She’s on her other account as I’m blocked from her main one!!!
Back as though nothing happened yesterday
I love this insight. That’s so weird but I think I watched that not long ago. Maybe on iplayer or something. Was the end the two guys really out of it and it was dead depressing to watch?Bit of history.
I used to know Lou, back in the days when she was at Uni. She was never particularly bright, and always wanted to be the center of attention, but overall she was reasonably nice to be around. Usual teenage stuff - house parties, fair amount of weed, occasional MDMA, but nothing too heavy. Then came the legal highs.
Redcar is a deprived area with nothing to do, significant poverty and it got instantly hit with incredibly cheap drugs, mainly through a few enterprising idiots who knew how to use the internet (a genuinely rare skill at that time and in that area) and had somewhere to have the drugs ordered to. The town got worse, fast - think how manchester had the "spice zombies" issue, but nobody gave a s, because it's a crap former industrial seaside town. Not a unique story, nothing being done about it.
Channel 4 showed up and made a documentary about this crowd - "legally high", I'll see if I can find a copy. It's exploitative as hell, and yes, they were paying for people to party to get footage (i.e. indirectly funding the drug habit), but it gives a bit of context/footage of the time. Primary focus of the doc was Stephen Baxter, who started out rebranding legal highs as "Baxtercaine" to supply to teens, and then eventually moved on to heroin. He's dead now (Call centre worker died just weeks after completing heroin detox), and won't be missed by many. Lou's in the background of a few shots of the documentary but wasn't heavily featured.
I can't really speak for James/Jabba. He honestly seemed nice enough when I met him, but plenty of people are nice in public and another behind closed doors.
Steminem has always been a reptile since day 1 though - literally robbing grannies when needed. He's a scourge on the town, frequently begging outside shops and known for assaulting/robbing friends, family, and anyone within a 5m radius of him.
I'm shamed to admit I got taken in by Lou's lies at one point, when she was in the hostel - to the point of paying for a morrisons veg box, and some food/hygiene essentials, where all she had to do was show up to the store and pick it up. It will not surprise you to know that she didn't show up.
There's a whole crowd of people with similar stories in that area, now completely destroyed - it's just Lou has combined that with a desire to internet famous. It's quite the show.
Found the doc - - I'm not sure I'd say it's worth your time, but it covers the area at that time well.I love this insight. That’s so weird but I think I watched that not long ago. Maybe on iplayer or something. Was the end the two guys really out of it and it was dead depressing to watch?
Your right, there are Lou’s everywhere but she is desperate to be internet famous for content, but everyone’s fascinated because it’s a live car crash
I think she's been told by the jobcentre to prepare for work, hence ooh I need a new wardrobe, but what they said was wash yourself, basic stuff. The courses she loves is like reading an article in Heat magazine and getting a certificate for it. I should be shocked by the coming back and not mentioning the drama or sleeping rough, but I'm not. She moans about hard her life is but she loves the drama, fed if I'd shout on the streets Steeeeeee, I'd be home putting his crap outside. Quietly.
What did she study at uni? How to colour in between the lines?Bit of history.
I used to know Lou, back in the days when she was at Uni. She was never particularly bright, and always wanted to be the center of attention, but overall she was reasonably nice to be around. Usual teenage stuff - house parties, fair amount of weed, occasional MDMA, but nothing too heavy. Then came the legal highs.
Redcar is a deprived area with nothing to do, significant poverty and it got instantly hit with incredibly cheap drugs, mainly through a few enterprising idiots who knew how to use the internet (a genuinely rare skill at that time and in that area) and had somewhere to have the drugs ordered to. The town got worse, fast - think how manchester had the "spice zombies" issue, but nobody gave a s, because it's a crap former industrial seaside town. Not a unique story, nothing being done about it.
Channel 4 showed up and made a documentary about this crowd - "legally high", I'll see if I can find a copy. It's exploitative as hell, and yes, they were paying for people to party to get footage (i.e. indirectly funding the drug habit), but it gives a bit of context/footage of the time. Primary focus of the doc was Stephen Baxter, who started out rebranding legal highs as "Baxtercaine" to supply to teens, and then eventually moved on to heroin. He's dead now (Call centre worker died just weeks after completing heroin detox), and won't be missed by many. Lou's in the background of a few shots of the documentary but wasn't heavily featured.
I can't really speak for James/Jabba. He honestly seemed nice enough when I met him, but plenty of people are nice in public and another behind closed doors.
Steminem has always been a reptile since day 1 though - literally robbing grannies when needed. He's a scourge on the town, frequently begging outside shops and known for assaulting/robbing friends, family, and anyone within a 5m radius of him.
I'm shamed to admit I got taken in by Lou's lies at one point, when she was in the hostel - to the point of paying for a morrisons veg box, and some food/hygiene essentials, where all she had to do was show up to the store and pick it up. It will not surprise you to know that she didn't show up.
There's a whole crowd of people with similar stories in that area, now completely destroyed - it's just Lou has combined that with a desire to internet famous. It's quite the show.
She might have done a foundation degree. Which means it was the equivalent of A levels. I highly doubt she has the ability to do a degree. I mean did she even pass?How the hell did she get into uni!!!! What a levels did she do to get in with???
Found the doc - - I'm not sure I'd say it's worth your time, but it covers the area at that time well.
The open learn courses she has done have absolutely no academic merit. They are handy if you're studying level 1 with the OU and then moving on to study level 2, because you can do a few of the intermediate ones and they'll give you a taster of what's to come. But that's it. She's a fing t
No I think that was the night before. Missing ste drama was yesterday and the night before was the clothes sThat clothing order was placed at 3am last night, when she was apparently sleeping on the streets. What a load of bullshit. She doesn’t even care enough to hide her lies.
I couldn't be 100%, but I'm sure it was something childcare related. I don't think she finished it. She used to volunteer/work at a place for that, and co run a young mum's group. It's been horrifying to see the changes - at first you feel pity, and then revulsion as she begins to embrace it. For all the mocking of the instabegs, for all her lies and stuff - genuinely, I hope she turns it around. Hopefully Ste fing off with be a catalyst for that - last time they "broke up" she was at least a bit more stable.What did she study at uni? How to colour in between the lines?