Ruby Granger #46 Actively making time for boredom

emmer_moans said:

I can't stop laughing at her latest video where her tip is to talk to friends about what you are learning... The footage inserted then shows her talking to a very bored looking dog

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Is this why she recently was standing on the table, out in her yard, talking to her "invisible" friends?

Wait she's having another gap year? Is she serious?

Ruby, the Oxford graduate who is recommending students to read Wikipedia as a study guide. You would think that with Ruby's perfect student image that she wouldn't be admitting that she did such a thing, let alone encouraging it.

Also how on earth did she not notice the leaf in her hair? I kept focusing on it during the whole video and she has bound to have noticed it at one point.

She's JANUINELY going to have a VARRY ADJOOKAYSHONAL YAHHR because she LOFFS LAAHRNING FWORE LAHHRNING'S SAKE. She's HONNASTLEEE not just having another "gap year" of rotting in her childhood bedroom because she's terrified of being an adult and wants to delay the real world by another year before she pisses around for an additional 4-8 years on a course for a PhD she won't enjoy, need or use. JANUINELY! (Lie-squints.)

Did she mention that she's released a new planner? It was JANUINELY designed by Ruby for Ruby with everything a student needs! ...Which is why she recommends a whole stack of additional "essentials" again, like commonplace books and notebooks.

But she JANUINELY YEEZES PONKINPOD TIVTI PRODOCKTS AVVERY SINGOL DAY! Which is why she can't even be bothered to pretend to use her own company's notebooks. It's also why, despite claiming to use her planner every day, she keeps showing the same sporadic few pages filled out in her planner, and can't show any more because the rest of it is empty and unused.




In her planner video, she showed herself flicking to a few "random pages" to try to prove that she used the planner every day.



In her next video, she showed herself colouring in one of those very same pages. A strange coincidence indeed!




In this new video, she flicks to a few supposedly random pages to use as an example to show while she claims again that she uses the planner daily, JANUINELY! It's the exact same four pages from May again!

It's hilariously embarrassing how bad she is at lying considering she does it so much. She does not use this planner herself.

I'm amazed that she's still showing her hand with her overreliance on study guides, too.

If you enjoy learning, experiencing literature for yourself and examining it with your own thoughts and ideas, there's no believable excuse for reading plot summaries and critical essays on them before even opening the book yourself.

This is what someone does when they don't want to read or engage with the text or wants to cheat their way through an essay. She's continuously outing her cheating habits and shortcuts and it's insane that she's stupid enough to openly reveal it while yammering about how much she loves learning.

Redrose97 said:

Ruby, the Oxford graduate who is recommending students to read Wikipedia as a study guide. You would think that with Ruby's perfect student image that she wouldn't be admitting that she did such a thing, let alone encouraging it.

Also how on earth did she not notice the leaf in her hair? I kept focusing on it during the whole video and she has bound to have noticed it at one point.

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Rumbster simply does not give a single shit. She has no problem showing just how dirty that house is. Compared to this, that leaf is nothing to her.

Redrose97 said:

Ruby, the Oxford graduate who is recommending students to read Wikipedia as a study guide. You would think that with Ruby's perfect student image that she wouldn't be admitting that she did such a thing, let alone encouraging it.

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I was told at school to never use Wikipedia as a study guide or to use it for facts etc. I even got told off for using it by the teacher once as she thought I copied and pasted all my facts from there when in fact I didn't use it once especially when I already knew lots about the topic as I had books, DVDs and videos on it.

Ripley Rose Kat said:

Wait she's having another gap year? Is she serious?

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At this point she's aiming for a gap life lol

Hasn’t she already had a year of independent learning? Doesn’t she supposedly constantly read articles and essays and study things that interest her but aren’t things she actually studies ?

Well hello, it has been a while since I posted anything there (more than one year and a half) but I was focusing on my studies until I saw a video of Ruby popping up in my YouTube recommandations a few days ago. I therefore watched it and a couple of others before coming back here and just wanted to ask you if her "accent" has gotten worse or if it's just me?

