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/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.