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

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Because she’s a narc and it’s everyone else’s fault. Redoing them would mean taking some responsibility and of course if she failed them again it would show she’s not actually as clever as she thinks she is (not at all).

I know someone who blames his mother because he failed his a levels. All because she kept him in his private nursery and he didn’t go to school nursery for his half days (in the 1970s when we didn’t do much more than play). It’s narc behaviour.
 
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I redid my CV recently (it's a list of jobs I've done, guest ) and only took the qualifications off because of the need to keep it to two pages. I also passed 10 GCSEs, despite the trauma and bullshit going on at the time including my oldest friend's accidental death.

Shit happens, you relentless moron, and you move on.
 
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Ah yes, the elitist closed shop that is the, checks notes, Southend arts scene.
 
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Perhaps they moved the fire station while she was on maternity leave, in an attempt to shake her off? Maybe it started off just down the street from her and she just used to roll out of bed (late for her shift, obvs) don her little yellow wellies, pick up her life-saving axe, bid farewell to her loved ones and go Bravely into the Unknown to Save Lives*, but when they had the chance because she was spending 6 months in bed sleeping like a Rembrandt (or Heironymous Bosch) painting, they thought "This is our chance" and demolished and rebuilt it brick by brick 20 (or maybe 30) miles away.

Be fair - if it had worked it would have been worth it.

*By not cooking meals for anyone
 
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I used to know someone who blamed his parents for taking him out of state school and sending him to a fee-paying one as being the root of all his problems.

Mainly because he couldn't be arsed putting in any effort and was eventually expelled for non-attendance.

He's spent the intervening decades avoiding anything like a day's work and sneered at the rest of us for sorting ourselves out and getting on with our lives.

Now we're sneered at for "being part of the system."

These days, I cross the road if I spot him coming towards me.
 
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BIB therein lies the problem.

Generally as you trundle through life your younger academic achievements and jobs get replaced by professional qualifications and experience.

Her two page CV would very much still have room for the oft retconned number of GCSEs, and I suspect that's why she still finds it relevant.

I absolutely tanked my A Levels thanks to discovering new, interesting friends (and weed) at college but now have two Masters degrees because I grew up a bit and made an effort to get back on track. Having been here a while I know a lot of you have very similar stories re early education/home to adulthood, whether it's professional success or enviable family lives (I love reading about ninnies' offspring, animals and significant others, it warms my jaded little heart!) or overcoming various kinds of traumatic experience or all of these and more.

How she's still got the same resentful and resigned teenage attitude (that I had when I got my exam results, no shade, your teens are a tough, confusing time) at almost forty when she's had a child and published successful books and been engaged to a smart, interesting woman and been on the telly during Lockdown (all major achievements and launchpads for knuckling down to focus on goals/success IMO) is baffling.
 
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Today's inflation announcement shows that prices are now rising less quickly than at any time since 2021. Since then, most of us have experienced prices rising by around 17.3% on average, with food prices up almost 31%.

But not for Jack.

No, she has claimed throughout that "there is no cost of living crisis", that her weekly shop is "£20 a week, still", and that Asda have actually cut their prices by so much that she can now buy 2 baskets of food for the price of one previously.

With the official figures finally falling closer to Jack's imaginary numbers, perhaps she can now finally get round to publishing the VBI?

What a triumph that would be, having missed the cost of living crisis entirely!
 
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someone i went to uni with said her dad cried when she got As & Bs in her GCSEs because apparently she'd 'ruined her life' by not getting straight A*s. They were a super academic family & I think she was the youngest, and the only one who didn't go to Oxbridge. She was still intimidatingly clever! I hope she's happy now and has told her family to go swivel.
 
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Ah yes, the elitist closed shop that is the, checks notes, Southend arts scene.
I know you’re joking, but for access to arts funding pots, the Southend arts scene actually is an elitist closed shop! You’ve got to have an ‘in’ with a particular long-established clique, and even then you’d only have a chance of getting promoted/gallery space etc. if you kiss the right arses and/or if the right person fancied you.
 
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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.
 
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Looks like old Slopper has been on the Celerytown sleeper and poisoned the water supply with offal awful slops. Kudos for CeleryLive giving us a clue in the form of Daniela Westbrook. They can't really tell us it was guest in case she pretends to sue them and they don't want to support another grift because they are saving up for an orangery in which to breed stetsons.

 
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Sorry but I slightly lost it at the 'clever tip' (Jack clearly thinks it's clever) of making 'twice the amount of sausages' by....CUTTING THEM IN HALF.

I know those smartprice sausages, they're tiny and get even smaller when cooked. She's basically ended up with thimble size sausages that won't provide any more nutrients, calories or satisfaction for her family than when they were whole and she's tried to disguise this fact by picturing the whole thing in vomit-inducing close-up, they look like small amputated thumbs. SB has EYES, Jack. He KNOWS you're not giving him any extra meat. Imbecile. Let's hope he gets proper full size meals with his resident parent.
 
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Yes please!
Here you go
In chronological order/the order of the ss in that post
Conservative Party Conference speech
Littlejohn
Brentwood
Vogue
That couple of days in of Autumn of 2013 was a very precise time. Number 19 on this years Pink List lesbian, to be precise


Depo-provera injection, to be precise

#awks

Hello, Vogue!

The lies just flow like a river of oil and vinegar dregs mixed with tea shandy. From the Littlejohn clapback two weeks earlier, bickering in the comments under her article. Left the firephone in November 2011,


Both of these things are complete bollox too. Not 18 months, and she packed that full time job in after 3 months so she most definitely hadn’t been “working full time since February
Such a fucking awful person. If she was a stick of seaside rock and you snapped it open, it would just have “Irredeemable Insufferable Cunt” written all the way through.
 
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I hear you, but… she obviously managed to kiss the right people/arses, as less than 8 months after that whinge in March 2012 she was already exhibiting her dead seagulls and other shite photography in gallery spaces
and had startup premises for her shite art and craft “foundation” at the same gallery, so quit her short lived job to become a full time artiste.

and by NYE 2012, another imminent exhibition

And for that matter was showcasing various images with Southend Arts Council as far back as 2009

Soooooo excluded.
 
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That atrocious LBC interview is the perfect example of how she could never be more than a blogger/Twitter arsehole... not only is she awkward and completely charmless, her voice could curdle horse spunk milk.

Even if she ever had something of worthwhile to say, who the fuck can listen to that?
 
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It truly is absolutely baffling that she (allegedly) wasn’t born until almost the 1990s, yet writes as if she came of age during WW2 when lemon curd rationing (and jitterbugging with American GIs for the lower class girls) was all the rage.

From that 2021 Vogue piece.

TWENTY FOUR years old when she wrote this of course.
 
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Heh,

I used to be involved in the local arts/media scene in the 90's.

One of my colleagues came up with the idea of an exhibition to showcase new artists.

We put in the legwork and drew up a shortlist of about a dozen names.

We sent the list up the chain of command and back it came with all but one name crossed out and the usual crew of 40-ish and upwards mates of the director listed instead as "New and Exciting artists."

The sole up-and-coming young artist left on the list?

Only happened to be the daughter of one of the usual suspects.
 
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