The Ice Bucket Challenge

[StoatInACoat]

Just been nominated (by someone who is supposed to be my friend!) and panicked for appearing a miserable bd by avoiding/ignoring it but have just been reminded by the missus that I already donate £5 a month to scope and £5 a month to battersea. Of course it's a bit difficult to prove that on bloody facebook which seems to be what it's really all about

[Randy Winkman]

Sorry if this is already answered in the thread - if the person accepts the challenge, is the person who nominated them expected to make a donation?

[MentalSarcasm]

Randy Winkman said:

Sorry if this is already answered in the thread - if the person accepts the challenge, is the person who nominated them expected to make a donation?

No, you can either donate, or you can tip ice over your head, or you can do both, or you can do neither, that goes for both nominator and nominee.

[Japveesix]

If we choose not to do this when nominated are we then legally obliged to come on here and tell everyone exactely how much we generously donated/already donate and how selfless we are because we don't feel the need to show off about our amazingly charitable ways?

[Randy Winkman]

MentalSarcasm said:

Randy Winkman said:

Sorry if this is already answered in the thread - if the person accepts the challenge, is the person who nominated them expected to make a donation?

No, you can either donate, or you can tip ice over your head, or you can do both, or you can do neither, that goes for both nominator and nominee.

Thanks. I was just assuming that the nominator should be taking a risk. Though I appreciate that there can be no definitive rules.

[Hoofy]

Randy Winkman said:

MentalSarcasm said:

Randy Winkman said:

Sorry if this is already answered in the thread - if the person accepts the challenge, is the person who nominated them expected to make a donation?

No, you can either donate, or you can tip ice over your head, or you can do both, or you can do neither, that goes for both nominator and nominee.

Thanks. I was just assuming that the nominator should be taking a risk. Though I appreciate that there can be no definitive rules.

Well, I think you're supposed to pay £3 if you do it, £10 if you don't. But you could just shoot guns into the air and shout, "MURICA!"

[thetrash]

Grumpy s, all of you.

[Shinobi]

Japveesix said:

If we choose not to do this when nominated are we then legally obliged to come on here and tell everyone exactely how much we generously donated/already donate and how selfless we are because we don't feel the need to show off about our amazingly charitable ways?

You missed out the "I'm not donating to MND or ALS because one day a week I go hang out with some sick kids/walk some dogs so therefore I do more charity work then Bill Gates" funny thing bill gates has his own cancer charity yet still gave to ALS. Who would have thought you could possibly help more than one charity these days.

[e21Mark]

Shinobi said:

Japveesix said:

If we choose not to do this when nominated are we then legally obliged to come on here and tell everyone exactely how much we generously donated/already donate and how selfless we are because we don't feel the need to show off about our amazingly charitable ways?

You missed out the "I'm not donating to MND or ALS because one day a week I go hang out with some sick kids/walk some dogs so therefore I do more charity work then Bill Gates" funny thing bill gates has his own cancer charity yet still gave to ALS. Who would have thought you could possibly help more than one charity these days.

Maybe the same folk who give to charity but don't feel the need to mention it, let alone post some tedious video on Facebook with a ''hilarious'' swearing toddler?

[iphonedyou]

e21Mark said:

Maybe the same folk who give to charity but don't feel the need to mention it, let alone post some tedious video on Facebook with a ''hilarious'' swearing toddler?

This thread suggests they do mention it - but here, rather than FB. An awful lot of that so far.

[KFC]

e21Mark said:

Maybe the same folk who give to charity but don't feel the need to mention it, let alone post some tedious video on Facebook with a ''hilarious'' swearing toddler?

I don't doubt for a second most of these people are doing the challenge for selfish reasons. But keeping it to themselves isn't raising awareness, and it isn't getting more people to donate. So sure they're being self centred but ultimately charities are winning from it. Its not worth getting wound up over, is it?

[Randy Winkman]

I still don't quite get what the nominator contributes to the charity? Possibly because I have so little knowledge of social media or what the texting element of this is.

Edited by Randy Winkman on Friday 29th August 07:08

[Hoofy]

Randy Winkman said:

I still don't quite get what the nominator contributes to the charity? Possibly because I have so little knowledge of social media or what the texting element of this is.

Edited by Randy Winkman on Friday 29th August 07:08

Awareness and £3.

[J3PTF]

Randy Winkman said:

I still don't quite get what the nominator contributes to the charity? Possibly because I have so little knowledge of social media or what the texting element of this is.

Edited by Randy Winkman on Friday 29th August 07:08

The nominator has already 'contributed' by virtue of being a nominee first. People not nominate after having done the challenge themselves.

Still a pony show for s, mind.

[option click]

This is all over my Facebook too. Haven't watched the majority of them, but this one did make me laugh:

When builders do the Ice Bucket Challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1aYsX9rVm8

[GloverMart]

I did it on Monday and my twin boys aged 13 also did it too after we were all nominated by friends.

I do smile at the comments on here criticising thouse who have done it, posted the video on Facebook then said they had donated. Those same critical posters go on to say they won't be doing it because they donate to a different charity. So instead of "boasting" on Facebook to their circle of friends, they brag about it on Pistonheads to a much larger potential audience...

Secondly, I know that you can donate to the charity regardless of actually tipping the iced water over you but that's not the point. It's all about the challenge and the entertainment in doing so. My turn to boast now but in the past, I have done a marathon, half marathon, three 10k runs, a 12 hour darts marathon, eaten 48 KitKats in 12 hours, gone around the 92 Prem and Football League grounds and lost six stone in a year, all for charities. Yes, the money I raised could have just been given but it's all about the story of how and why you do it that's "better" than just donating.

[Jabbah]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/als-gro...

[TwistingMyMelon]

Blimey its like Gods waiting room at times in here , a thread asking if "I should iron creases in trousers" a thread asking "whats the best flat cap" and this thread whining about other people having fun

I did it Monday with my stepson, was a good laugh, it was fun, who cares if I looked a knob etc... we had good FUN

Gave to charity , job jobbed

Some of you sound like a cross between Bill Gates and Victor Meldrew

Some people haven't got the balls to do it and whine out there weaseleque excuses, pretending to take the moral high ground, when in reality amost are bkless charisma vacuums

[sparks_E39]

I'm doing it tonight, a bit of harmless fun.

[anonymous-user]

sparks_E39 said:

I'm doing it tonight, a bit of harmless fun.

And what about the ice bucket thing?