Jack Monroe #541 First do no honk

[Dr.CM]

"Likes high heels and higher hemlines." Funny sounding suit that.

I wasn't quite sure if she meant that's what she likes in the other person... but was she being gay or straight at that point / confused.

Anyway whole thing is repulsively sexist and objectifying and sounds like something from porn. She's literally objectifying herself and others through a second hand male gaze conditioning which is the very definition of sexist brainwashing and she's carrying that torch for and on behalf of sexist objectifying men everywhere and has zero concept of feminism, empowerment, or equality.

PS I am not a man hater, I have brothers who are great guys and believe in equality. I'm a staunch feminist though and I challenge the model of sexist precepts that we've all been raised within here in the UK if you were born and raised here. She can be as bisexual as she likes I don't care but if her version of being a 'butch lesbian' is going hey guys look at me getting into relationships with women isn't it sexy and don't you wanna shag me... OK then actually I'd rather be with a bloke anyway especially one in scrubs (more objectification)... then it's profoundly offensive to gay women and quite honestly a sickness she's acting out.

 

[Valiofthedolls]

I want to say something. I feel so strongly about this.

I don't have a degree as I unfortunately dropped out of university but I know how hard it is to a) get there in the first place; b) navigate all the academic systems and institutional rigmarole; c) cope with the social aspect, being away from home, managing budgets etc; d) doing the actual coursework and submitting work to deadlines with the all the correct research, references, quotes etc. Not to mention the costs and the vast student loans youngsters and mature students are being landed with.

Anyway I'm outraged that in any civilised country a liar and scammer should have been awarded an honourary qualification, not even one but two. It is now clear that her 'work' has been nothing but a grift. And for what? For thin air! I believe she should be stripped of these awards and I would like us to lobby the universities. How do we go about this? Maybe we can all plan a letter together that we can cut and paste and email from our own personal names and addresses. Honestly, it's a scandal.

She's a disgrace to the middle class that she comes from and she's undermined and mocked the working classes (that I come from). Shouldn't all those fuzzy lefty guardian readers knitting yoghurt and helping the poor people actually be as outraged as I am!?!

I don’t disagree with you at all and it’s appalling she was given them in the first place, but I think it would be nigh on impossible to persuade Essex and Coventry rescind those degrees. Even Cosby’s kept hold of ten of his.

And there’s this

I don’t think those institutions would even want to engage in a discussion about it; she’d need to do something very public and very criminal before they’d distance themselves- stripping honorary degrees (like giving them in the first place) is all about PR and how the institution “looks”.

 

[I'm not actually here]

This reminds me of a friend who was accidentally getting free electricity from the local leisure centre. It was in the arse end of nowhere and the previous resident had done something creative with the wiring.

There is also a flat in the South that comes with free gas which I regret leaving. After 3 months we still hadn’t recieved any bills, I called all the major gas suppliers and nobody had us listed. And they couldn’t take us on without knowing our previous supplier. Then I called the national provider info service, which basically read out a prompt saying:

‘Thank you for calling us. Your gas supplier for the property is ….’ (Crickets).

Then I gave up. We had our own meter separate from everyone else and I checked no neighbours had weirdly high gas bills so I don’t think it came from elsewhere. I was always slightly alarmed about getting a bill when we moved 5 years later though. I don’t think I have enough spare kidneys to pay for all that.
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This needs an ‘educational’ button…

I moved into a newly- renovated property (read: they'd knocked a derelict building down apart from 2 walls and started again). When it came to connecting everything up, it turned out that no utility companies knew the address of the original property because it had been empty forever and had fallen off their databases. Leccy and water chaps showed and connected it, hunky dory, and I moved in. Waited for bills.... Nothing. Waited longer. Still nothing. Rang them. No sign of the address in the system, not even by lat/long, let alone postcode, nor my name. Told them it was definitely connected, name of property now etc. Waited. Nothing. I don't know how many years it was, but I'd moved out before the first bill arrived and I lived there 5 years.

Note, guset, no bailiffs kicked my door in.
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You're correct to say that poverty in rural areas has different variables to urban poverty.

For me, personally, I choose to live in an urban centre where I know I have access to services services like healthcare, shops, libraries, social spaces, public transport etc reasonably easily. Because I live alone and don't have a car or a big family to draw on for support, I need to be self-reliant and able to access public services as nearby and conveniently as possible.

