Ice Bucket Challenge Rant

[FiddlersGreen87]

Good. I hope I'm 100% wrong in that area, or even .1% wrong for that matter.

 

[headbanger]

but why would so many want to publicize their avoidance of donating by posting a video about it?

Because they are too stupid to realize that they are stupid.

 

[hunter_le five]

First and foremost, it's not a challenge to sit there in the dead of summer and dump ice cold water on your head. The "challenge" itself initially, as I understood it, was either or. You dump water on your head or you donate $100 to ALS.

For whatever its worth, I made the mistake of opening up my facebook page this morning, and my newsfeed was littered with people I went to high school and college with doing the "challenge". Because of this thread, I decided to actually watch them and see what they were saying.

All but one of them said something to the effect of "I was challenged to either donate to ALS, or dump ice water on my head. Here is a video of me dumping ice on my head. I challenge persons X,Y, & Z to either donate or dump ice on their heads."

Literally only one of the videos I saw (out of about a dozen) mentioned "dump ice water on you head AND donate."

Just donate some f***ing money. If you want to make a big show of it and draw attention to yourself by dumping water on your head and posting it on youtube (or in their terms "raising awareness"), great I guess. It just comes across to me that these people are jumping on a fad, and not really being sincere. If you are sincere, donate SOMETHING, even if it's just a couple bucks.

I don't mind anything that brings attention to a good cause AND results in funds being raised for the cause, which this stunt has clearly done. But the "either/or" aspect that so many are propagating is irksome to me.

 

[boydster]

That's weird. Being proud enough about NOT donating to a worthy cause that you decide to post a video about it seems strange to me. Dumping ice water over your head on a hot summer day in the video doesn't lessen the strangeness.

I'm glad the campaign is working, but concerned that people could be so vain as to take pride in posting a youtube video of themselves getting water dumped on their heads because they refused to make a donation, almost as if it were a good thing that they were doing by not giving.

At least the charity is raising money, and a substantial amount at that. They found a way to appeal to the masses.

 

[drainbamage]

At this point, I think we can safely say the videos have reached full saturation/exposure/whatever, and anyone with access to Internet or TV has a vague understanding of what is going on. If you're already planning on donating, there's no reason to wait for a public call-out on Facebook. Just go ahead and do what you've gotta do.

 

[hunter_le five]

Oh god. One of my employees came in bragging this afternoon about how she and her husband did the IBC last night. Super proud of herself, and made sure that everyone in the office saw the video. I mean, unreasonably proud, considering how little effort it took and how many thousands of identical videos are floating around the intertoobz right now.

Anyway, whilst trying to *not* sound like a dick (which is hard for me to do sometimes), I pretended to be oblivious to the concept and asked how much money she raised by dumping ice on her head.

"Oh no, we didn't donate anything. But we are helping 'raise awareness' for this great cause."
The only thing I've been made aware of is what a tool you are....

 

[BreezyBrew]

I still think Charlie Sheen's video is the greatest I've seen yet.

 

[Grannyknot]

Next year, I hope its a KFC bucket challenge.

 

[GrogNerd]

Next year, I hope its a KFC bucket challenge.

done that one. many times.

Original. All White.

 

[steveoatley]

KFC Bucket Challenge

1. Buy Bucket of Fried Chicken
2. Find Homeless/Hungry street person
3. Dump bucket of chicken on the ground in front of that person
4. Stomp all over the chicken while shouting
"Lets stomp out hunger !"

There you have accomplished the "Bucket Challenge"

You have wasted something in order to make others more aware ......

 

[Grannyknot]

The challenge for me would be eating more than 2 pieces without bazooka barfing.

 

[Grannyknot]

Bucket of Hydrochloric Acid challenge.

I nominate:
Justin Beiber
Donald Trump
The guy named guy on food network that wears his sunglasses backwards. Although by the look of his hair, he has possibly already completed this challenge.

 

[boydster]

A bucket of rabid squirrels. That will probably drive more donations, because who would opt to have the squirrels dumped on them? AND, whoever still doesn't donate is unable to walk around bragging about how great a person they are for not donating (we won't be carrying around any rabies vaccine, to ensure the integrity of the challenge won't be called into question). Plus, I can't imagine any activist groups getting upset over using a bucket full of animals that are already about to die. Suck it, PETA, these squirrels have no future to protect. This is a great idea.

Edit to add: The funds raised would naturally go to support PETA.

 

[Punity]

Would it be bad form to donate to another charity that I'm more in tune with. I got nominated by someone who decided the entire friends list he has would be a good idea.

 

[headbanger]

Would it be bad form to donate to another charity that I'm more in tune with. I got nominated by someone who decided the entire friends list he has would be a good idea.

Personally I prefer to drive around drinking beer, I just throw the empty cans out the window when I'm done with them in case someone else needs them which meets all of my charity obligations as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Punity]

Personally I prefer to drive around drinking beer, I just throw the empty cans out the window when I'm done with them in case someone else needs them which meets all of my charity obligations as far as I'm concerned.

Solid idea I'll film it to and challenge my friends

 

[drainbamage]

Personally I prefer to drive around drinking beer, I just throw the empty cans out the window when I'm done with them in case someone else needs them which meets all of my charity obligations as far as I'm concerned.

"But officer, I was raising awareness for recycling!"

 

[Brickman]

For example, how about a kick a celeb in the nuts challenge?
Those videos would certainly be entertaining.

You could wipe out world poverty if you just changed it to kick a politician in the nuts. $10 bucks to kick and a $100 if you don't.