Yeah I don't like the word exquisite in general lol makes my skin crawl for some reason
Ruby Granger #28 What a depacle!
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Makes me think that when she describes something as 'exquisite,' as something as a piece of art or aesthetic she wants to copy, or she is talking about the view/weather. It doesn't feel right for her to call Pompeii that at all, it's just a very flippant way to describe the locations where thousands of people were killed due to a volcanic eruption. I feel like she is trying to use certain words to come off as educated and writerish- not a proper English word but I'm expecting Ruby to use this one to describe her new aesthetic.
I’m not convinced that Ruby has actually read all of the Malory Towers books because of all of Blyton’s (terrible) school stories, the are by far the most unpleasant and are a veritable manual for bullying. Ruby only ever really talks about the recent BBC children’s series which painted life in a 1940s girls’ boarding school as a veritable rainbow of diversity, where difference was accepted without question, where the racism, ableism, intolerance and classism in Blyton’s books (and in real life …) didn’t exist at all and where all of the dormitories came straight from the pages of Cath Kidston catalogue. Oh, and they all wore yellow summer dresses just like Ruby’s!
Nah literally. The blatant snobby overtones and the obvious hatred for minorities and the working class are vile and make the books quite difficult to actually get through. If Ruby actually read them and genuinely enjoyed them, then that’s grim even by her standards.
Although it has been heavily sanitized, I’m still surprised they even made it into a TV series, especially in this day and age bc as far as I was aware, Blyton has always been considered pretty controversial, even back when she was still alive. Though saying that, Noddy somehow made it onto TV despite the fact that in one of the books he literally gets beaten up and robbed by some gollywogs called ‘golly, woggy and n*****’…
I know it’s been mentioned already but I her use of the word “exquisite” made my skin crawl. Hey Ruby, quick history lesson - you’re basically standing in a mass grave where 1000s of people lost their lives. Just because it happened before the Victorians doesn’t make it Fiction!
If she said something like “you can imagine how exquisite this city was before the eruption” then maybe. But even then, majestic/magnificent/immense would be far more fitting imo, as someone else said, I just don’t like the word exquisite! I also typically associate it with something quite small and delicate.
If she said something like “you can imagine how exquisite this city was before the eruption” then maybe. But even then, majestic/magnificent/immense would be far more fitting imo, as someone else said, I just don’t like the word exquisite! I also typically associate it with something quite small and delicate.
I've never been to Pompeii (I wish!) but my mum has and I think she told me that you can actually see the casts of the dead bodies that were found in the city petrified by the ashes. I don't know if they are still on display when you go there but I've definitely seen pictures online and stuff. It's quite a famous aspect of the site and one you can't really ignore
Pompeii is definitely somewhere people should visit its very emotional and you can almost picture how it was been the disaster there air changes there very similar to the word trade centre monument
I recognise my age and how annoyed I’d have been if generations before me said this…and yet
(At least) 1 in 4 people who graduate from Exeter will get a first. That is ridiculous. I don’t believe in 20 years people can have become that much more intelligent or able or whatever. It was a very small minority who got firsts way back when. Where we had to get straight As to get in (pre A*s and numbers!). Something is really off. (Prepared for the hate!).
(At least) 1 in 4 people who graduate from Exeter will get a first. That is ridiculous. I don’t believe in 20 years people can have become that much more intelligent or able or whatever. It was a very small minority who got firsts way back when. Where we had to get straight As to get in (pre A*s and numbers!). Something is really off. (Prepared for the hate!).
Shhhhh don't criticize Ruby for her blatant insensitivity and thoughtlessness - or next thing we know, she'll publicly pledge to build dozens of Pompeii memorials in underfunded state schools in the UK... /s
Just broke my neck running over here to commentvon this! I was there in March and I could think of few words to describe it and 'exquisite' isn't one of them. She does realise thousands of people lost their lives doesn't she? Ruby won't care because a lot of them were plebeians. Honestly she just spews rit doesn't she? And a volcano that could still erupt to this day is "so so cool' ? Tell that to the poor guys who will be covered in red hot molten lava. I don't like to comment on people's parenting but her parents need a slap. Right rant over I'm going for a swim . Isn't that so exquisite and cool?
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The percentage is even higher for Durham, UCL and Imperial. What’s your point? These are also top universities, it’s not surprising the students might be more likely to achieve higher results on average
Translation: "My management team made me go to a free PR screening.
My attention span does not allow me to focus on anything for more than 15 minutes, so every quarter of an hour I kept forgetting what I was watching and where I was.
I changed seats several times, as I find that a change of location is VARRY HALPFUL to helping stop your brain's resistance to thinking and stuff.
After changing seats many times and asking several different people who the main character was, what was happening, and if this Buzz Lightyear movie was anything to do with that bee movie I kept seeing memes about online, I was asked to leave by the ushers for being too disruptive.
But the PR representatives assured me afterwards that it was a VARRY GUD MYOOVIE which had many links to many other movies I haven't seen. Simply ACKSQUITE. 5/5"
Why is she wearing her fathers shoes? They look huge on her 
I wonder how she would describe Auschwitz?
Yes they're in the archaeological museum near Pompeii. They are certainly not exquisite.
Wtf is she wearing lmaoooWhy is she wearing her fathers shoes? They look huge on her
Since she normally themes her outfits at these things, I for one am really disappointed that she’s not wearing the NASA sweatshirt.
Why does she over intellectualise everything? its a film about Buzz Lightyear ffs not GCSE physics
She can’t a) just enjoy something or b) turn down a freebie even if she’s not really interested. No, she simply HAS to go and then bend over backwards to make whatever vapid thing she has to say about it fit her
brand somehow. It’s cringey and so unnecessary.
probably that if 2 out of 4 are rubies, it would be unbelievable. I don’t know anything about brit unis tho but i heard that exetar is basically a plan c or something soo that might be the point
My point is grade inflation could be assumed given what we see, hear and read where Ruby is concerned. I went to a top Russell group uni and friends went to Oxbridge and it was rare to get a first. I think I was reflecting that what I would consider of a first class standard may be what it was way back when and so maybe I shouldn’t be so shocked that Ruby seems to have achieved this (dissertation disaster pending). For reference I also did a doctorate and mark theses and examine in doctoral level vivas. So I have some understanding of how it works.
Edit: I also am acutely aware that I’d be pissed off reading this if I were a student now and at the same time conceding that it simply can’t be attributed to people getting smarter and smarter.
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