Is it Wrong....?

[Lokithrsourcerer]

I'm a 28 year old man. and recently me and a couple of m8s have started collecting LEGO models again.

is there anything wrong with that?

My GF thinks i have childhood issues (she is doing a masters in psychology so I get analysed a lot lol)

 

[Roofstone]

Nah. I am 22, and I sleep with a teddy bear in my bed. Most people keep something with them from childhood. Enjoy your lego. <3 It is awesome after all.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Tell her to shove it! Legos are cool.

 

[Aidinthel]

I don't think so. Some of those lego models are pretty cool. Do what you want.

It's not like I can condemn you for that after watching My Little Pony all day...

 

[Lokithrsourcerer]

lol thanx guys, keep em coming and when she gets home from work i can show her
shes got no clue

 

[AndyFromMonday]

They're just Lego's. Tell your girlfriend to fuck off.

lol thanx guys, keep em coming and when she gets home from work i can show her
shes got no clue

That's a bad idea. Like "no sex for a year" bad idea.

 

[Magicmad5511]

Legos are the essence of creativity. You don't have childhood issues. You are just a creative soul who enjoys building projects.

Also they are freaking amazing.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I'm a 28 year old man. and recently me and a couple of m8s have started collecting LEGO models again.

is there anything wrong with that?

My GF thinks i have childhood issues (she is doing a masters in psychology so I get analysed a lot lol)

Dude, Legos at 28? What's wrong with you?

*Goes back to watching Transformers and racing Hot Wheels (is 24)*

 

[Ghengis John]

Tell her you're bored and creating things is fun. If she thinks you still have childhood issues, let her know that you'd much rather have sex with her than build legos. Win win.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Legos are awesome. So are Knex, and those metalworking sets that I can't recall the name of.

Besides, you can save them for years and pass them to your children.

 

[Fbuh]

I get scoffed at a lot for buying and playing with Legos (I'm 22). Truthfully, it's perfectly fine. Not many people realize the potential for building and modeling that they have. You should check out www.brothers-brick.com. They have amazing models and scenes posted just about every day.

 

[Episode42]

Why would you ever want to stop collecting Lego? Nowadays, Lego isn't simply for kids anymore, a lot of it is geared toward adults. Even the 'playset' style of Lego are quite often fairly complex for people of the younger persuasion.
Personally, i've spent about £700 on my collection of Star Wars Lego and i couldn't be prouder of it.
Also (i'm not sure if this applies to the entire Lego range, but certainly the Star Wars stuff) the line up changes almost every year. A good proportion of my collection you simply can't buy new anymore. They aren't exactly collectors items, but its still worth a mention.
So yeah, enjoy your new found fun, fuck what everyone else thinks.
Plus you can get up to this sort of thing [http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystalpyramid/5161707330/in/photostream]

 

[twistedmic]

As long as you don't go overboard with it (i.e. buying enough legos to make a full-scale replica of your house and all furnishings within), and you don't let the collecting/building interfere with your life, you don't have a problem.

 

[hecticpicnic]

You could probably buy old boxes of lego, buying new lego is bad for the environment,the amount made is reticulates, it's also expensive compared to stuff you find in charity/second hand shops.
It is creative, but there are so much better materials to work with.
Meccano is cooler anyway.There are some other that are better.
There isn't much you can do with lego.

 

[Krion_Vark]

I'm a 28 year old man. and recently me and a couple of m8s have started collecting LEGO models again.

is there anything wrong with that?

My GF thinks i have childhood issues (she is doing a masters in psychology so I get analysed a lot lol)

I am pretty sure that one of the South Park guys still builds lego models. Point her towards the South Park special 7 days to air. and then tell her there is nothing wrong with you.

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

Masters in Psychology you say? Just to let you know every childhood issue is because you wanted to bone your mother/father, just ask Freud.

Now that the obligatory terrible joke about Freud is done, what difference is there from building models from legos to painting miniatures or building other models.

I'm gonna chalk your gf up to being overenthusiastic to find a problem, And That's Terrible. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndThatsTerrible?from=Main.ptitle643yzv8u](be warned tvtropes ahead)

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

@ OP: Nope, nothing wrong with it, IMO. I'm glad you can still get into it.

I can't really get into lego anymore, nor can I play with toys anymore...It just doesn't feel right.

Nah. I am 22, and I sleep with a teddy bear in my bed. Most people keep something with them from childhood. Enjoy your lego. <3 It is awesome after all.

I would probably be in your boat as well....if it weren't for the fact I got scabies (parasitic infection just under skin) on a family trip, and I had taken my favorite stuffed animal along... My mom took this as an opportunity to "wean" me off of it (in her words), thinking that it was unhealthy/not right/too childish for a 18-19 year old to still sleep with a stuffed animal.... Despite the fact that I kept it around because I needed something (preferably something cuddly and nice) to put my arms around while I slept, and not because I needed "security".

I know he's still in the house somewhere (and actually WAS cleaned). Whenever I move out, I'm taking him with me. "Vinny" is too badass a plushie to leave behind. For the record, he's a big lion, with a face that somehow got scrunched up into a badass glare. ...Oh yeah, he's badass. There's a reason I made him the "leader" of my stuffed animal gang.

 

[Jonluw]

Nothing wrong with that.
Your girfriend is overanalyzing your actions. As psychologists are prone to doing.
Unless you're aware that you have a problem and seek the help of a psychologist on your own or with the help of someone close to you, you should pretty much always just disregard anything a psychologist says. Particularly if they're a student.

They have a horrible case of seeing problems that aren't there and making wild assumptions.
[sub]And demanding that their area be called a proper science. (flameshield activated)[/sub]

 

[Carlan]

I'm kind of surprised. In my experience, most psych students are through with that hyper-analyzing phase by the time they're pursuing their Masters.

Nothing wrong with it.

 

[sumanoskae]

LEGO's are fun, kids like them because they facilitate creativity.

It's not wrong or immature to hold on to the good things about being young, there's a lot that children are still better at then adults.

"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