English isn't my first language and I don't live in an English-speaking country but I usually have no problem understanding videos in this language, I actually love listening to podcasts and video essays in English, but I still find myself unable to catch what Ruby says if I don't solely focus on her video and nothing else on the side (for example, doing the dishes with a headset). I would love to hear from both people speaking English as their mother tongue and those who learned it later in life. I feel like she's forcing herself to put emphasis on syllabus while "eating up" some others, which makes her sound like she is talking with a mouthful of saliva while not trying to let any drop fall (sorry for the weird imagery...).
Because I feel like most of the things she did these past 18 months were the same than the previous years despite feeling like she's trying so hard to still be seen as the IRL Hermione Granger in the face of time passing and Ruby not being a young teenager anymore.

noodlehead1 said:

Hasn’t she already had a year of independent learning? Doesn’t she supposedly constantly read articles and essays and study things that interest her but aren’t things she actually studies ?

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So she wants to spend another year copying things in notebooks from Wikipedia for another year, and has paid for a subscription to the Oxford thingy so she can periodically tell us she subscribes to scholarly things.

Is she says 'commonplace' one more time...

Now that she has had a gap year then done her Masters her parents should really be having a word and telling her to get a job and move out so she can flourish in life. But I suspect she might be the glue that keeps their marriage together whilst she is living in her bedroom, so whilst her or Martha are still around the house nothing will change. They will let her be the Victorian ghost child forever.

Whereas my parents practically kicked me out 6 months after university

At some point in adult life, surely you stop thinking of it as ‘’self directed learning’’ and instead just call it… work… or having hobbies… or just living your life?

Like most intelligent adults are constantly ‘learning’ and expanding skills, knowledge, etc just through their career development, or in conversation, or reading articles and books? Even including academic stuff tbh. Atm I’m many rabbit holes deep on PubMed reading about menstrual cycle hormones, I read and write about some political history almost too niche to say online without outing myself, and then there are articles relating to my field of work that I try and stay on top of. While developing practical skills in my job. While having friends. While having other hobbies.

And I don’t think this is special or even interesting lol? Point is most of us have all of this stuff integrated into my our lives and don’t need a colourful set of fineliners and a mini printer to facilitate it past the age of 13.

She is perpetually a year 7 child spending the whole lesson lining up her stationary on her desk. Sad.

emmer_moans said:

So she wants to spend another year copying things in notebooks from Wikipedia for another year, and has paid for a subscription to the Oxford thingy so she can periodically tell us she subscribes to scholarly things.

Is she says 'commonplace' one more time...

Now that she has had a gap year then done her Masters her parents should really be having a word and telling her to get a job and move out so she can flourish in life. But I suspect she might be the glue that keeps their marriage together whilst she is living in her bedroom, so whilst her or Martha are still around the house nothing will change. They will let her be the Victorian ghost child forever.

Whereas my parents practically kicked me out 6 months after university

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I feel like this is where she fails the most in reaching a decent audience and creating interesting content. Because of her circumstances and the childish approach she takes to life, sheltered and refusing to grow up, not working, she just doesn't get real life, at all. She lives in a bubble and it is poisoning her. Her parents are not doing her any favours by allowing their kids to be pampered and lazy. It amazes me how different her outlook on life is, in her 20's, compared to typical college graduate in the US. We crave independence. We cannot wait to drive and have our own car, even if it is used, just to be independent from our parents. We want to work, we want our own money to manage, to pay for things, save, start being adults, move out. To not rely on parents anymore. We just want to get out and get on with are own life before settling down. She is the exact opposite and one of many reasons why I feel so negatively towards her. She wastes so much time that she will never get back. She is so useless. By now I expected her with a full time job, living in her own little cottage, decorating it and buying home goods, etc.. Nothing. Just her stupid twirling in fields and imaginary lifestyle.

