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marcelprout

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Yep, guess she's once again not part of the "inTAnDed DeMogRapHic". I think that "boring" is a perfectly valid criticism if what you're looking for is a good plot, interesting characters etc. But this book was clearly meant for more than pure entertainment. She's a literature graduate, a self-proclaimed avid reader who shows off philosophical works on her channel AND an aspiring Oxford student, so you'd think this would have been a great opportunity to discuss the ideas in the book or come up with something more well thought out than "boring". She's so condescending towards writers who have shaped the course of literature in her own country.
That's why I would find her admission downright offensive (albeit it would be hilarious to witness her stumble through the course), she claims to have done "syo much research" for the video and yet is unable to properly contextualise the very first book she "cheeses tyo" read. The Pilgrim's Progress dates back to 1678, and she compares it to "much more children-appropriate" Peter Pan (1911) and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1856). Um, cool? None of the Brontës would be able to read either of those, since Charlotte was the last to die in 1855. Besides the fact that she is unable to grasp why such an influential Christian allegory would appeal to daughters originating from a deeply religious family, whose birthplace itself was a place of pilgrimage at the time??? And it's not even some hidden information one can access only through hidden archives or forgotten manuscripts - it's so easy to find and connect these dots, especially if you keep pushing the title of an English Literature Graduate (Hons) on everything you do. How profoundly embarrassing.
 
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bananapeel

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I remember she gave an online talk at AXA-tar in her first (?) year of uni. She showed herself preparing, and then admitted afterwards that it went awfully. At least back then she was honest about things that went better for her, and those that went worse. I wonder how she reflects on her London talk now.
 
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DrinaM

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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.
I noticed that too. She is so fixated on that age. And she's wrong about the superstitions of Fri 13th being Christian. Christians have historically tended to see superstitions as the way of the pagans.
But the age 12 thing. Ive heard her say she's had a certain item 'since i was 12 years old' sooo many times.
 
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theMoth

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I never sell anything online, specially to strangers. I don't want to deal with difficult people. The internet is full of stories from people who try to sell stuff online. I always give stuff that's in perfect condition to charity shops or put a box outside so people can take something. Sometimes I sent books to a platform that gives me money in return. But they don't always need every book I want to give away. Thankfully, there are public book shelves (I really need to drive to one of them to put some books there). I feel much better to give clothes, household items, books or magazines away (to charity or just in a box outside). Why doesn't Ruby do something like that? I could of course make money selling some of my clothes I don't wear anymore. But, as I said, I don't want to deal with people. Getting money would be nice, but it is so much nicer to donate things. If you really need the money, that's different, of course. Rich people never give something away for free. That's why they are rich and stay rich.
 
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Griftwood

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I’m not sure it’s a hair, I think it‘s a stringy bit of wax? Sealing letters with wax is another of those things that Ruby seems to do a lot without any noticeable improvement.
That’s what I thought too, but the alternative was too funny not to go with 😂 OT I once looked down at the conference room table in the middle of a meeting at work and there was a short curly hair on it. This was a Monday, and there was also a bracelet found in the room that everyone insisted was not theirs. From then on, I started believing the rumours about my then boss.
 
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gossip_guy

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So, this week Ruby has brought 4 books and took 3 out of the Library I mean I'm sure I remember her saying that she wasn't going to buy as many books but she is still buying books or borrowing them from the library when she probably doesn't even need them.
It's the Jack Edwards book-hoarding ploy: She doesn't actually read books, but wants to be seen as a bookworm, so she can't stop buying them because she needs to use them as props for her videos to include lots of shots of her flicking through them randomly to "prove" she reads 5,496 books a week.

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”I love sealing my letters like this” Like what? By making an unholy mess of a candle (NB not a ”candlestick”!) in the last two minutes of its sad, sad life on your windowsill, together with all the wasted potential of several unlit matches that never got to go out in a literal blaze of glory but are instead being forced to eke out an indeterminate shadow of an existence in ignominy, before you finally manage to clean up your desk, perhaps on the day of your biennial sheets-changing?

