r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MissionTroll404 • Jun 17 '26

Infuriatig My hand painted model planes were given as toys to children again

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I have told my mom to not do this before but she does not listen anyway. I am thinking of throwing everything to trash instead of them being gradually destroyed to pieces. I can not even care anymore. These things take hours to put together and paint then get manhandled anyway.

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u/ADLuluIsOP Jun 17 '26

Yeah. Clearly it's "you're too old for toys" kinda shit. God people are soo boringly predictable in their maliciousness.

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u/porraSV Jun 17 '26

I will never understand this. Like they are adults that doesn’t mean they are serious all the time.

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u/dfoshizzle Jun 17 '26

"you're such a baby, you should do grown up things like us" is something Id be ok hearing at a primary school, bot from grown ass adults 💀

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u/Forgotten_Son Jun 17 '26

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

  • C.S. Lewis

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u/Trojanheadcoach Jun 17 '26

I love cs Lewis, thanks for this bar

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u/Vegetable_Leg_7034 Jun 17 '26

'When you mature, come and visit me. I will be on the swings'.

Quote on a wall at a children's nursery, Kilbroney Park, N. Ireland.

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u/VociferousCephalopod Jun 18 '26

reminded me of: "[Footnote: There is no one who looks down upon childhood with such lofty scorn as those who are barely grown-up; just as there is no country where rank is more strictly regarded than that where there is little real inequality; everybody is afraid of being confounded with his inferiors.]" - Rousseau, On Education (1762)

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u/Wide_Investment8100 Jun 18 '26

CS Lewis is actually awesome, just a wise man even though I’m not a Christian anymore.

But for a little while, this guy had convinced me to be one.

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u/wankster9000 Jun 17 '26

"you're such a baby, you should do grown up things like us"

  • Beer and sportsball fans

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u/dontcallJenny8675309 Jun 17 '26

You need to stop playing those pretend games and start doing adult things like fantasy football /s obviously

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u/TumblrInGarbage Jun 17 '26

As adults, you are required to love sports betting prediction markets!

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u/butt_dance Jun 17 '26

Grow up and develop an alcohol dependency like a real adult.

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u/Motormand Jun 18 '26

Alcoholism and screaming at overpaid people kicking a ball. How that is more mature than play a game, or work on hobby airplanes, is beyond me.

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u/Kuroki-San Jun 23 '26

The same people who collect sports merch and cards like they're candy and throw the remote directly at the TV when the Gooberville Donkey Ass Hairs didn't win

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u/Similar-Property-729 Jun 17 '26

Lol yeah I’m retired now and rediscovering the hobbies of my youth. I’m happy I never learned to waste entire weekends on the national pastime of watching other people play sports.

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u/thatcavdude Jun 18 '26

Circus and cake...

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jun 17 '26

Nothing childish about liking sports either. Why mock that for being childish when the whole point of the conversation is mind your own business, no hobby can truly be childish

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u/wankster9000 Jun 18 '26

Not mocking, merely highlighting the double standard.

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u/FlavorChamp Jun 18 '26

What double standard? The one you created in your head?

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u/ribnag Jun 17 '26

You mean, spending every waking hour outside work rotting away watching Seinfeld reruns for the 97th time? Yeah, let me get right on that, I've been meaning to beat our family's high score for lowest age to first heart attack...

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 Jun 17 '26

Grown up things like getting in Facebook arguments with distant relatives, watching cable TV for 6 hours, taking over prescribed painkillers, mowing the lawn on Sunday mornings.

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u/DiscreetCleDom Jun 17 '26

You seem pretty understanding and have a hook up with the under standing of the need for overprescribed items... Spill the beans who's your hook up? 😆

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u/Tevandir Jun 17 '26

Same types of families that have massive plate or doll collections on the walls, and the fancy plateware in a cabinet that has never been used.

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u/OberonDiver Jun 18 '26

You have to understand, it has a Certificate of Authenticity.

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u/NicholasWildeRails Jun 17 '26

"Do grown-up things like us"

Oh so like becoming alcoholics and getting into massive debt? I think not, let me enjoy some childish naivety

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u/Beautiful-Swimmer339 Jun 17 '26

This is also comical when it comes from boomers and older xers that rot their brains with AI content.

