Ruby Granger #28 What a depacle!

[Griftwood]

Did she just say F.Scott Fitzgerald's (stolen from his wife) opulent writing perfectly encapsulates the 1920s...maybe for less than 1% on people at the very start on the 20s but it's hardly encapsulating of the whole 1920s it wasn't all Gatsby parties and flappers.
I realise i'm nit picking but i'm hangry and tired so please humour me

She calls Fitzgerald’s writing ”opulent” all the time, I feel like it’s another word she read on the back blurb of a book and doesn’t actually know the meaning of.

 

[wastelandbaby]

Ruby branching out into bookshop ASMR - is this a new ploy to get that sponsorship she's chasing? Also, I'm going to shamelessly gatekeep Daphne du Maurier. I don't think Ruby's ever read the book she's recommending because her outfit has the complete opposite vibes to Jamaica Inn apart from the fact that the cover of that edition is also black and green.

Also, re her Instagram book haul - is buying gifts for your for your teachers four years after you've left school a private school thing? I don't think mine would even remember me!

 

[Griftwood]

Ruby branching out into bookshop ASMR - is this a new ploy to get that sponsorship she's chasing? Also, I'm going to shamelessly gatekeep Daphne du Maurier. I don't think Ruby's ever read the book she's recommending because her outfit has the complete opposite vibes to Jamaica Inn apart from the fact that the cover of that edition is also black and green.

Also, re her Instagram book haul - is buying gifts for your for your teachers four years after you've left school a private school thing? I don't think mine would even remember me!

lol she’s such a bleeping idiot

also it’s libraries* you’re supposed to keep quiet in, not bookshops, you absolute moron

*libraries = those buildings you go into when your parents can’t afford to buy or enable you to buy all the books you want - kind of like Victorian workhouses, except you borrow books instead of eating gruel and sewing up burlap bags

edit: paging Italy - surely this is an internationally prosecutable offense? I never saw such a grim portion of pasta in my life, and I say this as someone who was regularly given something called ”macaroni gruel” as a child. (It’s elbow macaroni, basically boiled to death in milk, and fed to children lukewarm, without any seasoning or spices whatsoever.)

 

[rubysdeadfly]

lol she’s such a bleeping idiot

also it’s libraries* you’re supposed to keep quiet in, not bookshops, you absolute moron

*libraries = those buildings you go into when your parents can’t afford to buy or enable you to buy all the books you want - kind of like Victorian workhouses, except you borrow books instead of eating gruel and sewing up burlap bags

edit: paging Italy - surely this is an internationally prosecutable offense? I never saw such a grim portion of pasta in my life, and I say this as someone who was regularly given something called ”macaroni gruel” as a child. (It’s elbow macaroni, basically boiled to death in milk, and fed to children lukewarm, without any seasoning or spices whatsoever.)
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if someone made me a garlic bread bagel I'd stop being friends with them

 

[Deeandra2020]

im going to london next month imagine if i ran into Ruby while i was there xD

 

[gossip_guy]

In, Ruby. You saw them in Daunt Books.

Ruby often claims she's almost obsessively perfectionistic and that she gets Firsts for everything in her English Lit degree. Absolute horseshit.

Her lack of any kind of imagination shines through yet again. Travels to London again. Avoids all the used book shops and independent shops in favour of "JAUNT Books" yet again. Says she only bought three books because she "just couldn't buy TAN books". Like...why not? You have a huge amount of money and claim to be a massive bookworm. Buy them, read them, then either keep them or donate them. But that would require reading things and not lying about everything.

Also telling that she bought a pointless "ACKS-tract book" containing only selections of complete works by "AFFSCOT FITZ-JARRALD", because reading complete books is simply too much effort for Ruby.

And guess what's on Perlego? The complete works of Oscar Wilde and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Supposedly frugal spender could've saved the money and just read the complete books she bought extracts of for free with the Perlego subscription she claims she AWLHWAYS uses. What a lying little dumbass.

im going to london next month imagine if i ran into Ruby while i was there xD

It'd be more helpful if you ran over Ruby.

