Ruby Granger #35 Hello, it's Flu-bee!

[Ilaariaa]

I'm having my own bout of Flu-Bee today!
It's not really the flu (just like hers), just a fever and a headache. I do feel closer to our productivity kween right now.

It couldn't have happened at a worse time. I have an exam in a week, I'm starting a new job the day after that, and yesterday I lost my wallet with all of my id cards, license etc. so in the next few days I also need to travel back to my hometown and get them all re-issued thankfully I just had about 30€ in it and my bank cards which I blocked immediately. My birth control prescription was in there too so I can't refill it

But I guess I'm lucky I don't have to complete an online test today right?

 

[frenchtoasts]

she tries so hard to seem endearing and mysterious but she’s honestly just so weird

 

[pinkmug]

She says that she's so tidy and organised

One look at her bedroom is enough to prove this is poppycocks though. Her hands and work surface is filthy, there is a natural history museum's worth of dead bugs lying about, her bedding seems to be changed biannually (twice a year or once every two years? you decide), she actually appears to be breeding dust bunnies... The state of her entire living area stresses me out. Fair enough if she owned it and confessed that she's a sloppy mess but the persistent claim of being this super clean type A headgirl is infuriating.

 

[gossip_guy]

Little miss ”I know all the words” once again can’t spell her way out of a paper bag. It’s ”paraskevidekatriaphobia”, not ”paraskevadekatkriaphobia”!

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Looking at this again, why is she always 12 years old whenever she tells these pointless, rambling stories about how gifted she want people to think she is?

She's never 9 or 14 or 20, it's always 12.

 

[MissTomato]

i was actually surprised when she said that her ny resolution is to have a night routine. all her videos are routines. so is she saying.... it's fake ? *pretends to be shocked*

her non-goals are boring, her collar looked like a torn dishcloth.. and her teaching job is the worst idea ever. back in my high school/middle school it would be enough of a reason to bully her for the fact that her surname is BONES. but no. she has a tik-tok, youtube, instagram filled with cringeworthy content. I wouldn't be surprised if the all too knowing algorythm is going to recommend a "what would hermione granger pack for a vacay" video when she tries to show something on youtube during a lecture.

 

[theMoth]

She was so rough banging things against the glass and then hurriedly stirring the (fragile) glass straw around the ice cubes. I wouldn't be surprised if her straw shatters in the drink, one day. She's very heavy handed with things.

thats why I specifically didn't buy glass straws but metal straws.

I haven't watched her video yet. maybe I do that tomorrow. I was busy the last day with looking for jobs and I'm a bit frustrated right now. I really should become a Youtuber and post my morning routine ... Getting out of bed at around nine, brushing my teeth, making my bed, open different windows wide to let fresh air in, breakfast, newspaper. maybe doing something for work. feeling down because I search for jobs and they all want 100 years of experience. feeling bad because I'm in my late 30s and I feel like I don't have enough to show for. and than those youtubers throw it in my face with how easy it all is.

 

[gossip_guy]

I'm currently playing the video game Marvel's Midnight Suns and coincidentally, there's a section where Captain America, Captain Marvel and Blade take part in a superhero book club and discuss Son Shooweeyay's The Art of War.

It's hilarious that a bunch of comic book superheroes in a video game have infinitely more to say about the book and how it can be applied to general modern conflicts and everyday life than self-proclaimed bookworm and alleged real-life human being Ruby.

 

[exopolitics]

What does she mean by 'quantum;? Once again, describing something in a way that is just a bunch of words strung together

My girl literally writes like I did when I was 11 and desperately using thesaurus.com every other word and using the most complicated sounding synonyms that definitely weren't used in the correct context so my Death Note fanfictions sounded like they were written by someone older and smarter than I was!!

It did not work.

 

[VallegGirl]

This is, of course, all my opinion (just in case you're lurking Rubes) but it is beyond my comprehension how private schools can employ 'academic staff' who have no teaching qualification. If getting a degree at a Russell group uni and having gone to a private school is the only qualification you need to teach then sign me up. Why would a parent pay good money to an educational establishment to be taught/academically supported by some unqualified unskilled no mark like Ruby is beyond me? I'm sorry I can't recall who orginally raised the issue regarding Ruby's lack of skill or qualification supporting pupils with learning differences or mental health difficulties but what an excellent well made point you made. I can't see Ruby dealing with any health issue or learning difference either. I cannot imagine her being able to differentiate the curriculum to encompass a range of learning styles or needs. I can't see her being able to pick up on struggles and start to problem solve as to what might be causing a struggle. Not only hasn't she the qualification she also lacks life experience to do so. In relation to different needs (health or learning) she seems incapable of dealing with her own issues let alone those of others. Can imagine if a pupil started her periods while with Ruby? Ruby looks like she'd run away all of a fluster and hide in the loo. Can you imagine if a pupil was rude to her she'd probably run to a teacher and tell tales. I think if the pupils get hold of tattle she'll be crucified. Just my opinion Rubes - don't come for me!

