Jack Monroe #601 Replican't

[MavisBeacon]

I also agree with the shopping addiction theory. When she had her "I'm selling EVERYTHING!!" sale, she was in her early 20s with a small baby. She'd only been in decent paid work for a year but the sheer amount of stuff she had accumulated was boggling. Matching sets of brand name crockery, a CHESTERFIELD for God's sake. She's on record (I think in the guardian comments somewhere) about how much she was earning, and I reckon she spent the lot on tat and booze (and possibly other substances). So when she stormed out of the firephone job in a huff she had nothing at all to fall back on except a pile of wedgewood.
I'm also wondering if she did inherit some money from her DEAD grandpa but it was locked away in some way. Other Fraus can correct me if I'm wrong but is it the case that you can't get benefits if you have over a certain amount in savings? So for all her balls about being too scared/smol to fill out the forms for social housing, benefits etc she might not actually have been elegible.

"Woman pleads poverty after spending all her disposable income on tat and booze and sitting on a pile of inherited money and her family won't help out because she's a bleeping idiot and needs to learn a lesson" is a much less sympathetic story than "I was CAST OUT of my job into the DARKNESS and had to STEAL FOOD FROM BINS to survive".

She's a fake, liar, thief and grifter. Enjoy the silence, guest.

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

Re guest's claim to taking 40 tramadol a day, Matthew Perry said in his memoir (a very sad but enlightening read) that at one point he was taking up to 55 Vicodin a day and still functioning. However, he also lost a lot of weight and doesn't remember much of the Friends shows that he filmed while he was in that state.

So it's remotely possible that guest could have still been up and around while consuming the amount of opioids she claims she did. But there would have been physical signs that she was abusing that much, and I don't recall any comments or photos to that effect.

I agree with @rage naan that shopping addiction and credit card debt explain much more of guest's behaviour than substance abuse does.

BIB - Isn't tramadol extremely constipating? Could explain why she is so full of

 

[witchofwestbyfleet]

I also agree with the shopping addiction theory. When she had her "I'm selling EVERYTHING!!" sale, she was in her early 20s with a small baby. She'd only been in decent paid work for a year but the sheer amount of stuff she had accumulated was boggling. Matching sets of brand name crockery, a CHESTERFIELD for God's sake. She's on record (I think in the guardian comments somewhere) about how much she was earning, and I reckon she spent the lot on tat and booze (and possibly other substances). So when she stormed out of the firephone job in a huff she had nothing at all to fall back on except a pile of wedgewood.
I'm also wondering if she did inherit some money from her DEAD grandpa but it was locked away in some way. Other Fraus can correct me if I'm wrong but is it the case that you can't get benefits if you have over a certain amount in savings? So for all her balls about being too scared/smol to fill out the forms for social housing, benefits etc she might not actually have been elegible.

"Woman pleads poverty after spending all her disposable income on tat and booze and sitting on a pile of inherited money and her family won't help out because she's a bleeping idiot and needs to learn a lesson" is a much less sympathetic story than "I was CAST OUT of my job into the DARKNESS and had to STEAL FOOD FROM BINS to survive".

She's a fake, liar, thief and grifter. Enjoy the silence, guest.

She said she had three jobs and earned £40,000 a year of which £27,000 was the firephone job, and that she wanted to quit her side jobs but was waiting for promotion in the Fire Service. She was in the Fire Service for a year or two (iirc she joined when she was 19?) before her son was born and then she went on an 18-month maternity leave. So it seems she had a decent income for a while and yet she blew it all on Chesterfields, Wedgewood, Denby, Le Creuset, etc. in addition to whatever she spent on booze and any other substances

An inheritance from Grandpa seems likely because remember he passed away in November 2012 which is also when she, supposedly in the height of poverty, quit her job to become self employed selling photography, "crafts" (a vest STAPLED to a bit of polyester), and writing freelance - all a very precarious form of income for someone who supposedly couldn't afford to feed herself or her son

 

[SouthendRealEstate]

