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

[Sensible Susan]

Oh yeah, that’s what I meant - it’s totally normal that people have different memories of certain events but it can still be quite disorientating when it happens.

What I mean for SB is that he will have that to contend with, the murky Jack ones where there’s a grain of truth but his dad/grandparents have a different overall picture, along with the flat out lies - and consequently also have to try to distinguish whether each one is a genuine different perception/memory of an event or whether her version is a total lie. Not to mention the many versions of the same story, as told by Jack, that simply cannot all be true.

At this stage, I hope she has to bribe him to keep quiet. He's 13 now and 13 year olds like cash. He'll also (without a doubt) read tattle and realize we're all rooting for him

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

Didn’t she do some ASMR type YouTube vids at some point of her reading her dreadful recipes in a sexy voice? Or did she just threaten to? Or did I dream it? She’s so out there that sometimes I have problems distinguishing stuff she actually does and stuff you hope against hope she’d never do.

There is no such voice as a "sexy" honk.

There just isn't.

Plus, pausing to sniff every two minutes would destroy the mood.

 

[Landslide]

I am NOT carrying a bowl of slop pinned to my lapel . . .

Always carry a pumble

 

[Lazarus]

Oh my goodness. So many local Glasgow fraus . I shall be loudly using my fluent Frauish in town from now on. Please approach if you hear a grunk.

Aye, we get around. There’s plenty of us here familiar with a Morton’s roll. Even though some of us don’t live in Glasgow anymore.

 

[Florid Language]

I am NOT carrying a bowl of slop pinned to my lapel . . .

There's bound to be an Etsy creator who does a SHAN'T badge.
Or for those of us who have digestive issues SHART.

 

[SouthendRealEstate]

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Good lord. No YOU DON’T.
She can’t even make sense. She might substitute aubergine for lamb, maybe.

Excuse me shotting your shot here, @griftalo, but cinnamon on roasties? Cinnamon!? Wtaf? I thought it was her mum‘s roasties that were dire?

ETA: @Geetbo got in there before me

 

[griftalo]

I'm not at all convinced that makes much sense as a substitute, either. I don't like aubergine, but doesn't it just turn to goo if you cook it for any length of time? Lamb, generally, doesn't do that. The obvious substitutes for lamb would be beef if you don't mind meat or maybe tofu or mushrooms if you don't.

Yes it absolutely does. You’d need to George foreman’s it, and add at the end. Chanterelles would probably be really good for this.

 

[Witchfinder Sargeant]

Is there a grown-up around who can do the new thread? I did this one

 

[griftalo]

When I was a pov (and not just chronically skint as I am now) I would buy a tin of Happy Shopper rice pudding from the corner shop, I think it was about 10p*, and my children would have that cold for dinner.

*if only I had painstakingly kept records of what food cost back then, so I could forensically and repeatedly regurgitate my pov story in a manner that may rival guest's.

I’m so sorry things were so hard for you. I hope things are better now.

I looked today after seeing Guest’s tit offerings, at the calories in cheap rice pudding in our cupboard and it’s 648 iirc per tin (I’m so excruciatingly and consumptively exhausted that I may suffer a myocardial infarction of the biggest and most majestic size ever known if I have to rouse myself to scamper painfully downstairs to check, plus my bones will crumble away to dust) , so looking at her low cal offerings you made a much better choice. For an adult if you could only eat two tins a day for a few days, you wouldn’t die. It might not be the best but you wouldn’t technically starve.

 

[Cucumberthunder]

Has guest joined threads? I cba to set it up.

 

[Katkat]

Has guest joined threads? I cba to set it up.

No sign so far

 

[SleevelessSlopSlinger]

I tracked down Jack’s tattoo artist

 

[Ms Biscuit]

See this is the same red flag bullsheet she pulls with ALL her fundraising:

“we raised over £200” - not giving the exact amount, surely far from best practice

“We have yet to decide whether we’ll split the cash between two charities or buy food for them” - total shades of Teemill and Sue Lee. No transparency on how much to each charity, if food is bought presumably no receipts were provided. So, so shady and red flaggy, at best it’s well meaning disorganisation (which she likes to blame incorrectly on ADHD) and at worst it’s deliberately disingenuous so that no one can track how much money there is or what happens to it.

Even if (big IF) no financial malfeasance has been committed, this person should never be entrusted with raising charity money because for whatever reason, she is incapable of the kind of transparency that is required

So there were more than 20 people who knew this was a charity dinner, and she raised only about £200? Not exactly a triumph.

 

[Russian Doll]

Thank you. Yes I need to do the mandatory reconsideration. Can’t face it . Dunno how to spoiler soz

If you could ever face it, Citizens Advice could help. It's a xxxxing intrusive process, stressful and they are [usually] v good at getting results. Xx

 

[Captainmouse]

guest creeping about on Twitter this afternoon - has liked two posts
Follower count still nicely dropping to pre-QT figures

It is National alcohol week, one of your specialist subjects mackie, why are you not highlighting it, signposting support sources?

 

[Russian Doll]

Spoiler

Much appreciated tenderstem (still can’t see how to spoiler)

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Spoiler: OT

OMG NAILED IT (the spoiler) (lol)

So nailed it!

 

[Captainmouse]

I am NOT carrying a bowl of slop pinned to my lapel . . .

An inexplicable egg surely

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

Yes it absolutely does. You’d need to George foreman’s it, and add at the end. Chanterelles would probably be really good for this.

Ahem!

Sorry to interrupt - but who in their right mind would put Chanterelles* into a Monroe Slop Recipe?

Why take something (anything) edible - let alone delicious - and convert it into slop when you can achieve the same result by scraping that black stuff off the outside of old "pot" plant pots and lovingly, tenderly, forensically adding it to cat sick?

*or anything else with a vitamin in it

 

[hereforthechaos]

Ahem!

Sorry to interrupt - but who in their right mind would put Chanterelles* into a Monroe Slop Recipe?

Why take something (anything) edible - let alone delicious - and convert it into slop when you can achieve the same result by scraping that black stuff off the outside of old "pot" plant pots and lovingly, tenderly, forensically adding it to cat sick?

*or anything else with a vitamin in it

If they're yellow stickered and starting to go moist then yes, add chanterelles.

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

If they're yellow stickered and starting to go moist then yes, add chanterelles.

I stand corrected.