Jack Monroe #94 It’s okay Jack, others have taken up the baton

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Completely agree. If you applied this to a to someone who was addicted to say, heroin who had been clean for 2 years but then took a small dose, you wouldn’t still say they had been clean for 2 years would you?

There is no shame in starting from day 1 again. Everyone knows it is difficult being an addict (in whatever form) and that is why there is support available.

But once again the universal standards for society do not apply to her.
 
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I'm actually really bad at opening mail/bills too (other than the really important brown ones which I *know* have to get dealt with because I'm not a fucking idiot). But then I have direct debits set up for everything else (and anything I purchase I do so from my debit account) so I only need to look at my banking app to know what's coming out my account and when. I don't even know why I'm typing this it's so obvious that nothing she says makes the slightest bit of sense.
 
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I’m the same, when the brown envelope comes it’s like when you see a Policeman walking up your path - you haven’t done anything wrong but you think “that’s it! I’m going to spend the rest of my life in prison!”

We got one each, Mr Lenny and I, the other day saying we’d been overpaid in child tax credits and we owed them £300+. We don’t get child tax credits. It’s a thought having to wait on the phone to get through and make sure it’s acknowledged and sorted but after years of debt, hiding away from things and the Scottish equivalent of a CCJ, I find it best to do things head on. If I didn’t though, I could get a nice little pile and take a photo for the ‘Gram...
 
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.... if she genuinely hasn't been opening the brown envelopes, then perhaps she'll have missed out on all the letters telling her about the 2 self employed grants and furlough help.

Hmm... thought not.
 
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She rakes in more through Patreon a month than my husband earns working 40 hours + a week on minimum wage.
Yep. Mine too. And covid fucked my job down the shitter so that's what we are surviving on.
Not to make it about me but we are making do and most importantly, not eating slop and bollock bangers
 
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Unbelievable. Also, and it’s subtle, but the ‘little’ whopper that she told there right in the middle, the ‘flattering iPhone in portrait mode’ lie. Just laying the ground for a retreat, if the fraudulent Facetune photo requires some explaining later.
 
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Exactly. To say, isn’t that the whole fucking point in counting? It’s from day 1 until it isn’t, then it’s back to day 1 again. She doesn’t give a shit, it’s not about AA or (supposed) recovery, it’s about her being able to claim success and virtue points within this subset of life’s big challenges. Completed it, mate.
 
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Also isn’t portrait mode iPhone X and above? Prior to X I had an 8 which definitely didn’t have it (unless there’s since been a software update)? Not perpetuating the gross right wing notion of why do poor people have essential modern amenities such as smart phones & flat screen TVs (it’s nearly impossible to buy a non smart phone or a non flat TV these days???) but does no one genuinely wonder why she’s going on as if she’s never emerged from poverty yet has a current gen iPhone...
 
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She operates mackiematics all figures, are manipulated to fit her narrative
 
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It was GIFTED!
 
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To whom at AA do I address my request for dispensation to add 12 years sobriety (age 0-12) onto my current fornightish? I sEvErElY need it for clout on my socials...
 
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I have an iPhone 11 ...and in my experience the ‘portrait mode’ is not that flattering!

It provides quite a harsh HD image, not the fluffy blurred face tuning Jackie claims it to have - certainly not without a few filter tweaks
 
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Sick isn’t it? I’m sure she rakes in more than anyone who donates to her!
It really is, and shocking. How good a manipulator does someone have to be to live the life she does in that big house, without working in years, writes the occasional photo book and tv appearance but has shown herself to be absolutely fucking rubbish at *everything* she’s tried, yet has still managed to maintain the high life AND amazingly, still manages to maintain victim status. More patrons are flooding in, the monthly wage is growing steadily. Have said it before, she should give seminars on how to con people - it’s her one, true talent.
 
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Someone says they are going through chemo and not one mention of it in her reply! “Meticulous skincare”, “iPhone with portrait mode” but she can’t afford butter. Who can “nap like a cat” when they have a child at home? What about the 20 hour working days??
 
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I've woken up to an incredible barrage of posts by frauen speaking more eloquently about her grifting then I ever could. All I really can say is that she's an absolutely fucking disgrace.

Laughing about grating corned beef is one thing but I feel like this thread is the one bit of sanity in the JM internet sphere as we are calling out dangerous and immoral behaviour.
 
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... and the ‘I relax only 3 times a year...’
 
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I’ve been reading along and nodding vigorously in agreement with the wise and funny Fraus (and @MancBee ) since Friday. I thought the scales would truly drop from the eyes of the multitude over the past couple of days, but no. More non-earned cash floating her way.

She is a leech. She disgusts me.
 
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