I also agree with the shopping addiction theory. When she had her "I'm selling EVERYTHING!!" sale, she was in her early 20s with a small baby. She'd only been in decent paid work for a year but the sheer amount of stuff she had accumulated was boggling. Matching sets of brand name crockery, a CHESTERFIELD for God's sake. She's on record (I think in the guardian comments somewhere) about how much she was earning, and I reckon she spent the lot on tat and booze (and possibly other substances). So when she stormed out of the firephone job in a huff she had nothing at all to fall back on except a pile of wedgewood.
I'm also wondering if she did inherit some money from her DEAD grandpa but it was locked away in some way. Other Fraus can correct me if I'm wrong but is it the case that you can't get benefits if you have over a certain amount in savings? So for all her balls about being too scared/smol to fill out the forms for social housing, benefits etc she might not actually have been elegible.

"Woman pleads poverty after spending all her disposable income on tat and booze and sitting on a pile of inherited money and her family won't help out because she's a bleeping idiot and needs to learn a lesson" is a much less sympathetic story than "I was CAST OUT of my job into the DARKNESS and had to STEAL FOOD FROM BINS to survive".

She's a fake, liar, thief and grifter. Enjoy the silence, guest.

“I'm also wondering if she did inherit some money from her DEAD grandpa but it was locked away in some way.”

Or maybe she did inherit something and spunked the lot on sideboards and snow?

 

[Lazarus]

Found it!
@lurkerfrau take a bow, babe. Fruit cocktail cake and courgette loaf.

Slopalong #2 You can’t polish a turd, but you can cover it in parsley

Surely she must have burnt a few pans and ruined some food along the way, in trying her "different" method. I mean, science. There's no way it could have worked, not even randomly. She must know that. Like a child making mud pies and insisting you eat them.

tattle.life

 

[MavisBeacon]

“I'm also wondering if she did inherit some money from her DEAD grandpa but it was locked away in some way.”

Or maybe she did inherit something and spunked the lot on sideboards and snow?

Could also be true. I had a friend who got a 5 figure inheritance in his 20s and blew the lot on it, mdma etc in a couple of years.

 

[Wooh]

Do I have the correct website address?

 

[Onestorytoomany]

Perhaps if the pills are constipating it could explain the laxative qualities of her food. A natural way if you will of getting things moving.

 

[YerDa]

Found it!
@lurkerfrau take a bow, babe. Fruit cocktail cake and courgette loaf.

Slopalong #2 You can’t polish a turd, but you can cover it in parsley

Surely she must have burnt a few pans and ruined some food along the way, in trying her "different" method. I mean, science. There's no way it could have worked, not even randomly. She must know that. Like a child making mud pies and insisting you eat them.

tattle.life

I unintentionally did a horrified OH MY GOD out loud at that reveal!

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

I unintentionally did a horrified OH MY GOD out loud at that reveal!

SNAP!

 

[MancBee]

Found it!
@lurkerfrau take a bow, babe. Fruit cocktail cake and courgette loaf.

Slopalong #2 You can’t polish a turd, but you can cover it in parsley

Surely she must have burnt a few pans and ruined some food along the way, in trying her "different" method. I mean, science. There's no way it could have worked, not even randomly. She must know that. Like a child making mud pies and insisting you eat them.

tattle.life

I loved the Slopalong. A true test of Jack's recipes.

Proof positive that she never, ever made those monstrosities, or if she did, they turned out just the same.

I suppose that explains the "one and done" claim. After all, who would make them a second time?

 

[Valiofthedolls]

Do I have the correct website address?

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It’s still there. It’s been back to the basic oursouthend.wordpress.com version from 2012 for quite a few months (since March last year, IIRC?) cos she can’t be arsed to pay for the upkeep of bootstrap.com

COOKING ON A BOOTSTRAP

by Jack Monroe, bestselling author of 'A Girl Called Jack'

oursouthend.wordpress.com

 

[Madonna_Claws]

As discovered instantly by @HaveTinCanRattle
Including Rock Chick trousers and trendy tucked in cream top
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Rock chicks with funky zip fastenings the world over: feeling comfy and looking fabulous!
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Oi! Lita Ford would never. Have some respect!