 

[Welshgal]

I really hope that during her gap year she either finds the time to regularly paint her nails or stumbles across a nail salon and get’s shellac.
Her nails continue to disgust me

 

[timemoveson]

It'd be more helpful if you ran over Ruby.

This made me snort

 

[Deeandra2020]

This made me snort

It made me chuckle but its a shame I'm not going by car. Oh hey Ruby I'm going solo

Like... by myself... no parents...

 

[irunforfun]

lol she’s such a bleeping idiot


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re food: This is such BS and she knows it and yet again, it’s ED baiting. Coupled with the bodychecks ootds, she makes me so irrationally pissed off with her. (I know she doesn’t do it, I could stay away, but fml, she’s got a super young audience).

 

[Ilaariaa]

lol she’s such a bleeping idiot

also it’s libraries* you’re supposed to keep quiet in, not bookshops, you absolute moron

*libraries = those buildings you go into when your parents can’t afford to buy or enable you to buy all the books you want - kind of like Victorian workhouses, except you borrow books instead of eating gruel and sewing up burlap bags

edit: paging Italy - surely this is an internationally prosecutable offense? I never saw such a grim portion of pasta in my life, and I say this as someone who was regularly given something called ”macaroni gruel” as a child. (It’s elbow macaroni, basically boiled to death in milk, and fed to children lukewarm, without any seasoning or spices whatsoever.)
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How is this carbonara? I'm not trying to be a purist and be like "ackshually you can't call it carbonara unless you harvested the eggs in my nonna's backyard and you slaughtered the pig for the bacon on the Altare della Patria in Rome", I'm genuinely baffled by the word choice.
The defining feature of carbonara is the egg sauce. You can have vegetarian carbonara if you replace the bacon with zucchini, you can have fish carbonara, but the egg sauce is what makes it carbonara. This is just pasta with truffle (!) and mushrooms. Which sounds delicious in theory although I can't imagine trusting Ruby's cooking skills with something as expensive as truffle

 

[heroesfeast]

No way did she use actual truffle for that travesty. Probably a dash of truffle oil, just enough to stain the pasta, but I refuse to believe that Ruby or her parents bought real truffles and wasted them on that.

 

[opal73]

No way did she use actual truffle for that travesty. Probably a dash of truffle oil, just enough to stain the pasta, but I refuse to believe that Ruby or her parents bought real truffles and wasted them on that.

I can, these are the same people who drive hours and hours for their adult daughter and buy her 101 presents for Christmas. I'm sure if she said 'Mummy, the recipe calls for LOTS of truffle! It wouldn't be au-then-tickk otherwise', and they ended up ordering too many to know what to do with.

Also, she's absolutely only saying she had a second helping to try to prove she doesn't have an ED. I don't believe it.

 

[StatusWoe]

if someone made me a garlic bread bagel I'd stop being friends with them

I actually think the garlic bagel looks more appetising than the pasta. The pasta looks sort of inky, as if it's had a close encounter with a squid.

Ruby branching out into bookshop ASMR - is this a new ploy to get that sponsorship she's chasing? Also, I'm going to shamelessly gatekeep Daphne du Maurier. I don't think Ruby's ever read the book she's recommending because her outfit has the complete opposite vibes to Jamaica Inn apart from the fact that the cover of that edition is also black and green.

Also, re her Instagram book haul - is buying gifts for your for your teachers four years after you've left school a private school thing? I don't think mine would even remember me!

Why is she whispering? You're allowed to talk in bookshops. And nope, buying presents for teachers years after you've left school is not a private school thing, it's a Ruby thing.

She calls Fitzgerald’s writing ”opulent” all the time, I feel like it’s another word she read on the back blurb of a book and doesn’t actually know the meaning of.

Blurbs are a great place to pick up pretentious descriptive phrases. I recall the blurb of 'On The Road' describing it as a ''paean to beatitude'' or something. My personal favourite is a review of 'Wild' by Jay Griffiths that calls the book ''A RAGING ORATORIO'. I just went to check the back cover and the whole thing is even better: ''incandescent, exhilarating, sensuous, cocky, magnificent, explosive. A raging oratorio.'' Richard Mabey from The Times was a bit too excited about his new thesaurus when he penned that one.

