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

[CatCafe234]

‘Pumpkin Bread Activity’ - I nominate that for the next thread title

 

[moosesauna]

"prioritising boredom" is peak unemployed behaviour

As someone who's unemployed atm (graduate life, the economy is dying etc)... the 'boredom' is actually the worst part.
Not in the sense that you're a child who wants to go and play all the time, but in the crushing sense of failure, being alone with your thoughts too much, sensing your parents want you to leave ASAP and resent you but you can't, because you're priced out of even the dingiest rental house and nobody wants to hire you. It's being called 'lazy' and 'useless' as if it's your fault you're not getting hired instantly, despite the fact you're searching for jobs every day alongside cleaning, cooking and watching people your age seemingly live perfect lives because they can afford to travel the world on their parents' dime.

Ruby infuriates me sometimes because there's no reason she has to live this depressing life; she has more than enough money and support from her parents and could do whatever she wants, whenever she wants. If she wanted to go and live in London, she could probably afford it. She could get an unpaid internship in a fantastic career and still support her lifestyle. Instead, she stays at home and lives a childish version of the life a lot of people her age are living, albeit hers is entirely by choice. Seeing her romanticise boredom but not try to break out of the rut and use her resources to just, y'know, change her situation, is so damn frustrating. There's no need for her to try and make her existing life more interesting when she has so few barriers to creating actual change in her life. You know it's bad when people like Holly Gabrielle are having more exciting lives than her...

 

[Griftwood]

Did anyone see her Blue Monday short the book club marketing in the ponkin planner...

Oh god she’s going to try and pull a Jack Edwards on us with overpriced channel memberships, isn’t she

Ruby on Goodreads: “An Astronomical book, one of the greatest classics. I read it while pondering the inclement moors. Brontë’s writing is abstract in the most carnal way. The wuthering heights were my most very favourite part.”

”The heights did not wuther as much as I had expected. 2 stars.”

 

[Griftwood]

Just a gentle reminder that you can have an eating disorder (yes, even anorexia) without being underweight. I think the real issue with Ruby is that she constantly body-checks on camera, shows tiny portions of food, drinks copious amounts of tea and water, and numerous other unhealthy habits that she’s no doubt gleaned from one of the many anorexia-related books she’s shown herself reading on camera numerous times. She’s been called out for all these things and changed nothing.

 

[DanBanks]

Signs in her young childhood? Her admitting she took her favourite toy and constantly dragged it against the floor, rubbing the eyes until they were all scratched up. This is not normal behaviour as to how you treat a favourite stuffed animal. You cuddle them, kiss them, tuck them in bed, sit them up on chairs. You don't violently rub their eyes out!

I haven't seen the video in question (please post it if you've got it!), but it sounds to me like what she was saying was that she just carried that toy everywhere until it got all beat up. This is not odd behavior for a young child, especially with their favorite toys, and most small children are so klutzy and careless that even cuddling, kissing, and tucking their toys into bed can make them look pretty rough after a while. I still recall my first teddy bear who, honestly, looked like the victim of a serial killer (and was indeed missing an eye).

Now, if Ruby said that she deliberately scratched its eyes out, that will be a different thing altogether. But one of my pet peeves with this forum is when people take something commonplace (like being rough on toys, or having a favorite Christmas movie) and try to make it sound sinister or abnormal just because Ruby's doing it. She does enough genuinely strange things on her own without us having to make them up!

Spoiler: OT, TW Child Abuse

Also, I'm sorry, but can you please not bring pedophilia into this discussion? It's quite a leap to suggest that an odd, spoiled child will become a pedophile as an adult. That's a bit over the top.

 

[gossip_guy]

First comment on her PONKIPODDOTIFFTY BLEAU MONNDAY sale ad on TikTok:

 

[Ilaariaa]

This is what happens when you are raised to believe that everything you do or say is perfect

 

[gossip_guy]

I nearly choked on my tea when I heard that. How can a person with an English literature degree claim that ALEXANDER POPE, of all people, the man who was the complete opposite of everything the Romantics were doing, one of the great CLASSICIST poets is, in fact, a Romantic poet? Ouch. WTF? Imagine her trying to say that in a university interview...

