Ice Bucket Challenge!

This guy's fitness channel is *** with a lot of ***, but this video was still awesome

Oh lord, look, now this stupid trend is getting people hurt. Respectable people of the community! When will the madness ever end?! I must start a petition to ban all stupid trendy challenges! :)

Firefighters hurt during als ice bucket challenge

Looks like the power poles hurt them, not the challenge

People are getting harsh criticism here in California for doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge because of the state drought.

Ice bucket challenge stirs controversy in drought-plagued California


A few (impolite) questions about the ice bucket challenge

Impolite, but true.

sure people's hearts are in the right place but i am not sure if i would trust where the money is going. could say i have had my own falling out with western style if medicine because of my own issues. i just see this money going to pharmasudicles pockets.

Let's do a fire challenge

oh wait it was already a thing
(was going to link a video but something about XIAH regulations on certain things) youtube it yourself!

I can see where OP is coming from, even recently I was questioning the whole point of the ice bucket challenge for the exact same reasons but the figures speak for themselves.

It's a success and if people carry on doing this, all power to them.

I prefer mid-western medicine personally.

the way he says *** had me rolling, i played atleast 78 times

On the article: my thoughts exactly. Not to mention that many celebs like to use every opportunity to garner more worshipers.

Social media buzz like this reminds me of how Kony 2012 turned everyone into a champion for justice.

mid-western? that osteopathic and natrualpaths and all that?

Although the Ice bucket challenge yes, may be trendy, and yes, may be annoying to some of the masses. Seeing the thousand posts everywhere you look "here we go again" person doing their challenge.
Annnnnd we would all like the world to just be able to educate themselves on the many conditions that plague humanity. And us as humans should just be going forward and donating to causes we believe in on our own accord. Without "the stupid" social media trends.
However.... that is not the way things are. And have never been. The Ice bucket challenge may annoy some of you. And yes, some people are doing it just to be part of the trend. But it is clearly working as intended. By bringing ALS awareness forefront. Raised huge amounts of money for a very well needed cause.
So suck it up! It is doing a lot of good. Of course at your annoyance. Damn it all.

If that includes herbalists, I think I'll pass.

there was atleast one death allready, like 2-3 weeks ago. (only found a german link) and while looking i found out that the person who started the whole ice bucket challenge thing drowned after jumping from a roof into a body of water somewhere.

http://m.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/ungluecke/bei-cold-water-challenge-von-baggerschaufel-erschlagen-13072051.html

If you're talking about Sergio Cardozo, I believe that was proven to be a hoax. (obligatory Huff Post link)

The google translation looks a bit hairy, but it sounds like the death was caused by toppling machinery rather than ice water.

So far, the only death that I've been able to find was a 40 year old man in New Zealand who died from cardiac arrest in July, 5 hours after participating in the ice challenge. There were likely other health factors at play though, and not to mention alcohol.

Man dies after ice, drink game

well yes it was caused by it falling over but they filled the showel with water to partake in the als challange when it fell over.

Lighting is terribad because it went from day to night literally in the 5 minutes between filming my friend's challenge and my own :(

there is no such thing as "western" or "eastern" medicine, there's the ***that's been tested to work, the ***that has been proven not to work, and the ***that has yet to be tested, it's called medicine and it is a science, and there are rules.

these are not medicine:

acupuncture
faith healing
magnets (they can't cure your illnesses folks)
chiropracty
any other "new age" or basically anything labeled "cleansing" or about removing "toxins"

also: my great grandfather had ALS, lived with it for 14+ years after being diagnosed with it (he was stubborn, a trait that I'm sure is genetic in my family), and I still think this Ice bucket challenge ***is mentally HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE.

I really like one of the writer's main points:


He ends the article with this.


I got dared to do the icebucket challenge by my cousin. I refused to do it and posted on my FB and IG that my money went to AIDS Health Foundation instead b/c it's something I care about genuinely not just because Britney Spears or George W. Bush dumped ice water on their heads...

eh, don't rly have to care about something to do it though. I had fun w/ the ice bucket and if someone gets something from it, why not? (as I would have done the challenge if challenged even if there was no cause, lol)

It's the same with donating blood. Do I genuinely care about the people getting my blood? Not in any way shape or form. I just go because it's a habit (did it to get out of class in high school and just kept donating afterwards because I hate change). I have no good reason to nor do I honestly care about the ***, but I just do it just for the sake of it. If someone benefits from that, cool beans

Donating blood is free. We're talking about $100 bucks for the ALS challenge. Ultimately people are doing the ice bucket challenge because they are refusing to donate money, they don't really care about this charity.

I'm not trying to downplay the condition, however there are a lot of other conditions that could stand to receive the money that would benefit a lot more people from that $100 dollars. Do most people know that? No.

EDIT: Additionally people are wasting clean water while people around the globe are struggling for clean water, let's not forget.

Oh boo *** hoo.

The "event" is rather stupid, so is this as an excuse to not like it.

Raise awareness via other means. Don't waste clean water.

While we're at it, we should stop bathing entirely. Also, we should just go back to pooping in holes in the ground.