Jack Monroe #407 I lost hours yesterday learning about a Jack Monroe

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Martina Mercer - Is jack Monroe a Liar?

she doesn't cover everything, but it's a new article on Jack. I don't know anything about the author but she seems to come from a working class background and she's really pissed off with Jack... that tide is well and truly turning dear fraus!
 
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Totally. There are absolutely ways of making the most out of loyalty schemes etc, sometimes even ‘gaming’ them a bit, like some people do with credit card and airline points. And a lot of people would find that extremely useful.

But working this out would require real work and difficult research.
 
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I got myself in a really dark place abusing ritalin. I was crushing the pills and snorting them - embarrassing to admit as a middle aged professional. It got to the stage where I was even doing it at work, imagine if I had been caught god. I would stay up all night when I had a deadline to get work finished, snorting and writing. It made work fun, I actually loved those crazy nights, but it was terrible for my mental health and I could no longer manage to work without it. I can't have it in the house at all anymore otherwise I'll abuse it. Snorting anything is a massive dopamine hit and incredibly addictive. Jack probably has access to much better drugs than ritalin, but it's definitely possible to get into a bad place just with that.
 
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She’s a moron because she could have done a ten year anniversary update saying she was doing better, but was still poor. For example, highlighting that she’s still stuck in a cycle of renting and still cautious about money. That would resonate with a lot of people and still bring the Patreon bucks in to ‘support her work’. Poverty does leave a lasting impression on your life and it can give you a weird relationship with money. But of course, being Jack she’s the poorest of the poor, the most severe poorest povo of all time.

She wouldn’t have even remembered the anniversary of HH1 if she wasn’t browsing Tattle like a massive narc. I remember posting that it was ten years and thinking ‘yeah I bet she writes a stupid blog about this’ and behold! Makes u think.
 
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To be fair she listed a monthly payment of about £180 for the two grand cooker she’s owned for 4 year so
 
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Haven't commented on these threads for a while, but have been watching (as my occasional like or haha reaction to posts will show), but re: rtialin, as I may have said before, I was prescribed it between the ages of 8 till 18.

I will say it definitely helped my concentration, but 1) I weighed 9 stone 8 when I left secondary school. I'm a ~5'11 bloke. That looks *very* skinny, and I had a ridiculously large appetite, and 2) by the end of that period I used to feel sick if I went a couple of days without taking it (I didn't usually have it at weekends or school holidays). I don't recommend that.

This post is not a comment on anyone else and is intended solely as a relevant anecdote.
 
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I believe it's about RaveIry. I've signed up so I'll go digging for it.
Have you found it? I was on Ravelry when all the drama kicked off, was incredible and then hard to explain to any non knitting friend. Would love to hear it all dissected.
 
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I don't think it's just coke. She's speeding too. Might be her ADHD meds but she has lots of behaviours that are congruous with excessive use of amphetamines
I agree, one behaviour in particular that stands out for me is the constant reorganising/moving rooms around! The way she has looked in her last few TV spots too, completely strung out and like she hasn't slept for days. Regarding the j1g, her aggression towards others has always been one of the things that makes me .
 
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Well, that was a mega grunk. I hope JM has the backlash she deserves. Conning people on Paetron and every other scam. I feel sorry for her son and her family because they will be on the frontline of her reactions and tantrums.
 
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She can leave the haunted bird house and that’s her best move in ages, but she will not find the engagement she craves on Instagram. Given some of the really good and genuine pages on there I just can’t see her horror show face tuning and slop pics hitting the mark. I think she’ll find that a deep pond to fish in and it’ll be really interesting to see her follower count.
 
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If I had no experience of coke and people told me it would make me want to rearrange furniture and behave like Jack Monroe, I'd never touch it
 
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AM has QT’d but then deleted a tweet about the BARpod podcast.

ETA seems like she didn’t know this was coming, so it must be something else.

I’m a bit meh about the pieces that have been published since AM’s medium piece. They regurgitate a lot of AM’s post with their opinion tacked on. How helpful is it really?
 
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I’m not as experienced with Speed (tried it once, made me violently unwell. If I smell it I immediately start vomiting now) so I haven’t mentioned it but I think this is very very possible from the little I do know.
I have that same reaction only it's scent memory -based.

If she has ADHD then her meds won't be having that reaction unless she is taking way too much. I only get a bit speedy if I'm also drinking alcohol mixed with caffeine as it multiplies the affect.
I don't believe for one minute she has ADHD
 
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I thought this the other day.
I don't shop in Asda because there isn't one near me. However my daughter has one near her. She moved in to a new place last week and we helped her move in. Whilst my husband did the heavy lifting I went to Asda to get a few bits for her.
The new 'pounds not points' thing was heavily promoted in store. You'd think the Poverty Princess would be promoting it wouldn't you?
 
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