What kind of invitation is this anyways?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes! This isn't hard. Here's a simple flow chart:

I want to throw a BBQ.

Can I afford to buy food for everyone I want to invite?

If yes, YAY LET'S THROW A F'N BBQ!

If no-----

a) Cull the guest list until I can afford that many people
b) Don't throw a BBQ.

Well that is ONE flow chart.

Here's another.

- I have friends whose company I enjoy, and I would love to share a meal with them at my home. I don't have a lot of disposable income (I know that is a completely foreign concept to many DCUMers), but I'll see who's interested.

- Yay! They're all interested, because I don't have entitled uptight assholes for friends who are too dainty to bring meat and a chair!

Girl. I'm the furthest thing from a snob. I threw a Daytona 500 party this year because I just like throwing parties, okay. But EVEN I am not going to tote my own furniture and a cooler full of my family's food to someone's house so I can then cook my own family our own food there and clean it up and then drag my furniture home. If I'm cooking and sitting in my own furniture, I'm doing it at my house.

I love how some of you can make something so simple seem so burdensome. This is quintessential DCUM.

It is burdensome to take my furniture and own food to someone's house to cook it and sit on it there and then bring it home! In what world is that not burdensome? If you go to a hotel do you take your own bed? Do you take your own food to a restaurant and then hop in the back and cook it up on the grill? Fuck no! Because at a hotel they should have a bed for you and at a restaurant, the expectation is being served food! Otherwise, you'd stay home and cook dinner, not schlep it all there. Or you'd sleep at home, not the hotel.

If I got an invitation like this I'd laugh, but no, I wouldn't go, because I'd just cook my food and sit on my shit at my own house. They might be perfectly lovely people but why am I going to make something 10x harder on myself? I wouldn't be a dick about it and I'd still invite them to my stuff, but no, I'm not hosting myself at someone else's BBQ.

LMAO! See, this is exactly what I mean. Only on DCUM would a folding chair (that most families I know of keep multiples of in their cars anyway) equate to "furniture". Furniture is a bed, a dresser, a sofa, a coffee table, etc.

But keep trying if you want. Oh, and be sure to include the word "schlep", like you did here. It makes it that much more dramatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Earlier this summer a friend invited me to a cookout at her place and asked that anyone who had chairs bring one because there would be swimming afterwards and she didn't have enough deck chairs.

I immediately unfriended her on facebook and blocked her number on my phone. The nerve.

Are you the same idiot trying to post these sarcastic responses. You are an idiot and not funny.

I know, right? Because everything is so goddamned.fucking.serious. that a simple invitation would create such a maelstrom of judgement and self-righteousness.

No-= a simple invitation is "hey would you like to come to a BBQ and could you bring a side or dessert". This was NOT a simple invitation.. Not sure what planet you live on but when furniture is involved "simple" is not in the cards.

Hee! "furniture". Too bad you didn't include "schlep" or it would have been perfect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes! This isn't hard. Here's a simple flow chart:

I want to throw a BBQ.

Can I afford to buy food for everyone I want to invite?

If yes, YAY LET'S THROW A F'N BBQ!

If no-----

a) Cull the guest list until I can afford that many people
b) Don't throw a BBQ.

Well that is ONE flow chart.

Here's another.

- I have friends whose company I enjoy, and I would love to share a meal with them at my home. I don't have a lot of disposable income (I know that is a completely foreign concept to many DCUMers), but I'll see who's interested.

- Yay! They're all interested, because I don't have entitled uptight assholes for friends who are too dainty to bring meat and a chair!

Girl. I'm the furthest thing from a snob. I threw a Daytona 500 party this year because I just like throwing parties, okay. But EVEN I am not going to tote my own furniture and a cooler full of my family's food to someone's house so I can then cook my own family our own food there and clean it up and then drag my furniture home. If I'm cooking and sitting in my own furniture, I'm doing it at my house.

I love how some of you can make something so simple seem so burdensome. This is quintessential DCUM.

It is burdensome to take my furniture and own food to someone's house to cook it and sit on it there and then bring it home! In what world is that not burdensome? If you go to a hotel do you take your own bed? Do you take your own food to a restaurant and then hop in the back and cook it up on the grill? Fuck no! Because at a hotel they should have a bed for you and at a restaurant, the expectation is being served food! Otherwise, you'd stay home and cook dinner, not schlep it all there. Or you'd sleep at home, not the hotel.

