Jack Monroe #524 Not the only or most important voice and presence in this critical area of our life

[moldwarp]

Oh God, I’d forgotten the cringe. Even from the outset, she looks awkward, her shoelace is undone, she’s making cringy jokes to Matt. Christ on a bike. Oh well, at least I got myself a new avatar and tbh it did help during lockdown cos it was the funniest thing on the box

The maddest thing about it was she clearly fancied herself as the new Nigella and made lots of pickme posts showing herself doing her hair or laying on a couch in the green room in an Ophelia pose with back arched so as to show off the hateful boobs to their best advantage. Now don't get me wrong I think her hair then was beautiful, so thick, and she looked good on DKL, but it was so attention seeking and immature and desperate.
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I used to post on CIF and I don’t remember any other journalist coming into the comments to complain about criticism. You’d occasionally get them posting to clarify something or disagree with a political point but I don’t remember anyone else wading BTL to say “You don’t like my article? Well I suppose you must be a TORY, Susan.”

I think some papers encourage journos to engage BTL, FT journos do it a lot especially on opinion pieces, but they're always really respectful and professional even when the comments get a bit deranged or personal. Total opposite of Jack. I am never not bowled over by her lack of professionalism, she must KNOW it would cause bridges to be burned!? Especially as a freelancer I'd have thought you'd make extra sure to be as nice as poss to everyone as you may need them in future!

 

[SouthendRealEstate]

Would you accept a DEECEASED dress instead?
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Bread and Jam Crafts: The full saga View attachment 2285734

Spoiler

December 4 2012: What is that silly Jack up to?! Well, she’s only gone and ACCIDENTALLY PLUGGED her personal craft business in her newspaper column!
View attachment 2285749How on earth could that have happened?! Sigh! TECHNOLOGY!View attachment 2285750 (And cufflinks)View attachment 2285751

Cufflinks, Cross Stitch and Cushions

There's nothing quite like accidentally plugging the wrong thing in your weekly newspaper column! So for those of you looking for Cufflinks, cross stitch and cushions, please see Bread And Jam - my...

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December 9 2012: Jack has been launching Bread and Jam (the business that TECHNOLOGY made her “accidentally plug” in her newspaper column). All profits go to local community organizations!
View attachment 2285739She’s also making sandwiches for the homeless (which she’ll be doing twice a month!) and soliciting input from other organizations Bread and Jam will help.
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Bread And Jam: Making Sandwiches For The Homeless

So what have I been up to this weekend? Well mostly launching Bread And Jam, my self-employed venture that reuses, recycles, re-loves and hand makes homeware and small gifts etc, with the profits g...

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Needless to say, neither sandwiches nor “donating the profits” are ever mentioned again. In fact, by the time the Sunday Mirror come calling mere weeks later (published 23 December), “Hardworking and honest” View attachment 2285759single mother “Jackie Monroe” is in DIRE POVERTY eking a living out of her £250 a month craft business earnings. View attachment 2285756View attachment 2285758View attachment 2285757

Living in poverty: Young mum has just £10 a week for food

No heating and no Christmas tree as mother strives to feed herself and her son

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December 29 2012: Just six days later, Jack puts her sewing down for the night to tell us all that thanks to her bunting-making…

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View attachment 2285728THE POVERTY is OVER!View attachment 2285783View attachment 2285782

2012: Tears, And Fears And Feeling Proud…

As the year draws to a close, and I’ve put my sewing down for the night, I find myself reflecting on 2012. 2012 is the year I refer to as my annus horribilis; after leaving a well paid job an...

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NYE 2012: A mere two days later and she’s already contradicting her “Bread and Jam will go into a few local shops” because she’s only in discussions about it.
View attachment 2285731Oh, and she won’t be setting it up properly (even though she’s “in the process”), because she can coin in the cash through FB and direct into her PayPal instead.
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Bread And Jam

Just a quick note about my business, Bread And Jam. People ask me what I ‘do’, and it’s here. I hand make Cufflinks, cushions, cross stitch pictures, my own photography, children&...

