Jack Monroe #568 Things Jack doesn't understand - Gaslighting, Gas heating, Gastronomy

[Carefree]

Maybe Agent Adrian has managed to scrape her a cameo on Deadliest Catch

It's why the trout pout is a tax-deductable. Obviously for a show and not her crippling narcissistic ways and ill-gotten gains.

 

[MurielSnark]

Jack’s DEAD grandad used to drink his sherry out of a set of miniature silver ones (one missing).
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Oh hang on, it’s just the one goblet, and he used to put his fag butts in it down the alley and now it’s for “thingies in the hall”.
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Oh hang on, that’s bollox too, cos he didn’t use a goblet as an alley ashtray, cos he used to drop his cigarette butts down the back of a wall with a traffic cone and a milk crate behind it
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Needless to say all goblet-related guest utterances are a big steaming goblet of bullshit.

a bunch of gobletdegook uttered by a true gobshite

 

[Lazarus]

Loving this for her

Jack, if you‘re reading here (and we know you are), go look up ‘shade’.

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By Xanthe Clay too?
Jack used to love talking about how much Xanthe Clay loved her.

 

[houseofhoop]

The Spousetrap.

Yay!!!
I’m going to see the real one on Saturday.

 

[DinosaurSenior]

Can anyone find the 'Burglar Bill Jack in Clink" pic as a little reminder to her that actions ( or lack of them) have consequences?

 

[Lobster Johnson]

I can’t remember the name of it but yes, it was another podcast and was for paying subscribers only so not widely broadcast.

blocked and reported.

I’ve been BEGGING maintenance phase to do Jack for years

 

[MavisBeacon]

I bet she would do a speech - to be fair, I wouldn't judge her for that, I insisted on doing a speech at my own wedding too

 

[SendReceive]

It’s nearly ready, look! There’s a two year old TWEET on there and everything. https://www.vimesbootsindex.co.uk/

I love how there’s a link to her Books What I Wrote on Bookshop too - act now to save 35p and you too could buy a small Stetson.

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The GitHub 🫢

NO ACTIVITY MATCHED YOUR SEARCH

 

[witchofwestbyfleet]

I’m guessing they were trying to pick up on people searching for the equally disgustingly named Pinch of Nom books. They’ve inexplicably got another one out about air fryers.

At my old job my manager and his wife both worked for the company but she was part-time with kids. When another colleague asked if his wife would like Pinch of Nom for her birthday, he said no as he quite likes not being divorced!

 

[Carefree]

My heart dog's middle name is Louisa, as it's a family name. Fucking Jack

 

[Be our guest]

My heart dog's middle name is Louisa, as it's a family name. Fucking Jack

I love that your dog has a middle name!

 

[LydiaDeetzHat]

FWiW, Agatha Christie was very well know for her love of surfing and the sea back in the 1920s. This is not new news. She certainly wasn't a pioneering British person to surf standing up, but was most likely one of very few British women to do the same simply due to the social constraints of the time.
But like I say, this not a new barely known revelation.

i just bought Lucy Worsleys book ON Agatha. remind me to factcheck guest

 

[MurielSnark]

Do you think her plants are still alive?
I was reading a ( not very good) book about herbal folklore earlier.Hydrangeas in your garden means you will never marry apparently.

Hydrangeas also poisonous to dogs so best avoided altogether.

 

[StatusWoe]

If it is her it’s a bit like a slow game of whackamole (Jack-a-Mole?) where she’s popping up in random places then swiftly getting batted back down…

Jack-a-Mole would make a great thread title! Either that or the dolphin on Mars one.

Christ. Whatever happened to wiping it on the curtains.

The Jack suggestion would probably be something dangerous involving flannels, empty tuna tins and carabiners.

 

[Carefree]

I think the book reading is meant to put one in mind of Matilda and how precocious she was but also how she's the scrappy, brainy one in a family of money worshippers. Alas, I did not laugh or think that - at all.

 

[MooBelle]

I will still always hold Mumsnet in a dear place though purely for sex beaker.

Though agree, it's brutal lately .

Oh my god. Sex Beaker! The nostalgia!!!!

 

[DinosaurSenior]

Why bother filtering the fuck out of your face, yet not touching up the grey hairs?

Is that to make it look more authentic?

 

[StatusWoe]

I think it's this:

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2024-04-11/life-sized-statue-to-murdered-mp-is-unveiled-in-home-city

Nobody gonna be paying for a statue of guest anytime soon.

Thanks for replying. I'm relieved she has nothing to say about this.

As for statues of guest, can you imagine that filtered cords photo immortalised in bronze?

 

[chizontiz]

I think things like the person defending Carrie are exactly why guest got away with so much for so long. I don’t deny that many women in the public eye are treated poorly but the flip side of that, is that people like guest will be frequently excused with "MISOGYNY, god forbid women enjoy things, you're just tearing down her confidence cuz she's a woman, how dare a working class mum be successful amirite"

the irony being that denying that women have agency to be cunts/behave poorly is (probably) in itself misogynistic

 

[Lumpyspaceprincess]

I agree with you re Jack, but surely her parents weren’t happy with her leaving school with few qualifications or prospects. From everything we know about them they’re the type who want/expect their children to ‘do them proud’. I can’t believe they didn’t try to get her to stay in education, even if it was vocational rather than A levels.

If she is the same now as she was then they probably thought it was a waste of time. We know she’s a lazy arse. I imagine they thought her getting a job would teach her some routine and responsibility for a bit and she could do some training when she grew up a bit. Never happened though.