Ruby Granger #47 Self Learning at the University of Roobs, Manor campus

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The idea of these posh little rich girls prancing round what (outside of the tourist bit) is a pretty deprived part of Yorkshire (Keighley/ Bradford area) is also quite hilarious.

yes I love howarth and enjoy visiting the museum etc but still as soon as your down the road from tourist Haworth it’s cancelled buses, vape shops, etc …
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Also - the Pirates of the Caribbean style music at the start…. It’s not been THAT wet in Yorkshire ☔🌧☔🌧⚓🛶🛥

ETA - how are Roooobeeee and Mumeeee both wearing their berets incorrectly and different from each other
 
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This picture (ta @gossip_guy) should be on the cover of the Buckinghamshire news:
Mother and Daughter Shockingly Disappointed in Boots' Selection of Hand Sanitisers in London.
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aquinas said:
Obsessed with how she pronounces Laika as Lay-ko
(where does the O even come from)
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Her fake accent is fascinatingly bad. She started treating vowel sounds as completely interchangeable back when she started going overboard with her Emma Watson imitation accent and it's only gotten worse with time.

E becomes A (Essay becomes ASSAY, Exquisite becomes ACKSQUISITE)
U becomes O (Just becomes JOSST, Much becomes MOCH).
O becomes E and 'Oo' sounds become 'Ee' sounds (Choose becomes CHEESE, YouTube becomes YEECHEEB).
If she lands on an 'Oo' sound, she's gotta throw a 'Y' sound in front of it (Yoo haff tyooo wahhr tyoo blyoo shyooes avvery CHEESEDAY).

Ruby's just out here pulling Scrabble vowel tiles out of her pocket to decide how to pronounce words in the moment.

Occasionally she just completely makes up a new word or sprinkles new letters in because she can't be bothered with reading and learning the one on the page, so mural becomes "MURIAL", facsimile becomes "FAKESMOILE" (spelled "fascimile" somehow), symposium becomes "simpsonium", percent becomes "PREHSSANT" and childhood becomes "CHRARLDHYOOD" somehow.
 
One thing I genuinely wish for her is for her to take this year to get her license. She works part time and can easily take lessons at quieter hours. It doesn’t have to be stressful or panicked, just go at your own pace but start now and do it little and often. It’s not right to be having a teacher pick you up for work at your old school, or waiting around at 3pm for mum to collect you.

There will also likely come a point where she has to learn and then it’s stressful and rushed. It’s much better to take control of the situation yourself when you can.
 
gossip_guy said:
Her fake accent is fascinatingly bad. She started treating vowel sounds as completely interchangeable back when she started going overboard with her Emma Watson imitation accent and it's only gotten worse with time.

E becomes A (Essay becomes ASSAY, Exquisite becomes ACKSQUISITE)
U becomes O (Just becomes JOSST, Much becomes MOCH).
O becomes E and 'Oo' sounds become 'Ee' sounds (Choose becomes CHEESE, YouTube becomes YEECHEEB).
If she lands on an 'Oo' sound, she's gotta throw a 'Y' sound in front of it (Yoo haff tyooo wahhr tyoo blyoo shyooes avvery CHEESEDAY).

Ruby's just out here pulling Scrabble vowel tiles out of her pocket to decide how to pronounce words in the moment.

Occasionally she just completely makes up a new word or sprinkles new letters in because she can't be bothered with reading and learning the one on the page, so mural becomes "MURIAL", facsimile becomes "FAKESMOILE" (spelled "fascimile" somehow), symposium becomes "simpsonium", percent becomes "PREHSSANT" and childhood becomes "CHRARLDHYOOD" somehow.
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I’m glad you finally dropped your pronunciation manual because I always wonder how you stay so consistent in your Ruby impressions 😂
 
gossip_guy said:
Her fake accent is fascinatingly bad. She started treating vowel sounds as completely interchangeable back when she started going overboard with her Emma Watson imitation accent and it's only gotten worse with time.

E becomes A (Essay becomes ASSAY, Exquisite becomes ACKSQUISITE)
U becomes O (Just becomes JOSST, Much becomes MOCH).
O becomes E and 'Oo' sounds become 'Ee' sounds (Choose becomes CHEESE, YouTube becomes YEECHEEB).
If she lands on an 'Oo' sound, she's gotta throw a 'Y' sound in front of it (Yoo haff tyooo wahhr tyoo blyoo shyooes avvery CHEESEDAY).

Ruby's just out here pulling Scrabble vowel tiles out of her pocket to decide how to pronounce words in the moment.

Occasionally she just completely makes up a new word or sprinkles new letters in because she can't be bothered with reading and learning the one on the page, so mural becomes "MURIAL", facsimile becomes "FAKESMOILE" (spelled "fascimile" somehow), symposium becomes "simpsonium", percent becomes "PREHSSANT" and childhood becomes "CHRARLDHYOOD" somehow.
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I used to think British accents were sophisticated and melodic-sounding. Every time I watch a Rubes video, I change my mind.
 
