Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 15:04     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 15:03     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 15:02     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 15:02     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
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.


+ 1
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 14:59     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 14:59     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 14:56     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 14:53     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 14:50     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
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!
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 14:49     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
Anonymous wrote:I've had cookouts where I have provided the meat, buns, and drinks and asked guests to bring a side or dessert. I have never asked guests to bring all of their own food and chairs.


THAT is a potluck. This invite is not a potluck. This invite is a shakedown, LOL.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 14:48     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
I've had cookouts where I have provided the meat, buns, and drinks and asked guests to bring a side or dessert. I have never asked guests to bring all of their own food and chairs.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 14:45     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is not a "price"...It is good manners to provide the main meal and chairs if you are hosting a BBQ.

It is even more kind and polite to provide all the side dishes and drinks, too.


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.

Inviting people to bring their own furniture and food to your house to cook and eat (but ONLY if it's sunny out, how dare they think they can enter your home) is weird.


Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 14:45     Subject: Re:What kind of invitation is this anyways?
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.

Inviting people to bring their own furniture and food to your house to cook and eat (but ONLY if it's sunny out, how dare they think they can enter your home) is weird.


I love it!
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 14:42     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
Anonymous wrote:Why on earth wouldn't they just call this a potluck? That's clearly what it is.

Even at a potluck you dont have to bring your own god damn chairs!
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2013 14:42     Subject: What kind of invitation is this anyways?
Anonymous wrote:It is not a "price"...It is good manners to provide the main meal and chairs if you are hosting a BBQ.

It is even more kind and polite to provide all the side dishes and drinks, too.


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.

Inviting people to bring their own furniture and food to your house to cook and eat (but ONLY if it's sunny out, how dare they think they can enter your home) is weird.