Haven't posted in YONKS (turns out, trying to work and do a full-time PhD at the same time is Very Hard Work) but been lahking and reading all about our favourite Rutabaga. Genuinely felt sick at the result of her MA, and the thought of her doing a PhD.

Just felt it VERY ACKSHYUALLY AMPORTANT to point out that she's edited that other video so the beginning of it doesn't have her waxing lyrical about never ever getting up early and never ever going outside in the morning.

Complete coincidence, of course.

I read this as "lie pre-autumn" which... I guess it fits.

Thehogonthelog said:

I read this as "lie pre-autumn" which... I guess it fits.

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I thought it was:
august photos (i.e. pre-autumn)
You can see the dots behind i. and e.

dodadedo said:

Haven't posted in YONKS (turns out, trying to work and do a full-time PhD at the same time is Very Hard Work) but been lahking and reading all about our favourite Rutabaga. Genuinely felt sick at the result of her MA, and the thought of her doing a PhD.

Just felt it VERY ACKSHYUALLY AMPORTANT to point out that she's edited that other video so the beginning of it doesn't have her waxing lyrical about never ever getting up early and never ever going outside in the morning.

Complete coincidence, of course.

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I went to check and that bit is still there, just before the minute mark so not immediately at the beginning.

You know, this wearing clothes to match her planners thing could have put out such cute videos. 4-6 outfits for each planner, all planned ahead, so that you get Rumbster posing in nice outfits before appropriate backgrounds, and promoting her planner. You don't see her walking around with that stupid mic -- does that even work?? the video has a very low sound. Instead you see her with hair styled, different shoes, different glasses, clean and ironed and nice outfits, maybe even nail art or different kind of make ups, if she was comfortable with that. She could have even cosplayed.

Like, so many ideas and ways to go, but, of course, she also had to quarter-ass this, too, and choose pretty much the only way to make this boring and lame. And thank goodness for that, because that planner is shit.

Rumblemumble said:

You know, this wearing clothes to match her planners thing could have put out such cute videos. 4-6 outfits for each planner, all planned ahead, so that you get Rumbster posing in nice outfits before appropriate backgrounds, and promoting her planner. You don't see her walking around with that stupid mic -- does that even work?? the video has a very low sound. Instead you see her with hair styled, different shoes, different glasses, clean and ironed and nice outfits, maybe even nail art or different kind of make ups, if she was comfortable with that. She could have even cosplayed.

Like, so many ideas and ways to go, but, of course, she also had to quarter-ass this, too, and choose pretty much the only way to make this boring and lame. And thank goodness for that, because that planner is shit.
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Those trouserssss, she must realise how ridiculous she looks

Ruby who claims to love being organised and having tidy spaces, and to be honest this would fit into the perfect student image that she has, she has very little care about how she presents herself appearance-wise to her online following. She constantly looks crumbled and as if she has been dragged through a hedge backwards, especially in the last video with a leaf in her hair. I don't know if this part of her trying to look more child-like or a bit of a not-like other girls thing to prove that she is intelligent as she isn't focused on her appearance.

I haven't posted in a long time either, but as someone who has taught etymology at the uni level, I can't stand her "word of the day" series. Virtually every word is mispronounced, little to no actual etymology is explained. "Apocryphal" was one of the worst explanations of the word I have ever heard. She is sliding into a realm where she views herself as an information-imparter, and there is nothing that provokes my rage more than someone spreading misinformation or pretending to know what they are talking about. She is phenomenally ignorant and it is in fact a miracle that she completed her paid master's degree.

A person like this is not ready for a PhD, not even at a university with a more structured program prior to the writing phase. I have no issue with her gap years (there are people with gap decades and we don't judge them). But she needs to stop pretending to be an academic, or she will never actually be one. There are certain circles and unis where bluffing gets you far but a paid course-based master's degree doesn't earn you entrance to them.

I need to calm down before I dox myself or say something I regret. Question: when she says "manuscript," does she only mean early modern and modern paper manuscripts? Archival material (often called "papers" - i.e., "Benjamin Waterhouse papers")? Just curious.