CatCafe234 said:
To be fair, Ruby’s put-on accent comes straight from the Dick Van Dyke school of acting. It’s not an accent that anyone else in the UK actually has.
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I do often wonder why her accent is so different from her other family members too. They seem to speak much more casually, but Ruby's accent is so much more posh! It doesn't make sense to me!

I do think her more recent accent, where she seems to be speaking in a more adult pitch (lower and a bit more Kate Middleton than 10 year old Emma Watson), is much more realistic
 
gabbysolis said:
One thing I genuinely wish for her is for her to take this year to get her license. She works part time and can easily take lessons at quieter hours. It doesn’t have to be stressful or panicked, just go at your own pace but start now and do it little and often. It’s not right to be having a teacher pick you up for work at your old school, or waiting around at 3pm for mum to collect you.

There will also likely come a point where she has to learn and then it’s stressful and rushed. It’s much better to take control of the situation yourself when you can.
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I wouldn't be surprised if she has some sort of anxiety towards driving, I dealt with it myself. My parents have their fair share of flaws, but one thing they did right was pushing me to keep practicing even when I didn't want to, and accompanying me on drives until I got more comfortable. It would be in Mama Bone's best interest to start doing that as well, or Ruby will always rely on her.

Another idea mentioned earlier was for Ruby to move somewhere with good public transit. That's something I wish I could do, but I can't afford it. Ruby, on the other hand, has more than enough resources to change her living situation.
 
beltork said:
I do think her more recent accent, where she seems to be speaking in a more adult pitch (lower and a bit more Kate Middleton than 10 year old Emma Watson), is much more realistic
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If you listen to recent interviews with Emma Watson, Ruby appears to have just traded an OTT Hermione voice for her best approximation of a grown-up Emma voice, vocal tics and all. VARRY coincidentally, it started happening just as Ruby learned she would be attending Oxford at the same time as Emma.
 
I checked out a few of her videos after a long break and not much seems to have changed. But what happened to her book, is she still working on it?
 
Bones is a much cooler last name than Granger. Granger is lame. Bones has the ability to be punny and there is so many ways you can incorporate it into a brand. Like "DEM BONES" is utterly stupid, but it got a chuckle out of me. It's somewhat memorable. Granger is dull. It's commonplace. She should drop the whole Granger crap. Most people who started youtube careers under random usernames later changed it to their names after the usernames got old/more professional I guess/what was funny 10 years ago isn't now.
 
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oliviasday said:
I checked out a few of her videos after a long break and not much seems to have changed. But what happened to her book, is she still working on it?
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Depending when you stopped watching, she's tried and failed to get three books (at least) published and quickly shelved them the second she started getting rejections of any kind.

Lottie Parton is a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Friend.
(Ruby's rip-off of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and other popular YA mysteries.)
Her agent took it out on submission, it started getting hit with rejections, then Ruby panicked, threw a tantrum, pulled the book from submission and decided she "didn't want to publish it anyway, ackshually!"

Penelope Peppermint and the Silver-Tipped Octopus.
(Ruby's rip-off of Lemony Snicket.)
Rejected entirely by her agent. Ruby claimed this was because it was "too acksparimantal". Translation: It was unreadable drivel.

Palisades Lost.
(Ruby's rip-off of His Dark Materials.)
Ruby announced that her agent was going on submission with this one late last year and then never mentioned anything since, so it seems a given that it received a wave of rejections and Ruby shelved it.

"In the after-time, in the years ahead that stretched like taffy, I would tell myself that it was of little consequence - an inconsequential concussion of the eye, or an unhappy coincidence." - This is a real line that Ruby wrote and included in this book and thought it would get published.

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The most she's said lately about any of her books is that she was "BARNT OUT" so writing has "fallen on the waysoide". She appears to have dusted off PANALOPEEE PAPPERMANT and 'Her Unlight Materials' and put them on her planner recently (Alyssa is the name of her main character in Palisades Lost). No doubt she's just getting ChatGPT to do rewrites for her.

I really wish she'd finally realise that there's no chance of her ever getting a book deal and just self-publish these already so we can cringe-read them.
 
gossip_guy said:
"In the after-time, in the years ahead that stretched like taffy, I would tell myself that it was of little consequence - an inconsequential concussion of the eye, or an unhappy coincidence." - This is a real line that Ruby wrote and included in this book and thought it would get published.
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This is genuinely completely unintelligible…I read it multiple times and I still cannot understand what the duck it means
 
The funniest part for me is that for a Youtuber with her following, getting a publishing deal is way easier than it is for other people, because they come with a fanbase that is more likely to buy anything with her name on it just to support them. All sorts of Youtubers manage to publish books even without having a special interest in literature or writing. Some Youtubers who have published books, I wasn't even sure they could read and write.
So to me it's hilarious that she had all of these advantages, her whole identity is "being a writer/scholar", and she still can't get a publishing deal because she's so bad at it.
 
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