Jack Monroe #523 Everything she does is pointless busywork that solves nothing

[corneliahosendove]

Hello again Fraus! I did a ill considered digital detox back in December & closed my tattle account & then was locked out as they closed to new members till yesterday! I now have 344 moleskin notebooks filled with painstakingly hand written replies to all the many many chaoi ? since then. I am now typing them up on my ancient nokia & then will upload them to my equally ancient laptop then will print them out & file them in lever arch files & keep them in my shed. DM for an appointment to view. Dont just turn up & ring the doorbell.

quick mither: ADHD - D is for disorder. Yes, everyone gets distracted & looks up actors etc on IMDB, its normal & not uncommon. For me the Disorder bit is that I dont f-ing want to! I really really try to concentrate on the show I'm watching but I just can't, its horrible, upsetting & exhausting (who do I sound like?). Its beyond my control, because being attention deficit / hyperactive is a disorder, not an annoying habit. I feel 'oh get me & my wacky ways, its my adhd' is the new 'I'm soooo OCD' when really they are just tidy & organised. Equally offensive

ps Jack is a gob x

 

[Traazers]

*taps the sign again* plsssss burger boy origin posts someone, I am traipsing up to London on the train today to see the 1975 and could do with the cringe on the train so I don't kick the doors in/out

 

[Bugger13]

Christ, I just read it. Awful, just awful. The usual overblown cliches & the truly cringeworthy sucking up. Imagine Marcus Rashford’s embarrassment at reacting to this little nobody wanging on about herself-the silence was him thinking you’re an attention seeking, boring weirdo Guest. HTH.
And making squashed baked bean & turkey meatballs? Those poor kids.

 

[GazpachoPolice]

good GRIEF there’s more plot holes in that than an ITV drama

SB is “inexplicably” football mad,yet he’s a Liverpool fan “due to his fathers influence”

Guest is impressed that Marcus doesn’t get a single dot of flour on his sleeves but two paragraphs laters refers to his “flour covered shoes”

mad that she can remember so vividly THE POV from over ten years ago but can’t remember what she’s written 6 sentences earlier.

Also, she’s describing him like he’s 8 years old and then implying they’re flirting? It’s creepyView attachment 2279099

She really can’t remember her own lies, can she? Hasn’t she waxed lyrical about her love of Liverpool FC? Yet suddenly it’s just her son and she doesn’t know a thing about it.

 

[KebabGirl]

*taps the sign again* plsssss burger boy origin posts someone, I am traipsing up to London on the train today to see the 1975 and could do with the cringe on the train so I don't kick the doors in/out

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Jack Monroe #378 Where can I lodge a complaint about Jack Monroe?

Do you know what I find the most duplicitous bit? She could easily signpost to websites full of info on cooking on a budget. It can be done albeit it takes time and planning but she doesn't. She gives no actual advice of merit or any food tips. It's all one long victim narrative. She's got...

tattle.life

Someone is being very snippy then tells us how blissfully happy they are!

 

[Sensible Susan]

Christ, I just read it. Awful, just awful. The usual overblown cliches & the truly cringeworthy sucking up. Imagine Marcus Rashford’s embarrassment at reacting to this little nobody wanging on about herself-the silence was him thinking you’re an attention seeking, boring weirdo Guest. HTH.
And making squashed baked bean & turkey meatballs? Those poor kids.

He was probably patiently waiting for the questions tbf, daft wick was meant to be interviewing him.

 

[lilykestrel]

omg I'd forgotten that the burgering was crowbarred into conversation with a "Ha! Regret to inform you that I am sober! I'm up at this hour cos I've been SHAGGING"

 

[Limey]

Tweet of the day:

 

[Traazers]

Start from here

Jack Monroe #378 Where can I lodge a complaint about Jack Monroe?

Do you know what I find the most duplicitous bit? She could easily signpost to websites full of info on cooking on a budget. It can be done albeit it takes time and planning but she doesn't. She gives no actual advice of merit or any food tips. It's all one long victim narrative. She's got...

tattle.life

Someone is being very snippy then tells us how blissfully happy they are!

Thank you very kebabgirl much kebabgirl

 

[whatisityoucan'tface]

good GRIEF there’s more plot holes in that than an ITV drama

SB is “inexplicably” football mad,yet he’s a Liverpool fan “due to his fathers influence”

Guest is impressed that Marcus doesn’t get a single dot of flour on his sleeves but two paragraphs laters refers to his “flour covered shoes”

mad that she can remember so vividly THE POV from over ten years ago but can’t remember what she’s written 6 sentences earlier.

Also, she’s describing him like he’s 8 years old and then implying they’re flirting? It’s creepyView attachment 2279099

Handsome, unmarried and wealthy - he's lucky he got out alive

You can see the change of tone between the bits about his past/achievements (which probably came from a press release that she was able to largely cut and paste and is reasonably well written) and the embarrassing, adverb-laden, fanfic guff that gives you the dry boke.

 

[SouthendRealEstate]

He was probably patiently waiting for the questions tbf, daft wick was meant to be interviewing him.

I think she was trying to suggest that he was somehow ‘in awe of her’ and therefore quiet. I mean, we all know her ego would easily allow that.
PS I missed you ninnies soooo much

 

[Limey]

I think she was trying to suggest that he was somehow ‘in awe of her’ and therefore quiet. I mean, we all know her ego would easily allow that.
PS I missed you ninnies soooo much

Welcome back, tenderstem.

