Ruby Granger #15 Dustcore

[DrinaM]

I have a feeling that bowl started appearing recently after we discussed her small portions that you would expect to see in Oliver Twist

She so knows what she is doing. And I actually get really angry with her for it because its SO irresponsible.

I'm not being funny but that courgette needs at least another two weeks of growing. What a waste of a courgette.

Yeah. The flower on it shows that its still not ready. Then when she cut it and took that awkward bite, I could see that it was still not ready.

 

[Marie_10]

She probably picked the smallest courgette cause it means the least calories possible. It's actually sad to see that she seems to restrict fruits and vegetables too. She used to show her breakfast bowls on instagram with barely 1/4 of a banana, or frozen mangoes as a dessert but it was 4 small chunks in the tiniest bowl...

 

[Griftwood]

From the newest video: ”That doesn’t mean it’s not going to be a mindful, restful day though, because I think you can coincide productivity with that kind of happiness.” Here’s a twelve-point term for you, Roobee: intransitive verb. Look it up Hint: ”coincide” is one of them.

For the sake of the entire publishing industry, I hope she isn’t still considering pursuing a career as an editor. And again, sorry Exeter, but I’m really questioning her grades when her grasp on grammar seems tenuous at best. (Unless she’s going for Shakespeare-level innovation? Come to think of it, she HAS introduced us to a number of words we’ve never heard before, such as ”francious” and ”alamac”. Using ”coincide” with an object is not a huge leap from there.)

 

[Ilaariaa]

From the newest video: ”That doesn’t mean it’s not going to be a mindful, restful day though, because I think you can coincide productivity with that kind of happiness.” Here’s a twelve-point term for you, Roobee: intransitive verb. Look it up Hint: ”coincide” is one of them.

For the sake of the entire publishing industry, I hope she isn’t still considering pursuing a career as an editor. And again, sorry Exeter, but I’m really questioning her grades when her grasp on grammar seems tenuous at best. (Unless she’s going for Shakespeare-level innovation? Come to think of it, she HAS introduced us to a number of words we’ve never heard before, such as ”francious” and ”alamac”. Using ”coincide” with an object is not a huge leap from there.)

Come on now. How did that sentence sound right to her? It's blatantly wrong.
I have no idea how she gets high grades. She's about as eloquent and articulate as a middle schooler and can't put three words together without making a grammar mistake or misspelling one of them.

 

[Deeznutslol]

From the newest video: ”That doesn’t mean it’s not going to be a mindful, restful day though, because I think you can coincide productivity with that kind of happiness.” Here’s a twelve-point term for you, Roobee: intransitive verb. Look it up Hint: ”coincide” is one of them.

For the sake of the entire publishing industry, I hope she isn’t still considering pursuing a career as an editor. And again, sorry Exeter, but I’m really questioning her grades when her grasp on grammar seems tenuous at best. (Unless she’s going for Shakespeare-level innovation? Come to think of it, she HAS introduced us to a number of words we’ve never heard before, such as ”francious” and ”alamac”. Using ”coincide” with an object is not a huge leap from there.)

It’s stuff like this that makes me question her incredibly high uni marks

 

[dodadedo]

I have so many problems with this for two reasons. The first is being a bit naughty at three is normal. I have never met a three year old who doesn't at some point push their boundaries. You don't know how to NOT push boundaries until you DO. Secondly, the reaction of the teacher was (to me) perfectly normal. The sight of three three year olds about to jump out of a window would make me shout too out of fear and to regain control. Even at three, you as the adult have to assert authority. The fact of whether or not Ruby jumped out of the window is fuzzy so that probably means she didn't do it. The school would HAVE to tell her parents if she did that as a safeguarding issue and you can bet your bottom dollar, if she had jumped put of a window, her parents would remember it. The fact this teacher never came back is very odd to me. She was fired? For what, having a normal human reaction to children in danger? That's very very strange.

As I have said before, I am a pre-school teacher and this is so far off base, I'm legit amazed at this. Firstly, being in nursery at age three is quite usual as in the UK, children go to school the school year after their fourth birthday. Some unfortunate children who are born in September are only a few weeks away from five when they start so Ruby going to pre-school at three is not unusual at all.

The ethos of Early Years is to create an environment where learning through play is the norm. Ruby says she was only in nursery for three days before this happened so she was still settling in. Settling in is actually a vital part of the journey a child takes in pre-school. It is where a child learns the routines, what is expected of them and slowly gets to know people. If on the third day of pre-school, Ruby jumped out of a window and ran around with no thought of how an adult would react, I think that is indicative that Ruby had no boundaries as a very young child. She was centre of attention, apple of Mummy's eye, doing ballet, used to being filmed and followed around. Ruby is the star of the show. Ruby is in control. How typical.