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Has she sealed a hair in it?! :sick:
 
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figgypud

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She's going to be asking teenagers more mature than she is something kind they did today 🙃 and she's going to give them academic planners at a special price to write it all down in!
 
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StatusWoe

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Mummy Bones has dropped a new blog entry and you can't convince me that Ruby isn't ghostwriting this shit:

That was a hell of a lot of pointless sentences just to say nothing at all. I'd say self-proclaimed astronomy enthusiast Ruby should remind her mother that light years measure distance, not time, but it's a given that Ruby doesn't know that either.
I went Ultimate Nerd and rewrote it. 😬:oops::oops:

Elizabeth Strout is one of my favourite authors. I particularly love the endearing, conversational style of her Lucy Barton series which tracks the life of its narrator from small-town Illinois to New York City. The fourth book in this series, Lucy at Sea, is set in Maine during the Coronavirus pandemic. Lucy and her ex-husband retreat to their 'house by the sea' to isolate from the virus. At first, Lucy hates being away from the bustle of New York, but gradually she eases into her new life in the quiet seaside town. This story will resonate with a British audience too, as it manages to capture our shared experience at the height of the pandemic - from air hugs and face masks to the daily walks that gave us routine and maintained our sanity. This piece of recent history already seems distant, and it's interesting to look back and realise just how far we've come since the early days of the pandemic. I loved this book so much and urge you to read it.

Perhaps Ruby or Mother Granger could have successful careers as ghostwriters? I hear that it's very lucrative right now. Some authors might be looking for a spare professional. 👀 And what better name for a ghostwriter than Bones?! It could be a family business with a great advertising jingle: ''Who you gonna call? Bones Writers!''
 
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moosesauna

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I still cant get over the fact that her and her parents think its a good idea to let her teach. Literally weeks ago she had a panic attack from meeting friends. Putting her in front of a classroom is just setting her up for failure. Her mental health problems are gonna increase heavily and I guess shes just gonna go away with the conviction that "traditional jobs" are just terrible for mental health etc...
There would have been so many jobs suitable for Ruby for a gentle start (especially since she isnt really dependent on the money) to ease her into work environments while working on her problems. But teaching fits into her weird fantasy she built of herself, so why question if its even remotly suitable for someone with severe social anxity / phobia...

Its just so sad to see how she is a privileged person with multiple resources (time, money, family etc.) which would make it easy for her to work on her mental health, but she and her parents are just completly ignoring any problems she has.
A friend of mine has been diagnosed with social phobia and depression at the beginning of last year, she has to run her own household, work fultime, has absolutly no support from her parents etc. while struggling with her mental health. But shes making it a point to have therapy and work on the issues, and in the last year alone she improved a LOT with help. Like if she can do it, Ruby can do it 100x easier.
But what is Ruby doing? F*** all together with romanticising her problems...
Yeah, that's what I think too. I have social anxiety - albeit nowhere near as severe as hers - and there's no way I'd want to teach. It's hard work and the students can be cruel and disruptive, especially in private schools. A job in a coffee shop or bookshop where she can have gentle chat with customers, read books on her break and do however many hours she wants would have been far better to ease her into the workplace.
 
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GoinDowntown

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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.
Either that or a squinting "since I was in yeaahr ssssix?"
 
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Redrose97

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I'm actually so bothered with how messy she is with that Beetroot latte video with how much she spills things and just leaves the mess. You think for a video she would at least given the counter a wipe if she spilt. She says that she's so tidy and organised, she'd at least give the counter a wipe before going back to film something. She is performativly tidy and organised to fit in with the good student image she has, isn't she?

And what is with her slamming objects down or stabbing things with a straw just asmr i don't want!
 
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Whisper2Me

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She just rambles for what feels like an hour about how JAN Z are ACKSHUALLY all snyowkflyakes and that's a good thing!

Snowflakes are only around for a short time and are precious and beautiful and impermanent, unlike Gen X or Millennials who have achieved immortality, I guess?