If I got an invitation like this I'd laugh, but no, I wouldn't go, because I'd just cook my food and sit on my shit at my own house. They might be perfectly lovely people but why am I going to make something 10x harder on myself? I wouldn't be a dick about it and I'd still invite them to my stuff, but no, I'm not hosting myself at someone else's BBQ.

LMAO! See, this is exactly what I mean. Only on DCUM would a folding chair (that most families I know of keep multiples of in their cars anyway) equate to "furniture". Furniture is a bed, a dresser, a sofa, a coffee table, etc.

But keep trying if you want. Oh, and be sure to include the word "schlep", like you did here. It makes it that much more dramatic.

I'm not going to "keep trying." If you think the invite is cool, that's fine. I think it's weird, but it's just my opinion!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes! This isn't hard. Here's a simple flow chart:

I want to throw a BBQ.

Can I afford to buy food for everyone I want to invite?

If yes, YAY LET'S THROW A F'N BBQ!

If no-----

a) Cull the guest list until I can afford that many people
b) Don't throw a BBQ.

Well that is ONE flow chart.

Here's another.

- I have friends whose company I enjoy, and I would love to share a meal with them at my home. I don't have a lot of disposable income (I know that is a completely foreign concept to many DCUMers), but I'll see who's interested.

- Yay! They're all interested, because I don't have entitled uptight assholes for friends who are too dainty to bring meat and a chair!

Girl. I'm the furthest thing from a snob. I threw a Daytona 500 party this year because I just like throwing parties, okay. But EVEN I am not going to tote my own furniture and a cooler full of my family's food to someone's house so I can then cook my own family our own food there and clean it up and then drag my furniture home. If I'm cooking and sitting in my own furniture, I'm doing it at my house.

I love how some of you can make something so simple seem so burdensome. This is quintessential DCUM.

It is burdensome to take my furniture and own food to someone's house to cook it and sit on it there and then bring it home! In what world is that not burdensome? If you go to a hotel do you take your own bed? Do you take your own food to a restaurant and then hop in the back and cook it up on the grill? Fuck no! Because at a hotel they should have a bed for you and at a restaurant, the expectation is being served food! Otherwise, you'd stay home and cook dinner, not schlep it all there. Or you'd sleep at home, not the hotel.

If I got an invitation like this I'd laugh, but no, I wouldn't go, because I'd just cook my food and sit on my shit at my own house. They might be perfectly lovely people but why am I going to make something 10x harder on myself? I wouldn't be a dick about it and I'd still invite them to my stuff, but no, I'm not hosting myself at someone else's BBQ.

LMAO! See, this is exactly what I mean. Only on DCUM would a folding chair (that most families I know of keep multiples of in their cars anyway) equate to "furniture". Furniture is a bed, a dresser, a sofa, a coffee table, etc.

But keep trying if you want. Oh, and be sure to include the word "schlep", like you did here. It makes it that much more dramatic.

Uh we dont have folding chairs so not its not that easy. You seem insane.

[Anonymous]

I haven't waded through all 11 pages, but I've got the gist.

You people need to smoke a joint or drink a glass of wine and chill the hell out.

True friends could not care less what you ask -- or don't ask -- them to bring. They would show up and have a memorable summer evening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes! This isn't hard. Here's a simple flow chart:

I want to throw a BBQ.

Can I afford to buy food for everyone I want to invite?

If yes, YAY LET'S THROW A F'N BBQ!

If no-----

a) Cull the guest list until I can afford that many people
b) Don't throw a BBQ.

Well that is ONE flow chart.

Here's another.

- I have friends whose company I enjoy, and I would love to share a meal with them at my home. I don't have a lot of disposable income (I know that is a completely foreign concept to many DCUMers), but I'll see who's interested.

- Yay! They're all interested, because I don't have entitled uptight assholes for friends who are too dainty to bring meat and a chair!

Girl. I'm the furthest thing from a snob. I threw a Daytona 500 party this year because I just like throwing parties, okay. But EVEN I am not going to tote my own furniture and a cooler full of my family's food to someone's house so I can then cook my own family our own food there and clean it up and then drag my furniture home. If I'm cooking and sitting in my own furniture, I'm doing it at my house.

I love how some of you can make something so simple seem so burdensome. This is quintessential DCUM.