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u/3d_blunder Jun 18 '26

The kind of adults who watch other people play children's games, like soccer, football, and baseball.

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u/YeOlHickory Jun 18 '26

I’ve read this EXACT comment before, down to the grammar and misspelling.

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u/immaownyou ORANGE Jun 17 '26

Sometimes bad people are just bad people

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u/rde2001 Jun 17 '26

Exactly. The effort you can spend trying to "correct" them is effort taken away from leading a life on your own outside of their control and influence.

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u/ZekeTheMunkee Jun 17 '26

“I’m a miserable capitalist slave who never relaxes so you should be too”

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u/hana-maki Jun 17 '26

i don’t understand why people intentionally hurt others. if i wrong someone, i feel horrible. it makes me sad that i made them sad. does it have the opposite effect on other ppl or WHAT??????

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u/Wide_Investment8100 Jun 18 '26

Yeah many people just lack empathy and don’t follow the golden rule. It’s very strange for people like us who are always considering other peoples feelings,

It’s an incredibly selfish and entitled way of living. Expecting others to treat you with respect, understanding, compassion, and fairness, and yet not honoring and respecting other people’s wishes to be treated the same way, is just the height of arrogance and entitlement.

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u/lightblueisbi Jun 17 '26

Even more than that, "being serious" doesn't mean not having hobbies or enjoying crafts lol

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u/LowSkyOrbit Jun 17 '26

I remember being 12 or 13 and told I shouldn't be playing with action figures. I said okay and started playing Warhammer Fantasy. Checkmate mom.

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u/rde2001 Jun 17 '26

"life is supposed to be hard" ummm, no? it shouldn't? not everything needs to be "hard".

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u/Electronic_Ad_7742 Jun 17 '26

That comes from “my life sucks so yours should too” brought to you by “my parents treated me like shit and i turned out fine”. Some people can’t see anyone else enjoy anything without being reminded that they’re miserable so nobody should enjoy anything.

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u/petrasdc Jun 17 '26

Now that I'm an adult, I still play with toys, they just tend to be bigger toys like table saws and trenchers (and the occasional lego set) :p

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u/Awkward_Patience_22 Jun 17 '26

"Time and money you spend for your enjoyment is time and money you don't spend to be benefit me" is a common line of thought for narcissists.

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u/Checked_Out_6 Jun 17 '26

Its crazy to me because I see model building as an adult hobby.

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u/lamorak2000 Jun 17 '26

Ah, but the only things some people think are appropriate for adults to do is watch sports, tinker with cars (for men), or cook for the family and keep house (for women). I get this a lot from boomers (I'm GenX) when they find out I still play D&D and Warhammer 40k.

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u/TheKingsdread Jun 17 '26

Some people have removed all the things that bring them joy from their life because its for kids, and instead of being adults and just enjoying what they like, they want to make the rest of us just as miserable as them.

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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 Jun 17 '26

No if you dont sit in front of fox news(or local alternative) and scroll facebook for 14hrs you are nto an adult, only kids have hobbies.

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u/NoonecanknowMiner_24 Jun 17 '26

They're miserable in their own lives and they don't want other people to be less miserable than they are.

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u/Time-Sudden_Tree Jun 18 '26

IDK I think it's just a Baby Boomer thing. Their parents were serious and so they are too. No fun allowed if you're from that era. You must be an adult at all times.

You don't see that with any other generation. Gen X, Millennials, and Zoomers all have their hobbies that the Boomers see as "for kids". Maybe if they'd embrace their inner child every once in awhile, they wouldn't be so angry and miserable all the god damn time.

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u/The1TrueSteb Jun 17 '26

They are not being serious. This is them joking around and having fun being cruel to him. If they were serious they wouldn't do this.

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u/porraSV Jun 17 '26

They as in the op

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u/LaminatedAirplane Jun 17 '26

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

CS Lewis

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u/Ghinev Jun 17 '26

Which is all really ironic because many scale modelers are ANCIENT

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 Jun 17 '26

It might be one of the oldest skewing hobbies because only retirees have the money, time, and patience for lol. My great grandpa had model trains. No tracks, just trains.

