Ruby Granger #40 Ruby the linguistic terrorist

[lucy200072]

Learning Latin as

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!

Learning Latin as you said is a very private school thing, I went to private school and they offered it and my cousin did a degree in it but he studied it at his private school. Most of my uni friends are confused when I mention latin and classics lessons. Ruby is extremely privileged in that regard.

 

[timemoveson]

Jesus for work I just turn up with a couple of pens my name badge water bottle that I will fill up but not drink
I think my colleagues would be shocked if I pulled out half a stationery shop

I started a new job recently and I pulled up with a whole pencil case with something like £50 worth of stationery I have a colour blocking system for tasks (long story...) that I am going to continue using and used to use at school to cut sections of notes up. I have a jotter and composition book that I will be stuffing with notes and to do lists as time goes by. Bit ironic as my office is basically digital now

Imagine being in a lecture and everyone's there with their laptops and then this vision in Miss Patina bursts through the door and proceeds to tip the entire contents of a Ryman's superstore out on the desk next to you. Followed by what you think is the early tremors of an earthquake but is actually just The Planner being hauled out of the kanken and clanked down onto the desk, scattering washi tape and Gaviscon tablets to the four winds.

It's attention seeking at this point

 

[sheleg]

Her house looks like a weird old lunatic asylum in the Catskills.

 

[VallegGirl]

I reckon she hasn't shared her books for Oxford as she doesn't want to share with the other students. Don't worry Rube the tube one look at you YT videos and no one will be plagiarising your offerings.

 

[VallegGirl]

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She’s twirling on road now?

She's how old? 23? I've got a case of second hand embarrassment. She is so cringe.

 

[noodlehead1]

Roobee’s definitely not housebound though

Oh absolutely, I should have mentioned I was just trying to expand on the use of remote therapy for anxiety patients. My comment wasn’t to do with Ruby or supporting her use of it

 

[pinkmug]

Also, does anyone else find it cringe that the family refer to her as Marfa?

So cringe and I don't even know why I care, it just induces fury in me lmao.

 

[threeSMEGfridges]

I agree. As a skill and also holding a driving license, its part of being an independent adult in 2023. A person with a driving licence adds value to a workplace. Its also a nice feeling to know that you don't need to rely on others to get from A to B. Not judging anyone who chooses not to drive tho. Also, the anxiety in learning to drive is real for many people. I hope Roob sticks to her driving lessons and gets more independent...

I don’t think we can necessarily slate Ruby for paying for taxis as i imagine public transport is poor in her area (ie not buses to the train station which seems a drive away). at least she’s taking some responsibility for her own transport for a change instead of Mummy!

however growing up in rural areas most teens accept that they will need to learn to drive asap (even if they can’t afford their own car - perhaps share the family 2nd small car) or move to a city with public transport links.

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Me rail- I don’t drive but I live in a town with buses and trains to work and rely on myself unless I’m coming home late in which case my partner might offer to pick me up partway (mainly so our dinner isn’t too delayed!). Even if I could drive I wouldn’t do so to and from work as the parking is horrifically expensive - far cheaper




cycling-teacher-Ruby- an aesthetic has truly been missed here she could have got a vintage Penny farthing and collaborated with Miss Patina on some Cycling bloomers

 

[coldestofspirits]

@Poguely I have to admit to deep, morbid curiosity about what her inner life is actually like. Surely nothing like what she pretends…!

 

[mindlessness]

The danger is that it detects essays that are hand written by students as AI, so it's not safe at all, do not use it (I'v got flagged wrongly) ! There is no safe AI detector as or now. They best way to avoid ChatGPT as a teacher is to work through steps (meaning, for each essay/thesis, they have to hand an outline, an introduction etc each week for instance) and with paper as much as you can

I know from friends who work in universities it's useful for the first check, and then obviously as humans reading/marking the essays they can often tell anyway. I like your idea to catch it out but given workloads already placed on tutors and lecturers (especially those on sessional or zero hour contracts) I can see why they choose not to!
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I heard teachers are being discouraged from using that feature because when tested it was flagging documents that were actually written by humans very often

Yeah! In practice as I mention above I from friends I know they read every essay submission anyway and are able to check.

 

[threeSMEGfridges]

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.

her idea of camping is playing tents in the back garden.

she’d not last 1 night on a proper Guide camp!

 

[qwikti]

bestie you’re telling on yourself here

Darling, refer to post #124. 'it’s just information that can be found if you look' - So, I go and look. And don't find it. NEXT.

 

[wolkenstadt]

Alright, which one of you shit-stirrers did this

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These comments are SENDING ME!!

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These comments are the first shown in tje comment section and have many likes!

The first and third comment in the one picture are good too.
And does she really say (rewatch it at the moment) like in the one comment that you should unsubscribe her if you don't find her content helpful?

 

[coldestofspirits]

I think the Scottish universities are a bit different, in that the degree itself is an MA - more like doing an MEng as your undergraduate degree. The unusual thing about Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin is that you do a bachelor’s, graduate with that, and then it is subsequently raised to MA.

 

[Redrose97]

Is this new obsession with baking going to last for long? I do wonder if she is going to be doing it to shill a cookbook to her fowlers along with her nature journals. She never makes anything that looks nice and it is just over done constantly. She can't even make crumble topping without it looking like she's just thrown butter in flour.

 

[Binx]

AANTIGEYONEEE
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I think Roby should watch vlogs like these to know what a ‘meal’ actually is…

...ok?

 

[frenchuser66]

Uni teacher friends of mine have said that you start to recognise the style of ChatGPT (same as you would when a student plagiarises somebody else's essay or uses material that they found online). It is just vastly different from what the student could or would write.
I now even see it for a Youtuber I follow, she writes reactions to comments with ChatGPT.

Yeah, sometimes you do recognize but sometimes you don't. I was a teacher intern last year at uni and some teachers talked about it with students and they discovered that they used it in some essays and teachers didnt have a clue about it. Free chat GPT is easy to detect but GPT 4 is far more difficult and some student use it (because it's hard to detect), that's why teachers have to be extra careful and come back to paper assigment (at least it was the solution teachers found in my uni)

 

[threeSMEGfridges]

Spoiler: Off-topic stationery rant

Oh my god thank you, yes! I've hated these pens after giving into the hype and buying them a few months ago. It's such an irritating feel and not smooth at all. My usual go-to pen is either a Muji 0.38 or a Pilot rollerball V5 so I just assumed it was not the right type of pen for me, but Sarasa attempt was an unexpected let down lol.

More OT pen talk -

gel pens -

Pilot G2 .7
Muji classic gel .5 (not the clicky ones which are awful)

ballpoint -

ParkerJotter with refill
Zebra Z grip

Fountain pen-

kawecko sport or the cheap stabilio one (can’t remember the name)

 

[soph30]

I don't think there's even anything wrong with Ruby. She's just playing a character that her YouTube references to.
Only thing is her actual personality may have become the character at this stage as well.

It may well be how she keeps her channel going as well. I mean, people who like watching Ruby like that sort of stuff, they’re not going to like it if she starts vlogging makeup tips or talking about love island or something

 

[pinkmug]

AKTABA

This made me wheeze