It is burdensome to take my furniture and own food to someone's house to cook it and sit on it there and then bring it home! In what world is that not burdensome? If you go to a hotel do you take your own bed? Do you take your own food to a restaurant and then hop in the back and cook it up on the grill? Fuck no! Because at a hotel they should have a bed for you and at a restaurant, the expectation is being served food! Otherwise, you'd stay home and cook dinner, not schlep it all there. Or you'd sleep at home, not the hotel.

If I got an invitation like this I'd laugh, but no, I wouldn't go, because I'd just cook my food and sit on my shit at my own house. They might be perfectly lovely people but why am I going to make something 10x harder on myself? I wouldn't be a dick about it and I'd still invite them to my stuff, but no, I'm not hosting myself at someone else's BBQ.

LMAO! See, this is exactly what I mean. Only on DCUM would a folding chair (that most families I know of keep multiples of in their cars anyway) equate to "furniture". Furniture is a bed, a dresser, a sofa, a coffee table, etc.

But keep trying if you want. Oh, and be sure to include the word "schlep", like you did here. It makes it that much more dramatic.

Uh we dont have folding chairs so not its not that easy. You seem insane.

Well then, I guess your choices are:

- don't go, and move on with your life
- get some folding chairs and go and have a great time
- don't go, and start a DCUM witch hunt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Earlier this summer a friend invited me to a cookout at her place and asked that anyone who had chairs bring one because there would be swimming afterwards and she didn't have enough deck chairs.

I immediately unfriended her on facebook and blocked her number on my phone. The nerve.

Are you the same idiot trying to post these sarcastic responses. You are an idiot and not funny.

I know, right? Because everything is so goddamned.fucking.serious. that a simple invitation would create such a maelstrom of judgement and self-righteousness.

PP you are funny and witty! Please keep posting!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes! This isn't hard. Here's a simple flow chart:

I want to throw a BBQ.

Can I afford to buy food for everyone I want to invite?

If yes, YAY LET'S THROW A F'N BBQ!

If no-----

a) Cull the guest list until I can afford that many people
b) Don't throw a BBQ.

Well that is ONE flow chart.

Here's another.

- I have friends whose company I enjoy, and I would love to share a meal with them at my home. I don't have a lot of disposable income (I know that is a completely foreign concept to many DCUMers), but I'll see who's interested.

- Yay! They're all interested, because I don't have entitled uptight assholes for friends who are too dainty to bring meat and a chair!

Girl. I'm the furthest thing from a snob. I threw a Daytona 500 party this year because I just like throwing parties, okay. But EVEN I am not going to tote my own furniture and a cooler full of my family's food to someone's house so I can then cook my own family our own food there and clean it up and then drag my furniture home. If I'm cooking and sitting in my own furniture, I'm doing it at my house.

I love how some of you can make something so simple seem so burdensome. This is quintessential DCUM.

It is burdensome to take my furniture and own food to someone's house to cook it and sit on it there and then bring it home! In what world is that not burdensome? If you go to a hotel do you take your own bed? Do you take your own food to a restaurant and then hop in the back and cook it up on the grill? Fuck no! Because at a hotel they should have a bed for you and at a restaurant, the expectation is being served food! Otherwise, you'd stay home and cook dinner, not schlep it all there. Or you'd sleep at home, not the hotel.

If I got an invitation like this I'd laugh, but no, I wouldn't go, because I'd just cook my food and sit on my shit at my own house. They might be perfectly lovely people but why am I going to make something 10x harder on myself? I wouldn't be a dick about it and I'd still invite them to my stuff, but no, I'm not hosting myself at someone else's BBQ.

LMAO! See, this is exactly what I mean. Only on DCUM would a folding chair (that most families I know of keep multiples of in their cars anyway) equate to "furniture". Furniture is a bed, a dresser, a sofa, a coffee table, etc.

But keep trying if you want. Oh, and be sure to include the word "schlep", like you did here. It makes it that much more dramatic.

Uh we dont have folding chairs so not its not that easy. You seem insane.

Well then, I guess your choices are:

- don't go, and move on with your life
- get some folding chairs and go and have a great time
- don't go, and start a DCUM witch hunt

A witch hunt? Ok either this is OPs "friend" or you really are insane. No one is as worked up as you dear....word to the wise chill the f-out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Earlier this summer a friend invited me to a cookout at her place and asked that anyone who had chairs bring one because there would be swimming afterwards and she didn't have enough deck chairs.

I immediately unfriended her on facebook and blocked her number on my phone. The nerve.

Are you the same idiot trying to post these sarcastic responses. You are an idiot and not funny.

