Why would anyone spend so much money on a rented house?
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I'm really pleased to hear Mary Berry is nice for some reason.
There's a shakshuka recipe in her latest book that is genuinely cheap to make and really delicious. You just know if the slopgibbon made it, it would contain rat entrails or something.
There's a shakshuka recipe in her latest book that is genuinely cheap to make and really delicious. You just know if the slopgibbon made it, it would contain rat entrails or something.
More on Liz's thread but yes, she did do all that, then when her landlord put the house up for sale she tried to stall it and tried to insist that the designer bath and fridge not be included in the sale
It’s hasn’t earnt you a penny because you were already paid for those WITH YOUR ADVANCE you disingenuous bleep.
Argh I've got so much work to do today, yet I feel the gravitational pull of the Tattle rabbithole
From Citizens' Advice:
They have to give notice for fitting a prepayment meter (you shouldn't ignore brown envelopes, Jack), although if you have a smart meter the process is easier for them and they can do it remotely.
ETA - she was probably too thick to understand that concept and assumed she would be paid royalties immediately. Stupid cow.
Liz Jones is who Jack wants to be. Some posh media type, all woe-is-me. I used to read her back page of the daily mail magazine at work because someone always left it in the canteen and it was painful, self-indulgent bullshit about having all these admirers and living in a cottage in the countryside like some sort of Bridget Jones if it was written by Enid Blyton.
£59k would be a more than comfortable house deposit you twit, who is going to take pity on you for spending that much money on a bit of paint and some knickknacks? I've lived in 12 (yes, I move almost as much as Jack) and I have never been allowed as much as sticking posters on the wall, let alone a full remodel.
My company puts up with some terrible, terrible behaviour from authors. Authors who call three times day to ask where their latest draft is, swearing and insulting us the entire time. One french writer who hated everything I'd done her work, insisted we scrap it, and she'd start again, putting us a full year behind, while emailing our boss every day to rant about how awful it was. And my favourite, the one who brushed all the mugs off the kitchen counter and then sat on the floor and cried. But I think even we'd draw the line at throwing books at people. I might ask HR actually.
£59k would be a more than comfortable house deposit you twit, who is going to take pity on you for spending that much money on a bit of paint and some knickknacks? I've lived in 12 (yes, I move almost as much as Jack) and I have never been allowed as much as sticking posters on the wall, let alone a full remodel.
My company puts up with some terrible, terrible behaviour from authors. Authors who call three times day to ask where their latest draft is, swearing and insulting us the entire time. One french writer who hated everything I'd done her work, insisted we scrap it, and she'd start again, putting us a full year behind, while emailing our boss every day to rant about how awful it was. And my favourite, the one who brushed all the mugs off the kitchen counter and then sat on the floor and cried. But I think even we'd draw the line at throwing books at people. I might ask HR actually.
She also has a designer haul that makes Jack’s £130k list look pathetic. She’s definitely spent the price of a small house on beauty treatments alone.
Let’s see.
Terrible, absolutely terrible with money
Terrible with animals
Terrible relationships
Normal childhood that they try to make our as impoverished
Love of weird designer tat but no personal style
She’s basically future Jack.
I haven't thought about Liz Jones in years, and from what I can remember she was extremely annoying and 'me me me whiny' - but she was also a huge animal lover/rescuer. As silly as it sounds, that somewhat redeems her in my eyes. Monroe doesn't even have that going for her. Far from it.
I really hope I'm not about to find out that LJ has been accused of animal cruelty or something like that in recent years
I really hope I'm not about to find out that LJ has been accused of animal cruelty or something like that in recent years
She has a favourite story about how her parents couldn't afford to buy her a Sindy doll so she had to make do with one from a charity shop that came without any clothes. Surprised Jack hasn't come up with her own version of that
IIRC she claimed to have recouped the money but also signed some kind of NDA so she can conveniently never mention it again.Wow. That blog. I felt the need to screenshot several parts of it for FORENSIC examination.
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She’s got some front still going on about how much KH ruined her life for 20 months after the judge totally saw through that blag. The histrionics are off the chart.
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18th house move. 9 moves since then?
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Admittedly coming at this from a position of ignorance, but does this happen? Wouldn’t they just cut you off rather than break into your house to install a prepaid meter??
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The ENTITLEMENT! This blog gave me all the rage. Way too much for a Monday morning if you please.
And what the hell has happened to this alleged stolen £50k+? Has the agent been arrested? Sued? Has Jack recouped the money? So many questions!
God, it's even more sickening re-reading it now, after everything that's become public knowledge within the past few months. Incidentally, if Jack ever does decide to sue Lee Anderson for him saying she takes money from the poor and the vulnerable, the comments underneath it should help his defence no end - lots of people there saying they're on pensions / don't have much spare cash, but they're going to send her something anyway. She's disgusting, truly.
OT: Jack Monroe in Tanzania
Is that a spoon I spy? Thought her time in Tanzania was all about learning to eat with her hands?
Jack Monroe and Allegra McEvedy: We’re teaching the kids that food is about more than fuel | Family | The Guardian
The food writers and cooks discuss family meals and their children’s favourite pancake recipes
Liz does earn a huge amount at the Mail, around 2014 when she did Celebrity Big Brother she said she'd earned £500,000 as a writer that year (most of it from the Mail.) She probably earns less than that now since she's no longer the fashion editor, but still, she'd be on a high six-figure salary. And yet I guarantee even if Jack were earning that kind of money she'd still be rattling the tip jar and claiming to have her fridge switched off
I've read the "choleric" blog before *of course*.
What do you think Jack means, or thinks she means, with the word choleric?
I think she's a fecking idiot one step away from Anna Karenina, but other views welcome
What do you think Jack means, or thinks she means, with the word choleric?
I think she's a fecking idiot one step away from Anna Karenina, but other views welcome
Poverty lingers a septic wound, choleric, stenching, bursting rancid all over your Sunday best
The threat of brutal home invasion lingers like a septic wound, covered with the thinnest of skins that threatens to burst open, choleric and stenching and staining your Sunday best white shirts at any moment
In that article she also mentions it's her 18th time moving house (which she had been in for 2 years+ at the time of the article) so in between May 2018 and the present day she must have moved nearly 10 more times which is interesting as most AST's are for at least 6 months and she's been in her current rental for around 3 years- really makes you think...
Edited to add: with regards the blue plaque thing that also makes no sense as she states her dad was joking so why do a list of homes and also blue plaques are also meant for people who DIED at least 20 years ago but as Jack thinks everyone wants her to stop breathing I guess in her mind it makes sense...
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This is essentially what got Jeremy Clarkson sacked "unprovoked physical attack"
It's one thing to be half cut in an interview it's something completely different to be getting violent
Oh I've just seen what this is in reference to. Good grief.Have to say. As much as I understand Molly trying to be anonymous. I am an EEA immigrant, I don't appreciate people pretend to be that. Same like I don't appreciate Jack pulling immigrant card as second/third gen tbh.
I am somewhat disappointed in Molly with this. Doesn't take away from her work but it does make me wary? Not sure how to explain. I did wonder about her education (wow which school you went to you lucky bugger!) because thst was better than native level of English on someone who has been here less than 5 yearsenvy
ETA obviously you'd want to be anonymous. Why make up a totally false back story though, especially one in which you lie about being an immigrant?
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