Ruby Granger #40 Ruby the linguistic terrorist

[Great_Kate]

No, because Latin offering is so uneven depending on what type of education you have and within the UK. Most schools do not teach it at all, and the UK education system (at least within humanities) values equal access quite highly, so there are fairly big efforts not to create barriers to people coming from less privileged schooling contexts. Ruby could have had private Latin lessons at any time (even as a teenager), if it was a real interest of hers, but of course many people would not find it quite so easy to access that. It is possible to some extent to combine self teaching and grants / financial assistance for intensive courses.

Some universities offer catch-up courses for things like Latin if you want to learn enough to use it in early modern studies. There is good awareness now of how diverse people’s prior knowledge is (some have a very good training in Latin while others have 0). You can even do a classics degree at Oxford without having studied classics before, it’s just very intense!

Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering as well. And thanks for all the other intel about France and Italy. In Germany every school that offers you a degree that qualifies for university will most definitely offer Latin. Most secondary schools offer it from 7th grade (age 12-14)onwards. If you didn’t get enough years of Latin in school or never choose to do it or didn’t have the opportunity - every university offers Latin courses that you have to pass to qualify for your chosen degree. If your degree has a mandatory Latin test part obviously. You can do the Latin while already starting the degree. But if you then fail the university Latin course (3 times or didn’t pass after a certain amount of semesters) that’s obviously bad and you can’t finish this degree at this university. I will say I am so glad I had the foresight and just sat through Latin classes from 7th grad. I wasn’t good but I was just good enough to pass. No way would I have passed a Latin course at uni. I got lucky because the tests were always the translation of some old Roman or Greek mythology and I love those. So I just needed to find out which it was. Otherwise I would have bombed.
So here it’s mandatory to be able to study certain degrees but our education system (secondary and tertiary) seems to give more opportunities to actually achieve the needed level.

 

[Freyjalace]

Also, there must be something very wrong with her if going out to get tea or coffee by herself is something she feels the need to work towards. Agoraphobia? A fear of being alone in general? I don't know what it is but it's serious.

Or social anxiety

 

[Alix]

And this is after she's already edited it once to remove a major mistake. BOT SHE STROGGLES WITH PARFACTIONISM!

Yeah, she really struggles with it

 

[Lola123]

The whole food shopping list cracked me up. When you're tired or lazy and you need food...it's almost like the Oxford colleges have a place where this problem is solved...also known as the Hall which serves 3 subsidised meals a day...

And they encourage you to go to the formal dinners too… so what she is on I dunno but I assume if she went someone would pick up on her messed up eating habits etc aka chewing liquids

 

[Daredevil]

She’s twirling on road now?

 

[Redrose97]

I do wonder how much archive work she is really going to be doing in this course, as she is really emphasising the archives and manuscripts elements of the course. The way that she is going on about them, makes it sound that she will be going every day for the dark academia asthetic. I can actually see her doing archive study with mes.

I am just wondering with the archives as my course has some manuscript elements but it was through digitised ones and copies due to practicalities and conservation. I did use archives a lot for an assignment, well two trips and my photos that I took when there, but if was a minor element in comparison in comparison to my history source work.

 

[coldestofspirits]

Ruby Granger 41: raking in dosh (but faking posh)

 

[sheleg]

Her handwriting winds me up so much. I feel like someone so obsessed with being ASSTHATACK and ACADAMACK would have trained themselves to write in a prettier or more stylish way.

 

[slamvs27]

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“Jumpers worn new with smoke”? What?

"Damp digestives" I'm dying

 

[Griftwood]

oh looky what I found https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11669259

(disclaimer: that’s not her home address)

 

[theMoth]

Love a nice fake to do list. September 23 is a Friday, so either she’s on one of the many unused pages from 2022, or the new planner is indeed fucked up. Notice she’s planning to prepare for Oxford by reading a summary of The Faerie Queen [sic] as well as two articles on Spenser ”extra”, meaning she’s still not going to be working through the actual reading list

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I'm confused. Is this reclyced footage, has Ruby time travelled to next month but to another universe where the 23 September is a Friday this year?

 

[theMoth]

will she sell the "cook book"?! if yes, let's hope she doesn't get into trouble because of copyrights...

it reminds me of this booklet my mother has. it's from when my brother went to primary school and they had this school function or something and the parents (well, mothers) handed in a handwritten recipe to get copied and used for this booklet. that was in the late 1980s.
when I went to primary school in the early 90s, we did a booklet, too, but we, the students, had to write a piece, something about a day trip etc. I only remember because a friend from primary school found her booklet and sent a photo of my text a few years ago via Facebook.

Ruby could do a zine, they seem to be quite popular on the internet in the art communities.

 

[jiggy_girl]

I don't own any Apple products, but to be fair, I did buy a Surface Laptop 4 last year when I already had a working Chromebook because I was tired of having to manually install and setup software that wasn't native to the device. I don't know which iPad she upgraded from and I hate to defend Ruby, but Apple does have the issue with slowing down devices and taking away features that they include in new upgrades after updates.