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Jan 1 2013: in her newspaper column Jack makes a New Year’s resolution to make a proper business plan for Bread and Jam. Oh, and plugs her business in the paper again. View attachment 2285765
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New Years Resolutions: Echo & Gazette Column 1st Jan 2013

New Years Resolutions. You probably made some yesterday, or know someone who did. It's an odd time of year; one for change and reflection for many, where promises to diet are made and probably brok...

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and that, my friends, is pretty much it for Bread and Jam. Thanks to the Sunday Mirror article, Woman’s Own also soon come calling and after that, Jack boasts to Xanthe Clay about her book token View attachment 2285772and realizes she can make a far more lucrative business out of lying about being in THE POVERTY. https://cookingonabootstrap.com/201...rl-called-jack-the-telegraph-2nd-march/?amp=1
And the rest, as they say, is history. (Oh, and as you see above, she already had the shameless self promotion, fast and loose way of coining in business cash and lying/claiming to “do good” all down pat already).

Lol and as an aside, in another act of shameless self promotion, she immediately added “the newspaper” calling her “hard-working and honest” to the masthead of her blog
View attachment 2285770Except cos she’s a useless fuckwit, she got it backwards.
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Hold up. In 2012 she says “..gone is the fear of losing everything.”, so why for the next decade or longer has she kept banging on about the fear never leaving her? Cowering behind the sofa at the knock on the door? Years of unopened letters? Did it come back? Did she never really lose it? Paging Dr Nail. Paging Dr Nail.

 

[RandomFishOils]

Question about her crafts. I am not a crafty person (worst guide leader ever ) but how on earth would she have got the words onto what appears metal button cuff links? Surely you would need equipment for it. I wonder if she was just drop shipping.

You can still get the supplies for these cufflinks for less than £1 per pair, and you can assemble them in seconds with strong glue or even use self adhesive cuff link blanks. The fact that she was asking £12 a pair is astonishing.

 

[Veronicaaa]

I used to post on CIF and I don’t remember any other journalist coming into the comments to complain about criticism. You’d occasionally get them posting to clarify something or disagree with a political point but I don’t remember anyone else wading BTL to say “You don’t like my article? Well I suppose you must be a TORY, Susan.”

Jay Rayner could be a bit of a fanny BTL. Which I may or may not have been subjected to

 

[SouthendRealEstate]

Slimy on the turn yellow stickerered radiator dried mushrooms, no less.
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Spoiler: And oils and vinegars. WARNED.

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The bungamansion must absolutely honk. Between the general grubbiness that we’ve all witnessed over the years, the slimy mushrooms, and the oils and vinegars from fish and other stuff. And that’s before we get to the triple slow cooker with all manner of horror slowly chuntering away

 

[Hollaaa]

You can still get the supplies for these cufflinks for less than £1 per pair, and you can assemble them in seconds with strong glue or even use self adhesive cuff link blanks. The fact that she was asking £12 a pair is astonishing. View attachment 2286102View attachment 2286103

I would put decent money on her not knowing the first thing about product safety testing and using completely inappropriate ways of attaching those two components.

 

[RandomFishOils]

Watching the DKL episode again leads me to believe that she never had that media training, as she sorely needs it. One of the first things that you are taught is that when being interviewed, or addressed by your co-presenter, when you reply you keep your eyes on them. She can’t stop her eyes wandering back to look straight into the camera. My verdict: terrible.

 

[moldwarp]

Jay Rayner could be a bit of a fanny BTL. Which I may or may not have been subjected to

I personally think Jay Rayner has a bit of Jackness around the edges. Seems quite thin skinned and up himself. I once happened to be standing behind him whilst he was having a fag break at an event I was working at and he was a guest. He was chatting with a friend. My twit radar began clanging.