 

[Whisper2Me]

I really hope she wears her collar to teach school. rofl

 

[irunforfun]

Nit-picking but none of the pop tarts available in the uk are vegan. And the ones sold in the UK in American stores are also not vegan…

 

[PorkyPuss]

I was genuinely interested to watch this video because I was really curious to hear her talk about her job, see her go to work etc. but it was literally the same video she's done dozens of time before.

I'm wondering if she thinks most of her view counts are first-time viewers? Because I already know she reads while brushing her teeth, and I know she "just got into coffee" because I watched the video last year (and every subsequent one she's mentioned it in).

 

[laynelo_]

I think the reality of becoming an adult is hitting her hard. I also think she’s very down in the dumps about her failing author career. Looking back on her gap year, what did she actually do apart from take a few holidays abroad?

 

[Deeznutslol]

Spoiler: OT

I was surprised by that also. In the U.S., the marriage status-neutral title of "Ms." has become standard for women almost everywhere. I think you'd have to venture deep into right-wing evangelical culture to find anyone still clinging to the old titles of "Miss" and "Mrs." Case in point: during a U.S. Senate hearing last year, I noticed that the ultra-right wing senator from Tennessee, Marcia Blackburn, had a name plate that designated her as "Mrs. Blackburn"...because of course she did. It's a whole culture war thing over here. Does Piper's Corners have any religious/ideological affiliation?

Idk about the US but to be honest, I genuinely think most people in the UK have never even thought about the whole Miss/Mrs thing lol. Some people prefer Ms and so use that instead, but most couldn’t give a shite and it’s defo not considered right wing or evangelical to call yourself Miss/Mrs .

 

[Deeznutslol]

She has genuinely never interacted with a teenage boy in her life, has she? (Or any teenage girl who didn’t go to a posh private school?)

 

[emmer_moans]

She always looks like she has slept in her clothes.

 

[Auga]

Oxford in and of itself is a very different experience than any other university in the world, and not because it's so oh famous and elite, but because it is legitimately structured differently. It has extremely short terms (7 weeks) in which everything is crammed in. You have a set paper or test for every class, every single week, that contributes to your grade. And these aren't silly little papers -- you could literally have up to five 2000 word essays. Every. Single. Week.

Just to clarify, unless things have changed since I did my undergraduate at Oxford a few years ago for an arts subject, we didn't have set papers or tests that affected our grade. Absolutely everything hinged on our finals in third year, not the previous years.

I didn't know anyone who had five 2000 word essays. For my subject, it was about two 2000+ word essays a week, as well as a non-essay task. We also had eight weeks of term.

But you're right that that is very short and intense. Had Ruby been accepted for her undergrad, she would have struggled for many reasons, not the least her need to teach the material to herself via flashcard like we saw her do at Exeter for philosophy (I presume it carried on through English as well) and repeatedly drill herself on them so that she could recite memorized answers like Hermione/Matilda/Lisa. She would still be writing her flashcards when it would already be time to move onto the next topic.

She also would have treated each tutorial as a test to demonstrate her intelligence rather than as a learning experience. We saw her drafting and learning answers for her seminar participation, and it would have been so much worse had she been preparing for a tutorial. For her tutor, it would have been like trying to have a conversation with Quizlet.

This was also why she struggled at her Oxford interview, because her strategy was to learn a huge folder's worth of material to parrot off that she had been working on for years. It not only wasted her time but also undermined her ability to think on her feet, and probably caused her to panic when she realized nothing in that folder was going to help her.

It really was the best thing for Ruby's own mental health that she was rejected, and even though the lack of an interview for Oxford masters massively increases her chances, I'm far from convinced she's any readier than she was four years ago.

But you really want to attend Oxford, you should apply to one of the smaller, more modern Oxford Colleges because your chances of admittance would improve tenfold. But of course Roobles didnt do that. She applied to Oriel College, one of the 'Hogwarts' colleges that everybody applies to, which she had next to no chance of getting offered one of the 12 English lit spots they have.