So, then she goes on to say that this is the worst thing she's ever done and her mother told her the teacher was fired when she was seven. My question is why? Did she tell her just to tell her or was she telling her as a cautionary tale so Ruby would see how out of control she was and how she needed to stop pushing her boundaries creating guilt, a desire to please and to do her best to atone for such behaviour? That's mad!

When she talks about her "detention" (you don't give three year olds detention - it's pointless!), it's the next day which is a waste of time because it's been and gone. If they were going to give her time out, it needed to be when the incident happened. Sit her down, explain why she had to sit still and then give her no attention. To do it the next day is beyond pointless. Sitting inside drawing pictures isn't a punishment. It's a play activity. It doesn't give any indication to the child that they are being admonished for poor choices. Something about this does not add up to me at all.

It reminds me of Taylor Swift's lyrics in her song, seven -

Please picture me in the weeds
Before I learned civility
I used to scream ferociously
Any time I wanted

Three year olds are supposed to push their boundaries and adults are supposed to correct them. This video is so worrying to me because Ruby should not feel guilty for how she was as a child. We are what we are but moreover, it is bizarre and worrying that the guilt from this is still with her fifteen years later. It's just more proof that her spirit was kind of broken by the weight of expectations and demands.

Yes yes yes yes

In my previous, pre-academia (lol) life I was a primary school teacher, and my last job was as a Reception class teacher and Acting Head of EYFS. This video is, to be frank, a load of bull. I 100% think you hit the nail on the head when you speculated that this was something she had been told about by her Mum, and then in KangaRuby's precious mind twisted it into something that it was not, and never was, and based it on fractions of memory she had from Nursery.

Like, child development wise, there is no way you would remember that much about an event that long ago, or in that much detail. I have memories of Nursery, but fragments; my main memory being when I was told off for taking my shoes off and going to sleep in the bed in the home corner rather than going outside for free play.

I also have a feeling that Rubadub will have been sent to a Montessori preschool or Montessori-aligned Nursery, due to their popularity with rich champagne socialists/Tory snobs (which is unfortunate, cos it was always designed to break down barriers from education and open it up to everyone).

 

[yayadumpling]

From the newest video: ”That doesn’t mean it’s not going to be a mindful, restful day though, because I think you can coincide productivity with that kind of happiness.” Here’s a twelve-point term for you, Roobee: intransitive verb. Look it up Hint: ”coincide” is one of them.

For the sake of the entire publishing industry, I hope she isn’t still considering pursuing a career as an editor. And again, sorry Exeter, but I’m really questioning her grades when her grasp on grammar seems tenuous at best. (Unless she’s going for Shakespeare-level innovation? Come to think of it, she HAS introduced us to a number of words we’ve never heard before, such as ”francious” and ”alamac”. Using ”coincide” with an object is not a huge leap from there.)

Like my previous post, she has the right (sort of lol) idea but the wrong execution. That sentence needs to be reworded to make sense. She's like the kid in school who uses a thousand words to fluff out her essays and such but gets lost in it because they're using words they don't really understand and then the work just comes out as low quality....


also p.s I would not be coming for a non-native English speaker like this!!! So if english is anything other than your native language, do not worry!!!! I just think most native speakers should/would know the correct usage of coincide lol

 

[Arya2231]

also p.s I would not be coming for a non-native English speaker like this!!! So if english is anything other than your native language, do not worry!!!! I just think most native speakers should/would know the correct usage of coincide lol

I am not a native English speaker. Most of the time I just try to express myself simply. Once when I was in London for 2 weeks, I was really scared that I would totally fail. But you were all very nice and there was not a single misunderstanding (I guess). But with Ruby's videos, I'd better not learn any more English

 

[abcd22]

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My screen froze again eww eww eww

do you think you would look better if someone took a screenshot of you eating lol?

 

[Griftwood]

Like my previous post, she has the right (sort of lol) idea but the wrong execution. That sentence needs to be reworded to make sense. She's like the kid in school who uses a thousand words to fluff out her essays and such but gets lost in it because they're using words they don't really understand and then the work just comes out as low quality....


also p.s I would not be coming for a non-native English speaker like this!!! So if english is anything other than your native language, do not worry!!!! I just think most native speakers should/would know the correct usage of coincide lol

I’m not a native speaker so I have no qualms about pointing out Roobee’s various shortcomings But you’re right, I wouldn’t do it to a non-native speaker either, or even a native speaker who didn’t make a big deal of being an Eng Lit student, writing novels, short stories and ”poetry” in their spare time, and hoping to work in publishing or being an author when they’re out of university. Ruby is constantly setting herself up as a scholar who excels in such undertakings, so I’m going to hold her to a higher standard.