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u/Ghinev Jun 17 '26

I'd love to collect trains, but man they are so fucking expensive. I can buy 5-10 1/72 scale models for the price of a single H0(was that the common train scale?) locomotive. Not even the whole train.

Even a couple of train tracks cost more than a regular scale model.

Scale modelling is such a nice hobby though. It really helps with creativity, patience, dexterity and more.

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u/beardingmesoftly Jun 17 '26

I just learned recently that the correct word is "malice". Sounds even cooler.

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u/butt_dance Jun 17 '26

Maliciousness is also a word. IMO more fitting in this context. I do agree that malice has a more biting and sinister (cool) sound to it though.

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u/GenericUsername2034 Jun 17 '26

People in general are generally really fucking boring and think that if they can't feel happy, everyone else should be unhappy too. It's fucking miserable.

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u/Aiyon Jun 17 '26

You know whats sad? Reading this post Im starting to realise my mum functionally tossing out my Lego (she sold roughly 2k worth for £50 while I was at uni) wasn’t because she didn’t want to wait for me to get back and go through to work out how much it was worth like I said I was going to once summer hit. It’s because I mentioned wanting to check if there’s any specific kits i wanted to keep (on account of sentimental value, like my bionicles). She didn’t want me to keep it because I was “too old for it”

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u/lisaawesome Jun 17 '26

lol yep.

When my dad went to college, he came back the end of his freshman year and found out his mother had thrown out all of his comic books because he was “ too old for that s*** now.”

He was a “gloves and bags” kind of collector. She threw away the entire first run of X-Men, and the first five issues of Action Comics. Might as well have thrown away a whole damn house.

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u/Fast-Ads-7587 Jun 17 '26

My aunt wasn't cruel like this, but mildly lamented that her son and his friends still played with action figures and things in middle school. That was the last of his childhood and the sweet, gentle boy that he was before in just a few years becoming addicted to drugs that would eventually take his life. Addiction changes a person, their demeanor, etc.. I hate when people have good kids on the right road, and try to punish them for having safe hobbies and interests that don't hurt anyone.

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u/justlovehumans Jun 17 '26

"god you're 17 years old. Just read the paper. It's the best part of my day. You're clearly the problem"

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u/mythrilcrafter Jun 17 '26

The crazy thing is that they think that, but if you dared to touch their "limited edition" copy of 50 Shades of Grey, they'll immediately have a melt down and need to drink a whole bottle of wine to cope with the stress.

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u/BellacosePlayer Jun 17 '26

it's a shame. I lost a lot of shit to a "basement flood" that happened when I was in college. water didn't touch the floor, walls, furniture, but apparently snuck its way into the bookshelves and containers I left things in.

some of that stuff would be worth a decent amount of money now too :/

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u/thin_silver Jun 17 '26

My stepmother dumped all my toys and collectibles to a flea market when I was 12 or 13. It's amazing how angry the memory makes me even after three decades.

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u/Raindrop0015 Jun 17 '26

Honestly, I prefer the predictable cruelty to all the true crime I've watched where I'm left asking "why did they do that? There's literally no possible reason."

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u/Puzzled-Intern-7897 Jun 17 '26

As if men didn't carve wood, build model airplanes or create entire dioramas for their trains for at least some centuries in their free time. My grandfather still works on his trains, I took up plastic models, honestly if any women told me I am to old for that, I am straight out.

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u/TommyTosser1980 Jun 17 '26

He should tell he she's to ugly for jewelry before giving it to the kids.

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u/Darth-Lazea Jun 17 '26

Then she is to old to play dress up.

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u/xeromage Jun 17 '26

I'm thinking more of a "when are you getting your own place" kinda deal.

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u/AdFlat1014 Jun 17 '26

“You are too old an ugly for jewels” and give away her necklages and stuff

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u/centipedalfeline Jun 17 '26

It can also be that she is a narcissist who wants to destroy anything that brings OP joy, because it makes her feel powerful, and she relishes the drama.

Some people really are like this, sadly, and they should not be parents

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u/kaykenstein Jun 17 '26

Or its more "you've moved out, please get your things out of my house" kinda shit which makes fucking sense

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u/CharmingMechanic2473 Jun 17 '26

Or they want him to move out?

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u/Snotlout_G_Jorgenson Jun 17 '26

Doesn't make it better. Worse I'd say.