ETA: It would be a great source of new words for Ruby. I can just imagine her describing the light on the puddles as 'incandescent', or the peaches as 'exhilarating'. Or a Goodreads review: '2/5 stars. Not as many raging oratorios as I expected.' Or Pompeii: 'a quiscent exquisite paean to volcanoes'.

 

[Blue_Letters]

For your viewing enjoyment, some of the comments from Rubity's TikToks:

Please these are killing me.

Ruby can't believe her age either. In fact, she refuses to. And she's doing her best to trick everyone else into thinking she's still a child too.

I can't tell if this is gEnyoOwiN or if they are taking the piss. There's a weird raptor(?) call inserted at the beginning of her OOTD. Filmed in her bedroom. I mean, maybe she really does fully have a falcon perched just off camera atop one of her 'candlesticks'. Who knows?

 

[morganmichelle]

re food: This is such BS and she knows it and yet again, it’s ED baiting. Coupled with the bodychecks ootds, she makes me so irrationally pissed off with her. (I know she doesn’t do it, I could stay away, but fml, she’s got a super young audience).

No joke, I actually thought those were sliced up slugs or worms at first glance.. Until I read the caption... Lordy lordy.

 

[Cady1954]

She is extremely dumb and previously took a quote from 1984 on brainwashing as an inspiring bit about reading books so (maybe someone remembers that incident more in detail)

I honestly think that just because she speaks in her own posh language she thinks it makes her sound credible? It doesn't Ruby it makes you sound like a little girl pretending to know what she's talking about. She's a mess and mr and mrs Ruby should be concerned.

lol she’s such a bleeping idiot

also it’s libraries* you’re supposed to keep quiet in, not bookshops, you absolute moron

*libraries = those buildings you go into when your parents can’t afford to buy or enable you to buy all the books you want - kind of like Victorian workhouses, except you borrow books instead of eating gruel and sewing up burlap bags

edit: paging Italy - surely this is an internationally prosecutable offense? I never saw such a grim portion of pasta in my life, and I say this as someone who was regularly given something called ”macaroni gruel” as a child. (It’s elbow macaroni, basically boiled to death in milk, and fed to children lukewarm, without any seasoning or spices whatsoever.)
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'P.s I don't have an eating g disorder'

 

[spillaways]

lol she’s such a bleeping idiot

also it’s libraries* you’re supposed to keep quiet in, not bookshops, you absolute moron

*libraries = those buildings you go into when your parents can’t afford to buy or enable you to buy all the books you want - kind of like Victorian workhouses, except you borrow books instead of eating gruel and sewing up burlap bags

edit: paging Italy - surely this is an internationally prosecutable offense? I never saw such a grim portion of pasta in my life, and I say this as someone who was regularly given something called ”macaroni gruel” as a child. (It’s elbow macaroni, basically boiled to death in milk, and fed to children lukewarm, without any seasoning or spices whatsoever.)
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Why is it that colour???

 

[figgypud]

Lol at Ruby saying the Vintage Minis must be new because she's never seen them before. I've seen those loads and I don't go to bookshops four times a week like she does. A quick look online shows they've been out since at least 2019. Good job, bookworm.

 

[Hannahebee]

Ruby branching out into bookshop ASMR - is this a new ploy to get that sponsorship she's chasing? Also, I'm going to shamelessly gatekeep Daphne du Maurier. I don't think Ruby's ever read the book she's recommending because her outfit has the complete opposite vibes to Jamaica Inn apart from the fact that the cover of that edition is also black and green.

Also, re her Instagram book haul - is buying gifts for your for your teachers four years after you've left school a private school thing? I don't think mine would even remember me!

I have only just watched her Daunt book haul video on Instagram and I really don't understand why she is getting her old English school teacher the Sebastian Faulks book. For a start the English teacher might not remember Ruby or might have even left the school and he may not even want the book or he might already have the book. I mean the excuse on why she brought the book for her teacher is laughable "I just thought he'd like this". So basically she is suggesting that she doesn't know what books her old English teacher likes but she will get him the book anyway.