Jack Monroe #408 All those blue ticks holding her up like Simba

[FlirtyThirty]

Howling and clawing

 

[LennyBriscoe]

Apologies if this has been said already but this for me is why it’s so important people other than Tattlers speak about how awful Jack is. They’ve overlooked all the costing of her items, all the screenshots of her Twitter behaviour that may have then been deleted and all the legitimate points we discuss here to focus on that. Her cult members will close their minds to all the evidence especially if it comes from here because they think we’re nasty lying trolls (in spite of the evidence)

But if it’s gaining traction and other people are speaking about it then surely that’s a good thing?

 

[MavisBeacon]

I'm pages behind and only call myself a former line cook (because I recognise there's a difference, I'm not 'trained', I can chop things and have an out of date food hygiene certificate) BUT it super frustrated me when she posted some kitchen with loads of islands saying 'Imagine how long it would take to clean!' and I'm like... That's smaller than the last kitchen I worked in, 3 people could easily bang it out in 45 minutes, if they'd just been continuously cooking there for the past 12 hours. Because we fucking did.

There may be more of these, I am full of wine.

Babe, same (full of wine). I've not been a chef or professional cook but I am a foodie and have loved cooking, recipe books, magazines etc since I was a teenager and she just cannot cook. There's nothing on her work that shows any inkling of enjoying food, being interested in food, understanding the chemistry and sheer fucking joy of cooking, texture and taste. SHE. CANNOT. COOK. and every day that goes past that a professional chef bigs her up is one too many.
As Matt of the Forearms says, "Terrible"

 

[Dire Tates]

Hi! Been lurking and grunking for a few weeks, still trying to catch up but I have a little something for you in the meantime that I don't believe is in 'the list' so far -

 

[jenny2603]

I wonder if it's starting to dawn on Jack how much shit she's in. Her turn on BBC Scotland was bad, even by her usual 'will this do' standard. She's managed to stay off Twitter or rather stopped posting. I'm sure she'll have run her shark eyes over it to see whats being said. The best thing she could do now is tell the truth but she probably won't to own the vile trolls. It's now just a matter of waiting for her to snap and come charging back onto Twitter like a furious goose in a snowstorm.

 

[SmolWarrior]

Sex Tom, Sex Tom
This one's Sex Tom
I know it gets confusing when we deal with more than one.

fucking hell it’s Tom Jones?! I’ve been thinking it was Will Ferrell! Must get eyes checked. Sorry for off topic!

 

[colouredlines]

Interesting comment on the BARpod post - I don't want to share much as it's paywalled, but this comment had info that I thought was worth sharing:

Poor kid, ugh.

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

It must have been awful. So undermining, and I bet Jack had plenty to say about what went on at Channel 4 and “if you loved me, you’d get me Jamie Oliver’s slot” (ugh, that sounds a bit like a totally different problem )

I’ve mentioned this before but it’s worth saying again. It’s very telling that any threads that were critical of Jack on Mumsnet used to get zapped PTQ. They don’t now. The last one ran to 1000 posts with no deletions. And there are a couple running now.

Justine Roberts who owns Mumsnet is married to Ian Katz. Who is Chief Content Officer at Channel 4

 

[dinosaursideways]

Also not seen the cool girl tweet on Twitter so no idea who it’s from but feels weird that you’d stan Jack but still keep up here in somewhat real time, and even weirder that u can’t tell the difference between consuming a problematic product and being complicit in perpetuating big DrugsTM/big tinned pineapple’s TM agenda for personal gain? We are all somewhat complicit in global atrocities under capitalism whether it’s my cool girl Diesel car or cool girl clothes made by garment workers in shit employment situations, or cool girl smart phones with bits of metal mined by kids, or cool girl Cadbury’s with child labour in their supply chain, or cool girl milk, or cool girl beef, cool girl avocados and quinoa, the list is really endless but it’s v easy to clutch ur pearls over drug (mis)use as one of her Tory stans. There’s a huge difference between existing/surviving under capitalism and profiteering from it, none of us afaik are trading our ill-gotten reputation as a “good guyTM” to get paid stacks to promote human rights violations products. Nor choosing to pitch them as the better choice worth the splurge to an arguably vulnerable if not just nice but dim audience the size of some shit glasto tent.