I don't know if that is the best advice. I took the view that most people know about the numbers game, so if you apply to a smaller college, you might find a lot have done that too. In the end I picked the one I liked the most, which was even more Hogswarts-like than Ruby's choice. It paid off. Also, if the over-subscribed college still thinks you are "over the line" but doesn't have a space for you, you could still be pooled to one of the less popular ones. The pooling system is pretty mysterious but I've never heard pooling to be due to a culture-fit. But I do agree with you that not being pooled was a sign that Ruby wasn't even borderline for Oriel.

 

[Whisper2Me]

omg Her new video.

1. Still proving to us that not only can she not light a candle properly, she also hasn't got enough air in her consumptive lungs to blow a single flame out. Also cannot sleep. Hello Anxiety.
2. Sees dog. Talks and calls to dog. Dog runs away.
3. Sees mother. Talks and calls to Mother. Mother looks up with angry "can't you give me any peace?" eyes and takes a deep breath. Not happy to be entertaining her daughter for yet another semester or 2, or 5, or another decade.
4. Unclaimed ads everywhere. Tea, her planner, Kombucha drink, and her dream of a Waterstones sponsorship.
5. List, lists and more lists. List everything you can. Of course, by the time you have listed all these things, you could have actually done them twice over, as well as a bunch of other things and been even more productive than, well, making more lists.
6. New Year's resolutions. Goes on and on about how it is okay to fail in making resolutions or keeping up with them. Obviously this is for herself, not actually for anyone else, because most people don't fret about it, either way.
7. Her actual resolutions. Go to bed and get up earlier. Get a better routine. Write more. Well, aren't those challenging! This woman has no goals.
8. The sadness of her collar. WTF is going on here? A white piece of material cut out like a kid who was just introduced to scissors? Fraying, nothing sewed except perhaps frantically the blue ribbon to tie this piece of crap on? What the?
9. Just another flyby, badly edited, choppy and useless video from the most boring YouTuber ever. For someone who is so into productivity, she is a complete waste of time.

 

[gossip_guy]

Sorry if this has been mentioned but is there any update on her Lottie Parker book? I am excited for one of you tattle bastards to get access to it and rip it to shreds (respectfully)

She mentioned that she'd pulled it from submission, so her agent is no longer shopping it to publishers.

She claimed it was JANUINELY not because she was unhappy with it, but because she wants to get a different book published first.

That sounds suspiciously like one of her weird and outlandish excuses that make no sense in reality. We can probably assume that months of rejection letters and/or radio silence wasn't doing her ego any favours after she'd hyped herself up for a book deal landing in her lap instantly, so she likely pulled it to spin it to herself as her choice that it didn't get bought and published.

She apparently decided to work on trying to get her Lemony Snicket knockoff book published instead, but that was about as successful from the looks of it as I think she mentioned she was rewriting it from scratch.

 

[gossip_guy]

I just saw her 2022 recap from 5 days ago, this bitch went to the Heartstopper conference and never blurbed about it? Did I miss anything?

She did mention it months ago in a couple of Insta posts, but never did a full vlog or anything that I can remember. It was all an-around embarrassment of lies and stupidity.

I seem to remember the screening was announced as being for the LGBTQ+ influencer community, but then every major influencer at Ruby's management company ended up with an invite somehow despite only Eve Cornwell identifying as queer.

Jack Edwards went, was clearly unfamiliar with the books despite claiming to be "YouTube's resident librarian", so he made up a bunch of crap in a video about how he just happened to be reading the books when he was (gasp!) surprised with an invite to the premiere because "main character energy", like the universe had rewarded his "genuine" interests. Only the timescales didn't add up and he very obviously got an invite, rushed to throw together some footage of himself pretending to read books he'd never heard of before to claim he was a fan, then went to the premiere.

Ruby didn't come off much better. She unsurprisingly didn't have a lot to say since it was yet another situation where she had no awareness of the books or the show. She didn't bother researching or preparing for the author Q&A by reading any of the books even though it would've taken an afternoon at most. She also didn't watch any of the show beyond what was shown at the premiere.

She pretended to read a copy of the first book which was gifted to her at the premiere, but she didn't have anything to say about it since she hadn't actually read it. She offered no information beyond reading out the cover blurb and parroting a few marketing quotes in Insta posts. It was beyond fake and embarrassing.

She claimed that the show was "truly groundbreaking" but didn't offer any further details whatsoever, showing that she either didn't watch the show, didn't read the books, has never watched any other shows with gay leads or read any queer lit, or all of the above. Not a slight on Heartstopper's quality, but it's treading no new ground. Ruby would know that if she'd ever stepped outside her tiny bubble and actually watched TV or read books that weren't for infants.