Jack Monroe #431 Close your begs, woman!

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Omg, I was just thinking, maybe the red and white bits were added on by one of us ninnies, and it’s somehow become the “official” picture.

I just looked back at the Easter thread and I was that ninnie! I’m so sorry. Jack’s cake was terrifying enough, but the red eyes and tooth-mouth/portal were all my creative work, not Jack’s!


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i still can’t make that look like a rabbit in my head!
 
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Is that an actual alcoplop on a plate? Was she on the red wine and Guinness the night before that shoot?
I thought to myself: I can’t believe they’ve used such a bad photo taken by Jack! And ninnies, it’s not even hers! They paid someone,
I would imagine, to take it and publish it!
 
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Is anyone planning to pre-order/buy Grifty Kitchen? There's a few things in it I want to see now that probably makes it worth a punt at half price, we could have a communal canal copy.
Despite that being 20p in Jack's pocket I've got a way to make up for it via the slopathon, so no worries there.

@MrsFawlty I don't even know what a tortoise is 🤷‍♀️
Like a turtle, without the water 🐢
 
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I thought to myself: I can’t believe they’ve used such a bad photo taken by Jack! And ninnies, it’s not even hers! They paid someone,
I would imagine, to take it and publish it!
Imagine what it would look like if they hadn't paid someone to professionallly make it and then photograph it...
 
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Further to “who did she throw a book at” … well, this is one version she tells at a sad time. I believe the other was in an example of how her publishers put up with her
I bet at least one of his friends read this and thought ‘he couldn’t stand you, pal’.
 
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In fact, given she has pissed off and Instagram is boring AF, I might go back and look at her recipes and the hilarious comments for lols.

This one is particularly good. The commenters have actually worked the volumes she has used are bollocks and that’s on top of the fact that the recipe is disgusting.

Imagine actually having a hangover and someone gave you that, you’d literally be heaving onto the plate oh my god
 
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As usual I suspect this is Jack's version of reality. Authors don't spend that much time with the art directors of their books, at least not enough time to become best buddies with them like Jack seems to think she was.
That entire tribute was about how he made her feel. People only have value in how they relate back to her
 
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Pick any month of any year that she's been in the public eye and you'll find her talking about daily harassment, abuse and trolls. It's always been the same, her fragile ego can't deal with anyone not agreeing with her or thinking she's wonderful, so these people get labelled as hateful bullies, for merely saying a recipe doesn’t work. Trouble is, people have believed for years that she actually does get all this abuse; she's managed to concrete this myth that she is a targeted figure.
This exactly. I'd bet every single public figure, even before the world of SM, would have and does experience abuse from what we now call haters, to one degree or another. It comes with the territory, sadly. IMO only an emotionally mature and psychologically stable and resilient person, supported by close & loving friends/family IRL, can successfully separate their public and private personas in order to do their job. If JM was, and had always been, supported in that way would she have spent her time arguing on SM with people she doesn't know? If she was emotionally mature and stable would she be publically threatening self harm? Would she have failed in so many previous jobs, been unable to sustain relationships, had public meltdowns...are there other public figures who act in this way? I don't know as I don't generally follow celebs, I was only interested in JM because I knew her peripherally before she became famous.
I wonder why nobody close to her has apparently not stepped in to help her fulfil her patreon promises for example. Surely they could have simply stepped in and got the stuff sent out to patrons to free her up to do her job, thereby quietening the furore from unhappy patrons? Why didn't anybody notice what was going on a long time ago and step in out of love and concern?
One can only conclude that there is either nobody in her life willing to do this, or that she consistently refuses any help or intervention. Which explains her desperate need to interact with strangers to gain validation and prove she's worthwhile. In the meantime, she's forgotten what her job actually is and who put her there.
I'm afraid we're witnessing self destruction on a massive scale. I still think it's sad, as I said in my first post here. I'm not making excuses for her I'm just trying to understand the why...nobody is born bad...are they?
 
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She has allegedly had assistants, but she seems to hire by matching levels of incompetence, from what I can see.
 
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Morning ninnies! Here's the "Etsy dupes" artfully teamed with the pov jumper back in February (pre-birthday). Lovely video of them swinging round her lug holes, in case it's not already been seen


ETA: and here, just a week (I think?) before her birthday. What fortune to lose them in the following few days but also to get them replaced by OH.
 
