Does she ever take a break from the 'Ruby Granger,' persona ? I'm just wondering as on holiday she is filming all these 'bookish,' and 'academic,' shots with her carrying around a book in the rain in the attempt to look all scholarly. It was the same with Oxford a well with her constant posing with a stack of books, Is she hoping for a stranger to look upon her and think 'that is a scholar!'
Ruby Granger #47 Self Learning at the University of Roobs, Manor campus
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Ripley Rose Kat
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One saving Grace folks, she didn't take a book to the premiere this time!
She's so desperate to seen as clever all the time though, it's weird and not a personality trait x
She's so desperate to seen as clever all the time though, it's weird and not a personality trait x
Rumblemumble
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Rumpster got moved by Macbeth as she read aloud, but then cut the part where one can naturally assume she started to cry.
Also, how many times is she gonna say "there is just something so..."???
Also, how many times is she gonna say "there is just something so..."???
Uncomfortable moments:
Food issues - apart from the breakfasts provided at her accommodation, Ruby never showed herself eating a proper meal. We were told about (and saw a brief glimpse of) her vegan smoked mackerel (??!) and her bean soup with (two) pumpkin tortellini in Edinburgh but mostly she eats tiny takeaway salads and snacks.
Am I the only one to notice the complementary Tunnocks teacake and caramel wafer remained untouched on the tea tray at the end of her stay - unlike some of us who would have necked them within two minutes of entering the room!
So much tea drinking! In takeaway cups - which are horrid and not at all sustainable.
One (good) reason for so much hot beverage consumption might be to keep warm (rather than stave off hinger pangs) - but for large swathes of time in windy Culcross she is prancing about with no coat and a short skirt. I was shivering just watching.
The book props - if you must carry a doorstopper around with you everywhere, why not in one of the endless totes? There wasn't even a pretence of progress with Mr Norris till the train journey home - every time she filmed herself opening it, it was practically at the beginning.
Slightly creepy emptiness of Culcross - not a soul in sight for the whole trip - I've seen busier plague villages.
The 'productive planning' - Ruby hates spontaneity so much she annotates her sight-seeing list with cafes and restaurants for food stops she never makes, but was taken entirely by surprise that the tiny village she had chosen to visit contains a castle said to be a venue associated with her favourite Shakespeare play.
Even Ruby can't destroy Shakespeare though - 'tomorrow and tomorrow' still sent a shiver down my spine
Food issues - apart from the breakfasts provided at her accommodation, Ruby never showed herself eating a proper meal. We were told about (and saw a brief glimpse of) her vegan smoked mackerel (??!) and her bean soup with (two) pumpkin tortellini in Edinburgh but mostly she eats tiny takeaway salads and snacks.
Am I the only one to notice the complementary Tunnocks teacake and caramel wafer remained untouched on the tea tray at the end of her stay - unlike some of us who would have necked them within two minutes of entering the room!
So much tea drinking! In takeaway cups - which are horrid and not at all sustainable.
One (good) reason for so much hot beverage consumption might be to keep warm (rather than stave off hinger pangs) - but for large swathes of time in windy Culcross she is prancing about with no coat and a short skirt. I was shivering just watching.
The book props - if you must carry a doorstopper around with you everywhere, why not in one of the endless totes? There wasn't even a pretence of progress with Mr Norris till the train journey home - every time she filmed herself opening it, it was practically at the beginning.
Slightly creepy emptiness of Culcross - not a soul in sight for the whole trip - I've seen busier plague villages.
The 'productive planning' - Ruby hates spontaneity so much she annotates her sight-seeing list with cafes and restaurants for food stops she never makes, but was taken entirely by surprise that the tiny village she had chosen to visit contains a castle said to be a venue associated with her favourite Shakespeare play.
Even Ruby can't destroy Shakespeare though - 'tomorrow and tomorrow' still sent a shiver down my spine
FolderDuvet
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To be fair, she does preport to be vegan, and neither of those are. Also marshmallow is quite oversweet,
and I personally have to be in a very specific mood for caramel wafters. I'd definitely have left the teacake and probably the caramel wafer.
That said Ruby isn't one to shy away from sweets (for reasons that could be slightly worrying especially in the context of what you're saying) so I should imagine if they were vegan she would have gone for them. Ruby is probably better talked about as having a "plant based diet" than being an ethical vegan though, for reasons that abound in these threads.
Jelly Bean
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At The Dome restaurant I was baffled by her joy at her mocktail as it related to a shark. Until I realised she was trying to say 'Sherlock'.
