Still catching up on her late night antics but "flicking her rinsed bean" had me HOOTING.bleeping hell. She's literally been up all night flicking her rinsed bean to all the sickly sweet responses to her 'WORK'. Flinging her agent details all over the placeNice little (potential) earner for a days 'WORK' on Twitter. Can't wait to see if anything actually materialises. She really would do anything, anything to stay relevant
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She says it was a Nokia E72 and she wrote it into emails? One like this, so not the type with buttons that you'd while away time playing Snake on
Interestingly I have just remembered I had a Nokia in 2012. Mine was the cheapest there was I think it was around 30 quid or something and it really was basic. There was no apps, you had to go online to access FB and stuff. 
Yeah mine was nothing like that. Fancy !!
Yeah mine was nothing like that. Fancy !!
So not cheap at the time, id imagine.
I'd imagine her thinking she was being all cute and quirky, like a caricature of herself Poor person in posh place playing the old joanna like it's a scene out of Oliver Twist.Shes so entitled though, I can definitely see her acting a prick
The delicious irony if her referencing Common People when we declared it her theme tune a long time ago. Your not Jarvis, your the one in the trolley hen.
This really really fucks me off when she asks permission to leave and/or announces she's leaving. NOONE ELSE DOES THAT.
It infuriates me! Just put your phone down Jack you loon!
Also, has she not banged on about handwriting her first book, trying to hand it in but had to go sit and type it out in a library/coffee shop/similar?
Yes I didn’t like that either and also I noted in the blog from 2018 that @Veronicaaa posted, she seems to be implying that she’s been the victim of domestic abuse? My huge sympathies if she has been but I’ve never seen her talk about this before?
You're spot on. We not poor anymore, we are doing OK, but I still love a bargain and am careful what I spend my cash on as I never want to be in the position we were in before. I could never spend the amount of money on useless tatt that she does, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night for worryMost people who have grown up poor or lived through long period of being truly skint would never buy the ridiculously expensive items she has. She's right, those memories never leave you. That's just another little nugget of info she has picked up over time to make herself sound credible. What's wrong with a medium-range fridge that is decent and does the job? What about one pair of Samsung earphones instead of two pairs of Airpods? People with poverty PTSD don't behave this way when they start earning "a living wage"
I wouldn't have thought so, it's hard to think back at prices at the time.
Possibly it was just gifted by a friend though, which is why she has it in a drawer to this day, as shan't part with it
Yes, she handed it all in handwritten in notebooks! Also had to go to write it up in the crappy Penguin crappy office in crappy central London.
Ooft what a grunka. She really does see herself as Audrey in My Fair Lady doesn't she? Wee lil scamp who can't help doing a chaos in all these FANCY establishments full of toffs. Why oh why do people find this tit charming? She doesn't *have* to be there, so it's obvious she wants to belong in the celebrity circle jerk. And I was hooting up a lung that she thinks (apparently deadly seriously) that Common People is a song she gets to sing about other people - as if she's not the bleeping archetype
She actually thinks she's going to get work out of this isn't she? Jack - twitter is not real life. You may have landed DKL by throwing your toys out of the pram on socials, but all these people 'offering' you work aint gonna come through hun...
It is quite interesting to see how she did, at least, write stuff on poverty and food (and I largely agree with her, irritatingly) back in the day. But what has she done recently? She's clearly kicking herself she hasn't stuck with the political tit in the past couple of years and vomited out a greatest hits in her most self-indulgent blog post yet. The fact that she provided 'receipts' suggests she is fully aware she's now irrelevant due to *waves hand* ALL THE SMEGS AND VIVIENNE WESTWOOD (RIP) AND SIDEBOARDS. Jack, bleeping face it - you haven't given a flying duck about poor people for years now. Your rants are tired and embarrassing and all about YOU. Posting a picture of your allegedly cold and starving son is MESSED UP (I suppose it's cool to use SB for a prop now eh?). And don't get me bleeping started on her next ~political~ book - now conveniently devoid of the black women she vowed she would commission to do her bleeping work for her. Aaaaaaand relax.
@Bookweevil - that glossary is A WORK OF MAVERICK GENIUS.
She actually thinks she's going to get work out of this isn't she? Jack - twitter is not real life. You may have landed DKL by throwing your toys out of the pram on socials, but all these people 'offering' you work aint gonna come through hun...
It is quite interesting to see how she did, at least, write stuff on poverty and food (and I largely agree with her, irritatingly) back in the day. But what has she done recently? She's clearly kicking herself she hasn't stuck with the political tit in the past couple of years and vomited out a greatest hits in her most self-indulgent blog post yet. The fact that she provided 'receipts' suggests she is fully aware she's now irrelevant due to *waves hand* ALL THE SMEGS AND VIVIENNE WESTWOOD (RIP) AND SIDEBOARDS. Jack, bleeping face it - you haven't given a flying duck about poor people for years now. Your rants are tired and embarrassing and all about YOU. Posting a picture of your allegedly cold and starving son is MESSED UP (I suppose it's cool to use SB for a prop now eh?). And don't get me bleeping started on her next ~political~ book - now conveniently devoid of the black women she vowed she would commission to do her bleeping work for her. Aaaaaaand relax.
@Bookweevil - that glossary is A WORK OF MAVERICK GENIUS.
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Also, has she not banged on about handwriting her first book, trying to hand it in but had to go sit and type it out in a library/coffee shop/similar?
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I think jk Rowling did similar in regards to coffee shops because she was poor, so not unique.
