marcos_eirik
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Okay, bring on your water boarding jokes: :lol:
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Meanwhile in where, California?
Isn't the idea you donate anyway?
The ice bucket thing is more about making people aware of the charity through a viral video and making other people wet in the process.
Because if you chose the bucket over the giving to charity, it's kinda pointless isn't it?
This. A lot of people are doing it in order to avoid paying more to charity, even if they can clearly afford to give the $100 minimum. So they're insulting the large population living with water scarcity or without running water in order to avoid paying for medical research.The point is you douse yourself in ice water and donate 10 bucks or don't and donate 100 (or more, but that's the minimum).
This too. The whole thing lost its meaning along the way too. Almost nobody mentions ALS or what the challenge is about anymore, not in the videos or in the description, so it's no longer the "ALS Ice Bucket Challenge", but rather the "Ice Bucket Challenge". Makes you wonder if some of the people that did it along the way actually donated anything.So far, about 75% of the non-celebrity ones I've seen don't even mention ALS in the video, or even in the description. To them, it's more like the cinnamon or Saltine cracker challenge.
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Let me get this straight... if we save water in developed countries, suddenly Africa gets more water?
Up until now, I assumed it was some dumbass Internet thing and didn't know about the connection to some charity.
It is a dumbass internet thing that acts to shame people into giving more money while getting sheep to do it to themselves.
No, but putting a whole wave of videos on the internet of people wasting clean drinking water for no apparent reason than to be cheap is a slap in the face for people in countries where clean drinking water is hard to obtain and/or very expensive. And yes, a lot of these places have access to the internet, and to cellular phone services but limited access to drinking water.
Makes you wonder if some of the people that did it along the way actually donated anything.
Donations this time last year - about 2 million
This year - nearly 50 million
In the mean time, Sir Patrick Stewart has also done his part:
And that's why I like the whole deal. It's not necessarily about the one challenged donating, it's about the awareness raised. Who cares if someone donated $10 instead of $100 if they brought in $1000 more in the process? Sure, they could have donated the $100 on top of the challenge (and I'm sure at least some do), but meh. Focusing on the slightly negative ruins your mood. Don't do it.