Snowflakes melt! But snowflakes are wonderful and ethereal and you just want to freeze them so that they will last forever, and Ruby januinely hasn't lost the thread and thought she was on a panel about staying 12 forever.

(After this, the doubled-up audio mostly drowns her out, so it's really tough to make out what she's saying.)

Being a snowflake means that people are open about their feelings and what bothers them! This is part of being the social media generation, because people are always VARRY HONNAST and VARRY KOIND on social media (JOHST LOIYKE RYOOBEE!) and the stereotype that social media only shows a curated, version of life is NYOT TRYOO at all and hasn't been for many years, and Ruby knows this because she is a YOOCHOOBA!

And TikTok is VARRY GUD because it's more informal and people are always more honest about everything there, too (JOHST LOIYKE RYOOBEE!). And trigger warnings are good, because they allow people to avoid triggering content and it's easy to add them (JOHST LOIKE RYOOBEE DOES!). NATURALLY we want to help people - we AWWHL WANT TYO HALP PEOPLE and we want to avoid hurting people (JOHST LOIKE RYOOBEE DOES!).

The first rebuttal/follow-up question asks Ruby if she thinks there's anything lost by sheltering Gen Z or them embracing this "snowflake" identity considering the notion that strength comes through struggle and adversity. Ruby rambles something simplistic and childish about how we shouldn't promote or enable suffering as suffering is bad (again, coming from Ruby, who has spent 7 years promoting toxic productivity and ED habits with zero trigger warnings or response to criticism...yikes).

And then the chair of the panel says, "Thankyou, Ruby, that's very...good? 🤔" and struggles to say something nice, like a teacher trying to be incredibly polite to a student who answered a class question with unrelated incoherence, but at least they participated? And then he takes her mic away. (They only have two mics so the panel had to share, but it comes across as a very funny 'Mmkay, you have nothing of value to say, you won't be needing this...' moment.)

Khushal speaks next and the audio issues get worse, but he has much more interesting things to say - the panel are engaged, taking notes, the audience are listening intently, vs the blank stares and confusion Ruby got.

I skimmed ahead to the next time Ruby speaks - hilariously it comes just after Khushal is giving a damning speech on the dishonesty and lies prevalent on social media and people's willingness to absorb and believe the lies they see and accept them as truth and to conform to and imitate them.

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Ruby is grinning and nodding along with recognition through the whole speech. "YAS! OIY LIE TYO PEOPLE AND GAT THAM TYO IMITATE MOIY FICTIONAL, DAMAGING HABITS AWL THE TOIYME! HAHA!" The audacity.

She's allowed to speak again and the panel goes from this when listening to Khushal charismatically say coherent and interesting things about social media consumption:

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...to this when Ruby starts umming and ahhinhg and yammering about how the wahrhld is varry big and connackted:

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The body language says it all. From rapt attention to utter disinterest almost immediately. After she's done rambling, Bobby Duffy (the chair) very pointedly mentions she's basically just covered stuff discussed in his and Linda's (also on the panel) book and the points are "more fully reflected" in the book (he jokingly mentions that the book is for sale at the back). It reads very much as him noticing that Ruby tried to parrot their own material and butchered it. Busted.

She next speaks during the last Q&A section. Someone in the crowd asks about attitudes towards neurodiversity in the workplace and the generational divide in attitudes towards work and discussing mental health issues. They ask for workplace advice regarding this. The panel let Ruby answer the question - someone with no empathy for others and zero real experience in the workplace. I couldn't tell what she was saying due the the volume of her voice and the audio issues, but I can't imagine it was anything worthwhile judging by everyone's body language and how quickly Linda takes the mic away to steer to conversation to something succinct and coherent.

After that, Ruby next talks during the final wrap-up comments and umms and ahhs her way through some gibberish about how social media existed in a vacuum it'd be really good. What does that even mean?!

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The entire panel looks distinctly unimpressed, and (not for the first time while Ruby's speaking) Rabbi Janner-Klausner looks dismayed and turns away to give Khushnal another pointed look.

