Ice Bucket Challenge

[MichaelAwkward]

As terrible a disease as it is, and as good a thing as raising awareness and money for it is, I can't but feel it's all a bit unfair. A disease that affects less than 2 people per 100,000 is currently getting more attention and awareness than diseases that kill millions, year in, year out and are still chronically underfunded. It's non-existent in terms of the global burden of disease. Could it be because those diseases don't generally kill white people? Hmm.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I swore I wouldn't get involved but I've been nominated, I refused and now there is a bit of a backlash from quite a few 'friends' saying I've got to do it. One of them has suggested that since I wear shorts & t-shirts in the middle of winter that a bucket of ice will not be sufficient so I've got to step it up a bit.
The suggestion so far is putting ice down my shorts and t-shirt and then lying down in a paddling pool full of ice water.
Big deal, I used to do this when I used to run marathons.

Perhaps dry ice?

 

[Judgeneo]

erm no... I'm not sure why people think that - a donation coming from your gross earnings as opposed to net earnings doesn't make it 'free', you've still got to make an actual donation

you don't have to be self employed, you can do the same thing in the UK despite being payed PAYE - just select the box that allows the charity to claim gift aid... same effect, it basically means you can donate £10 by actually donating a smaller amount and the tax you'd have paid to earn that smaller amount gets added on too.

My mistake, I thought it worked differently in the US.

 

[Johno please?]

I swore I wouldn't get involved but I've been nominated, I refused and now there is a bit of a backlash from quite a few 'friends' saying I've got to do it

This is what annoys me, if you nominate someone and they don't want to do it... deal with it. But people will get all funny about it because people are knobs. Yea door knobs.

Im glad my mate didn't nominate me because I would have politely refused.

 

[jh30uk]

I swore I wouldn't get involved but I've been nominated, I refused and now there is a bit of a backlash from quite a few 'friends' saying I've got to do it. One of them has suggested that since I wear shorts & t-shirts in the middle of winter that a bucket of ice will not be sufficient so I've got to step it up a bit.
The suggestion so far is putting ice down my shorts and t-shirt and then lying down in a paddling pool full of ice water.
Big deal, I used to do this when I used to run marathons.

Perhaps dry ice?

Who says you have to do anything?

Tell them to FO and do it themselves.

I would have given £1k if it was urine in the bucket Alex Salmond got over himself.

 

[antijoke]

It annoys me that some people I've seen do it on my FB have donated to a charity other than a MND charity.

 

[Cleisthenes]

Anyone who is vocally irritated by the ice bucket challenge needs to get laid.

Just ignore it if you don't like it.

Here here.

I did it today, and I donated a tenner. I think if people actually donate as well as doing it then it's great, but when it starts to become a thing just to get likes, then it's not cool

 

[Cleisthenes]

It annoys me that some people I've seen do it on my FB have donated to a charity other than a MND charity.

That would annoy me too

 

[ChroniC]

Here here.

I did it today, and I donated a tenner. I think if people actually donate as well as doing it then it's great, but when it starts to become a thing just to get likes, then it's not cool

but that is all it is!!

I have gone and put my foot in it, by saying to my friend I wouldn't accept his until I saw his donation email with at least £20 on it, and he has sent it to me, so now I have no choice otherwise I look an arse.

My choice would be to just post the proof of my donation, but then that would make me look like a pussy rgardless of the fact most people don't give.

 

[MikeTheNative]

It annoys me that some people I've seen do it on my FB have donated to a charity other than a MND charity.

I decided to donate to wateraid instead. Does is really matter if you are giving to a different one?

 

[SpeedFreak]

Generally I have no issue with it apart from the fact that among people I know it has been a craze without charitable donation so I fail to see the point.

 

[Cleisthenes]

I decided to donate to wateraid instead. Does is really matter if you are giving to a different one?

I think it does matter

 

[Freefaller]

I've been nominated several times. I won't do it. However, I've donated.

 

[Burned_Alive]

It annoys me that some people I've seen do it on my FB have donated to a charity other than a MND charity.

Why? When it originally started out, it was to donate to any charity. Only this year has it really taken off for the ALS charity. You could argue that you probably should donate to another charity to spread the donations around.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Who says you have to do anything?

Tell them to FO and do it themselves.

The problem I have is here in Stoke I'm quite well known for my music so I will have to comply otherwise I won't hear the last of it.
Like I said, I'm used to the cold so I will go a bit further and then challenge them to do the same

 

[antijoke]

Why? When it originally started out, it was to donate to any charity. Only this year has it really taken off for the ALS charity. You could argue that you probably should donate to another charity to spread the donations around.

Because people say "thanks for the ALS ice bucket challenge nomination, I'm going to donate to Macmillan in a second" and the such like.

 

[MikeTheNative]

Because people say "thanks for the ALS ice bucket challenge nomination, I'm going to donate to Macmillan in a second" and the such like.

Raising awarenes and donating, sounds like complete ********.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Raising awarenes and donating, sounds like complete ********.

Then you obviously didn't see the figures for the last major one involving the Teenage Cancer Trust.

 

[antijoke]

Raising awarenes and donating, sounds like complete ********.

Yeah, because that's what I said.

 

[dottty27]

I was nominated to do this by my mate's 3 year old son who did it * with out the ice * I will gladly donate to the charity and will do it tomorrow once iv got enough ice

The one thing I have noticed is the lack of ice in 90% of the videos posted on facebook