Also whatever jk Rowling is doing now she actually is famous and very successful depsite writing hp 1 in a coffee shop and she owns it
Also, has she not banged on about handwriting her first book, trying to hand it in but had to go sit and type it out in a library/coffee shop/similar?
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I think jk Rowling did similar in regards to coffee shops because she was poor, so not unique.
Also whatever jk Rowling is doing now she actually is famous and very successful depsite writing hp 1 in a coffee shop and she owns it
Basically she writes like a middle class girl who is clever and imaginative but hasn’t been taught how to write.
ETA her writing seems to be influenced by some of those 90s era misery girl memoirs, Elizabeth wurtzel and Marya hornbacher and Caroline knapp. That sort of self mythologising, dark and sordid misery porn type thing. Oh yeah and the grandmummy of them all: Sylvia Plath.
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I read the blog post (ad-blockers, so she has earned £0 from me!), and the best I can sum it up as is:
An ode to Jack.
That's it. She had an opportunity to properly discuss some really relevant issues here, to talk about how the foods on offer are often the 'unhealthy' options, to discuss time poverty and lack of food education in schools.
She could have written about how talking about how obesity is an issue, and the larger conversations around obesity are largely unhelpful to those of us who are on the larger end of the spectrum (I got called a fat bleep the other day, for asking someone to not spit in the road). She could have written about how relationships with food are simply more than just needing a meal, but for a lot of people a double sense of comfort and fear.
Instead, it's An Ode to Jack.
For someone who so often claims to work so tirelessly for everyone else, when the moment comes to highlight real issues and real concerns, she is awfully good at turning it all back around to her. The last thing this country needs is more harping on about her stint in poverty nearly a decade ago; but actual solutions to the continuing issues in regards to food, poverty and healthy eating.
Once again Jack has proven that the only contribution she has to any major issue is to force herself into the conversation and to make it about her. Well done Jack, you've proven once again that you're a complete bleeping dick.
An ode to Jack.
That's it. She had an opportunity to properly discuss some really relevant issues here, to talk about how the foods on offer are often the 'unhealthy' options, to discuss time poverty and lack of food education in schools.
She could have written about how talking about how obesity is an issue, and the larger conversations around obesity are largely unhelpful to those of us who are on the larger end of the spectrum (I got called a fat bleep the other day, for asking someone to not spit in the road). She could have written about how relationships with food are simply more than just needing a meal, but for a lot of people a double sense of comfort and fear.
Instead, it's An Ode to Jack.
For someone who so often claims to work so tirelessly for everyone else, when the moment comes to highlight real issues and real concerns, she is awfully good at turning it all back around to her. The last thing this country needs is more harping on about her stint in poverty nearly a decade ago; but actual solutions to the continuing issues in regards to food, poverty and healthy eating.
Once again Jack has proven that the only contribution she has to any major issue is to force herself into the conversation and to make it about her. Well done Jack, you've proven once again that you're a complete bleeping dick.
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@Bookweevil can I just say your glossary post was both hilarious and brilliant? Thank you for putting it together!
That blog, what a load of self indulgent, barf inducing tripe. I got about a third of the way through and couldn't be arsed with the rest.
One of my very lovely, kind friends has been re tweeting Jack and I'm sitting on my hands. Good job I've got a big fat arse
Others have commented about the ARM stuff and said she will either be ignoring Jack or laughing at her tweets. Spot on I reckon - she will consider JM so far beneath her as to be not worthy of note. And as for the digs about her father being a baronet - has she forgotten her father has an MBE?!
All the "hilarious" anecdotes about what sounds like a booze filled rampage (just my opinion, don't sue) after winning the KH case are awful. I hope SB was being cared for elsewhere when all of that happened.
It's pretty clear that she has no capacity for self reflection and is unable to moderate herself or act responsibly.
@Bookweevil can I just say your glossary post was both hilarious and brilliant? Thank you for putting it together!
That blog, what a load of self indulgent, barf inducing tripe. I got about a third of the way through and couldn't be arsed with the rest.
One of my very lovely, kind friends has been re tweeting Jack and I'm sitting on my hands. Good job I've got a big fat arse
Others have commented about the ARM stuff and said she will either be ignoring Jack or laughing at her tweets. Spot on I reckon - she will consider JM so far beneath her as to be not worthy of note. And as for the digs about her father being a baronet - has she forgotten her father has an MBE?!
All the "hilarious" anecdotes about what sounds like a booze filled rampage (just my opinion, don't sue) after winning the KH case are awful. I hope SB was being cared for elsewhere when all of that happened.
It's pretty clear that she has no capacity for self reflection and is unable to moderate herself or act responsibly.
It’s like Sliding Doors. One version is Jack confidently key mashing the nokia and brazenly handing that in, the other version is Dickensian Jack in the corner silently typing up her notebooks and people stepping over her.
I haven't read all the posts so sorry if I'm repeating - it's just that this jumped out at me too. Oh no, Jack you lived in a place with ... nice wooden floorboards? THE HORROR.
I just want to say, too, about her OBSESSION with owning a house - she acts as though once she does actually manage to be a property owner, that means a 'forever home' and complete financial security. You still have to pay the mortgage, Jack! (Unless of course in her world being a property owner means owning something outright, which would actually explain a LOT). If you don't pay the bank every month they can still take it away from you (and she should know most people are about a couple of months of bad luck away from this happening). This is actually even more terrifying than getting chucked out a rental place because you can lose everything.
Wow. That's bound to be a best seller.
May even make Guardian book of the week.
Jack, how much are the cleaners paid for cleaning up after you and your blue tickers have had your 'what happens in the Grouch stays in the Grouchp' high jinks?
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