Jack Monroe #541 First do no honk

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There's a social supermarket near me that charges £5 for a basket of goods worth £20. I've used them a few times -- it's similar to a food bank except that you contribute, it's not free. Quite useful but the goods available are sometimes a bit random. There's only so much pasta and tinned soup a person can eat.

Anyway, your point is to know what's on and how to find lower cost groceries outside the supermarkets and you're right about that.
 
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Wait, wut? Our @WoolyMammoth has a skincare range?
 
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The one on the left is him NINE YEARS AGO. Mr Laz had a friend who used to do this. I find it really fucking offensive.
she done it to us when we bumped into her once, asked a bar man to take a photo, then put it on Facebook without our permission. I almost didn’t recognise myself.

ETA: I say used to do this but I’m certain she still does it. I deleted her from my friends list and Mr Laz doesn’t use SM so I guess I’ll never know. Cow.

 
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I’m sorry but this is hilarious. I don’t even think it’s a case of over exuberant “portrait mode”, either. I can’t decide what’s worse though - facetuning everyone in a group photo or only doing yourself so everyone else looks rough.
 
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She has facetuned the sky and a washing machine before.
 
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I honestly can't see it. I see my own mother in her and the way she speaks publicly about SB... I am to blame for ruining her career by showing up. Fairly sure she doesn't want another kid.

I have a question for the canal: when she goes out, for instance to an event or The Groucho or wherever, particularly when she is trying to impress people, do we believe she stands a round, picks up tabs for cabs etc? Or do we think she hangs on tightly to the largesse from her Patreon etc and plays the tightwad /oh so pov card?

I think she must find herself in a quandary in such situations. On the one hand, she wants to be in with the in-crowd and prove she is making a go of it with her 8 books, Grauniad articles etc, and oh what a generous smol pixie I am, aren't I? But on the other, those at the receiving end of her generosity must surely query why she is still after a decade ranting on about solar lights and boiling soap....

So, does she buy rounds or does she plead pov?
 
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Jack hacks - here's a great way to save energy and use one of your numerous spoons collected being a wisp of a tinker.

Publisher - please don't do this, it is criminal and you probably will die .
*wipes hands of whole mess
 
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Dear seasoned members of the canal, I’m so sorry to disturb you and derail the thread, but has someone once said to her something like “this is why people cook you on that gossip app” or have I made that up? If I’ve remembered correctly that’s made my day.
 
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I’ve been there.

Q: What’s for tea?

A:
1. Ibuprofen
2. Paracetamol
3. Tunnock’s Teacakes
4. Pickled-onion Monster Munch
5. Canned chocolate pudding
6. Instant macaroni as the guilty ‘healthfood’ option.
7. Not Poodles
Ditto menopause monthly shop. Firstly, the list that has usually taken 3 weeks to write is on the kitchen table. Secondly, so are the shopping bags.

This is what usually comes home:

1. Dry Cat food
2. Tinned cat food
3. Cat treats
4. 1 dented tin of sweetcorn that was reduced to 5p at the till
5. 5litre wine box to drown my inadequacies in
6. A receipt (to send to guset)

There's always next month....
 
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Thread 391 I think
 
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Jack hacks - here's a great way to save energy and use one of your numerous spoons collected being a wisp of a tinker.
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Publisher - please don't do this, it is criminal and you probably will die .
*wipes hands of whole mess
What is this actually doing?

(AM NO A NARC OR A GRASS OR A CRIM JUST A BIT THICK SORRY FOR SHOUTING)
 
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It sounds like something we need here (deeply remote area, many struggling). There isn't a restaurant or shop within walking distance for anybody not in the heart of the villages to pick up food going spare at the end of the day, so much of it goes to chickens and the odd pig or two, or on compost heaps to grow more veg to sell in the local shops. There must be food going out of date though.... I'm going to look further into this.

BTW to those saying they are having to cut out salmon etc.... You lucky, lucky barstewards!!!! It has taken me just over 6 weeks to finally achieve my dream of scrambled eggs on toast where the eggs didn't float, or the butter hadn't turned into some strange blue cheese thing or the bread wasn't stale. Fucking achievement to get all 3 ingredients here at the same time AND have not run out of gas to cook with!!!!!
 
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She's tight as a ducks arse, all her money is hers as a bulwark against the indignity and trauma of briefly claiming benefits between brewstied birds. So no. She's in the bog or taking an urgent call when it's her round.
 
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I suspect there are a couple of things going on. There’s no way in the world she’d have let the anniversary (and the ten year anniversary at that) of Hunger Hurts pass by without an anniversary post really ramping up the histrionics last year. She’d already done anniversary posts in a number of other years that had started to become increasingly lurid, lie strewn and exaggerated (see: You don’t batch cook when you’re suicidal, 2020). HH2 isn’t really much of a step up from that grift and lying-wise, other than it being so melodramatic it’s basically nonsensical.

I think she was seriously grifting for a house last year. There was Teemill, the Nigella bump, three lurid lengthy blog posts about her weary bones that were blatant tin rattles,
Then came Sue Lee, “practice mortgage appointments” and then this

I think she fully believed Harold was her key to that house, FFS she breadcrumbed it and weddings incessantly. HH 2022 was also a giant desperate beg because he’d become wise to how fucking dreadful she actually is and pissed off, dashing her plans of getting knocked up/married/a house bought for her.

Then there’s the double FOREVER HOME grift in the front and back of Grifty Kitchen and all the other times she rattled the tin about her extortionate rent and desire for a forever home. She went on and on (and on and on) about mortgages and forever homes last year. What she actually spunked all that cash on and how much is left is a mystery, but I think that’s why she was grifting it all.

I’d forgotten about this thread title
 
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What is this actually doing?

(AM NO A NARC OR A GRASS OR A CRIM JUST A BIT THICK SORRY FOR SHOUTING)
The
What is this actually doing?

(AM NO A NARC OR A GRASS OR A CRIM JUST A BIT THICK SORRY FOR SHOUTING)
The brown wires are the live - 1 goes up to the meter, measures the current /electrickery passing through, whizzes the counter round to rip you off extortionately, then comes down from the meter to supply your house. Blue is neutral to stop the whole caboodle short-circuiting. (think blue = negative, brown =positive). The spoon carries the current from the incoming supply straight to the house supply without going near the meter. It is a very bad idea to try this (unless you know what you are doing, and fancy 3 hots and a cot when caught!).

Edited cos I had a totally menopausal moment of what fucking colour is brown?!!! Going to pour wine.
 
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