I suspect he would know more than most about rogue traders. I first saw him in a C4 show called faking it. Where people had to adopt a new persona and learn skills well enough to fool an expert. In his ep, Dom was teaching a vicar how to flog 2nd hand cars
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I'd love Dom to turn up at her front door on live tv and confront her about her tip jar and Patreon. Either that, get her exposed on CrimeWatch
How much is that in ££££ as a monthly minimum. And actual cost figure will spell it out to anyone who stumbles across this thread more than number of patreons.......patrons........mugs!
I think it's important to show that people aren't just doing the 'they're different - let's troll' thing that's claimed, but there is an understanding of the processes, motivations and discourses at play. After all, she's wailing that she has noooo moneeyyyy and ALL IS LOST - if you don't know well, actually, that's bullshit, what you have to do is x, y and z, it's more use in demonstrating it's utter bullshit.
Like the potatoes thing. Yeah, it's crap if you're tired to then have to cook properly. But you don't help anyone by getting malnourished from eating tit food, you pay out less money, stick a spud in the microwave and then crisp it up in the oven if you can wait another ten minutes, add some unrinsed baked beans and some cheese and you are physically more able to deal with what comes AND it's a bloody lovely meal that warms you inside and out whilst leaving you at least another five meals worth in the bag for the rest of the week.
Absolutely.
Those single parents, mostly mums but also some amazing single dads too, are doing it on their own completely.
If I look at my office there are a couple of girls who have kids and they are on their own and doing brilliantly at their careers as well as being awesome as parents.
A couple don't have the solid family background like Jack
Because we are all on the same payscale i can guesstimate how much they earn and it aint anywhere near what Jack earns
For various reasons the fathers aren't in the picture and they don't get the financial and childcare help that Jack does by having the dad around
A couple of them have second jobs (one barmaids on a weekend and swaps childcare with another girl in the pub) another freelances in bookkeeping and ploughs away at spreadsheets when her kids are in bed.
They are all doing amazingly well and slogging away to make their (and their kids) lifes better.
So you can duck off Jack, you really can
(told you she'd got to me tonight!!!)
um was Jack Monroe your lodger?
I'm catching up with Celebrity Masterchef right now and Dom Littlewood is on my screen cooking far better than I've ever seen Jack cook!
In all honesty and the awareness that I am being very bitchy (although in mitigation, part of her income is derived purely on the basis of being morbidly obese) we endured a Fat Jack for 18 months.
Coming in here after being away for 3 days like...
On the night train (FANCY - although not quite the sleeper) with a cabin to myself, a bottle of wine, and several hours to grunka!
On the night train (FANCY - although not quite the sleeper) with a cabin to myself, a bottle of wine, and several hours to grunka!
Well, that person describing all those handy symptoms spectacularly let down one of my lovely friends over a gift she commissioned. 90% of our texts mention her and her arseaching annoyances. She will do absolutely anything to get on the telly too, they are enabling each other.
I’m curious as to what HMRC might make of this tip jar and Patreon revenue source. Revenue is revenue, right? The only things we can’t avoid in this world are death....and taxes. Hope she’s factored that in to prevent future chaoses.
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She's up to 219 paying Patreon supporters now...
I honestly despair.
From my longtime lurking (thanks lockdown for stripping every other avenue from my life) it seems that there's a strong cross-over between ex-Jack-fans, or at least Jack-sympathisers, and posters on these ongoing threads. In terms of experience, in terms of empathy. Most of us (hope it's not too forward to include myself in the collective) seem to tick one or other of Jack's "excluded" boxes - poverty, ND, MH, single parenthood, self-employed, trauma/abuse history...
Which is the exact audience she's leaching off for her tips. Over and above her salaried work. Over and above her rainy-day savings. Over and above her accumulated social capital. Over and above her ebayable tchotchkis.
Do one Jack.
(I could very kindly explain what burnout means in the (ND) context in which I've experienced it. But I won't be drawn into providing fuel for this particular cosplay shitshow)
He could give her lessons while interrogating her
you say to dink wine and 'calm down'
I've had some wine, it just made me angrier and swearier!!!
I know what you're saying, but I just don't think that using her as a springboard for 'money saving advice' (or indeed, money-MAKING advice)* is particularly helpful, as it fuels the narrative that *she* wants to advance - that she is somehow representative of and/or spokesperson for people in these actual situations.
*see also: mental health advice, coping with trauma advice, ad nauseum
Does anybody here have or know someone who has a Patreon account? There seems to be a mechanism from within to report accounts
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I' m currently on page 14 of 29 so don't know what is ahead of me but I KNEW the effing BEGGING BOWL would come out soon. For eff's sake! Get a part time job Jack
Definitely! She just makes it sound like it was an empty shell when she moved in! She wants brownie points for sticking a couple of shelves above the sink
She's lucky it's a decent size kitchen for a bungalow!I know who you mean.
Didn't take kindly to a comment about removing protected species from the wild as part of her 'work', either.
On Mumsnet there are always trolley beggars, have £6.17 to last for six weeks or whatever. Everything suggested they have either tried, or is impossible for various reasons. Because all they want is free money from strangers.
Remind you of anyone?
His tagline used to be
'Don't get done, get Dom'
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