Jack Monroe #513 Breitling on a Bootstrap

[Cheekymonk3y]

Have we seen this…?!

 

[StewPots]

De-lurking to write my first post… basically I’m incensed with anger right now…at that tweet with her medication list !!
I have several severe MH issues - alongside two very rare physical conditions. The medication I have to take daily is frankly eye watering and has caused issues elsewhere in my body. I’m literally on the way to the Drs for ANOTHER blood test because of yet ANOTHER issue.
So to see this fucking grifting piece of shit dripping on and ripping people off drives me to raging thoughts. I manage to not rip people off, and also if I do make a mistake I fucking own it because it’s MY RESPONSIBILITY.
I have full mental capacity despite the two awful MN conditions so don’t tell me she doesn’t either. She knows exactly what she’s doing and what’s going on and if she says she doesn’t then she’s fucking full of shit.

Also as an aside propranolol isn’t even that hardcore ffs. It’s a mild beta blocker and I take several a day. But to people unaware she’s making it seem like some hardcore antipsychotic. I am on two of these too, so I know what I’m taking about.
I’m not disputing she has MH issues - she certainly has some fucking issues that’s for sure.

But her current meds is ALL her own fault and if she starts banging on about it being because of bad MH I shall sign up for the hellsite and fucking tear her a new one.

Also I am a poor - both growing up and right now as due to my very real and DIAGNOSED conditions I had to give up work 2 years ago. It’s affected my entire identity, made my MH worse and I am just in pain, miserable and unable to do anything about it. Yet I still manage NOT to rip people off and I can’t believe people are still falling for thisfucking woe is me shit that she comes out with whilst wearing a watch worth ££££ and a fucking Emin in her toilet. Fuck off Jack you absolute melt

Glad I got that off my chest!
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Typing so fast with rage I made a lot of typos sorry and don’t know how to edit yet

I think it’s a sign I should have LEFT for the Dr by now and to stop grunking!

 

[MancBee]

I can still hear my mum saying "you need a slice of bread with that" with our dinner to fill us up.

To this day I still have a slice of bread with my main meal.

It's anecdotes like this that Jack never tells her pyramid stage of followers. BECAUSE SHE NEVER EXPERIENCED ANY SORT OF POVERTY. sorry for shouting.

 

[Falkor]

CCJ squig is going quiet until after the hearing on the 14th.

 

[Griftymcgriftface]

I actually think it is sneaky of Simon harris and others to act like they didn’t enable her behaviour now that she is slowly being exposed. Nigella, for example is directly responsible for those several hundred people who signed up to the patreon being scammed. She has just gone silent on the issue. There is no way she doesn’t know.

 

[Geetbo]

As defences go “not as bad as Beverley Allitt” isn’t the strongest I’ve ever heard tbh.

 

[Witchfinder Sargeant]

She could be honest and say her gigs like Question Time don't pay very much and that's why she has the patreon. Although her outputs (blog posts, appearances etc.) are so few and far between she probably doesn't like to draw attention to the fact it is money for almost nothing.

She actually says that the Patreon funds "the good stuff that makes a difference but doesn't pay the bills." If it were me raking in thousands and thousands of pounds a month, I would be posting regular patreon updates to that effect.

"This month I:

• Spoke at XYZ charity event, with [this outcome]. Your generous support meant that my travel expenses were covered and so the charity didn't have to cover them for me. here's a video of my speech and some behind the scenes photos.
• Addressed ABC government committee, with the aim of [desired outcome]. Here's a copy of my speech, which I was able to researched and wrote thanks to your generous support."

And so on.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

 

[Emmapism]

@Emmapism ..... I hear ya re mattresses. I was 47 when I finally owned a mattress upon which I was the first person to sleep. ( I feel I articulated that poorly...)

I bet the first sleep on that was

My biggest treat to myself recently was prescription sunglasses. After years of cheapo pairs where I could not fucking see

But isn't it funny that we all have similar experiences growing up with varying levels of 'not very much' and Jack is like 'I boiled soap!' something that nobody has ever done, ever. That's why we see you Hun.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

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[Emmapism]

The thing is, even if it wasn't a Breitling- she's got form for EXACTLY this kind of behaviour. Tin rattling to followers who are less well off than she is but sitting on designer dresses, diamond rings, an Emin sketch, thousands in passive income.

The idea that anyone would beg for cash when having all of that, is abhorrent. So whether it's a watch that cost £500, or £1k or 2k or 8k......doesn't change a fucking thing.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

I made another nice collage of Jack on Question Time.

 

[PeepholePringle]

Adding myself to the list of people who had a video guy who'd do the rounds of the estate. He had a ringbinder with all the titles in too, very proper.
Also like MancBee, a slice of bread with every meal was mandatory.
Mum never messed about creating whimsical food combinations due to the risk nobody would eat it, so we had the same 5 or 6 meals on rotation.
If ccj Squig starts a gofundme for his court case I'll donate the equivalent cash that I once sent Jack in a vulnerable moment and never got so much as an automated thanks for.