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Morning ninnies! Here's the "Etsy dupes" artfully teamed with the pov jumper back in February (pre-birthday). Lovely video of them swinging round her lug holes, in case it's not already been seen

For someone who can't afford shampoo I can't get over how many different hair colours and styles she's had in just one year. I'm a man so maybe I'm coming at it from a male perspective where we rarely change a style but all the women I know it's a big deal to have a style or colour change and she can afford to do it seemingly depending on whenever the weather is changing.
 
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For someone who can't afford shampoo I can't get over how many different hair colours and styles she's had in just one year. I'm a man so maybe I'm coming at it from a male perspective where we rarely change a style but all the women I know it's a big deal to have a style or colour change and she can afford to do it seemingly depending on whenever the weather is changing.
The hair baffles me too. I may be unusual in that I don’t colour my hair (I did a few times in my early 20’s but it’s been untouched for at least 15 years. I’m sure I’ll start colouring it again when I go grey though!), but she has had so many cuts/colours/styles. It’s like she has no idea who she actually is and has to reinvent herself every 3 months.
 
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Morning ninnies! Here's the "Etsy dupes" artfully teamed with the pov jumper back in February (pre-birthday). Lovely video of them swinging round her lug holes, in case it's not already been seen


ETA: and here, just a week (I think?) before her birthday. What fortune to lose them in the following few days but also to get them replaced by OH.
Serious, sad Jack, talking about things she doesn’t have a bleeping clue about.
 
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Morning ninnies! Here's the "Etsy dupes" artfully teamed with the pov jumper back in February (pre-birthday). Lovely video of them swinging round her lug holes, in case it's not already been seen


ETA: and here, just a week (I think?) before her birthday. What fortune to lose them in the following few days but also to get them replaced by OH.
And gleefully taking the credit for asda reducing their prices 😡
 
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@Brian Butterfield if Jack is to be believed these are called 'peppercorn rents' 🤭
Jack's claim that her grandad charged only peppercorn rent to his tenants really grinds my gears. Peppercorn is defined as de minimis payments. Absolutely no way was Misogynist Grandad renting out his properties basically for free. That was a transparent lie Jack told in a blatant attempt to position her Grandad as some kind of hyper-socialist charitable organisation, when in fact, we have good reason to expect that he was renting out HMOs to fairly vulnerable people, doubtless at the market rate.

Also @NellieBoo thank you for your wise words on the effects of heavy drinking and the way it complicates and fucks up people's lives. At the end of my active alcoholism I was not only very physically ill but was also in a really dreadful abusive relationship and a horrible living situation. it took a year for my body to recover and well over three years to untangle the life complications that my alcoholism had got me into. And I wasn't drinking 200 units, because women don't typically SURVIVE a long period of drinking 200 units a week. Men, sure. Women, no.

Jack's whole alcohol cosplay is so, so offensive to people who really struggle with this disease. I don't doubt she drank problematically (as many Cluster B type personalities do) but I press X to doubt on the chronic alcoholism tit.
 
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The amount of protected characteristics she’s adopted, looks she’s had, hair styles, colours, lies she tells, stuff she buys, sock accounts etc - EVERYTHING just reeks of someone who doesn’t know who they are, what they like, or what they want to be.
It must be so confusing to be Jack.
 
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I was hoping that someone would take her to task tomorrow when she descends on Cardiff, but luckily for Jack everyone in Wales is currently in a good mood (thank you Gareth Bale). Then again, if she drops any Welshisms that'll be another matter.

(Suddenly having a nightmare thought that she'll start belting out Yma o Hyd at the top of her voice while scampering through Cardiff) :oops:
 
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In fact, given she has pissed off and Instagram is boring AF, I might go back and look at her recipes and the hilarious comments for lols.

This one is particularly good. The commenters have actually worked the volumes she has used are bollocks and that’s on top of the fact that the recipe is disgusting.

If you had been, as she so charmingly puts it, “dogshit poor” and then were miraculously gifted a recipe column in the Guardian (we should assume this is a pretty well paid gig, right?), can you even fathom the levels of laziness, arrogance, and entitlement to put this untested shite out as a recipe?

No instruction on how to handle the black pudding; unhinged proportions of ingredients; a convoluted method (who wants to wait an hour while their hangover breakfast chills in the fridge?!) that is clearly untested (the carrot will “bear down” on the potato?! Lol, k, Jack).

Whenever stuff like this is unearthed I just wonder why she wasn’t outed as a complete fraud sooner. It isn’t cute or quirky to write about how you’ve been on the piss instead of doing your job and then weave that into the piece of tit recipe you wrote 12 minutes before deadline, still twatted. Ungrateful turd.
 
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