And also multiple people have in the past mentioned the cartel/violence/massacres aspects of cocaine production, AND it seems quite unkind to dismiss people as some wannabe cool clique when everyone here is being honest about mostly past drug use that is mostly discussed neutrally or negatively. The informative, open, and supportive nature of all the substance use discussion here is really refreshing (coming from the NHS 🔺️ where my fellow professionals can still be so gott verdammt judgemental). Particularly small minded of that Twitter-er given how much of the discussion is around addiction/recovery - why are they demanding nuance while showing none of their own.

And even if people here WERE banging on about how fucking cool they are for doing drugs, AND?! So what?! Jack has proudly made herself the poster child for one kind of substance use, and talks about it ALL THE TIME, of course substance use is going to get discussed.

Signed, a Definitely Not Cool Girl whose substance usage has been confined to what I have been offered for free in nightlife toilets in Leeds (should I publish this as a budgeting hack)

 

[LennyBriscoe]

Looking back, there are so many things Jack has said and done that other people would have been ‘cancelled’ for. Particular low points for me was the Headteacher she jumped on and pretty much accused him of keeping his pupils hostage and this. Thanks @lilamay for the receipt, this was around the time Sarah Everard’s murder and Jack thought it was appropriate to reveal all but the name of a teacher (or her headteacher?) who had abused her.

I vividly remember that day because it just sickened me. I can still remember what I posted. There were a few times I’ve thought ‘this will be it’ but she was like bloody Teflon!

This is from thread 162.

 

[That Forensic Man]

SANCTIMONIUS COOL GIRLS FORENSIC BUNGALOW STOCKTAKE KLAXXON
Spoilered for frau's comfort and so I don't get WARNED.

Spoiler: thankyou stocktakers x

Did anyone manage to triangulate the squishy sofa she's sleeping on and the velvet sofabed she gave to a friend and all the billions of cushions?

Well this is a lovely catch-up after a really hard couple of shifts-just what the day off ordered. I’m absolutely mind-blown by the Spenny List. It’s yet more confirmation (none more needed) that she’s a liar and a grifter and an entitled, embittered Tory who feels done wrong. The brands she buys are frankly insane. They are the brands of the upper middle classes-when I was house-cleaning we would see the Emma Bridgewater and the Penhaligons and the Cotswold cabinets galore. It makes me lol how trad she is when she spends so much time and money playing kooky quirky thrift store Jack.
Are the tattoos on the list or did a travelling tattoo apprentice insist on her being their muse?

ONE HUNDRED HOUR WORK WEEK innit. Also she has a shitload of those diaries* to fill and absolutely nothing to fill them with.
I will never not absolutely love that she self-importantly does an hours-long “stocktake” like she’s a flagship city centre branch of British Home Stores (RIP). Respect to you, Jack. It’s what they would have wanted.

Spoiler: *shitload of those diaries

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THE EMIN PRINT WE SAW WAS NOT IN JACK'S HOUSE, FFS.
HOW MANY MORE TIMES?!
*aneurysm*
Also, Jack might claim to have an original Emin but we have seen ZERO evidence of it.

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@That Forensic Man i need to make a correction as I made a mistake with one of my costings (see how it’s done Jack)

Spoiler: Correction

A frau said earlier that they thought the kitchen snake baskets were Wilco so I went looking for receipts. They were identified as Wilco by @Ninch55 and are £56 total if there are seven- not £45 each as I said (in my fuge state) I’m sorry. View attachment 1612756
I will however countermand this terrible error with the expensive coffee machine she said in the book intro for Good Food for Bad Days that she bought with the advance (noted by @Veronicaaa) featured in same kitchen. Despite claiming to not drink coffee.
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Looks a lot like this one to me
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Also this alarm clock on her bedroom shelf identified by @Marmalade Atkins back in January.
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And this is a Tatty Devine Fishbone necklace that sold for £66
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No word on the turban monstrosity £
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I’m stopping this now as much as I think it’s useful to have all in one place, the rampant consumerism while rattling the can and being disingenuous about her finances and ‘managing on a budget expertise’ is absolutely nauseating. I actually feel sullied and grubby just from compiling this stuff.

