Have you done the ALS ice bucket challenge?

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FStop7 said:
The "omg the drought" concern trolling is really kind of sad.
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SegaShack said:
Nowhere is an ice bucket necessary in that description, their is honestly no justification.
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Again, it's for awareness. What's more likely to catch someones attention; A facebook post where someone says they've donated to a great cause and are asking others to as well. Or a post with a video of someone pouring freezing water over themselves and donating then challenging others to do the same.


There's a reason why something like neknominate was so popular, people like being challenged to do silly things. This one happens to be paired with donating to charity.
 
Shove it, haters: [URL="http://www.alsa.org/news/media/press-releases/ice-bucket-challenge-081914.html]Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Reach $22.9 Million to The ALS Association[/URL]
 
I got challenged for it which caught me by surprise. I don't like this fad but the idea that it's spreading the word of ALS and people donating I can get behind. I'll also throw a few bucks to the Red Cross and some other charity while I'm at it.
 
I would do it if someone IRL challenged me. Although the weather is starting to get a bit cooler so I'm not sure how good of an idea that would be.
 
I haven't done it because nobody on my facebook who has done it is close enough to me to challenge me. It's a good thing so many people are donating, I just wish it didn't take some massive meme/popularity contest to get people thinking about helping others. I am not saying it's not a good thing at all, I'm just saying the masses should be more interested in charity and research without the need for a public spectacle.
 
Suite Pee said:
I just got challenged, and I don't really want to do it. I'd donate if I wasn't sure that'd stop me from paying the bills on time.

It just makes me wonder what people will do for Crohn's awareness. Spray Sriracha up their ass?
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I have Crohn's, so go for it lol.
 
I think it's great for the attention and money it's raising for charity. But I think that people who do it for the attention and not donate any money should take the Crab Bushel Challenge instead.
 
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Bam Bam Baklava said:
There's a real and serious drought going on in California. What's sad is ignoring facts.
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Shouldn't that start just before July 29th, when the ALS challenge actually started to go viral with Pete Frates? Doesn't seem like much a change. There doesn't seem to be a statistical connection. Check it yourself: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/MapsAndData/WeeklyComparison.aspx

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July 22nd:
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July 15th:
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Still not much cause-and-effect for the ALS bucket ice challenge leading to an increase of the drought.

Also, water conservation people say not to shame the ALS campaign because of 5 millions gallons of water, which is a small number:

But 5 million gallons, Gulliford said, is a small amount compared to how many gallons we waste in other, more regular ways.

"If we are interested in water lost or wasted each day, we should be less concerned with water used to draw attention to the insidious disease ALS and more concerned with water leaking from common household faucets," Gulliford said, adding that a faucet dripping eight times a minute wastes five gallons of water a week. "If the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has raised public awareness regarding the importance of not wasting potable water, let's channel that concern in a more positive way and fix leaking faucets."
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EPA fully supports the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. The agency would also encourage participants to be creative in utilizing water, such as holding the challenge in a garden that needs watering, or finding ways to capture water for reuse.
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Even California's Department of Water Resources information officer Doug Carlson told The Wire that the charity work of the Challenge is overshadowed by the true causes of the drought and the habits residents need to focus on changing.

"In the severe crisis we're in right now, people should reduce the water they're using," he said, adding that the department has not given the Challenge any thought in light of the drought. "People waste more water than [the 5 million gallons] needlessly watering their lawns."

On the opposite coast, Chris Gilbride, communications director at New York City's Department of Environment Protection, told The Wire the city's residents alone use about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day, far more than the 5 million reached by Challenge participants in about three weeks of dumping and sloshing.

Indeed, there are many ways to look at the math. If it's 5 million gallons of water wasted so far in three weeks, that's a tiny amount compared to the 320 gallons of water used by an American household per day. Then, given 117,538,000 households according to the last census, that's 37,612,160,000 gallons used in one day. Five million out of more than 37.5 billion gallons equals about .01 percent.
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http://news.yahoo.com/california-drought-versus-ice-bucket-challenge-001644852.html
 
I don't think most of the people I've seen doing this have donated anything or even know what ALS stands for. Especially the younger population.
 
fuck one of my friends got me. I thought I honestly was not going to get picked for this because my friends know that I'm not going to dump ice water on my head. Btw, I thought that you're only suppose to be choosing three people? I see some facebook posts with like 6+ people challenged. Anyways, I'm going to donate to ALS and another charity of my choice
 
gee at some of the whiners here.


last year donation was 1+ million bucks.


this year it's 30+ million.


clearly, this viral thing helped. 30+ times over and still rising. get your "oh it's so dumb, stupid, why would people do that?" comments outta here.
 
I have to do this tomorrow evening. Any original ideas you guys have been hanging on to that you wouldn't mind sharing?
 
Iceman said:
I have to do this tomorrow evening. Any original ideas you guys have been hanging on to that you wouldn't mind sharing?
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Get a friend who's been challenged as well, do it wedding style.

Walk down the aisle as people dump ice water on you.
 
Can't make the thread but apparently one of the co-founders of the ice bucket challenge drowned this past weekend. Can anyone confirm?

Philanthropist Corey Griffin died on Aug. 16 at the age of 27. Griffin helped co-found the viral “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge,” which has swept across the world this summer. The young man began actively raising money to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, after his friend Pete Frates was diagnosed, the Boston Globe reported.

“Helping out was nothing new for Griff,” Frates wrote on Facebook, the Independent reported. “He held his own event for me back in 2012, just a few months after diagnosis. He worked his butt off these last few weeks for ALS. We texted everyday, planning and scheming ways to raise funds and plan events.”

Griffin drowned off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, in a diving accident. At 2:00 a.m. he dove from the top of Juice Guys — a popular diving spot for locals, located on the Straight Wharf. He apparently surfaced once, but was then pulled under by the waves.

Earlier that night, the Independent stated, the 27-year-old helped raised $100,000 at a fundraiser for ALS.
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potam said:
ends don't justify the means
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My favorite part of your comments is how you make your position clear but feel like expressing said position several more times over on the first page. Honestly I'm not a huge fan of people as a whole but this seems like good -natured fun. Ever read "How to win friends and influence people"? Everything we do is a selfish act : donating money to charity is just us enjoying that good feeling more than the money we part with.

There's a lot to make fun of and this is low on that list.
 
the people who are acting like this is a major concern for the drought are fucking hilarious

speaking of hilarious, I agree that the Dave Groehl video was great and was happy to see it. I think the original scene from the movie is one of the most well-done scenes ever
 
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