"Yoo misunderstood me, I yohnly mannt that Alexander Pyope was quoyte a ryomantic parrson in janneral and was knyown for boiying flowers and chocolates for his syootors whan he wassn't wroyting pyoetry. Boht thankyou for your commant. x"

 

[zoeanned]

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The audacity to publicly review Linda Woodhead's (co-written) book on Goodreads ("there were some good passages though") and then showing up next to her at the forum

The fact she published this online BEFORE meeting her, and it wasn’t even a particularly positive review! It would be cringe if the review was 5 stars because of the brown nosing, but I can’t imagine meeting someone I’d criticized publicly a few days before

Omg I’m MORTIFIED for her… we always talk in here about how she has no social skills and no friends, this is the perfect illustration of that

 

[zoeanned]

As someone who's unemployed atm (graduate life, the economy is dying etc)... the 'boredom' is actually the worst part.
Not in the sense that you're a child who wants to go and play all the time, but in the crushing sense of failure, being alone with your thoughts too much, sensing your parents want you to leave ASAP and resent you but you can't, because you're priced out of even the dingiest rental house and nobody wants to hire you. It's being called 'lazy' and 'useless' as if it's your fault you're not getting hired instantly, despite the fact you're searching for jobs every day alongside cleaning, cooking and watching people your age seemingly live perfect lives because they can afford to travel the world on their parents' dime.

Ruby infuriates me sometimes because there's no reason she has to live this depressing life; she has more than enough money and support from her parents and could do whatever she wants, whenever she wants. If she wanted to go and live in London, she could probably afford it. She could get an unpaid internship in a fantastic career and still support her lifestyle. Instead, she stays at home and lives a childish version of the life a lot of people her age are living, albeit hers is entirely by choice. Seeing her romanticise boredom but not try to break out of the rut and use her resources to just, y'know, change her situation, is so damn frustrating. There's no need for her to try and make her existing life more interesting when she has so few barriers to creating actual change in her life. You know it's bad when people like Holly Gabrielle are having more exciting lives than her...

I've been having so much anxiety over my future for the past few weeks (it's been so bad, I literally broke down crying from the stress while cooking dinner more than once). it's bad to say this but watching Ruby's weird antics makes me feel better about myself lol.

Totally off topic for Ruby, but I was recently rejected from 6 jobs I applied to and have been really struggling, so it makes me feel less alone to hear other people are going through the same thing. Sending you lots of love, stay strong and hopefully we’ll get through it

 

[londongirl92]

Ugh

 

[scrantonstrangler]

It's only a matter of time before she ruins every book you've ever loved. Nothing is safe. One cannot sleep soundly at night knowing Ruby is out there, reading the Wikipedia summary of Moby Dick, or Googling "Anna Karenina spark notes", or God forbid reading a children's picture book adaption of Hamlet. She could be pretending to read Pride and Prejudice as we speak. She might LARP as Miss Havisham tomorrow and Dorian Gray the next day. Don't let your guard down. Not even the Bible is safe from this ruthless monster.

Right this moment she may be writing a 1 star Goodreads review for Les Misérables because there weren't as many miserable lesbians as the title suggests, and because the naughty thief man should be an antagonist rather than a protagonist- but overall it was a wonderful novel about World War II. Her Cosette cosplay with of course include a beret.

 

[glutamate]

Hi guys, I've been lurking here for some time and just wanted to say that it's refreshing to see people that didn't fall for the Rooby persona like i did in Higschool. Watching her and other studytubers was making my depression and anxiety a lot worse, and I was an undiagnosed autistic in a very demanding school. Obviously it was my choice to watch them, but I didn't know better then, really thought that I was a failure because I couldn't study for 8 hours a day and do milion ""productive"" things in a day. I really wanted to be them... but now I am so glad to be myself. I've worked on my mental health a lot, I have hobbies that bring me joy, I am on my way to finishing a master's degree this year and have a chance of starting phd next year... Obviously there is nothing wrong with changing courses, going to school later in life, not going at all, etc., but now I can see clearly who Ruby is... just an ordinary person, but obsessed with ""productivity"", making videos to boost her own ego and lying about hating hussle culture, Girl, you are part of the problem.

