Haha we say the same thing in France: "la gauche caviar" we also say "les bobos" which is short for "bourgeois-bohême" (bourgeois-bohemian)
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Ruby Granger #18 Still no deal with Waterstones but half her food was mailed from home
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What do we think Ruby will do when she finally finishes education? I can't imagine her not being 'school' oriented...
I think she is why she’s currently having a mini breakdown about not liking uni. She doesn’t have a future plan and a lot of her cohort will be applying for grad schemes and masters or planning to work or travel and she will be like what am I gonna do
Ruby Granger #19 - 'Mummy I went to London alone!' Getting down to skin and bones, uni's a no wants to go home
That assumes she'll be finishing her education any time soon, which is seemingly becoming increasingly unlikely. There is no way she could go into teaching, she would be torn to shreds in seconds in a state or (typical) private school. Her boarding school dream will also be dashed when she realises that teenagers are just as if not more vicious there. I also have a feeling she would dislike teaching English to teens who may be more intelligent and articulate than her - she could never teach a mini Ruby.
She doesn't seem to have accumulated much work experience, and her only positions in societies (at least those listed in her LinkedIn) are not particularly valuable. I reckon she'll begrudgingly complete her degree, take a year out (at home, of course) and then try to apply for a master's. She may get rejected, take another year out, and then she'll go back and do another UG degree in philosophy or something similar, and the cycle will continue.
Reality is, she doesn't need to work to support herself so she can prolong her education for as long as possible. She could find some influencer-adjacent job due to her YouTube channel, but I imagine recruiters would look at her social media in that case and that probably wouldn't go too well.
I can't see her in any 'normal' job. It will likely be 1. Academia (probably not), 2. Social media, 3. Living with mummy and daddy
which is why I mentioned the varied diet. also. if you go from looking healthy to a starving Victorian orphan in two years it is at the very least an indicator of a fucked up relationship with food. which matches the time-line of her watching an anorexic youtuber and her compulsive need to copy other people's personalities. No. Need. To. Get. Up. On. A. Soapbox. On. A. Trash. Gossip. Forum. Of. All. Places.
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Dont be so bloody patrionising!
Yes I'm really getting that ... you're ethnic get in the video to make us look more inclusive vibe
yes it's what I call the guy I have been seeing for 5 years.. not in any cheesy way but because he genuinely is..See it’s a common phrase round here for like best friend or often used for partner/boyfriend/girlfriend so I wouldn’t be surprised if they were actually together
Yeah, I do wonder when Ruby gets such high marks for participation in her assessments, it's whether she's hogging the class. I guess a good tutor would nip it in the bud to let others have a say, one would hope anyway
I met someone at a uni social who was on her third UG degree, when I asked why (thinking she'd say a career change or something like that) she said "I enjoy collecting degrees" without a hint of sarcasm. For most people doing multiple UG degrees would be pretty unthinkable as most aren't funded by Student Finance after your first, but she/her parents clearly have the money, so she doesn't need to worry her little head about that.
I wouldn't say she fits the bobo category tho. She's certainly pretentious enough, but not hiptser enough.
Ça fait du sens? J'ai la chansons de Renaud prise dans la tête maintenant.
Ok so I had to google patronising, and I was definitely not being patronising. Not trying to be helpful, not doing it in a superior kind of way. Just really tired. You know, this kind of thinking really hurt people with eating disorders. Clearly this school put the roots of Ruby's issues with food in her head, it's really messed up to weight your student or control their food. Especially kids growing, omg. And to say "but she looked healthier at the time" or whatever, or talking about the way she used to eat... So many kids never get better, because as soon as they start eating and gaining weight again, everybody think they are healed.
"Looking healthy" doesn't mean much, for most people it means you don't look like a bunch of bones and you are not overweight. But unless you are a medical professional, you can't asses health (especially mental health, eating disorders are 100% mental, so there can be 0 external signs sometimes) to the way someone looks.
The food you eat doesn't mean anything either, idk, I watch Ruby's old videos and I find she has a very weird relationship with exercise, even 2-3 years ago.
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she is a bobo imo, bobos aren't hipsters necessarily. it's a term "for a socio-professional category of well-to-do people living in large urban centers who are politically rather left-wing and ecologically sensitive."
There was nothing wrong with what you said. I think people took issue with the way you said it.
Random pondering of the day: does she do those pointing finger and air pinch gesticulations when talking to people in real life? Can you imagine being her lecturer or tutor and her pointing at you?!?!
I find those kind of gestures incredibly patronising and triggering (I had an abusive boss who used to do it all the time), so I wouldn't be surprised if she's been told not to do it in real life.
because Holly G does them and Ruby has no personality. She started doing them a few months ago I think
One thing i will say for her (grudgingly, lol) is that going up to London by herself for a day actually seems like progress for her. I’m sure her family were still tracking her location etc, but it feels like going into a big city alone is probably slightly out of her comfort zone. ik to a lot of us it probs seems like nothing, but given how she’s been behaving for the last year it is progress. Lol that she went to see an adaptation of a kids book, rather than, for instance, the excellent production of Macbeth currently on at the Almeida though.
We sometimes call them the “Intellectual Left“, because they often come from a privileged background, study human sciences (nothing wrong with that or with being intellectual or left though!!!) of something with media, love to vote far left and demonstrate for their issues BUT love to fall back on their burgoise parents money or take a job at the family company at one point and don’t want to sent their children to the normal neighbourhood nursery/school because they don’t actually want to be confronted with working class or immigrants.
Anyone else bored of her walking away slowly in the leaves?
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