For the List, didn’t some Frau Marple triangulate the necklace at the Arcade Fire gig? I thought it was Tiffany but can’t see it on their website.
Now I’m off to resubscribe to Barpod, excellent chroniclers of Internet bullshit
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Morning, ninnies! Great news on the podcast. Anyone for toast? Two slices or four?
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Found on Google but taken from tattle
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I could be mistaken but that doesn’t look like a cheap rucksack - the logo on the shoulder could be Peak Design (major speculation on a blurry photo I know me-lud!)

the shoes in the TBC

Spoiler: Edinburgh shoes

Oh, and a brand spanking new iPhone too. View attachment 1612703
These are the shoes she both claimed a stylist had left behind at her house so said she could keep, and also that she accidentally walked off a photoshoot not at her house wearing them so kept them. Identified by @Into_the_tunnel, they’re Russell and Bromley
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Her 10 Downing Street leopard monstrosities are similar but with block heels so assume similar price tag and I think she’s got at least one other pair too.
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Also Ray Ban sunglasses at over £100 a pop. I am pretty sure more than one pair but can’t find receipts for the others right now.
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A caveat that some of the things on this longlist might well have been less expensive at the time she bought them, but not by a huge amount. All these things have always been pricey. Again as others have said, NO JUDGEMENT of what anyone spends their earned money on. Don’t then whinge you can’t afford rent, to buy a house or grift money from other people while posturing as the voice of poverty and a budgeting expert though.

ETA

Spoiler: Loads more crap

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These look like a combination of tall IKEA Billys to me. At current time narrow and wider white versions are £75 and £120, same in the ‘wood’ colour £112 and £148. Not to mention the cost of what’s on them. Top right shelf looks to have over £150 of Moleskines sat on it for eg.
Also, more books and bookshelves. Different ones. Rainbow book wanker.
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@That Forensic Man there’s a lot of Sophie contain portmerion crockery all over her insta. I have to go to work but I am very sure a lot has been triangulated. There was a drama when a load was delivered late (?) at one point. https://www.johnlewis.com/browse/home-garden/sophie-conran-for-portmeirion-white-tableware/_/N-lvjl

@That Forensic Man a few more additions for the Spenny List:
£300 print
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And 400+ Christmas baubles(!) Fraus at the time triangulated a cross section as being from John Lewis, Gisela Graham and Oliver Bonas, all in the range of £5 - £7.50 each. None of the others look like Home Bargains or Wilko either, so...£1,000 at a conservative estimate?
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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 soView attachment 1613958