 

[MaineCoonMama]

You can still get the supplies for these cufflinks for less than £1 per pair, and you can assemble them in seconds with strong glue or even use self adhesive cuff link blanks. The fact that she was asking £12 a pair is astonishing. View attachment 2286102View attachment 2286103

This is Jack being painstakingly sustainable. Repurposing, reusing, recycling. I wonder how many she sold?

 

[Valiofthedolls]

'Kin 'ell she wrote all those labels herself didn't she! Plus, is that pot thing from Dusty Aunt Helen? Does it actually contain Dusty Aunt Helen?

It might well do.

Spoiler: Mither

That was May 2013

Jack “SOLD EVERYTHING SHE OWNED” (or almost everything, depending on when and where she’s telling the story) in August 2012

'Unemployed Mum Sells Off Belongings - Essex Enquirer

'An unemployed Southend mum who has applied for more than 300 jobs has sold the contents of her home in order to get on top of her spiralling rent arrears. Jobless Jack Monroe, 24, held the open ho...

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Then her family and friends who love her so much they hadn’t helped her out and prevented this necessity of her selling everything, instead bought her lots of things to prove how much they love her by May 2013.

BUT…!

Spoiler: Dramatic reveal…

Dusty Aunt Helen was DEAD before Jack sold everything she owned!

So she must have bought her that Dusty Aunt Helen chimnea thing from her “seat in heaven”. https://web.archive.org/web/2013020...com/2012/06/17/in-memoriam-helen-constantine/
Fortunately ghostly dusty Aunt Helen had demonstrated her love in material items to poverty stricken Jack before she popped on her “nicest blouse” when the “newspaper” came calling in December 2012.

 

[moldwarp]

Watching the DKL episode again leads me to believe that she never had that media training, as she sorely needs it. One of the first things that you are taught is that when being interviewed, or addressed by your co-presenter, when you reply you keep your eyes on them. She can’t stop her eyes wandering back to look straight into the camera. My verdict: terrible.

The worst thing is it's not terrible because she's a newbie or didn't really want to be on telly, all of which would be understandable. She'd been in the game 8 years by then and forced herself into the show. So it comes off as not so much newbie incompetence but just pure entitledness - she thought she was so brilliant she didn't have to prepare. That kind of delusional self confidence is the very epitome of class privilege imho.

 

[Ellabella]

Newbies, Thread 396 with the Tom Waits "post-laryngitis" singing is Tattle gold.

Jack Monroe #396 She’s gonna break her spine if she pats herself on the back any harder

I've just had a listen to the original song and can confirm that her version is incomprehensible, irreverent and indecipherable as the same song.

tattle.life

 

[Seaford Haggington]

Hold up. In 2012 she says “..gone is the fear of losing everything.”, so why for the next decade or longer has she kept banging on about the fear never leaving her? Cowering behind the sofa at the knock on the door? Years of unopened letters? Did it come back? Did she never really lose it? Paging Dr Nail. Paging Dr Nail.


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She exists in three states:

• I have overcome poverty, living my best life of my dreams - send cash that I will definitely pass to the other poors
• I am still poor (or poor again), removing lightbulbs and boiling soap - send cash so I can light my hovel at night
• I am no longer poor, but poverty has cast such dark shadow over me that I may as well be - send cash for all the good that I do

 

[IcanSpellBéchamel]

The bungamansion must absolutely honk. Between the general grubbiness that we’ve all witnessed over the years, the slimy mushrooms, and the oils and vinegars from fish and other stuff. And that’s before we get to the triple slow cooker with all manner of horror slowly chuntering away

I’ll never get over when her then-OH’s father got out the vacuum cleaner in the bungamansion. I would have cringed myself inside out in mortification and shame if anyone visiting my house felt they needed to clean.

