Ice bucket b*lloxology

recylingbin

What in the name of f*ck is this all about and why should I give a f*ck?
I don't know who most of these 'celebs' are anyway.
Is this the new neknomination thing for even bigger bellends?

solomafioso

http://www.alsa.org/fight-als/ice-bucket-challenge.html

Fat Christy

Smash?

Fr_Dougal

It's for Motor Neurone Disease, to raise money and awareness.

solomafioso

Also, this is the best one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qat9gR5nrpM

TheCoolWay

recylingbin wrote: »

What in the name of f*ck is this all about and why should I give a f*ck?
I don't know who most of these 'celebs' are anyway.
Is this the new neknomination thing for even bigger bellends?

You obviously give a f*ck about it if you took the care to login to boards and create a thread moaning about it.

Sounds to me you're just jealous you haven't been nominated yet :rolleyes:

The Peanut

I'd love to know how much these totally self-sacrificing " celebs" know about Motor Neurone Disease...

Dave0301

recylingbin wrote: »

What in the name of f*ck is this all about and why should I give a f*ck?
I don't know who most of these 'celebs' are anyway.
Is this the new neknomination thing for even bigger bellends?

That is a lot of anger for something you don't know anything about! :pac:

krudler

recylingbin wrote: »

What in the name of f*ck is this all about and why should I give a f*ck?
I don't know who most of these 'celebs' are anyway.
Is this the new neknomination thing for even bigger bellends?

It's Lou Gehrig's disease, and the ice bucket thing has raised millions towards it.

Witcher

The Peanut wrote: »

I'd love to know his much these totally self-sacrificing " celebs" know about Motor Neurone Disease...

They don't have to know anything about it once they're opening their wallets and encouraging others to.

Half the people in the world probably don't have a clue what their ****eing on about regardless of the topic.

Moocifer

As someone who has lost a parent to the ALS form of Motor Neurone I'm delighted it's happening. Anything that raises money for the IMNDA is great in my eyes.

Mint Aero

It's all fun and games until the ice knocks someone queer on the head and kills them. People are getting out of hand with this malarkey.

solomafioso

krudler wrote: »

It's Lou Gehrig's disease, and the ice bucket thing has raised millions towards it.

22.9 to be exact.

http://www.alsa.org/news/media/press-releases/ice-bucket-challenge-081914.html

Molester Stallone II

Hey, Eddie Vedder did it & nominated Niall Horan, I want to see that beggar drown!

woodoo

Its an awful disease. I donated money to it today but didn't do the ice bucket. It was because of this campaign that i did donate so its good in that way. Its raising awareness in the minds of people who would know nothing about it. So long as its getting people to dip their hand in their pocket and donate then great. Its nothing like the neck nominations craze, that was a pile of self destructive crap with no redeeming features. This is a good cause.

Fat Christy

Mint Aero wrote: »

It's all fun and games until the ice knocks someone queer on the head and kills them. People are getting out of hand with this malarkey.

You mean it's all fun and games until someone loses a testicle.

foxy farmer

Lets see how much actually goes to the charities.

The Peanut

Blay wrote: »

They don't have to know anything about it once they're opening their wallets and encouraging others to.

Half the people in the world probably don't have a clue what their ****eing on about regardless of the topic.

My aunt died from it.

My point was that people in a position of power or celebrity can do more good to educate their fans by raising proper awareness. In 3 months time, the masses will just remember that Charlie Sheen poured ice over his head and not that the charity he was working for. No longterm gain for the charity but it keeps the celeb in the public eye.

hoodwinked

the best just got beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLZOjLv0_6k

solomafioso

foxy farmer wrote: »

Lets see how much actually goes to the charities.

10k from Charlie Sheen if you watch the vid above!

Raised 22.9 million raised so far (from another link above).

smash

Fat Christy wrote: »

Smash?

I'm not gonna do it...

Fat Christy

smash wrote: »

I'm not gonna do it...

You pussay, you're all lip action and no gumption about ya atal.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Who came up with als as the disease to donate towards? Or did someone just pick out of a hat?

breffni bogballer

Molester Stallone II wrote: »

Hey, Eddie Vedder did it & nominated Niall Horan, I want to see that beggar drown!

i"ll gladly give u a hand

smash

Fat Christy wrote: »

You pussay, you're all lip action and no gumption about ya atal.

https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/pussylipschallenge?src=hash

There... I did it.

woodoo

The Peanut wrote: »

My aunt died from it.

My point was that people in a position of power or celebrity can do more good to educate their fans by raising proper awareness. In 3 months time, the masses will just remember that Charlie Sheen poured ice over his head and not that the charity he was working for. No longterm gain for the charity but it keeps the celeb in the public eye.

Charlie sheen didn't pour ice over his head, he poured 10,000 dollars over his head and then donated it. You didn't even watch his video did you?

My name is URL

I hate that kind of ****. If having a load of millionaires dumping some ice-water over their heads is what it takes to make people want to be charitable then saving people isn't worth it in the first place

solomafioso

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Who came up with als as the disease to donate towards? Or did someone just pick out of a hat?

I'm thinking that ALS started it as a challenge that went, as the cool kids say, 'viral'. You know like those pier to pier walks for aware, or the darkness in to light walk for pieta house or some randomer taking a batch in beans for <insert charity name here>.

4zn76tysfajdxp

The Peanut wrote: »

In 3 months time, the masses will just remember that Charlie Sheen poured ice over his head

I doubt that.

anncoates

Like most charity crazes, it's a bit hammy but if it raises money for a terrible disease (my wife's dad died from it when she was young) I can easily live with it.

