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

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CabalofBolorneaise

HansThatDoDishes said:
I've always assumed she got 4.5 C or higher GCSEs and 2.5 D-G which the school and her parents and thus probably herself considered failures.
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I get the strong impression Big D was absolutely livid with her results and that’s why she’s so obsessed with them. Her whole life seems to be oriented around the contradicting goals of impressing him while also trying to prove a point by “taking her own path”.

Maybe Mama E was displeased too, maybe she was supportive who knows - Jack doesn’t seem to have anywhere near the desperation to be approved of/prove wrong/get attention from her as she does her father.
 
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Valiofthedolls

March 2012

About Jack Monroe

I’m Jack Monroe. A 23 year old single mother to a toddler, living in a flat in the town centre, Southend on Sea. I have worked in retail, management, and for the past three years, the public ...
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30 miles away, day shifts that meant being out of the house for 13 hours total. And also 15-hour long night shifts, 2 hours longer than the day shift working day plus commute at both ends. In Brentwood. 30 miles away

For that matter, see also: it’s the girlfriend in whose house she was living and who dumped her’s fault she had to quit the fire service! Here’s the evidence!!!Tho her tricksy wording makes it seem like this is her son’s dad she’s on about. AND that she had no family close. This is when she came back from maternity in Sept 2011, was dumped in Oct 2011, had to move out of the home owned by her partner and in October 2011 immediately SPITE-flounced into the £725 a month luxury exec apartment and then SPITE-flounced out of the fire service mere weeks later in mid-November, while already “off sick with stress.

Everything she ever does, up to and including these past few days, is to stick it to someone else “I’LL SHOW THEM!!!”

I’ll say it again. What a cunt.

@witchofwestbyfleet let me know if you want any linky links for the Wiki
 
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HotesTilaire

hoopdedoo said:
Is the horsey lasagna among the choices here? Esp if Xanthe is determined to diss on guest.
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I think Tesco had to recall the Horse Lasagne. Xanthe’s all look like they’ve got the traditional bechamel made of like cow milk and whatever. No work for Horses where lasagne is concerned, these days.
 
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Valiofthedolls

kachoochoo said:
have we seen this where she's replied to liz jones?
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Just found the actual blog post in the archives.
Congratulations on your beautiful new home, your BUTTER SOFT LEATHER and your sperm stealing confessionals, Lizmate!

Link.

Brief letter to the Daily Mail re Chickengate. – COOKING ON A BOOTSTR…

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And of course, NEEDLESS TO SAY, guest had to have the last laugh word more than once

So here’s the link to that diatribe too

The one where the Daily Mail compare my chicken casserole recipe to, …

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Truly, truly insufferable. Twenty fucking five years old.
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Be our guest

Hang on - she's claiming she was 'failing' her GCSEs because she was skipping class to sit in the library or in a field reading books? What? Whaaaat?
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Mmm, macadamia nuts, vanilla pod and powdered green tea. Definitely the kind of cheap and value ingredients that a pov unemployed single mum would have kicking around in her kitchen.
 
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L3moning

Ah yes, the "make everything look like the video¹ to Don't Look Down by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead²" era.

¹this is actually on topic!


²shortened to either "Trail of Dead" or "ToD", usually.
 
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StewPots

Actually, thinking about “I Am The Walrus” it’s less about the song lyrics and more like reading one of guest’s slop book offerings.

Yellow-matter custard?
Semolina pilchard?

Hmmm sounds familiar. Didn’t know Jack was a Beatles fan.

“Helter Skelter? Yeah, completed it mate ”

Literally had about 3 hours sleep and feel like I’ve properly lost my mind with this post btw.
 
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StewPots

L3moning said:
And of course the next line is dripping from a dead dog's eye, which given Jack's history with animals...
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Yup god she’s a proper pile of shite isn’t she?

Glad her name is the same on Twixxter, the prick.
 
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moldwarp

I think her family were livid for her for a number of reasons: the GCSEs, the young single pregnancy, the (likely) behaving very badly at the fire service making her a pariah.

This is all fairly standard parent stuff imho. I only have sons but tbh if I had a daughter who got pregnant at a young age before she was qualified, or financially independent, with no career plans and no relationship, I'd be livid too. Not because I'd think she was a harlot who shoulda kept her legs shut but because I'd be frantic with worry about how she'd support herself, how she'd fulfil herself educationally and in her career, and whether it was the right set-up for an innocent child to flourish. My lividity would be the result of love, in other words.

Likewise if I got one of my kids a coveted well paying job at my firm and they (as I suspect Jack did) fucked it off by having a bad attitude, poor time keeping, and then flounced, I'd be utterly mortified, and yes, again, livid. Not because I'm siding with der ebil firemenz against the bird who wanted to wear traaaaazers, but because it reflects badly on my career prospects and thus my ability to support my family including my ungrateful daughter. Again, my anger would be born out of love not spite.

Jack doesn't understand this and despite having a kid herself, doesn't seem to comprehend the sacrifices that parents routinely make for their children (which I've always found odd in itself). Hence the entire rest of her life has been an extended teen rebellion of "Mum! Dad! Look at meeeeeeee! Look how counterculture and edgy and rejecting of her values I aaammmmm!!!" even tho deep down she's cut from exactly the same cloth of net curtain twitching narrow minded middle class suburbia.
 
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Five hundred dogs

In what way is hiding in the library or on the field while reading “rebelling”? It’s skiving off. Does she think all her no shows are acts of rebellion? When she didn’t show up to Glastonbury was she actually sticking it to the man?
 
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witchofwestbyfleet

Yes please!
 
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Lumpyspaceprincess

I didn’t listen to that whole radio thing (couldn’t be arsed).
I knew it was bullshit when she said her radio alarm went off at 7am..

What’s that strange rambling story about pricing broccoli and getting more annoyed all day, is this her being a wordsmith again?
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And I’ve probably said it before why does she act like it was a shock she needed to travel to work when she came back from maternity. When did Big Dave retire? I worked with someone whose dad drove them in on his way to work every day, he was close to retirement and she would have been screwed. I always wonder if BD drove her.
 
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RandomFishOils

DinosaurSenior said:
Has she put her swimming certificates and Tufty Club membership on it too?
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She can’t swim, so just the Tufty Club membership on guest’s CV.

To anyone new to Tattle, this is how it works. Jack snarks at someone who dares to criticise her:



It then takes about two minutes to find all the instances where she is actually lying about any and all assertions about herself. For example, clearly endorsing cheap battery meat:


And going ga-ga over the designer leather goods she’s splurged on for herself - Mulberry, Kate Spade and Burberry included - some of which may indeed be buttery soft.



 
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Five hundred dogs

I’ve also never understood why her GCSE results were apparently somehow set in stone. A lot of people I knew got less than great results, myself included. Did we all weep, wail and blame Borbora forever? No, we went to the local sixth form college and did resits and A levels, or vocational BTECs. I genuinely don’t understand why she didn’t do this, it was standard practice in my area.
 
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