 

[Nurseali]

The maddest thing about it was she clearly fancied herself as the new Nigella and made lots of pickme posts showing herself doing her hair or laying on a couch in the green room in an Ophelia pose with back arched so as to show off the hateful boobs to their best advantage. Now don't get me wrong I think her hair then was beautiful, so thick, and she looked good on DKL, but it was so attention seeking and immature and desperate.
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I think some papers encourage journos to engage BTL, FT journos do it a lot especially on opinion pieces, but they're always really respectful and professional even when the comments get a bit deranged or personal. Total opposite of Jack. I am never not bowled over by her lack of professionalism, she must KNOW it would cause bridges to be burned!? Especially as a freelancer I'd have thought you'd make extra sure to be as nice as poss to everyone as you may need them in future!

This why I fully believe Molly that guest was told to calm it down on twitter

My ex narc (LEFT, not of his own accord ) could not handle criticism at all. From the slightest comment , example above , saying his shoelace was undone , you could almost see him get annoyed. It is exhausting to be around someone like that. Mentally draining having to watch your words constantly.

 

[hiyaaaacath]

She wrote the labels herself to show how much she’s defined by her material possessions and how much everyone loves her (yes, really).View attachment 2285893

Love in snapshots: May 2013

Love in snapshots: in a world where we define people by their job titles, I am defined by the love and the generosity of my friends: More to follow as I pack up and move over the next fortnight... ...

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“Sold everything she owned”, 2012. Family and friends replaced it all for her to prove how much they love her, 2013.

Shiiiiit! She genuinely thought this was gonna be some kind of art thing? Like Emins Bed or thatbtent

 

[Valiofthedolls]

Hold up. In 2012 she says “..gone is the fear of losing everything.”, so why for the next decade or longer has she kept banging on about the fear never leaving her? Cowering behind the sofa at the knock on the door? Years of unopened letters? Did it come back? Did she never really lose it? Paging Dr Nail. Paging Dr Nail.


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I’m just impressed that in December 2012 her Nokia E72 had Excel spreadsheets on it. You know, cos she’d sold/pawned her computer (again, depending on which version of this story she’s telling) and that phone is all she had.

 

[Seaford Haggington]

View attachment 2286168View attachment 2286170I’m just impressed that in December 2012 her Nokia E72 had Excel spreadsheets on it. You know, cos she’d sold/pawned her computer (again, depending on which version of this story she’s telling) and that phone is all she had.

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How early can we trace this "I wrote a book on a Blackberry*" claim?

Because someone else claimed to do the same a month before this.

* Nokia E72

 

[Mr Krabs]

'Kin 'ell she wrote all those labels herself didn't she! Plus, is that pot thing from Dusty Aunt Helen? Does it actually contain Dusty Aunt Helen?

Dusty Aunt Helen who used to have a stack of More! magazines behind the bog. Guess she was flicking her gigantes plaki to Position of the Fortnight.

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

It might well do.

Spoiler: Mither

That was May 2013
View attachment 2286124View attachment 2286125Jack “SOLD EVERYTHING SHE OWNED” (or almost everything, depending on when and where she’s telling the story) in August 2012View attachment 2286150View attachment 2286153View attachment 2286151
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'Unemployed Mum Sells Off Belongings - Essex Enquirer

'An unemployed Southend mum who has applied for more than 300 jobs has sold the contents of her home in order to get on top of her spiralling rent arrears. Jobless Jack Monroe, 24, held the open ho...

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Then her family and friends who love her so much they hadn’t helped her out and prevented this necessity of her selling everything, instead bought her lots of things to prove how much they love her by May 2013.

BUT…!

Spoiler: Dramatic reveal…

Dusty Aunt Helen was DEAD before Jack sold everything she owned!
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So she must have bought her that Dusty Aunt Helen chimnea thing from her “seat in heaven”. https://web.archive.org/web/2013020...com/2012/06/17/in-memoriam-helen-constantine/
Fortunately ghostly dusty Aunt Helen had demonstrated her love in material items to poverty stricken Jack before she popped on her “nicest blouse” when the “newspaper” came calling in December 2012.

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I know I’ve mentioned it before but I bought that ikea rug that you can just see the edge of in that photo in April 2012 when it was new in store. It cost £140 for the smaller version (have just checked my receipt as I am FORENSIC about not deleting old email receipts )