The Peanut

woodoo wrote: »

Charlie sheen didn't pour ice over his head, he poured 10,000 dollars over his head and then donated it. You didn't even watch his video did you?

Apologies. I did. I meant to type Justin Bieber - my daughter was showing a clip at the time.

In fairness, Charlie won't remember doing it in 3 months.

solomafioso

The Peanut wrote: »

In fairness, Charlie won't remember doing it in 3 months.

Yes he will, it's immortalized on the internet. The internet never forgets.

My name is URL wrote: »

I hate that kind of ****. If having a load of millionaires dumping some ice-water over their heads is what it takes to make people want to be charitable then saving people isn't worth it in the first place

So what do you suggest? A parade? An article in the Daily Mail? A new romantic comedy about cancer starring Adam Sandler?

The Peanut

solomafioso wrote: »

Yes he will, it's immortalized on the internet. The internet never forgets.

Poor old Charlie doesn't know what he did yesterday.

NIMAN

Totally agree its all balls.

Just popped on to the Independent.ie website and there's Ice Bucket challenges for Ray darcy, Rosanna Davison, Rory McIlroy, Ryan Tubridy, Marty Whelan, Daithi O Se.

Sweet Jesus whats the world coming to.

Cookie_Monster

Mint Aero wrote: »

It's all fun and games until the ice knocks someone queer on the head and kills them. People are getting out of hand with this malarkey.

already happened. Some guy here in NZ had a heart attack and died from the shock of the cold.

My name is URL

solomafioso wrote: »

So what do you suggest? A parade? An article in the Daily Mail? A new romantic comedy about cancer starring Adam Sandler?

I dunno.. I mean you'd think that having one of the most successful, prolific and popular scientists of the last century regularly appear on TV with ALS would be enough to raise awareness of ALS and sympathy for its sufferers

But no, the dumping of ice-water over people's heads seems to be what's doing it.

What a time to be alive

recylingbin

TheZohan wrote: »

It's for Motor Neurone Disease, to raise money and awareness.

So these celebs donate money or do they just empty a bucket of cold water over themselves?

solomafioso

NIMAN wrote: »

Totally agree its all balls.

Just popped on to the Independent.ie website and there's Ice Bucket challenges for Ray darcy, Rosanna Davison, Rory McIlroy, Ryan Tubridy, Marty Whelan, Daithi O Se.

Sweet Jesus whats the world coming to.

Raising awareness and doing basically a 'dare' in the process for a worthy cause?

The apathy in this thread is appalling. It's that reason why we're f*cked as a species.

Davarus Walrus

Let's hope the next fundraiser is for trying to find a cure for impotent rage and continuous moaning on the Internet.

solomafioso

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Let's hope the next fundraiser is for trying to find a cure for impotent rage and continuous moaning on the Internet.

That'll never be resolved / cured. C*nts will still be c*nts unfortunately.

krudler

The Peanut wrote: »

My aunt died from it.

My point was that people in a position of power or celebrity can do more good to educate their fans by raising proper awareness. In 3 months time, the masses will just remember that Charlie Sheen poured ice over his head and not that the charity he was working for. No longterm gain for the charity but it keeps the celeb in the public eye.

He didnt pour ice over his head, he put money in the bucket and donated 10k to to the charity.

Do people not even bother watching the stuff they're pretending to be annoyed about anymore?

Christy Browne

How can you make raising millions for charity out to be a bad thing? People will whinge about anything

The Peanut

krudler wrote: »

He didnt pour ice over his head, he put money in the bucket and donated 10k to to the charity.

Do people not even bother watching the stuff they're pretending to be annoyed about anymore?[/

Do people not read every post in a thread before commenting?

solomafioso

krudler wrote: »

Do people not even bother watching the stuff they're pretending to be annoyed about anymore?

I guess they've no time. Too busy taking out the inadequacies in their daily life on other things rather than themselves. Misspent anger.

krudler

My name is URL wrote: »

I hate that kind of ****. If having a load of millionaires dumping some ice-water over their heads is what it takes to make people want to be charitable then saving people isn't worth it in the first place

People are more likely to donate something when they know what it is they're donating towards, that'd be the raising awareness part.

I'd agree that sh1te like posting your bra colour and stupid nonsensical facebook games to "raise awareness" (without actually telling people what it is you're making them aware of, you absolute geniuses) is a load of crap. At the end of it all hey it's a good cause and now a charity is 20 odd million quid better off, so what harm.

Birneybau

AFAIK all the celebs are giving 10k each. W@nkers (joke)

Pwindedd

People do crazy stuff to raise money for charity all the time. This is no different. Never ceases to amaze me that people will tear strips off anyone doing something relatively harmless, that's a bit of fun and raising money for charity.

My name is URL

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Let's hope the next fundraiser is for trying to find a cure for impotent rage and continuous moaning on the Internet.

Because how dare anyone on the internet ever do anything other than 'like' other peoples **** on Facebook

Anyone not smiling and nodding along like a retard is just a begrudger like :rolleyes:

WarKitteh

Whingers will always like to have a whinge.

anncoates

My name is URL wrote: »

Because how dare anyone on the internet ever do anything other than 'like' other peoples **** on Facebook

Anyone not smiling and nodding along like a retard is just a begrudger like :rolleyes:

I can only surmise that you are participating in a rage telethon of one to raise money.

solomafioso

My name is URL wrote: »

Because how dare anyone on the internet ever do anything other than 'like' other peoples **** on Facebook

Anyone not smiling and nodding along like a retard is just a begrudger like :rolleyes:

Please fill us in. What's the specific thing about this that irks you?

Is it the charity or their method? Because I don't see anyone knocking on my door forcing me to donate and pour ice water over my head.