You have charities saying give a few dollars a month to help build a well to provide fresh water, and here we are wasting ice clean water for charity. I hope those poor people in need of fresh water are not aware of this, would be like a homeless person watching a rich person burning money.
@xeno_ghost: I'm sorry this offends you. I hope you donate a few dollars to build those wells. Where I come from, we have abundant sources of water, whether or not I dump water over my head, will not change the geography of water sources.
This "fad" has raised over $15 million in about six weeks. Most people waste more water brushing their teeth or showering. So all those bitching, just shut up.
I don't really care for this "ice bucket challenge" thing. I feel it kind of pressures people. I also don't like that they want people to donate $100, I don't think they should set a certain amount. I'd be more favorable to it if they didn't set a certain amount. $100 is a lot of money for a lot of people, and might be very hard for them to afford.
Plus I haven't really "vetted" the charity that this challenge is funding.
On the positive side, at least it's helping spread awareness of ALS (I wonder why the people behind the challenge picked that particular disease).
Up until I saw this video I thought the whole ice bucket challenge thing was a sort of stupid yet fun way to go about a charity. I mean wooh you dumped a bucket of ice water on yourself, but it's admittedly fun to watch a bunch of stars participate in the same thing. Not to mention the 24 hour thing makes it an on going meme where we get to see a few more videos of stars each day.
Then I saw this video, and I stupid fun thing got heavy. Skip past the beginning silliness if you want by going to the two minute mark or watch the whole thing if you like, but I suddenly feel very compelled to donate.
@SaintLeonidas: "Most people waste more water brushing their teeth or showering"
It's not really wasting the water if your using it to shower or brush your teeth. Just saying :P
@No_Intelligence:
I guess it's all good, it's raising money for charity. I was just thinking what it looks like to people with no clean water source that's all. So you can wind your neck in pal.
Bunch of butthurt people...if "wasting" a bucket of water is what it takes for this charity to become known and succeed then it's worth it. I bet since you're all so concerned with wasting water you only bathe once a week and when you do so you do it with 2 glasses of water.
I had a bucket of ice water dropped on me 2 years ago. But that was after they zip tied me, dumped rotten food on me and lathered my hair in petrolatum. And my ears. Then my feet, green, yeah........that stuff is hard to get off. Yeah............life sure is rough. Whats going on again.
Bunch of butthurt people...if "wasting" a bucket of water is what it takes for this charity to become known and succeed then it's worth it. I bet since you're all so concerned with wasting water you only bathe once a week and when you do so you do it with 2 glasses of water.
Although it's not really one bucket of water that is "wasted". It's one bucket of water for each person who does that, which adds up. But I imagine most people doing this live in areas where water is plentiful. I guess that water could be transported to help people in drought prone areas if it wasn't dumped, but it probably wouldn't be anyway. Though when the water is dumped, most of it probably goes on to the ground (or people's clothes) and some goes on to the person's body. So much of the "wasted" water will probably evaporate and go back into the atmosphere anyway.
@whipassmt: True, but my point was that without the water bucket gimmick, this charity would have nowhere near as much success, so if a bucket of water is what it takes, I say it's worth it...I'm guessing most people waste more than that amount of water every day.
This whole thing is stupid honestly if you want to donate money donate money but don't do something stupid like this. What next hitting yourself with a hammer to raise money?
@seahorse123: Unfortunately, it is near impossible to get ppl to donate if there's no campaign. In addition, you get no awareness. It is stupid, but it works, and it's harmless fun.
@No_Intelligence: Since these people are 'celebrities' and rich elites taking part in this they have enough money to donate to this charity without the poor giving more money than they already do. Pathetic fad by the media. Keep the masses distracted.
@seahorse123: What you said makes no sense, a distraction from what exactly that the media isn't already distracting us from? You are going to make an argument hating on a successful charity campaign?
I'm glad it brings awareness, but how can you NOT know what it is especially when Stephen Hawking is so famous? Just curious. But anyway, since Jason Becker is one of my favourite guitarists, I'm glad more people know about it now. But I still hate fads.
I had a bucket of ice water dropped on me 2 years ago. But that was after they zip tied me, dumped rotten food on me and lathered my hair in petrolatum. And my ears. Then my feet, green, yeah........that stuff is hard to get off. Yeah............life sure is rough. Whats going on again.
Bunch of butthurt people...if "wasting" a bucket of water is what it takes for this charity to become known and succeed then it's worth it. I bet since you're all so concerned with wasting water you only bathe once a week and when you do so you do it with 2 glasses of water.
The whole "wasted good water" argument is laughable I bet everyone who has said this has wasted some type of product that very day.
I didn't know what ALS was before all of this started, it has raised awareness in a world where people only care if you are afflicted with one of the big (read: better known) killer diseases; and the reaction to freezing cold water was choosen because it mildly simulate's the syptoms sufferers' have to endure on a daily basis.
Bunch of butthurt people...if "wasting" a bucket of water is what it takes for this charity to become known and succeed then it's worth it. I bet since you're all so concerned with wasting water you only bathe once a week and when you do so you do it with 2 glasses of water.
The whole "wasted good water" argument is laughable I bet everyone who has said this has wasted some type of product that very day.
Of course not, I'm sure everybody who complained closes the tap while they're soaping their hands, or their body in the shower (or if they take a bath they only put enough water to wash off the soap), don't let the water run for a few seconds in the summer so it comes cooler out of the tap, when they flush the toilet they never do a full flush, and when they buy water they always drink all of it. And I'm also sure they all do all of this every single time without failing.
As much as I've always believed Internet activism leads to nothing, at this point last year 32,000$ was raised for ALS. It's 5.5 million after launching the ice bucket campaign. Feel what you will, but this has been damn effective.
@IMAHAPYHIPPO: I know a few people who just did the bucket challenge and did not donate any money which is kinda BM and dumb. Doing the challenge while donating is damn noble but you can easily just donate the money w/o the bucket challenge which isn't even a real challenge (I mean come on a bucket of ice water? :P)
One wouldn't think a simple bucket of water wouldn't cause such a uproar, then again people nowadays find things to complain and get outraged over about anything.
"Oh it's wasting water", "Oh think of the poor that does not have clean water", " Oh California has a slight drought and that bucket you wasted probably will be the cause of half the people in the Santa Monica area dying of thirst"
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