Have you done the ALS ice bucket challenge?

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It's making my way around my FB feed with people I actually know, so I'm assuming it's going to happen sooner or later, but as of now not yet.
 
I post a picture of myself holding a bucket of ice water on my various SNS sites everyday, so people don't forget just how important I am.
 
I got nominated last night and plan on having my brother record it tonight after he gets home. More or less got my nominees list written down. I'm planning donating 5-10 bucks to Child's Play.
 
I got nominated last night and plan on having my brother record it tonight after he gets home. More or less got my nominees list written down. I'm planning donating 5-10 bucks to Child's Play.

Isn't the point that you either donate money OR take an ice bucket to the face?
Not sure when it transformed into doing both.
 
I got nominated last night and plan on having my brother record it tonight after he gets home. More or less got my nominees list written down. I'm planning donating 5-10 bucks to Child's Play.
With a note for them to forward it to the ALS Association?
 
I declined. I thought I'd explain my reasons why in the best way I know how:
Here.

Oh brother.

http://www.thewire.com/national/201...ought-versus-the-ice-bucket-challenge/378776/

Estimates are that participants have used 5 million gallons of water so far.

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.
 
Nominated. Too busy / can't be arsed so donated to random charity (though I've already donated a bunch this month anyway).

Sheen did it best.
 
It's all over my FB feed and has become annoying. Raises awareness on one hand, which is good, but brings out attention seeking dip shits, which is bad.

This is me just being a grumpy fucker of course, fair play if loads of money is being raised.
 
Right, got filming slightly organized for this weekend. Its going to be a 20 minute emotional epic which will likely go hilariously, significantly wrong during the segment in the local town high street.

Just gotta finish the screenplay and get suitable clothing for the villain, and work out a suitable song for the montage.

Yeah, im going all out.
 
news story about how the donations are helping.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/08/...xpedites-cambridge-institutes-als-drug-trial/

CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – The CEO of a Massachusetts ALS research organization said donations from the Ice Bucket Challenge are responsible for expediting the timeline of a clinical drug trial by two years.

Dr. Steve Perrin, the CEO and chief scientific officer of ALS Therary Development Institute in Cambridge, said the organization will invest $1.5 million to partner with another company, aiming to have their drug in clinical trials by early 2015.

Perrin said ALS TDI was able to move the timeline up by two years because of the $3 million it raised through the Ice Bucket Challenge.

“The Ice Bucket Challenge has just been an amazing campaign started by a couple ALS patients who obviously had no idea it was going to go viral. And yet it’s changed the ALS landscape forever,” said Perrin in an interview with WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Anthony Silva.

Info about the organization

Located in Cambridge, ALS TDI is a non-profit organization founded in 1999 that includes 54 employees and 36 full-time scientists. ALS TDI started in the basement of a Newton family whose son had been diagnosed with ALS, and grew into the largest research institute for the disease.
 
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