I'm sure for some people, the trade offs of living in the deep countryside outweigh these but for me, with an eye on my not-great health and my advancing years, I don't want to be cut off from support.

Neither do I. However, I cannot afford to move.

 

[Lumpyspaceprincess]

Not just the purchasing of items either. I can see her spending a lot in other ways, taxis, takeaways, meals out etc. All for her of course. She'd be the type to be dropping £35 a month on a 'self care' subscription box and the like. Could even be a gambler, who knows.

Same. All those times she goes to London there are train fares and hotels and eating out. I think she just fritters away money all day every day. I bet there are a lot of food deliveries as it clear she’s no cook.
Regular hairdressers appointments and face filling.
It clear she has very little to do so I imagine shopping is a constant activity. Lots of technology, lots of interior products.
I also think she has every streaming service going, despite what she says.

 

[Dr.CM]

I love The Kinks.

Some years ago I lived in a very short street in a posh neighbourhood of north London . All the homeowners of the large Victorian terraces had known each other for years and it was a friendly street, even for a lodger like me with no claims to property.

Anyway, one of the neighbours was a journalist-cum-mental-health-campaigner who'd famously been married to a European count who had, I think, treated her very badly. One Christmas, there was a little informal party for the neighbours and this countess brought Ray Davies along -- he was going through one of his spells of poor mental health and was staying with her. I thought him incredibly sweet and diffident (in the authentic, not Jack, way) and I was very starstruck, even though he was rather shabby and had no rock star trappings on show.

For a small street, it had a high proportion of well-known residents. But I'll have to keep the tea to myself for now.

There's a really touching and tender documentary movie about Ray Davies by Julien Temple (who is a genius film maker in my personal opinion) that if you do a little search can be located online *cough* youtube *cough*. If you haven't seen it already, I recommend.

 

[MurielSnark]

Case closed number 2.
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She’s thick, arrogant and too bleeping lazy to do a five second internet search to stop her looking like a total twit.
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Twitter ss @Silver Linings

In addition to the fact that she's purchased an expensive piece of home gym kit (hunger huuurrrrrrrttttttsssss) and can use it while also having terribly limiting arthritis, a dodgy heart and a million other ailments.

 

[I'm not actually here]

Not just the purchasing of items either. I can see her spending a lot in other ways, taxis, takeaways, meals out etc. All for her of course. She'd be the type to be dropping £35 a month on a 'self care' subscription box and the like. Could even be a gambler, who knows.

How much did that veg box or whatever it was, that she subscribed to cost? Out of interest. Little things like that add up quickly.

 

[MurielSnark]

I moved into a newly- renovated property (read: they'd knocked a derelict building down apart from 2 walls and started again). When it came to connecting everything up, it turned out that no utility companies knew the address of the original property because it had been empty forever and had fallen off their databases. Leccy and water chaps showed and connected it, hunky dory, and I moved in. Waited for bills.... Nothing. Waited longer. Still nothing. Rang them. No sign of the address in the system, not even by lat/long, let alone postcode, nor my name. Told them it was definitely connected, name of property now etc. Waited. Nothing. I don't know how many years it was, but I'd moved out before the first bill arrived and I lived there 5 years.

Note, guset, no bailiffs kicked my door in.
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Neither do I. However, I cannot afford to move.

It's not a competition to elevenerife poverty. I'm having it tough for reasons. You're having it tough for reasons. A lot of us here are having it tough. I'd rather we just practised solidarity rather than the old Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen approach of trying to outdo each other with our woes.

 

[Foxvint]

Same. All those times she goes to London there are train fares and hotels and eating out. I think she just fritters away money all day every day. I bet there are a lot of food deliveries as it clear she’s no cook.
Regular hairdressers appointments and face filling.
It clear she has very little to do so I imagine shopping is a constant activity. Lots of technology, lots of interior products.
I also think she has every streaming service going, despite what she says.

And her rationale for the spending-'if you begrudge me nice things you're just not a very nice person'. This is why she's never got into debates on twitter. Cleverer people would lacerate her 8 year old level of reasoning.

 

[I'm not actually here]

It's not a competition to elevenerife poverty. I'm having it tough for reasons. You're having it tough for reasons. A lot of us here are having it tough. I'd rather we just practised solidarity rather than the old Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen approach of trying to outdo each other with our woes.

