Jack Monroe # 45 I’ll put it on the to do list

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

Fucking twat.

Spoiler: Ranting and EXTREMELY BLUNT, definitely avoid if you can't stand absolute facts and realism

If she'd followed the advice of THREE FUCKING VETS, it would have slipped away quietly and peacefully, rather than horribly. And she wouldn't have seen it go like that. However, thank fuck it didn't get put through leg amputations and the barbarity of what was being mooted online. I knew it was halfway dead as soon as she showed those ridiculous photos, never mind the grossly deformed state of it on x-ray. She took it and made it suffer just to make herself feel good. It was never going to survive. Its genetics, intrauterine infection, maternal malnutrition and lack of vaccination, whatever the precise cause of its many abnormalities, meant the only responsible and kind thing to do would have been to LISTEN TO THE FUCKING VETS.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

Big, BLUE eyes, you say?

Spoiler: You know the rest...enter at your own risk

BLUE as in the colour that they have before they start changing at 6-7 weeks, you mean?

BLUE as in consistent with it being about five to six weeks old?

BLUE as in too young to be separated from the mother?

BLUE as in too young to be weaned without specialist, experienced carers of abandoned kittens?

BLUE as in what you get when you buy the runt of the llitter from a backyard breeder off Gumtree?

BLUE as in you didn't know shit about kittens so couldn't tell it was never 9 weeks old?

BLUE as in you didn't know shit about kittens, bought off Gumtree, failed to give it the correct food, thus causing its inside to practically turn inside out on cheap pouches, dragged it round for photos and tit cuddles and shut it in a cold, dark room away from any warmth or security, stressed it from trips to vets, pulled it around, hurt its mangled limbs and then died slowly and painfully instead of quickly and gently as it should have done over a week ago?

 

[byropaw]

Spoiler: Sensitive Jewish and kitten

NOT COMPARABLE, person with candle

 

[Flumps]

I know I've said it already, but I just wanted to say thank you again for all the good wishes today. I had, despite my claims, resigned myself to bad news, and not to get it has been such a relief that it's left me feeling a complete wreck. But I wanted to say this is such a lovely corner of the internet, filled with funny, smart and such kind people. I came here (what feels like ages ago now) because JM rang all sorts of wrong bells with me, and to find such an interesting, entertaining, varied and lovely bunch of evil fraus has made the last months of lockdown and other life weirdness so much more bearable. You all rock. I want to buy you all a drink/ice lolly/treat of your choice. Thank you again. x

 

[HarderFaster]

I have had a monumentally shitty day

Spoiler: Spoiler: serious TW suicide

A girl I went to school with got in touch to tell me that my first boyfriend (who in fairness she did not know was also a horrendous abuser and destroyed me) had died, and on looking at his obituary it turns out he took his own life. In many ways it's been positive because I ended up ringing Rape Crisis for the first time in my life to discuss my conflicted feelings of guilt and relief, but nonetheless a bit of a blow to the ribs

Anyway although the news from Jack's feed is monumentally fucking sad, I feel like it has been a blessing for Pretzel herself.

Spoiler: Kitten chat

I was so agitated every time she posted about her purring, because my gorgeous old man cat purred almost constantly in his final hours, because he was in pain. If Jack wasn't going to do the right thing and let the vet put the poor thing out of her misery I'm actually glad nature did.

I hope that doesn't sound heartless because I genuinely adore animals but I can't bear to see one suffer.

ETA - sorry for using monumentally twice. Not quite up to my usual writing standards today, for obvious reasons.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

That You Tube video is monetized. I've got a weight loss advert at the start.

 

[colouredlines]

I watched the video (not recommended). Just one thing, Jack: in all this histrionic nonsense about your cat teaching you to love again, bringing the light back to your eyes, filling the hole where your heart used to be...did you forget you have a fucking CHILD?

 

[Harrybosch]

Just read a bunch of comments on her twitter. All these people going on about how the kitten meant so much to them and how she touched their hearts. Now, cabal, please be honest, am I a heartless bitch when I say that particular cat didn't mean anything to me, but it was clear that it was unwell and I never want to see a sentient being suffer?. Therefore I found this whole episode upsetting, even disturbing. But not because the kitten meant anything to me. Her following have weird little brains.

 

[Droosie123]

And with this stuff I am done with her. I won’t be reading this board anymore. I can’t do that to my own mental health.

i hate her with a passion and I no longer want to know what she is doing. I’ve blocked her everywhere. I do t want to know any more news about her.

that kitten suffered and it didn’t need to and this breaks my heart. I’m sorry for her son but I hope he spends most of his time other his Dad.

You are all wonderful people here and I will miss you, I’ll go back to reading one or two other threads but Jack I am done with.