I'd pay good money for a long read on how it actually went when 'Jack Met Marcus'.

 

[Savethesauce]

You know you love to see it

 

[House of Carbonara]

I do that. I don't think I have ADHD.
I know lots of people that do that. They're not all ADHD.

What a load of auld saggy ball sacks

I've always done that, since I was a child. I don't think I have ADHD either.

 

[WhyYouCry?]

Imagine turning up at school and guest is the school cook. No obesity problem at that school.

Honestly, the slop that gets served up at my children’s school, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was softly, gently working behind the scenes there (haha who am i kidding, of course I’d be surprised to find her working.)
I might enquire as to whether they have a lady called Jackie, who always has her sleeves rolled down, in the kitchens.

 

[CrackingOwlSanctuary]

back OT - the “flirting” in the excerpt above is too much. she thinks she's Carrie from Sex and the City but it's more Slop and Gritty

She thinks she's Carrie from Sex and the City but she's actually Miranda from And Just Like That.

 

[SouthendRealEstate]

Welcome back, tenderstem.

I'd pay good money for a long read on how it actually went when 'Jack Met Marcus'.

Imagine his take: “Ummmm, well she seemed nice at first. She talked a lot but I didn’t mind cos I didn’t know what to say to her. I did feel sorry for her though. I don’t know exact details but from what she said (quite a lot) it sounds like she was destitute for about 10 years! I wish she hadn’t worn the heels though. She obviously wasn’t used to them and nearly fell over a few times. Someone told me afterwards that she was a famous food blogger but honestly I’ve never heard of her. I wasn’t proud of the food. It was a bit sloppy. I didn’t try any and it’s just as well cos I heard the school had an outbreak of the people after.”

 

[schitts]

It started on a cold and dare I say sloppy night…

Years ago, someone linked to her on Tumblr - this must have been 2015-18 as a woman who’d been living in absolute poverty and her recipes could help those in similar straits, etc. The post got quite popular, made the rounds, I clicked on it as I was curious and remember reading through the recipes and pondering trying some myself (I wasn’t in the best of financial circumstances at the time and needed to make cash stretch). I regret to say I never tried anything as perhaps tht would have opened my eyes sooner!


Forgot about her for a long time and then re-remembered her on Twitter in about 2020 when she was bleeping on about how she had lost a lot of income due to the pandemic. I followed her as I felt sorry for her (I was waiting to hear if I’d be furloughed at the time - not to but I worked for a coffee shop that cba to close until the final hour whereas everyone else had closed the week prior) and didn’t think too much about her. I remember witnessing the disabled cat in real time and that horrified me so I unfollowed as it made me feel deeply uneasy to see things like that with her showing no remorse.

Put her to the back of my mind again as unlike Monwoe I am BUSY and ACTUALLY WORK 100 HOURS A WEEK (I do not but in the third sector it frequently feels like that). And then I think in September 2022 I saw something she’d said about the torrent of abuse she was receiving from her deepest darkest haters, and I thought… where is this abuse? because a quick skim of her comments club didn’t show anything like that. I can’t remember what I googled but I came cross Tattle (had never heard of it prior to stumbling across these threads like a parched adventurer crawling to an oasis) and the rest was history.

I’ve basically had my face pressed against the window not unlike Guest at the TV/media industries except I’m well-mannered, tidy, have great fingernails and am an OK cook but haven’t made a career off selling slop. And now I’m here! I think the most eye opening thing for me has been all the stories of woe - the chewing her lip but it’s actually filler made me gasp (I know nothing about botox filler the beauty industry etc) and the Mrs Gloss stuff… my jaw hit the floor!

A recommendation for frauen here is the podcast “Sweet Bobby” if you haven’t listened to it as a lot of the behaviour in there reminded me of Guest when I was listening to it last week.

Go well! Don’t forget large lashings of black pepper on everything - the fix-it staple of the kitchen x

Hello! I recommend the Sweet Booby podcast to everyone - it’s a real jaw dropper isn’t it???
Re guest and the poor kitten I remember feeling deeply uneasy too- extraordinary behaviour!
I also thought she had MH problems when she announced that she was dying all of her clothes black!! But the side board poses

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

I know Shappi came up on the previous thread and it sounds like she and Mark have split up. There’s also a vast gulf in the way she talks about ADHD to Guest but I’m wondering if Guest will try to glom onto her now she’s got an ADHD book coming out, has revealed an ED and talked about drinking too much and is saying being part of a couple isn’t for her - sounds exactly like things Jack would want to adopt/steal for herself.

 

[Florid Language]

Hello Ninnies.
I've been following the threads for over a year and have laughed so much that it hurts.
My Monroe story.
Was aware of her for years and her posts popped up in my Twitter feed regularly.
Some of the people that I followed amplified and retweeted her HH2 beggy post.
Being a soft beep I sent money through her tip jar, mainly because I felt sorry for her son.
I've never followed her, so just think of the money that she raked in through people like me?
Mentioned what I'd done to someone that I know and after they'd told me that I was a silly beep, pointed me in the direction of Tattle.
Between here an Molly's blog, I've continued to be gobsmacked by the manipulation of well meaning people by guest.
I'm a fool, but she's a bleeping bleep.