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I really hope she didn't apply to KCL for her Masters because this should be the last nail in the coffin for those chances. Presumably they invited her to speak because she seemed impressive on paper and this is what they got, I doubt they'd want to make the same mistake again.
These photos are hilarious! You really picked up on the atmosphere! Everyone enthralled with what Krushnal is saying, except for her (does she seriously have a scrunchy around her wrist?) to no one listening to her when she speaks. This says it all! Ruby is so stuck in her imaginary bubble she hasn't got a clue as to what is going on around her. She is probably patting herself on the back thinking, oooh, this will help me get into Oxford. Um, no. Just the opposite, girl. You just made a fool of yourself!
 
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Griftwood

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I just remembered that Holocaust Memorial Day is in just over two weeks and she'll be "working" in a school when it happens...

Will Rubert try to convince the school to let her build a Holocaust Memorial there so she can finally claim she fulfilled her pledge?

Will the memorial look suspiciously like a statue of herself reading a book?

Will she try to "addjookate" the students on the subject by performing a brow-waggling, head-shaking unhinged dramatic reading of one of her own poems about bullies?

Will she cause yet another PR "depacle" by trying to turn the Holocaust into yet another money-making ad scam of some kind?

Taking all bets.
She doesn’t need to set up a new Holocaust Memorial at Pipers Corner, she already did it.
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bookworm39

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Those comments though! The first ones sounds like they're praising a 4-year old for tidying their room. :ROFLMAO:
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DanBanks

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I get the feeling that the organizers of this event might have decided late in the planning that they wanted a Gen Z social media personality on the panel. Maybe they turned to Sixteenth and that's how they wound up with Ruby? I can't imagine they'd have picked her if they'd had time to do more research and find someone who would've actually had something---anything!---intelligent to say.

I'm not embarrassed for Ruby as much as I am for everyone else on that stage. She's so out of her depth that she's wasting everyone's time. She really has no business being there at all. It reminds me of the way that Ivanka Trump used to show up at important geopolitical conferences in one of her "baby doll CEO" dresses and and act like she had Important Thoughts to Share while everyone else just had to sit there suffering. I'm amazed they kept letting Ruby speak after that incoherent opening about snowflakes and fragility and Ian McEwan. Whoever booked this nitwit is really going to have some explaining to do to their boss.

I wonder if she did any preparation for this event or not. I'd suspect not, since her performance is little more than a live-action version of the same meaningless monologues in her videos. If she did prepare, and this is what she came up with, that's kinda worse TBH. One way or the other, this was just a catastrophic fail.
 
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emmer_moans

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To be fair I work in a primary school as a TA (newly graduated) and I go to work in a t-shirt and black jeans, maybe sometimes even leggings. No one seems to care much, it's the learning that's important. But you never know I might have ironed her skirt if I was wearing it..
I bet you don't go in wearing crumpled tshirt though. She always looks like she has slept through a nightmare, tossing and turning, and looks like she hasn't brushed her hair. She looks messy.
 
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anakinskywalkers

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I suspect we've already seen her "MOIY FARRST WAAHK INN-SOMBLER":

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She's reined in her MISPA TEENAH child dress-up habit, but showing up with fake freckles, getting dropped off by mummy and carrying a DARK MACADEMIA attaché case because she's an ADOLT NAOW certainly is a choice.

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Certainly looks like leather, too. SYO VEGAN!
At least she’s dressed appropriately for work and not in the velvet shorts, or God forbid, the ring master get up 💀
 
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StatusWoe

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I wonder if she did any preparation for this event or not. I'd suspect not, since her performance is little more than a live-action version of the same meaningless monologues in her videos. If she did prepare, and this is what she came up with, that's kinda worse TBH. One way or the other, this was just a catastrophic fail.
Well, she marked the Gen Z book as read on Jan 16th and the talk was on Jan 25th so she had at least 9 days to prepare. I wouldn't call it a last minute booking. 😬
 
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