 

[Pocahontas]

Dear Jack, I know you are reading this. You cashed in on the animal’s suffering for attention, and now you are cashing in on its death with your monetised, highly-edited video. You are shameless. You should be referred to the RSPCA for prolonging the suffering of this kitten. You were never its saviour. What depths will you plumb next. Go powder your bruised eye, and comfort your son. You are truly disgusting.

 

[CarrotsandSticks]

Yeah those links stick right out don't they?? Straight away makes the whole effort feel devoid of compassion. Like it's a bloody advert or something.

due to the super quick turn around, I’m guessing the YouTube was originally going to be an ad for the kitten’s own gofundme / patreon to get her followers to help pay those vet bills? Sign up / donate and get exclusive regular kitten footage. Urgh, I want to wash my typing hand

 

[missbct]

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Quick, fire up the ouchy eyeball recipes.

 

[MrsOgre]

Am I allowed to share this? Miss his posts here!

 

[Warrend]

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Life goes on.

I'd love it if Iain Lee replied, "thanks for the offer, but I asked for a good one".

 

[MancBee]

Wasn't sure whether to post this, but it is so funny it will lighten the mood.

As I mentioned, my partner was visiting for the first time in months, and we got talking about what I've been doing whilst being alone shielding. I told him about this forum and what Jackie had been doing. He said "She's Fannylighting you all". I said "what are you talking about?" He said "like in that film, Fanny by Gaslight, they're all talking about Geoff on Corry, he's doing it".........You all know he means Gaslighting. I nearly pissed myself laughing.

But to be fair, she is fannylighting us all.

 

[chocolate choux]

From the video:

Spoiler: Kitten

Laughing “endlessly” at a disabled animal struggling to move
Poor kitten must have suffered so much. She was clearly very unwell beyond her leg issues

 

[Veronicaaa]

Classy of her to include in her video the exact amount that the X-rays cost.

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

Don't wanna overwhelm with numbers so sorry if this is dry, I'm also shattered so not v articulate:

• On avg she tweets 36 times a day, median is 30 so that suggests she's relatively consistent with this at least! Range 1 - 144, again remembering the bulk of her content gets deleted...
• Now we're excluding RTs (approx 7% of our sample) here because that'd piggy back on that person's viral tweet success... so for her she ranges from 0 - 3.7k RTs, with a median of just 6 per tweet.
• Restating the previously mentioned fav figures because of my RT oversight: range 0 - 29.3k, with a median of just 10 favourites per tweet.
• ANNOYINGLY I can't get reply count w/o having access to Twitter's enterprise API which would be really interesting because she does have a lot of convos, evidently.

A lil heat map of her activity, the darker the green the more tweets have occurred in that hour / on that day in the time period we're looking at. Please note this is a total for the 85 day period / 2.9k tweets, not a daily average!

Honestly it looks like she must log in at 11am and just...stay there? I appreciate it's skewed by deleted shitfits which you can see where there's white squares of 0, but largely there's not a day of week or hour of day she's not tweeted on - is she eternally online?!

Now just adding RT count + fav count as 'engagements' to calculate avg engagements per tweet. Remembering to help ~contextualise results her median engagements is just 10 per tweet:

quickly edited to update with the range of her engagements, as it’s huge, 0-30.4k

As you can tell by the sea of red & yellow, largely they skew at the lower end. She just has a handful of bigger tweets amongst a load of old shit. Most engaged with tweet, by a country mile, was about Hopkins. Second DW, then 3rd going out for paint loool. Nothing to do with work has slapped on Twitter, it's as if no one's actually rinsing those beans?

 

[MancBee]

I just knew this would happen, it was evident to anyone that the kitten was seriously ill. St Jackie refused to believe the advice of 3 vets, believing, childishly, that the power of love conquers all. She needs to grow up, she behaves like an overindulged child. I have no sympathy for her at all. She would have allowed that poor animal to go through any amount of pain and suffering, so long as it suited her selfish needs.

I do however also think that whoever gave her this kitten is equally culpable. It was their responsibility to ensure that the kitten was cared for responsibly.

 

[Gentlemensrelish]

This may sound awfully callous of me but she’s had the kitten for a few weeks, if this is the worst pain/grief she has ever had to endure then she is pretty fortunate View attachment 181316

I guess I am aware that I'm a heartless bitch, but I've had miscarriages I made less fuss about.

It was a fucking kitten she'd had for two weeks that was clearly extremely unwell. I know people love their pets, I really love my dog, but Christ... What an absolute carry on. You'd think she'd lost a partner of 40 years. One of her absolutely insane followers tweeted something like 'you must keep using her name, blah blah'. They're all absolutely ridiculous.