So as you can see in the picture, I threw a party last year. AEW is a pro wrestling company, much like WWE. They had this big outdoor show at Wembley Stadium in London. Sold something like 80,000 tickets. We watched live on PPV.
It’s the first time I ever threw a wrestling watch party. I invited 4 people. I bought cheese, soft pretzels, bought chips/queso. I had vodka, whiskey, beer, and 3 different THC vape pens along with edible gummies. I also had coke (the soda), barqs root beer, and one of the special novelty mountain dew flavors.
I cooked chicken, and cut the cheese into cubes with individual toothpicks. I got out my good plates. And used the projector to make the screen 90 inches.
Only 2 people showed up. Nobody ate hardly anything. Nobody drank anything. Hardly anything was said. This picture was taken AFTER the party. We went through 1 bag of chips, and 1 1/2 jars of queso.
I literally could have just bought 1 bag of chips, 2 jars of queso, and saved $100 and 2 days of prep work.
I even had 2 different styles of BBQ sauce for the chicken.
Yes, it’s a year later, and I’m still mildly infuriated over it!
spread + AEW sounds like a great time OP I think its possible that your friends are not pro-level friends but maybe something else is amiss?
- live in ohio
- not good at video games
- only know 4 girls, all have same name
- the guys were all white dudes with beard + glasses, couldn’t tell each other apart
- invited mean guy
if not one of those try getting pro friends
…I DO live in Ohio…and not that good at video games. All the women I know have different names. I feel like I’m missing a reference with that, unless you ARE referencing the Oblongs, in which case bravo. There was one white dude with a beard, no glasses, but he didn’t show. No mean people.
I’d love some pro friends. Got any that live near Cleveland?
That’s crazy that I nailed it in 1 try
Yeah I got people in Cleveland but they don’t like AEW because they are wrong about which things are good
I’m sorry this happened but if it makes you feel better, I’d totally love to come over there and chow down on all of that stuff.
I didn’t realize adults of drinking age were interested in fake wrestling.
People need to bond over something and modern life stripped normal shot away filled with this engagement slop.
Yeah it retarded but I also don’t judge normies for trying to have friends
The E in WWE is for Entertainment.
Some people enjoy belittling other’s choices on the internet. Some enjoy watching the drama of fake wrestling.
I’m very much into a variety of entertainment. And fake wrestling was fun to watch when I was a kid. Not trying to belittle anyone, more just surprised that grown adults still watch it.
I haven’t watched since WWF Attitude Era, but there really is nothing like wrestling. It’s such crazy performance art, with sick flips and insane feats of strength. I also called it fake like the person you responded to when I was 11, but now that I’m an adult, I recognize how fantastic it really is.
Also RIP Big Cat Scott Henson.
I don’t get it either. I also don’t get why people would want to watch a bunch of guys scramble around a field after an oblong ball and give each other TBIs, but, hey, people can enjoy whatever they want. I don’t need to criticize them for it. So, why do you feel that need?
Plenty are interested in fake stories like scifi and fantasy movies, so why shouldn’t they?
My significant other is into it and I have decided to just enjoy it with them by picking the silliest person I can see on the stage and rooting for them and playing drinking games with the sillier aspects.
It can be a lot of fun especially with how excited the people I am watching with get excited about the whole thing.
Plus the last guy I picked ( I miss you Boogs!) Was a large muscle man that looked like steroided Freddie Mercury and absolutely shredded on the guitar.
That sounds really great. Sorry, I’m an asshole.
Hey, it’s never to late to change from the asshole you are, to the asshole you want to be.
Damn, sorry it happened, 2 of them could’ve told you they no show, it’s not even hard.
Would’ve totally take some of those back home if its me.
I feel your pain, several years ago I made Thanksgiving dinner for about 15 friends, everything prepped the day before, and we had a hard ice that night, everything frozen over and no one showed
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did you miss the part where the streets were frozen? they probably didn’t want to risk their lives for food
What? That’s like humanity’s whole shtick. I live my ancestors by always being willing to risk my life for food!
I will crawl into an active volcano for a crunchwrap. I have literally walked through a jungle and got ringworm for a good Thai curry.
Some of y’all ain’t living.
I did yeah. That’s why I deleted my comment
Ah, the deletion doesn’t seem to have federated to my instance, sorry for any confusion
No worries- I probably should’ve just left the comment and added a note explaining the misunderstanding on my end.
That’s what it was, they were frozen solid. It sucked but I wouldn’t have gone out there either. At least I had plenty to eat until it thawed outside
Ah, that sucks too. At least you can take solace in the knowledge that it was unsafe to drive. Still sucks, but it’s a bit less insulting. My thing was on a sunny August day.
Shit. Can you invite me next time?
Same. Me too.
That’s still way too much food even if everyone came. And everyone never comes.
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Well never hurts to be over prepared unless you hate wasting food.
But I would like to point out that you were expecting each participant at an unrealistic 100% turnout to eat roughly 20 cubes of cheese each. That’s not including all the other food there. That’s the better part of a whole package of cheese each that they were just supposed to chunk down their gullets?
Bro I’m not into wrestling, but definitely invite me to your D&D sessions.
Ugh sorry bro.
But this reminds me of that reddit post from forever ago about the same thing. Cups, drinks, food. Nobody showed
Damn them wangs look good…
They wouldna survived intact
That feel when your homies are all on ozempic.
(Sorry brother, I would have consumed a healthy amount had I been there. I am on ozempic now so depending on when my shot was my performance is no longer guaranteed)
This is why I always eat all the food I can at a party. Everyone else is being too polite and someone’s gotta eat all that food.
It’s a tough job
I am sorry this was your experience, it’s an awesome and tasty spread, I would have loved to have been invited and would have eaten a lot of it haha
That said, I think some times disappointments like this happen because there’s some mismatch in people’s expectations of an event
I find that sometimes it also helps to let people know in advance that there will be food so they don’t eat beforehand. Sorry if you already mentioned this in the thread somewhere. I hope you make some more friends, but no need to officially break things off with anyone from this event. Just cool it with them for awhile I guess
Keep trying my friend! I would have been moved out of there with a wheelbarrow.
Drop the alcool and I might join you. You could be in charge of some sort of Lemmy meeting.
invite me and I’ll bring my own alcohol. spread looks delicious!
Why would you bring any on your own when he can get what he prepared eaten? You’ll better off bringing people. The cheese won’t be eating itself.
I’ll bring the memes
It start to look like a plan.