I was richer for not paying any utility bills!!! Not poorer. Utility companies are as fkn useless as universities who hand out degrees to the unworthy, the media who platform crap and mendacious writers etc etc etc. In that opinion, I hope, we are united.

 

[StewPots]

I want to say something. I feel so strongly about this.

I don't have a degree as I unfortunately dropped out of university but I know how hard it is to a) get there in the first place; b) navigate all the academic systems and institutional rigmarole; c) cope with the social aspect, being away from home, managing budgets etc; d) doing the actual coursework and submitting work to deadlines with the all the correct research, references, quotes etc. Not to mention the costs and the vast student loans youngsters and mature students are being landed with.

Anyway I'm outraged that in any civilised country a liar and scammer should have been awarded an honourary qualification, not even one but two. It is now clear that her 'work' has been nothing but a grift. And for what? For thin air! I believe she should be stripped of these awards and I would like us to lobby the universities. How do we go about this? Maybe we can all plan a letter together that we can cut and paste and email from our own personal names and addresses. Honestly, it's a scandal.

She's a disgrace to the middle class that she comes from and she's undermined and mocked the working classes (that I come from). Shouldn't all those fuzzy lefty guardian readers knitting yoghurt and helping the poor people actually be as outraged as I am!?!

Hear bleeping hear! My daughter is doing a pharmacology degree next year, and it’s going to be three years of solid graft on top of the A-levels she’s going to be doing this academic year ( on top of the full time job she has in health already ).

I can’t even imagine what it must feel like for students who’ve put so much work, blood, sweat, tears and money into something, just to watch some twit saunter up to the lectern, get a fake degree and then lecture them…. Makes me beyond bleeping angry, and those unis should be bleeping ashamed of themselves. Just like the Graun.

I’ve only been here a short while, but I can’t imagine either how you guys have watched this all happen for yearssss and the frustration on seeing her get away with it and have various twats lauding her over constantly. I’m glad she’s bleeping quiet, because surely that means the jig is finally up for the coke sniffing, cosplaying bleep.

 

[MurielSnark]

There's a really touching and tender documentary movie about Ray Davies by Julien Temple (who is a genius film maker in my personal opinion) that if you do a little search can be located online *cough* youtube *cough*. If you haven't seen it already, I recommend.

I'll have a look, thank you! Love suggestions of things to read or watch. Cheers.

 

[mchops]

She really is just the fraudulent Church of Jack monroe, preaches her own twisted gospels to her believers. Then uses their hard earned money to buy a £6,500 watch.
If she could drive she'd have a gold merc

 

[Valiofthedolls]

She made it far worse by acting like she received actual degrees rather than being honored by the universities. Using the "Dr" title and referring to a "graduation photo" are just two ways I can remember off the top of my head. Have never, ever, seen anyone make such a fool of themselves as she did over the honorary degrees and in the process removing any dignity whatsoever.

Spoiler: Yes Indeed. 😬

 

[kitldn_]

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I mean she obviously wrote it herself but it’s fun to think of the person she asked to write it thoughtfully loading it with red flags and even successfully inhabiting her horrible writing style.

Such Main Character Energy.

Her - excellent cook, intellectual, creative, photographer, reader, political.
You - … uh, aged between 23 and 43. That’s it.

Also, high heels, higher hemlines and “awkward girlish armour” (vomit). How very butch of her.

 

[StewPots]

Fixed it.

 

[phoebuscartel]

 

[HootieMcBoob]

I sort of meant if she was only 9 years behind, that didn't seem like her normal 30+ years behind the times

oh I am so dense

>>>>>>> The joke >>>>>>>

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[Valiofthedolls]

Such Main Character Energy.

Her - excellent cook, intellectual, creative, photographer, reader, political.
You - … uh, aged between 23 and 43. That’s it.

Also, high heels, higher hemlines and “awkward girlish armour” (vomit). How very butch of her.

She makes extremely clear in that article she’s looking for a “Mr Jack”. The fact that she writes this telling bleeping strangers on the internet to “ply her with booze…” just shows privileged, cosseted and cut off from the real bleeping world she actually is. bleeping moron.

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Lol all that me myself and I and she still doesn’t/can’t answer the bleeping question “how can she call herself Dr”. Thick fucker.

 

[mchops]

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