Spoiler: big spenny

£428 fancy knobs
£250 magnetic Allegra spice jars
£315 (assuming there are only 7 but I think it’s more) on snake charmer kitchen baskets
£95 Abigail Aherne grey hare table lamp
£72 antique bird of paradise porcelain door knobs and finger plates (bedroom door)
(+£432 if she's done the other say 6 internal doors as well)
£25 wooden calculator (unused)
£100 pigskin hat
£35 two-headed Skellington dog plastic Halloween decoration
£339 All Saints belfern suede biker jacket
£155 Morris & Co. Strawberry Thief curtains (median price £65-245)
£1,550 2x Tiffany pearl hoop earrings sterling silver (two pairs)
£150 DM boots (other ones, not the willow ones mentioned upthread)
£104 rusty eBay spoons
£110 2x Oliver Bonas jumpers
£80 Emma Bridgewater toaster with TOASTER on it
£780 At least two Burberry scarves: one for her and one for LJC
£110 Crosley cruiser suitcase turntable ('SB's' bedroom)
£800 77 Lipsticks
£200 14 Foundations
£250 40 Eyeliners
£500 misc makeup
£320 2x Roberts Revival Mini radio
£158 orange nike trainers (asda trip)
£1,200 8x kendal dining chairs
£425 Graham and Green birdcage lampshade
£65 test tube vases
£35 boiler suit (which was dyed pink)
£10 squid game guard mask from the market
£44 per roll wallpaper used as ADHD friendly “to-do” list
£300 kitchen aid
£20 black pleather Primark boots with chain
£499 Dyson fan
£65 SimpleHuman hand soap dispenser (kitchen)
£60 squatty potty
£535 custom captain's chair
£110 Two pairs of granny curtain boiler suits
£400 Cotswold Company small sideboard (living room, blue)
£229 Cotswold Company tallboy (bedroom, ivory)
£799 Cotswold Company chester dove grey writing bureau (similar)
£849 Cotswold Company oakland rustic oak dining table
£399 Cotswold Company oakland rustic oak storage bench
£2,396 2x Cotswold Company chester dresser
£1,529 Cotswold Company chester grand dresser
£299 Cotswold Company bookcase (porch, used for manky wooden photography boards)
£800 2x Cotswold Company small sideboards
£499 Cotswold Company chester wine console
£599 Cotswold Company chester large sideboard
£699 Cotswold Company chester large sideboard (wine rack version)
£800 2x Cotswold Company oakland rustic oak shoe storage bench
£730 Cotswold Company chester dove grey extra large dresser top
£300 suit she wore for the Diva photoshoot
£300 dyson hairdryer
£1199 water rower
£400 John Lewis hammock
£400 John Lewis egg chair
£400 20x John Lewis clear plastic storage bins
£290 Baywood 33 drawer tea chest
£30 John Lewis Perspex cube pasta storage with pink lids
£20 full set of oversized unicorns/animal mugs from Asda
£300 sentient mirror
£360 2x nike trainers (exc. orange ones)
£120 24" TV for SB's PlayStation
£2,500 Smeg fridge (double American style)
£300 2x Viv westwood dress (assume sale)
£75 Sweaty Betty leggings
£170 Lumie alarm clock
£200 R&P bras (x 2 minimum)
£199 Airpods
£249 Airpods pro
£199 Apple Watch (assume series 3)
£250 Sleeper to Edinburgh last min on a Friday
£309 3 nights at Eden Locke, Edinburgh
£170 Last minute train home on a Monday morning
£700 Vets bills
£20 Sad Asda shop
£80 2x summit camping stove (shed)
£400 ooni pizza oven (freebie)
£60 3x “tiles” for locating lost keys/phones by internet magic
£12 2x dylon machine dye
£180 12x moleskin notebooks
~£1,000 unread books (estimate)
£100 CUDDLY TOY (Hamleys)
£640 6x DAB radios
£60 Lego flower bouquet
£60 Rock tumbler
£2,200 content
£600 Emin
£15 6x ring binders (for coroner's reports)
£1,790 Burberry classic trench coat
£5,000 Burberry brit jacket ($5-6k)
£350 Warm & wonderful diana sheep jumper
£60 Boy london snap back black/gold hat ($60)
£1,000 Unidentified Cotswold(?) cupboard/wardrobe
£10 horrendous steam punk clock leggings (worn once)

