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

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moldwarp

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!
 
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SouthendRealEstate

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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RandomFishOils

Lyricallie said:
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.
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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.
 
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Veronicaaa

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

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
 
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Hollaaa

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.
 
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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.
 
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moldwarp

Veronicaaa said:
Jay Rayner could be a bit of a fanny BTL. Which I may or may not have been subjected to
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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 twat radar began clanging.
 
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Valiofthedolls

moldwarp said:
'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?
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It might well do.
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…!
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.

 
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moldwarp

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.
 
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Seaford Haggington

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
 
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IcanSpellBéchamel

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.
 
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Nurseali

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.
 
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hiyaaaacath

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

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.

 
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Seaford Haggington

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Mr Krabs

moldwarp said:
'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?
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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.
 
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VeniVidiVicki

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 )
 
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