*whispers* I actually quite like the trousers, and they fit/suit her better than the Viv's (RIP) (RIP)

 

[Wooh]

Ah, apologies for website drama

 

[Captainmouse]

TeenBap has declared that she wants to round off the Xmas break with this 1970s sweeties thing on Channel 5. C’mon guest, ‘oo remembers Spangles eh?

Spaceballs, One of my favourites, 'why didn’t you tell me I had a large a'

 

[BeardyBap]

The Landlord Granpa inheritance mithering: a will is a public document after probate but I saved myself £1.50 by looking back on here.
Gramps’s estate was worth £1.8m, non-Nazi Grandma survived him so was the main beneficiary but El Chocco and his three siblings got a property each. No mention of anything bequeathed to grandchildren. Sounds pretty standard in my (limited) experience.
Ofc Dave & Ev might have handed down some cash after their property windfall were they so inclined, but my word can you imagine the regret if she then immediately jacked in the firephone gig?

Jack Monroe #379 She really has no idea just how much of an arsehole she really is. Quite the skill.

Editor texted Jack after the show to apologise about the lack of time. Editor probably also asked whoever booked Jack “To see them in the office immediately“ Apart from the fact they only pay you £50 though ey Jack?

tattle.life

 

[Lucky Escape]

The Landlord Granpa inheritance mithering: a will is a public document after probate but I saved myself £1.50 by looking back on here.
Gramps’s estate was worth £1.8m, non-Nazi Grandma survived him so was the main beneficiary but El Chocco and his three siblings got a property each. No mention of anything bequeathed to grandchildren. Sounds pretty standard in my (limited) experience.
Ofc Dave & Ev might have handed down some cash after their property windfall were they so inclined, but my word can you imagine the regret if she then immediately jacked in the firephone gig?

Jack Monroe #379 She really has no idea just how much of an arsehole she really is. Quite the skill.

Editor texted Jack after the show to apologise about the lack of time. Editor probably also asked whoever booked Jack “To see them in the office immediately“ Apart from the fact they only pay you £50 though ey Jack?

tattle.life

I wonder if they perhaps tried to hold out the possibility of passing some of it along to her as leverage to try to get her to sort herself out. Or even just a gentle "if you put £500 a month into an ISA over the next year, we'll top it up to the max (which would have been £12k at the time), and pay for you and SB to come on holiday with us" - a nudge to get her out of the habit of blowing her entire salary, whilst still being generous.

You could see how that might have rebounded on them, with her throwing a tantrum over it and trying to force them into paying out cash without strings attached.

Inheritance stuff often seems to mess up family dynamics and, from what we've seen of Chocco MBE, I'm not particularly confident that they'll have handled it well no matter what happened.

 

[Lazarus]

I loved the Slopalong. A true test of Jack's recipes.

Proof positive that she never, ever made those monstrosities, or if she did, they turned out just the same.

I suppose that explains the "one and done" claim. After all, who would make them a second time?

I mean, she said one and done, but then she also said she tests each recipe 3 times:

 

[MancBee]

I mean, she said one and done, but then she also said she tests each recipe 3 times:
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She's using tricksy wording again. Once is less than "thrice" (another of Jack's favoured words) so saying "up to 3 times" is not lying if she only makes it once.

She's a sly one with words. You can imagine her saying "I never said I made it three times. Leave me alone, do you want me to stop BREATHING"

ETA it's funny how I only had to write "do you want" and predictive text filled in the rest, even the capitalisation of BREATHING.

 

[Lazarus]

She's using tricksy wording again. Once is less than "thrice" (another of Jack's favoured words) so saying "up to 3 times" is not lying if she only makes it once.

She's a sly one with words.

me ^^ trying to work out how many times Geoff had steak goulash.