She used her old iPad all through the video though - she just wants to ham up that she's off to Oxford and that she's sooooo amazing for going there

 

[EGuyUK]

Why is there no 'ad' text or similar on her latest video, she displays her planner within seconds?!

 

[Peony14]

"Write out your weekly routine and set it in your timetable as something you're going to do and do that NAOW. Because...things get out of hand so quickly and you want to kind of, like, keep things play-sated when things get really stressful at school."

Umm...does she mean placated? Because that's not how you say that and it's not really what the word means.

I´m more and more convinced that my grasp of the english language might actually be better than Ruby´s even though it´s not my mother tongue...

 

[robinhiggs]

Ah fair enough. I just think it's quite an accusation to make without evidence, she might just like a drink

Tbf with Ruby's frankly childish reaction to anyone drinking at all it might be exaggerated, also Mummy Bones' blog gives off big teenager vibes so I think she's exaggerating either the drinking or the effect of it or both.

 

[Whisper2Me]

During/after covid, therapists realised they can utilise zoom for accessibility for patients with high anxiety or other disabilities that can make it harder/not possible for them to visit in person. It also can be used for people who live further away but want or need to see a specific therapist. I see my therapist via zoom (before covid I was seeing her in person) but since Ruby regularly traverses the globe with no issue I don’t see there being any reason for zoom sessions other than laziness or not wanting travel and waiting time to eat into her pretend productivity time

Around here it is the exact opposite. They want people who have high anxiety to work through that anxiety and make it to their appointments. Part of the healing process. Not easy and not always accessible, but definitely part of challenging and desensitizing the patient via cognitive behavioral therapy.
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I shouldn't be surprised by her stupidity at this point, but I'm honestly shocked that she's dumb enough to just tell people once again that she's copying and reading summaries/essay extracts when she hasn't even read the book yet.

She couldn't make it more obvious that she has no interest in engaging with the learning process and will be applying her AXATAR cheating repertoire again:

1. Avoid reading the main texts.
2. Read a SparkNotes summary instead.
3. Read some short critical essays to find a central argument you'd like to steal from someone else.
4. Quickly skim-read the text to find quotes that support "your" argument.
5. Arrange study interrogations before and after every lecture and seminar with Blakeney to pester her for thoughts, ideas and talking points. Ask ChatGPT for thoughts, ideas and talking points.
6. Send tutor an essay-length email full of leading questions to get them to furnish you with even more ideas.
7. Slap together a Frankensteined essay from all your stolen materials.
8. Profit.

She outed herself with this at undergrad, so it's nothing new, but her openly announcing again that she's fucking around with summaries and essays before even attempting the core reading is mind-boggling, especially with her proudly talking about her newfound reliance on ChatGPT lately. You're not supposed to tell people that you're cheating, Ruby!

Even if you believe her lies and believe she JANUINELY reads the book after, for someone who claims to have such a high intelligence and a huge passion for reading and learning, it's not a good look for her to say that she constantly needs study guides, essays and character breakdowns in place ahead of time for a "foundational grounding" before she can understand and come up with thoughts on a basic text.

Basically she is trying to learn about the book and what it means before she even bothers to attempt to try and read the material and think for herself, rather than read the book first and use some kind of guide to smooth out anything she didn't understand. Of course, by the time you are going for your Master, your are supposed to be able to figure things out on your own without running to study guides! This practice of her explains a lot. She is all about the shortcuts and cheating and zero percent brain power and creative thinking.

 

[replace32titles]

Just watched her latest video on preparing for back to school university.

I genuinely can't see any other outcome for Ruby other than training as a teacher after her Masters. She is so clearly bizarrely emotionally attached to the academic year. How on earth would she work a normal 9-5 where September is just another normal month????!

I've said it before and I'll say it again. She should volunteer with her local Brownies or Guides, where the safeguarding rules and the rest of the team will make sure she's interacting with the girls appropriately (this is the bit she's demonstrated time and time again she can't be trusted to do on her own!) but she'll get to live out her dreams of working to a termly timetable with summer, Christmas & Easter holidays, being among young girls, being a mentor to them and getting some experience at actually being a responsible adult, especially if her unit turns out to be the more outgoing kind.

 

[mindlessness]

I meant the way she wrote "haul" ^^

Oh yes I wasn't referring directly to your comment, sorry I should have made that clear! Was instead commenting on how silly it is she keeps old magazines around for props.

Her handlettering is very bad haha.

 

[watercoloredfaerie]

my god... how does she go from seeming like a regular 23 year old with friends (even if they're cousins) to literally roleplaying like a kid in school? Ruby you're in graduate school. Give OTHER COLLEGE STUDENTS ADVICE.

She aims her channel towards high school students and younger when she should be talking college things with peers, her videos haven't progressed at all in years.

ALSO okay so she takes Gaviscon tablets?? Does she struggle with heartburn?

TW //
possibly ED related?