Spoiler: new/updated

£525 35x moleskin notebooks
£119 Hatteras pigskin leather cap dark brown (wax suede stetson hat)
£56 7x Wilko snake charmer kitchen baskets
£479 Nespresso creatista plus coffee machine (doesn't drink coffee)
£199 Bodyclock luxe 700FM alarm clock
£66 Tatty Devine Fishbone necklace
£485 Tiffany 1837 Makers I.D. Tag Pendant in Sterling Silver, 24" (worn at arcade fire gig)
£249 Peak Design rucksack (asda romp)
£245 'Edinburgh book festival' Russell & Bromley chester tassel loafer (dubious provenance)
£245 'Downing Street' leopard monstrosities with block heels
£245 assumed third pair of 'spenny loafers'
£146 Ray Ban sunglasses (one pair, probably multiple)
£960 8x Ikea billy bookcase wide white
£444 3x Ikea billy bookcase wide wood effect
£336 3x Ikea billy bookcase narrow wood effect
£140 4x Ikea hejne 'cheapo shoe racks' for seasonal crockery
£72 9x Ikea knagglig wooden box
£324 2x Sophie Conran for Portmeirion Dinnerware Set, White, 12 Piece (4x Dinner Plates, 4x Salad Plates, 4x Cereal Bowls)
£92 4x Sophie Conran for Portmeirion Mugs, White, Box of 2
£19 Sophie Conran for Portmeirion Cream Jug, White
£136 8x Sophie Conran for Portmeirion Pasta Bowl, Dia.23.5cm, White
~£200 more random Sophie Conran for Portmeirion shit (see instagram)
£294 'I can't forget' screenprint navy/raspberry
~£2,000 438x baubles
£2,000 cooker
£80 Nokia 3310
£1050 3x chest freezers
£70 Retro 20L 800W Pink Digital Microwave
£28 John Lewis llama doorstop
£40 Vintage ferguson radio casette recorder
£18 H&M peacock gold candlestick
~£180 10x other gold candlesticks (estimated)

Total: £45,606 £55,307

Spoiler: TBC - forensic ninnies apply within

The new pair of boots she bought after wearing the taped together pair for a while on TV (despite having other pairs ...?)
Botox
Fillers
Expensive haircuts
Tattoos
Artificial snow
many wigs
plastic flower headdress phase
“£5” denim cargo trousers from Primark
Multiple phones
SPITE SOFA
Le Creuset
furniture and set dressing for the shed outside that she was going to turn into a studio
lawnmower
bikes
tents
planting trough things
Ten (at least) outdoor chairs for her Mormon tabernacle Amish prayer circle fellowship things
The hen with the rubber eggs for nesting hens?
dusty plastics string of pearls plant
wallpaper backgrounds
Mary Poppins umbrella
desktop Mac type set up
laptops for 'team of staff'
squishy sofa
velvet sofabed
baskets
countertop oven
leather armchairs
calvin klein sportswear
smeg fridge (small, broken?)
more ray ban sunglasses

Instagram zone

fancy crockery (shitloads)
food storage (shitloads, kilner jars etc.)

'limited edition' vest -

red suit foodism awards -

excessive gold candlesticks -

bedroom of lies -

dog cushions - https://www.instagram.com/p/BbCdtX5gHjR/

seasonal crockery (shitloads) - https://www.instagram.com/p/BattqwYAd4R/

ted baker pajamas - https://www.instagram.com/p/BSXM2wtgv8E/

2x 6 drawer units - https://www.instagram.com/p/BP_nDFPBj3K/

Spoiler: stocktake T&Cs

Anything spenny is fair game, but I'll add whatever fraus want.
My own benchmark is discretionary or 'non-essential' spend in the context of someone who claims to not be able to afford shower gel or 6p for butter instead of lard etc.
Jack moves things around constantly so try to avoid double counting.
Instagram is a literal and figurative gold mine (see TBC spoiler).
If I like your stocktake post it means I've seen it and will include in the next update.
Have fun.
Now fuck off x

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!

Archive

Is Jack Monroe a Liar? Bootstrap Cook Faces Scrutiny | Sunday Woman

archived 29 Sep 2022 18:05:14 UTC

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Also did an archive for twitter search 'jack monroe', really highlights the astroturfing going on right now

jack monroe - Twitter Search / Twitter

archived 29 Sep 2022 23:29:53 UTC

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[Walkdengirl]

I've never been a cool girl, finally achieved it in my late 50s, fans myself in shock and excitement

Listened to about 1 minute is the Scotland radio show,I stand by all snow theory

 

[jenny2603]

Omfg Big Dave actually refers to himself as Big Dave MBE. I am deceased.

