a lot more in common than just their stories of poverty. Like a lot of contradictions and stuff not ringing true. Is LT Jack's mentor/ role model in ALL ways, possibly?
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Both have 'Bootstrap' in their book titles; both come from middle-class backgrounds and have been criticised for producing poverty porn; both have monetised their situation - so many similarities.
 
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If her bungalow is rented from a friend/neighbour (I'm sure I read that somewhere) doesn't this person mind that Jack is always slagging off the bungalow online and making out that this person is the worst sort of slum landlord going?
Her landlady lives next door. Her name is Schrodingers Landlady as she is both the nicest and most kind yet evil and bullying landlady to have landladied.
 
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She was brownnosing an American named Linda Tirado at the time, copying her. Tirado wrote a well-regarded piece about how poverty affects teeth.
I'd never heard of this Linda Tirado before and, oh wow, so many parallels with Jack. From the poverty signals despite not living in poverty, fluid sexuality while identifying as lesbian, ouchy teeth, ouchy eye (reader, it's the same eye!), using the word 'bootstrap', the buzzcut hair, the GoFundMe, the many contradictions meaning it's difficult to verify anything, and so on.

Far too many coincidences in their stories, it's like reading a manual in how to present yourself as Jack.
 
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No mention from Jack, the worlds greatest firefighter, that the FBU have indicated both control room staff and firefighters could go on strike for better pay. I’d have thought a seasoned, and retained, firefighter might be interested to share news from her Union to her massive platform.
 
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I spent some time with LT and... yeah. If you go into it fully believing her and wanting her stories to be completely real (cause she is convincing and charismatic) the alarm bells ding dully, and you try to muffle them and shut them up, but looking back, I feel so much of what she said to me in person must have been absolute BS because it's so incredibly far-fetched and didn't make sense. It's like the kid at school who tells tall tales and you want to believe it partly because it's so awkward to accept that someone is lying so much to your face - it's pathetic and embarrassing! So you gaslight yourself for a while and only accept the truth once you've got some distance.

And the blog about poverty, full of graphic and shocking details, that catapulted her to fame and a book deal!
 
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Really strange that she's got lever arch folders full of Tattle's back catalogue but didn't think to screenshot and print off actual death threats. See you next thread, Jack.
 
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Also I notice it includes not one but two links to the tip jar.

and this is interesting:
This blog post was written a year after she said her doctor told her she had RA
And often can't even get upstairs... that's *quite* infirm, imo.
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I'd say *very*.

Although she didn't look either quite, let alone very infirm the other day the way she was sitting on that chair with her legs hoiked up on it. Just how bad-mannered does one have to be to do that sort of thing. If it's your own furniture, fine, do what you like, but respect other people's furniture ffs.

I've seen her at this before; it's almost as though she's desperately trying to create some sort of impression, ie, This is who I am, this is what I do, this is how I sit ... oooh look at me, Jack Monroe the big bad rebellious non-conformist.

She needs to grow up. And wise up.
 
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Finally post the broccoli pasta recipe!
 
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What's the point in posting her stocktake. She'll go shopping for some random items, take a photo of a meal that includes food from neither the stocktake or the shop, then forget all about posting any recipes for the next couple of weeks again. How exactly does this help anyone??
 
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Hear that strange noise? That is the entire state of Louisiana and the Louisianian diaspora worldwide howling and clawing, having their collective aneurysm at Jack Monroe’s ‘Sausage and Prawn Etouffee’. And she has the nerve to be all up on THAT MAN about his jollof rice?!

Their senior Senator is a Trump loving fake-folksy fraud who likes to whip up outraged frenzies about, well anything. I might send him the recipe so he has something legit to publicly get aerated and start a chaos about.
 
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