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

[hart301]

There’s no way she’s planning on keeping this job if she gets into oxford. She wouldn’t have time or the transportation, plus I’m guessing she only applied to teach to have a job on her Oxford application. She’s probably doing maternity cover or something that’s finishing in the summer anyway.

The Russell group is just a group of good, universities with high research outputs. I wouldn’t say it’s as exclusive as the Ivy League. Some of them are very prestigious (Oxford for example) and others less so, but they’re all well respected institutions.

It’s important to note that Ruby is only going to be working part time. The vast majority of qualified teachers need to earn a living and don’t want to work part time hours in a school in the countryside, they need a real job… A local graduate like Ruby is pretty much the ideal person to fill this role. There’s also a teacher shortage at the moment so it’s not uncommon at all for unqualified graduates to work in schools on a contractual/temp basis. (If I remember correctly, Holly Gabrielle also interviewed to teach straight after graduating uni)

Makes sense. I knew Exeter was no Oxford (not that it matters, a degree is a degree) so I am glad this was clarified!
It def makes sense that she’s doing either subbing or helping out, I don’t really think she will want to be a teacher when she starts teaching though.

 

[Whisper2Me]

Wtf do you remember when she said this or which video it was in ?

Twice she mentioned it in detail. Once in a video titled "I got my lost toy back" around 3 years ago about how her parent's gave her back a returned beloved toy and all the drama behind it. Again, more recently....can't remember which one, where she refers back to the whole incident. She has mentioned it multiple times, as it is from her childhood and, of course, that was the best time of her life, in spite of being bullied. lol. Please don't ask me to go back and find the exact ones. I can't rewatch her boring videos!
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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.

No, she did it deliberately and admitted to it. Watch the video. In her own words.

 

[soph30]

Ruby would probs like this degree haha It’s at Bristol so prestigious enough! Maybe a masters http://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/2023/childhood-studies/bsc-childhood/

 

[vwxyz]

It’s not any more expensive than any other university in the UK. It’s the same price as every other uni, fees are 9k a year across the board. Some courses that are very niche might have a lower calibre of students solely because not many people apply to them, so people who have their heart set on oxford rather than on a specific subject will strategically apply to those niche subjects (like vee khativu randomly studying ancient history and archaeology despite having no apparent interest in it). But that has nothing to do with paying your way in..
If your friend just did a summer course there then that would offer no real benefit in the job market. Those courses are just money rackets for wealthy foreign students.

He actually did a Bachelor and Masters, but I think he meant that summer course when he talked about that "pay yourself in" method. His degrees were nothing but hard work. With the fees I didn't know that it's always the same as I'm not from the UK.

My german is still very limited, but did ruby like the video?

Yes, she did

Do we know if she only applied to Oxford and nowhere else? That would really make me worry

 

[Daredevil]

I just played Puby’s video and my mom called, “Is that its babiiieee?”

 

[Ilaariaa]

I know it's off-topic but @Griftwood I love hearing your book thoughts & you should head over to the reading thread (if you want, no pressure )

Do you mind linking it? I'm interested

 

[Hannahebee]

You might be right. Though I can't see a wick...

Lots of toilet in this video, too. The way she's got the camera set up, I feel like I'm staring right at the bowl. So aesthetic! They don't have a toilet paper holder, either. The roll's sitting on a little stool in front of the shitter. Multi-million dollar manor house and no toilet paper holder. Far out.

I can just about see the wick so it is definitely a candle IMO, however, I noticed that the taps are still dripping so they clearly haven't sorted this out yet despite the fact that the taps have been dripping for quite awhile now.

 

[xoxoxo13]

Spoiler: OT books

How do you guys find time to read? Seriously, i wake up at 5, study German, because i want to move there next year. Get ready for work, go to work, come back, eat dinner, shower, text my boyfriend and then im exhausted and just go to sleep by 9pm. Either there arent enough hours in a day or i dont have enough energy. Im supposed to start working out next month, i dont know how i'll manage.

 

[YellowLadybird]

Oxford Colleges also have internal reputations, which you'll only know if you've been there or know someone who has done so in the recent past. My partner went there and informs me that Wolfson has a reputation for being where all the gay guys go... which sounded ridiculous to me until I looked up who went there from my school, and found nothing to counter his assertion! I can't remember the others he's told me, but the reality isn't always obvious from the outside!