 

[BlendedSlop]

I've been hit with a new wave of anger this morning that she's just pretending the Sue Lee beg never happened and carrying on as normal. How utterly skewed must your moral compass be to think it's acceptable to solicit donations from strangers for a specific action that never goes ahead and then just...refuse to say how much was raised and what you've done with it? Surely she realises this? And why do her defenders not seem to care?

The brass neck of her appearing on QT and spouting shite about honesty and transparency with all of this still hanging over her...I mean, it's completely beyond parody, isn't it?

 

[People-huv-tae-know]

 

[Veronicaaa]

Hoooo boy !

 

[chizontiz]

I sometimes, when I'm morose (now)) feel I'm cosplaying my own life because it's so very far removed from my own formative years experience and I don't feel I'm equipped with the skills to know how to live it.

Kind of the opposite of Jackie.

Spoiler: Class mither

Yes so much this. I think this speaks to how nuanced upward mobility is these days - I am undoubtably culturally middle-class, and there is no way I can claim to have experienced the same disadvantages my mum especially did. I know just enough to ‘fake it’ but have given up on ‘making it’ because fuck me is that a twisted game with some ever changing goalposts! And when you don’t have an inbuilt system to fall back on, the stakes feel way too high.

If I’m being kind to guest, I think there might be something in her family not feeling ‘safe’ for her to fall back on. Not implying anything untoward but I agree with those who’ve said her parents’ choice to foster clearly was not in her best interests, and with the anorexia and scalpel incident (even if it isn’t true, it’s what she wants people to think which is the main takeaway for me), I think there’s enough there to show she was not a happy teen and the last 20 years is pretty compelling evidence that whatever she was going through wasn’t seen/dealt with.

If that’s the case then I do empathise with her - untangling ourselves from our messy family dynamics can be so difficult, especially as it can be hard for us to realise the ways in which they are damaging us, and then even harder to put in appropriate boundaries to protect ourselves and ‘break the cycle’ (especially in a family of narcissists).

I’m no where near achieving this for myself yet so Jack mate, I get it. But you owe it to your son to take ownership of your shit. He didn’t ask to be born into your narc family anymore than you did. You’re more than capable of healing - start by surrounding yourself with honest people who will call you out on all your batshit behaviour*, the roots of which aren’t your fault but are your responsibility to deal with - not your son’s, not randoms on social media, not your OH’s you cling onto for dear life for some semblance of safety and security, not even your parents anymore tbh - you.

*eg. any decent fellowship sponsor would ask wtf are you doing out ‘raving’, sober or not, and trumping about the beacons if that means you’re not going to get any sleep before a very high profile TV appearance which you will OBVIOUSLY be under a shit-tonne of scrutiny for and will no doubt be shitting it?! That’s not something to brag about nobber - what do we care about more, being happy, or convincing the rest of the world that we are happy and have therefore ‘won’ whatever made up game that only exists in our head???

sorry got a bit carried away there eh

 

[Hold my beans]

Yeah those serial killers. Such bad behaviour.

As far as I know Aileen Wuornos didn't have months of unfulfilled Patreon rewards

 

[MancBee]

This annoys me for loads of reasons
1. She manages to do that ridiculous side on selfie view in her hospital bed. FFS
2. Straining her collar bones for sympathyos/body checking
3. Filthy fucking nails, how do you get filthy being in hospital
4. Posting a photo of her epipen, reminds me of the munchie by Internet crowd reddit's illness fakers sub post about
5. Straining her thumb back to emphasise she's hypermobile. It will hurt doing that. Especially if you have arthritis
6. Does she still wear that medical alert bracelet
7. She's supposed to put the affiliate disclaimer at the start of the blog
8. Her existence

The hospital photo thing really pummels my pumble.

I have lost count of the number of hospitals I have been in; but I can count on the fingers of no hands how many photographs I have had taken in any one of them. Not a single photo, not one.

When you are feeling like crap, who thinks "Oh I know, let's take a selfie"? Even if you are feeling OK and are in for tests, what possible reason is there for photographing yourself? I would never. What is wrong with these people?

 

[DisgruntledGoat]

It’s SUCH a compelling mystery! I would love to know. It feels like something that would only be finally revealed in a sit-down interview as part of a Netflix documentary.

I love a conspiracy but I think it’s quite simple: she makes enough money to make it worth their while to take their 20% cut. Just shows the extent to which it’s disgusting how often she’s claimed poverty/paying herself minimum wage/asked for cash for presenter training and website building.

I can say with confidence that no agency would take on someone a decade established in the industry without them bringing in dollar. You see it often on Tattle that people vastly underestimate how much influencers are paid even for incredibly shitty content and ads. Jack is a step above that: TV, big ad campaigns, executive speaking gigs . She’s raking it in and it’s the only reason they put up with her nonsense.