 

[laynelo_]

Imagine being the bones parents and looking outside your window to see your daughter doing this shit? My parents would roast me

 

[Ilaariaa]

I've been having so much anxiety over my future for the past few weeks (it's been so bad, I literally broke down crying from the stress while cooking dinner more than once). it's bad to say this but watching Ruby's weird antics makes me feel better about myself lol.

 

[gossip_guy]

If that CV hit my desk, I'd have a chuckle that someone with the fake surname Granger was highlighting her time in the Harry Potter society and then immediately move on to another application from someone with some amount of actual experience and common sense.

On the other hand, I'd love to see someone interview her and grill her about all the fake/wildly embellished entries on there.

Interviewer: "It says here you're a voice-over artist with 3+ years of experience. Can you tell us a little about the companies you worked for, and what roles you performed?"
Ruby: "YASS. WHAL. Oiy...DYO perform MANNY ryoles...which...umm...and as oiy say, it's varry...ummm...William WAARDSWAARTH once sad that theee hyole warrld's a styage and we are boht merely doing acting...on that...umm...[waves claw hand around]...warrhld's stage. Haha. And...umm...yah."
Interviewer: "Wasn't it William Shakespeare who wrote that?"
Ruby: "ACSHUALLY, Oiy've haard manny peopol say it. Weee...tand tyoo think of language and quotes as being tangibly assyociated with one parrson, when it's really more of an ethereal...folk tale...geneology whaaahr, when someone says something, someone alse repeats it differently and thann weee can navver knyow who ackshually sad it. It's really quoyte fascinating."
Interviewer: "[Holds up phone] I Googled it; William Shakespeare wrote it. But let's get back to your previous roles. It says here that you run a business single-handedly. That's really impressive! Can you walk us through a day in your role as company director?"
Ruby: "Umm...YASS...ummm...it's...[sweats profusely]...I can JANUINELY tal yoo that oiy DAFFINITELY DYOO run moiy own company...ONE HONDRED PRUSSANT. Oiy PROMISE YOU THAT. So...yah. JANUINELY."
Interviewer: "But what do you do?"
Ruby: "Umm...wal...Na-thaynn-yal Hworethorn once wrote that...umm...and...weee tand tyoo...umm...PONKIPODDOTIFFTI...and...umm... JANUINELY...oiy...umm... moiy basst frand Blakeney...umm...and syo... ACKSCUSE ME, oiy have to gyo now, oiy think moiy mummy might've fallen down the stairs agann. Have a prodocktive week."

 

[Griftwood]

What Spare is about though?

I haven’t read it, but I think it’s about a brilliant young boy who’s smarter than everybody yet gets relentlessly bullied by people who are just jealous of how smart he is. Kind of like Erimentha Parker, except he also has a penis, which gets frostbite. Did not contain as much extra as I thought it would, four stars.

 

[Griftwood]

Thanks to @coffeehead for this title, commemorating The Great Consumption of 2022/23, which led to our productive queen being *gasp* unable to complete her Goodreads goal for 2022!

 

[JustVibing]

I cant believe she probably spent like 1h to make a "vision board" for that collar instead of like.. Watching one YT tutorial properly and putting any kind of care into the actual sewing. Her to do list actually says "design, cut, sew". Such a good thing she made a list for this, or she could have forgotten to either cut or sew the thing
Its amazing how this collar is a perfect metaphor for her whole chanel: Lots of useless busywork to seem important and smart, then cobbling together the most careless bullshit while applauding herself for it and showing it off smugly on YT..

 

[July9696]

“Gulliver’s Travels… which was published in the 17th century and I genuinely can’t believe it was written that early”

Thats because it wasn’t!
17thc = 1600s.
It was published in 1726.

Im guessing she meant to say 1700s but that clearly doesn’t sound academical enough