 

[londongirl92]

I remember her saying fairly recently that the jumper was given to her by a family friend who had slightly shrunk it in the wash or something? Typical "I'm so small" roobs comments.

 

[bananapeel]

”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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(credit for vocabulary goes to the single serving of ethanol I’ve had)

Is the letter on the floor? Then it might be a hair from her dog or from a broom or brush... I hope!

 

[Green Lion]

My german is still very limited, but did ruby like the video?

Yes she liked the post. Sorry, I for some reason didn't notice it said it in German haha

 

[WishingWellxx]

What's up with her thumb? I've noticed in a few of her tik toks it looks different. Kinda swollen but definitely not healthy.

 

[Sarah33]

And even then, Ruby doesn't make it easy for herself. If her undergraduate is anything to judge by, she applies to the top, oversubscribed colleges who have the pick of the litter. If you don't have the strongest application 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. Then to add insult to injury, messed up her interview so badly that they didn't even put her forward for consideration at another college.

She'll do the same thing this time. Instead of applying. Instead of applying to a lower performing college like Mansfield, or even a mid-tier college like Lincoln, she'll apply for something like Merton -- the Oxford of Oxford --

As an outsider I just assumed they were all the same - how are the Oxford colleges different? Is having an Oxford degree advantageous in the real world or academia or are other people not that bothered, it just seems such a lot to go through

 

[ECH]

I’m sure I’m giving Ruby too much credit by even thinking this thought, but what if she’s sticking with Ruby Granger for social media so her profiles won’t show up if her students/colleagues/the admissions office at Oxford google her real name? When you google Ruby Bones, the only thing related to her that shows up is her LinkedIn profile (although of course google suggests “Ruby Bones Granger), and while she mentions her yt channel on there, she doesn’t mention the name of it.

It's possible, but if she's doing that she's dumber than I thought if she doesn't realise her real name is attached to her online profile

 

[scrantonstrangler]

I’m sure I’m giving Ruby too much credit by even thinking this thought, but what if she’s sticking with Ruby Granger for social media so her profiles won’t show up if her students/colleagues/the admissions office at Oxford google her real name? When you google Ruby Bones, the only thing related to her that shows up is her LinkedIn profile (although of course google suggests “Ruby Bones Granger), and while she mentions her yt channel on there, she doesn’t mention the name of it.

I suspect she's done that unintentionally, but I'm not sure it's going to make much difference when potential employers/admissions look her up. When I googled "Ruby Bones" the only things on the first page of results were LinkedIn and Tattle- and she was silly enough to put "Granger" on her LinkedIn which is a bit odd.

And yet when I googled Ruby Granger the first page of results seemed more... professional? No Tattle, professional looking photos, LinkedIn, her management. Her business and published books also show up, which we know to be embarrassingly bad but an outsider might see them as a positive.

 

[VallegGirl]

A view of a room

Ahhh even better

 

[vwxyz]

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Unexpected Unjaded Jade all of a sudden

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I remember she was interested in that MA in history and manuscript sources when she went to look at Carroll's letters in Pizza Express Woking. If she ever did a degree in a history(-adjacent) field, she'd have to work with tonnes of this "outdated", "boring" reading matter, even if just to contextualise the manuscripts!!

This is what pure happiness looks like. I don't know who of the two seem more authentic

 

[Redrose97]

I'm wondering if she's justifying her reading of children's books as ' recommendations for students.' I was also wondering who she's teaching as Pipers Corner is 4-18 year olds from I understand, so I'm wondering if she's with the really young children instead of the teenagers as we've been thinking. Though the young ones might only have one teacher who does everything like UK primary schools and Ruby is with the older students. Just had that thought.

 

[hart301]

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?

I'm from the US & I've never heard of Mrs, Ms & Miss being part of a cultural war type thing. I always assumed Miss was for younger women, Ms for unmarried, and Mrs for married.
It's more of a designation. We use Mr. and Sir interchangeably as well, Mr. being for young men / Sir being for older men. Its an etiquette/professional thing (at least where I am from) and no one sees it as degrading. We have Mx and Mrx as nonbinary / gender-neutral terms for married / unmarried people as well.