 

[phantomsbaebe]

Yes yes yes yes

In my previous, pre-academia (lol) life I was a primary school teacher, and my last job was as a Reception class teacher and Acting Head of EYFS. This video is, to be frank, a load of bull. I 100% think you hit the nail on the head when you speculated that this was something she had been told about by her Mum, and then in KangaRuby's precious mind twisted it into something that it was not, and never was, and based it on fractions of memory she had from Nursery.

Like, child development wise, there is no way you would remember that much about an event that long ago, or in that much detail. I have memories of Nursery, but fragments; my main memory being when I was told off for taking my shoes off and going to sleep in the bed in the home corner rather than going outside for free play.

I also have a feeling that Rubadub will have been sent to a Montessori preschool or Montessori-aligned Nursery, due to their popularity with rich champagne socialists/Tory snobs (which is unfortunate, cos it was always designed to break down barriers from education and open it up to everyone).

Thank you so much for backing me up on this because part of me was thinking I was seeing it wrong after I wrote that but yeah, there is no way she'd remember it in that much detail. It just makes me sad because it feels so wrong to me that she still feels guilty for that. She was a slightly wild child as little girls should be. There is nothing sadder to me than the sight of an anxious, tense and desperate to be dainty little girl who does not know how to let go and just be. It seems that whatever happened to Ruby between three and seven broke that in her and that is exactly as she is now and it breaks my heart a little bit.

 

[yayadumpling]

I’m not a native speaker so I have no qualms about pointing out Roobee’s various shortcomings But you’re right, I wouldn’t do it to a non-native speaker either, or even a native speaker who didn’t make a big deal of being an Eng Lit student, writing novels, short stories and ”poetry” in their spare time, and hoping to work in publishing or being an author when they’re out of university. Ruby is constantly setting herself up as a scholar who excels in such undertakings, so I’m going to hold her to a higher standard.

Good! I'm an esl/efl teacher so I am qualified to say your English is fantastic!!! You're completely right! If she (or anyone) was studying anything other than EngLit or related degree I don't think people would be as harsh, but as you said she is contradicting her academic persona with her constant misspellings and grammatical errors! Also, it's common for EFL individuals to pick out grammatical mistakes native speaks wouldn't as you learn about grammar differently to native speakers, so go for it!!!!!!!! lol

 

[missmina]

Thank you so much for backing me up on this because part of me was thinking I was seeing it wrong after I wrote that but yeah, there is no way she'd remember it in that much detail. It just makes me sad because it feels so wrong to me that she still feels guilty for that. She was a slightly wild child as little girls should be. There is nothing sadder to me than the sight of an anxious, tense and desperate to be dainty little girl who does not know how to let go and just be. It seems that whatever happened to Ruby between three and seven broke that in her and that is exactly as she is now and it breaks my heart a little bit.

I don't think she feels guilty about it but more like as a person she's such a boring goody two shoes she had no other stories of her being naughty Imagine your only story of being naughty is you as a 3 y.o. at kindergarten. What a sad life lol. Besides it's very visibly super exaggerated and it makes it even more cringe.

 

[MarshmallowFluff_]

do you think you would look better if someone took a screenshot of you eating lol?

Certainly not. But I don't think, he/she/they would record this.

 

[yukka_]

I’m not sure what course you’re doing, but as an Exeter English lit graduate I can honestly say that I know very few people (if any) who “easily got 70 on a last minute essay.” With a degree like English, I also wouldn’t say that knowing a mark scheme can help you get a first. At A Level maybe, but a first at degree level require a level of research and structure that you can’t just game - at least not in my opinion.

Throughout a 3 year degree, I had ONE quiz, and can also count on one hand the number of modules that had a (10%) seminar participation mark. The rest were essays and exams! I graduated 2 years ago, so can’t see this has changed that much.

I am just saying this as a personal opinion and people are completely free to disagree with me! But I worked SO hard on my degree, which included a 2 year break from study due to mental health difficulties (in part catalysed by academic pressure and feeling like a “failure” for any mark below 70).

I graduated with a 2:1 and, looking back, know I worked so hard to get that. The 70 for my dissertation felt like summiting Everest, in light of everything I went though. I just feel uncomfortable with some of the talk in recent threads, which seems to project the narrative that a good Exeter degree is somehow soft/lacking credibility.