I know, right? Because everything is so goddamned.fucking.serious. that a simple invitation would create such a maelstrom of judgement and self-righteousness.

PP you are funny and witty! Please keep posting!

LOL, I know you are messing with me, but whatever.

I'm out of here for now. Have to go pick up a friend's kid from school. Her car is in the shop.

I secretly judge her for having a kid when she can't afford to have two cars in case one is in the shop. That's just so improper and rude.

[Anonymous]

I think the sum total of stuff the invitees were required to bring adds up to too much!

Meat or fish to grill
Salad and/or dessert
Drinks
Chairs

Too too much. Especially the drinks and meat the grill. the only thing somewhat acceptable is a side dish to share.

What makes it not fun is the whole problem 0f - whose hotdog is this? Who wants another burger? Oh, sorry, those burgers were the Smiths' burgers, you can't have one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes! This isn't hard. Here's a simple flow chart:

I want to throw a BBQ.

Can I afford to buy food for everyone I want to invite?

If yes, YAY LET'S THROW A F'N BBQ!

If no-----

a) Cull the guest list until I can afford that many people
b) Don't throw a BBQ.

Well that is ONE flow chart.

Here's another.

- I have friends whose company I enjoy, and I would love to share a meal with them at my home. I don't have a lot of disposable income (I know that is a completely foreign concept to many DCUMers), but I'll see who's interested.

- Yay! They're all interested, because I don't have entitled uptight assholes for friends who are too dainty to bring meat and a chair!

Girl. I'm the furthest thing from a snob. I threw a Daytona 500 party this year because I just like throwing parties, okay. But EVEN I am not going to tote my own furniture and a cooler full of my family's food to someone's house so I can then cook my own family our own food there and clean it up and then drag my furniture home. If I'm cooking and sitting in my own furniture, I'm doing it at my house.

I love how some of you can make something so simple seem so burdensome. This is quintessential DCUM.

It is burdensome to take my furniture and own food to someone's house to cook it and sit on it there and then bring it home! In what world is that not burdensome? If you go to a hotel do you take your own bed? Do you take your own food to a restaurant and then hop in the back and cook it up on the grill? Fuck no! Because at a hotel they should have a bed for you and at a restaurant, the expectation is being served food! Otherwise, you'd stay home and cook dinner, not schlep it all there. Or you'd sleep at home, not the hotel.

If I got an invitation like this I'd laugh, but no, I wouldn't go, because I'd just cook my food and sit on my shit at my own house. They might be perfectly lovely people but why am I going to make something 10x harder on myself? I wouldn't be a dick about it and I'd still invite them to my stuff, but no, I'm not hosting myself at someone else's BBQ.

LMAO! See, this is exactly what I mean. Only on DCUM would a folding chair (that most families I know of keep multiples of in their cars anyway) equate to "furniture". Furniture is a bed, a dresser, a sofa, a coffee table, etc.

But keep trying if you want. Oh, and be sure to include the word "schlep", like you did here. It makes it that much more dramatic.

Exactly! The back of our SUV always carries 20 folding chairs, 2 pounds of frozen beef, and a porta potti, to be able to attend fun BBQs like this. Where is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To answer the actual question posed in the thread title: "What kind of invitation is this anyways?" --

The kind of invitation that will inevitably end up on DCUM with a few bitches who think it's awful and a lot more who have their interpersonal priorities in perspective and would show up and have a great time.

Self-righteous bitch castigating others for their opinions. You aren't as insightful as you think you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Earlier this summer a friend invited me to a cookout at her place and asked that anyone who had chairs bring one because there would be swimming afterwards and she didn't have enough deck chairs.

I immediately unfriended her on facebook and blocked her number on my phone. The nerve.

Are you the same idiot trying to post these sarcastic responses. You are an idiot and not funny.

And you are a bore and pretentious.

[Anonymous]

People shouldn't have to bring that much food, but I don't understand why people are upset at being asked to bring chairs. I suppose it should have been worded better, but I don't expect everyone to have enough chairs to seat everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Earlier this summer a friend invited me to a cookout at her place and asked that anyone who had chairs bring one because there would be swimming afterwards and she didn't have enough deck chairs.

I immediately unfriended her on facebook and blocked her number on my phone. The nerve.

Are you the same idiot trying to post these sarcastic responses. You are an idiot and not funny.

And you are a bore and pretentious.

Yeah but I wont make my guests bring chairs to a BBQ! Not pretentious in the slightest just not an asshole!