Super_Berry
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As someone else said the teacakes and wafer aren't vegan and while she's definitely not
vegan by any means I wouldn't expect her to eat either and be called out on camera. The thing about Culross is it's a tiny place. You might go spend an afternoon walking around, but you don't go for days. If you go on a nice summer's weekend then it's really busy or if there's tourists visiting because of Outlander, but on a week day out with that it's going to be so quiet. The fact she kept going back to the jetty it because there isn't much else there once you've walked around the couple of streets. There's a couple of cafes and a pub, but when she was there people would be at work in the day or in their houses at night.
threeSMEGfridges
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I'm watching the vlog. I'm already laughing at her packing her sandwiches for the train in brown paper and ribbonbut now she's just went to my favourite vegan cafe Holy Cow and now I'm jealous haha.
I know - just pack a small Tupperware box like
other eco conscious people do (I pack a sandwich size lunchbox for any trip / holiday and if I don’t pack sandwiches it takes leftovers, open packets et..)
Fastgirl154
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“She went to bleeping Scotland” made me choke on my coffee on a very full light-rail here in Australia.
slamvs27
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It's ok, the cover matches the aesthetic...that's all that matters
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The little gasps she did during her monologue made me die of second-hand embarassment
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She's probably oblivious to the fact that wicked is a book. I just pray that she doesn't soak up the wizard of oz into her frankienality. I couldn't tolerate Ruby in pigtails as she drags Lola around like a prop.
Freyjalace
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Sorry if I've posted this before, but this is about Ruby:
As someone who works in this field, this is a serious concern to me as well. She does not treat books from circulating libraries properly. I fear that she will get some letter approving her to work with special collections and they won't watch her closely. I wish she would be required to take a course on how to handle books and materials (modern and otherwise) properly.
She was putting post-it notes and papers inside of books (and leaving them there as an "act of kindness") - these things, especially adhesives, damage books. Sticking papers in library books (and leaving them there) seems innocuous but can also damage them over time, as the dye can run, or the paper can disintegrate, or any number of other things.
There are very strict rules for working with rare books and manuscripts. I see how flippantly she treats modern library materials, and shudder to think of anyone granting her archival privileges. Supervision and bag checks are standard for readers in special collections, but you never know what she might get away with, especially given that she has a postgraduate degree now. It only takes a second to damage something irreversibly.
I don't think she understands the study of books as objects, and I doubt she cares about texts in any real way. Everything is a prop. This will only change when she actually grows up and recognizes the connection between lived human experience and authorship. So much of her day is spent larping as an intellectual and looking a certain way. When does she actually have space and time to think, to process anything? Churning out vapid summaries isn't thinking.
Sibyl Vane
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Out of the entire vlog, my favourite moment is a very spontaneous iPhone suicide at 39:47.
RIP old chap.
RIP old chap.
gossip_guy
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Sadly she's already been made to do some variation of this multiple times, as part of her Masters and when she went on her pointless DARK MACADAMIA ADVANCHAA to visit Surrey archives for her undergrad dissertation.
She's just incapable of learning and/or simply doesn't give a tit, she just sees all books as disposable props for her to do whatever she wants with, regardless of the rarity or historical context.
Marylebone (definitely) to Euston (probably) so to be fair, by the time she walked to Baker Street from Marylebone to get a tube it would be quicker to taxi.This is relatively minor but it wound me up when she got an Uber from (presumably) Paddington to (presumably) Kings Cross in the beginning of the video. Get the tube lass
How else could she transport her empty WWII evacuation luggage??This is relatively minor but it wound me up when she got an Uber from (presumably) Paddington to (presumably) Kings Cross in the beginning of the video. Get the tube lass
Deeandra2020
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I actually choked on my tea when I realised that one of the stations Rubes stopped at while on her way to Edinborough was actually my station! For a brief moment, me and Rubes were in the same town...
I got that vibe and it confused me a lot. It reminds me of a coastal town near where I grew up, very small and great for tourists during the holiday period but aside from summer, not great to visit because there's literally nothing to do. It seemed an odd choiceAs someone else said the teacakes and wafer aren't vegan and while she's definitely not
The thing about Culross is it's a tiny place. You might go spend an afternoon walking around, but you don't go for days. If you go on a nice summer's weekend then it's really busy or if there's tourists visiting because of Outlander, but on a week day out with that it's going to be so quiet. The fact she kept going back to the jetty it because there isn't much else there once you've walked around the couple of streets. There's a couple of cafes and a pub, but when she was there people would be at work in the day or in their houses at night.