Ruby Granger #18 Still no deal with Waterstones but half her food was mailed from home

[dodadedo]

After rambling manically about Bird & Blend, Ruby crams in some more undeclared advertisements, this time for Perkier bars, which she claims are her favourite, and she (big shock) neglects to mention were a gifted product.

I hate that Ruby has co-opted Bird & Blend SO much. I'm a tea lover, and B&B are my favourite company for tea, because they're still independently owned and so friendly as a company.

 

[CatCafe234]

To save me going back through all the threads lol how come she is in her 4th year at Uni? I assume English is a 3 year degree

She started at Exeter reading Theology but then switched to English after her first year, and restarted her degree from year one. So she’s in her third (final) year of her English degree but it’s her fourth year at Exeter.

 

[YellowLadybird]

'Not being able to choose' a drink so having both at the same time is an ED thing, right?

Not necessarily. That sounds like me and I don't have an ED, I'm just indecisive. I would blame the ADHD but my sister is the same and she is neurotypical just horrifically indecisive...

 

[IndigoDreamer]

HOLY FVCKing Everything. She is scary skinny. So many body checks in her outfit of the week or minute or whatever. Watch 6:02 "it doesn't interfere with the shape so much" translation: it doesn't make me look fat.

 

[aplaceicantsee]

Final thing I will say on my mini rant (lol, sorry!) is that I totally agree there are plenty of things to criticise Ruby on - her bodychecking particularly infuriates me and I think it is totally irresponsible when she has a young audience. Though I would like to pose that whilst going home may be unhelpful in some ways to her - ie regression in certain ways - it may also be providing crucial support to her in others. I'm glad that if she thinks she needs to go home less she is taking steps to meet this goal - but my point was more generally that we can't just shit on everything she does for the sake of it - it kind of blunts the very valid criticisms that people make. For example, I personally felt the discussion a few pages back about her touching books in a bookstore was a bit OTT and then the criticisms of other things get lost!

(also, full disclaimer; I don't watch many of her videos so I might not be as clued up as some others on this thread are!)

 

[YellowLadybird]

Ruby could only cope with a job in teaching if her class was the one out of Anne of Green Gables. Both state and private school systems would eat her alive in different ways.

I went to a very posh private sixth form and the kids there would have eaten her alive just as much as in a state comp. Kids are kids and money doesn't change human nature!

 

[jiggy_girl]

I'm also shocked by how much she rewears the same things each week
Does she not wash them, after cycling to uni? I feel awkward wearing the same jeans to my classes each week, even though I know they're clean...

 

[xoxoxo13]

She'd have to deal with all kinds of kids, too. Even kids who gasp don't like studying!

 

[threeSMEGfridges]

For me (in Scotland) everyone got the same week ‘off’, so there would be no classes running across the uni. But yeah, the uni made a big point of stressing that it wasn’t a holiday, they called it ‘Independent Learning Week’, because it’s a week for catching up on all your work and preparing for the rest of the semester. I just looked at an old calendar, and I had deadlines due right after ILW (my degree was classics and English), so yeah I always spent the entire week reading for/writing essays. I’d take the weekend preceding ILW completely off, because I did need a break (we had super long terms so everyone was already burnt out by then lol), but the actual week was spent panic working.

I did combined Hons and English was my major at Uni. I still had my partime job to go to though all my humanities classes were not on. I used to stay at Uni then go home for a long weekend. Still had a fuckton of reading to get ahead on for the forthcoming term and I used to go to to “home Uni” (ie not my Uni) library to read things there I couldn’t get at home.

TBF it does usually coincide with the UK state school October 1/2 term and some of my friends used it to visit home and see younger siblings etc and took their work with them

 

[username21]

Part of me agrees, but the petty part of me doesn’t want to give her the satisfaction. I keep picturing her smug face as she reads the comments.

totally same

 

[Sausage Surprise !]

The last flat we were in before we moved to glitter hell was really bad for condensation on the windows I brought a window vacuum that sucked the water of the windows

Have to say my Karcher window vac was one of the most useful presents I've had

 

[LitNerd]

I tried to watch her latest video and as a former student ambassador for four years and I literally cannot get through it

 

[CalicoMushroom80]

#FreeBlakney2021

 

[lemonlime]

Holly nearly put me off tahini, and I love tahini. Ruby will soon do the same thing for porridge and cereal.

 

[emmer_moans]

I just came here to say that "coolottes" is driving me insane, I'm pretty sure it's cuh-lottes.

I've only ever heard of them pronounced as cuh-lottes, not sure where she is getting coooooolotts from.

 

[bookworm39]

And she's lucky she's studying in the UK. I did my undergrad degree in English and German lit in Germany where we don't have reading weeks, we're expected to cope with the workload as the term progresses.

I got my first degree in Scotland and now, after many years of just working, I went back to uni, this time in Germany. I'm doing a combined B.A. in English and Communication Science, but because I'm too old to get a German student loan, I have to work as well. So ever since the semester started at the beginning of October my brain has just been going "aaaarggghhh why? What have I let myself in for?" I CHOSE to do this!" Absolute madness and I'm stressed out as hell, but still loving every minute of it somehow. The reading I have to do is insane.

 

[Scapier88]

no high street shoes? And to think I used to think clarks was a fancy school shoe.
I find it hard to believe she spent her formative years there and not a single elitist/right wing view has stuck. She acts wholesome like butter wouldn't melt, I'd love to read her thoughts when she's in a situation with working class people or people not extremely well off and Southern. What's the phrase? champagne socialist I think

I spent many years dreaming of getting a pair of kickers but getting told no you will have practical shoes from Clarks

 

[YellowLadybird]

I keep thinking how nice she'd look in a 'basic girl autumn' look like this; I bet she has half the items in her wardrobe already but she would never put together a combination that was so 'adult woman' and showed off her figure/shape as this would. She honestly has plenty to work with and we've seen in Martha's video that she can scrub up pretty ok when pushed out her comfort zone. Imagine this, with a messy side bun and a relaxed, confident stride. It's so unlike her but she would look great IMO.

Now starting to doubt myself over the pronunciation of Culottes. Is it actually Coo-lots? I've always said it as Clots. Now I'm worried thst Ruby is right haha.

I say 'queue-lots' and I'm from the Midlands but like, posh Midlands

 

[merryheleen]

Is that why she put frozen peas in yogurt? Cause it looks so unappealing?

Likely yeah, just like @passiflorae said, also cutting your food in extremely small slices is a way to eat more slowly (so to feel full sooner) and somewhat feeling “more conscious” about it (and convincing yourself more pieces equal have been eating a lot); people with ed are always very attentive to whatever their eating, the way food looks/is disposed on a plate (not in the kind of food blogger way ofc), quantity and so on because they -more or less unconsciously- feel “threatened” by it

 

[VeryFerociousDrama]

I saw someone who rather resembled Daddy Bones in Covent Garden just before 17:00 tonight!