It stands for Marxist- Best Ever.

 

[jenny2603]

In all the current excitement, we seem to have overlooked the mysterious missing VBI Team. What happened to them? Are they still labouring away? Will they be joining Jack on her tour of the UK's supermarkets? Has the pumble got them?

It's been the longest weekend in human history. You'd think with all the help she's had, we might have the VBI by now. Instead we don't even have Jack making a tit of herself.

 

[Valiofthedolls]

Kickstarter stuff. Spoilering so OG fraus can just skip past if they want. Same old, same old. Nothing changes.

Spoiler: Kickstarter messages

It’s almost funny (I mean it’s not, it’s appalling, but you know what I mean) that this could just as easily be talking about Patreon - and was completely ignored by Jack- other older messages have replies from Caroline you can see. This wasn’t even replied to.

This person below paid £140!!! and Jack still didn’t do what was promised. She couldn’t even bother to write thirteen personalized messages to people who’d paid her £1,820 in total. Didn’t bother with a response to this one either, even though messages around it have responses

Jack should have learned serious lessons from that Kickstarter about over promising and under delivering. Instead, all she seems to have learned is how to take money from people, not provide what was promised in return and completely get away with it.

Oh! And ripping off people worse off than her and being rude and passive aggressive as hell at people expressing legitimate concerns isn’t anything new either.

ETA what a wonderful thread title too…

 

[Dogmuck]

Ok I’m just gonna come out and say it…I think Big Dave looks quite hot here (he’s got lush eyelashes), he reminds me of Martin Shaw of (The Professionals - Doyle ) but when he played Judge John Deed

 

[moldwarp]

Hello Ninnies! I’ve been away from these threads for a while but now back and delighted to see the grift slowly collapsing like a pumble soufflé. Loving all the insights from the new Frauen too!

I was glad to see the insights on the previous thread because imho this explains everything about Jack’s behaviour. Every. Single. Thing. The lying, the billy big balls, the graphic and inappropriate tweets, the compulsive spending, the shaky IRLmedia appearances, the constant furniture and book shelf rearranging…everything.

Like PPs I also believe that she and Nigella have history and also the is at the root of her relationship break ups.

In fact the only thing doesn’t explain is how she got famous in the first place and we all know that that was a fluke and then a Frankenstein creation by the upper middle class media who wanted a tame Poor.

Is she still off Twitter? Can’t wait to see how she styles this one out.

 

[Valiofthedolls]

If my own experience is anything to go by, when the puppy purchase idea came up, there will have been people around her too shit scared of the narc rage to be direct with her, but they may have suggested to her that she's a very busy person who won't have time for a dog and all their needs. However she will have fobbed this off by declaring she is the best pet owner ever, a pet whisperer if you like. Every pitfall highlighted will have been shot down in flames. Poor dog.

Laurie was also partially a spite dog who she got IMMEDIATELY after Old Harold dumped her so she could post about how the animal was ‘repairing her smashed to bits heart’ and ‘ the only thing stopping her from being on the brink of suicide’ (yes she literally said both those things).

She did (and posted) the exact same things getting Sophie the kitten after LJC LEFT almost exactly two years before. And there, to up the spite-animal ante, she named the kitten after Louisa’s beloved deceased dog. And we all know how that sorry kitten tale unfolded and ended.

Edit again. FFS, sorry.

 

[Tin Can Crook]

Sunday Woman (the poorly written article about Jack yesterday) has commented.

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

I think the bit about that being the leading luxury magazine for women in their 30s is in the author’s head. She has byline credits for most of the articles on the site. It wasn’t a good article.

Final word on the cocaine thing (before we get told off by the mods again) - the only reason it came up was bringing lived - and past - experience to speculating about Jack and

No one was saying it was a great thing to do