I do English I think your opinion is of course fair!
I did say in my original response that Exeter marks harshly so I’m not sure how I discredited it. I know many people with similar grades to me, perhaps I just do easier modules but like I said, at the moment I’m averaging a low first (69/71) with very little effort because that’s how I work. With saying this, of course people work differently, it’s just my experience. There was no reason so discredit me just because some people work harder and others less. But that’s all I have to say!

I do English I think your opinion is of course fair!
I did say in my original response that Exeter marks harshly so I’m not sure how I discredited it. I know many people with similar grades to me, perhaps I just do easier modules but like I said, at the moment I’m averaging a low first (69/71) with very little effort because that’s how I work. With saying this, of course people work differently, it’s just my experience. There was no reason so discredit me just because some people work harder and others less. But that’s all I have to say!

Just to add as I think what I said came across badly! I understand that you’ve worked really hard and I think a 2.1 is a great achievement. I just kind of read it as a personal attack on me because I said for me its relatively easy to get a good grade, hence why I said people work differently and will have different opinions on these matters.

 

[gossip_guy]

do you think you would look better if someone took a screenshot of you eating lol?

Everyone's likely to look disgusting at some point while eating. It's why almost every rational human being elects not to make a show of aggressively chewing gross foods inches from other people's faces. Ruby instead decides to make the video equivalent of that, in videos ostensibly about studying.

She absolutely deserves to be called out for it. It's disgusting from a behaviour and a visual standpoint. She should be in a zoo, or trying to steal The One Ring from Frodo Baggins, not making videos for impressionable kids.

 

[Griftwood]

Everyone's likely to look disgusting at some point while eating. It's why almost every rational human being elects not to make a show of aggressively chewing gross foods inches from other people's faces. Ruby instead decides to make the video equivalent of that, in videos ostensibly about studying.

She absolutely deserves to be called out for it. It's disgusting from a behaviour and a visual standpoint. She should be in a zoo, or trying to steal The One Ring from Frodo Baggins, not making videos for impressionable kids.

To me, it’s not even that the food looks gross, or the way she looks when chewing. It’s the fact that she chooses to make a small portion of bland food lacking in nutrients, both macro and micro, and chews it up 40-50 times (lol I didn’t count but I may go back and do so when my gin and bitter kicks in), thereby throwing up an eating disorder bat signal that’s pretty hard to miss. This is the content she’s putting up, and she 100% knows what she’s doing. She’s despicable.

 

[gossip_guy]

I was genuinely shocked by this video - it was laughable how she legit justified this as a 'detention' (when it so obviously wasn't) and that she actually (supposedly) remembered that many details from nursery. Being such a goody two shoes all her life I think she really had to really, really reach for a time in which she was "bad" and it ended up being nothing more than normal childhood behaviour. I will say she was very cute as a tiny blonde child though.

I've got a couple of fun words for Ruby to learn: Confabulation and mythomania.

Like most of the wildly unbelievable bull she comes out with, there's a 0% chance this actually happened.

To me, it’s not even that the food looks gross, or the way she looks when chewing. It’s the fact that she chooses to make a small portion of bland food lacking in nutrients, both macro and micro, and chews it up 40-50 times (lol I didn’t count but I may go back and do so when my gin and bitter kicks in), thereby throwing up an eating disorder bat signal that’s pretty hard to miss. This is the content she’s putting up, and she 100% knows what she’s doing. She’s despicable.

Yep, it's visually unappealing, but she's also electing to feature lengthy segments making her eating disgusting, tiny, nutritionally barren meals the focal point of study videos. She's also making a clear and conscious link for impressionable viewers: Eat small things and be productive. It's inexcusable.

 

[DrinaM]

Everyone's likely to look disgusting at some point while eating. It's why almost every rational human being elects not to make a show of aggressively chewing gross foods inches from other people's faces. Ruby instead decides to make the video equivalent of that, in videos ostensibly about studying.

She absolutely deserves to be called out for it. It's disgusting from a behaviour and a visual standpoint. She should be in a zoo, or trying to steal The One Ring from Frodo Baggins, not making videos for impressionable kids.

I saw a comment once on one of her most recent videos that described her eating 'face' perfectly. The commenter said they were sick of seeing her small portions and 'gurning facial expressions' as she eats.

 

[Rosetintedarchitect]

label things' - school jumpers, pencil cases, etc

your parents do this in year 6 and then you stop after that

mug of peas

fruit would’ve be a nice study snack but peas?? come on love, it’s only nice with a roast dinner.