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Holy shit this is gold
I saw this on reddit ages ago and it still makes me laugh
As someone who got irrationally angry at Amelia Bedelia as a kid, I really wish this was a real book. An adult version where she gets properly called out on her bullshit would be absolutely cathartic to read.
Damn you too? I was like 8 years old thinking to myself, here we have an asshole, who is clearly inept, and yet her reputation never suffers.
I know, right? The whole reason why she was such a big fuckup to begin with was because she was surrounded by enablers! Even my prepubescent self knew there were no good people in those books.
Was going to say “
wantsneeds to be told what to do exactly” and does exactly that is one of the reasons so many autistic people like myself are into computers.And then i learned about Amelia Bedelia and i will literally eat my shirt if that isn’t autism coded.
I dislike how the post calls those traits as dumb
, i personaly loath the times i gave exact instructions only for a non autistic to ignore half and gladly show me something that is useless to me. But i do still agree wirh the underlying message.“Amelias Bedelia” fucking sent my ass lmao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Bedelia
Premise
The stories follow Amelia Bedelia, a maid who repeatedly misunderstands various commands of her employer by taking figures of speech and various terminology literally, with comical results. For example, she interprets a request to “put the lights out” as a request to physically put the light bulbs outside. Other examples include “tag a player out” when playing baseball resulting in her placing an actual tag on the player and then picking up the person to ask how far out they should be.
Okay yes. This was what I thought it was. My second grade teacher read this to us once, and the thing about drawing the drapes has stuck with me for most of my life. She’s a complete fuckup who ruins everything, but she’s good at baking pies so that makes it okay.
Computers often do what you said, not what you meant.
Honestly more experience with that might help some people who are habitually unclear in their thinking and communication
Computers
oftenliterally always do what you said, not what you meant.FTFY
They shoulda said that more gooder
It’s like the classic “how do you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich” lesson
https://www.highrock.co/2022/07/never-assume-a-lesson-from-peanut-butter-and-jelly/
I love AI as digital Amelia Bedelia. Bedeliae?
It’s like Postmasters General.
The plural of Surgeon General is Surgeons General.
The past tense of Surgeons General is Surgeoned General.
Bedelia is plural, a single is a Bedelium.
I’m pretty sure Bedelium is the condition caused by the presence of Bedeliae
This is very accurate.
Great programming motivation post
I look forward to the semi-daily posts by one of the regulars at !comicstrips@lemmy.world
EDIT : I was going to post a link to internet archive, but those are all part of some official library collections, so we’re shit out of luck lads
So…stupider than thinking that’s the right pluralization?
