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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 12:34 PM
I am fine with the cause, however, I am, like you, just annoyed at the self-righteousness of the participants, thinking that they actually accomplished something, because I don't know what exactly the "challenge" of this activity is. If you had to sit, submerged up to your neck for one or two minutes, I might be more inclined to agree that it is a challenge.
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 12:37 PM
PK Subban ALS Challenge
PK Subban did it right. That is a challenge, not some pussy bucket.
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 01:18 PM
Why does it frustrate you that charity is being used to help people with a disease that can't be helped... don't have much sympathy for people who choose to go to war and kill people.
War would end tomorrow if the endless idiots who fought in it just stopped, I characterize these people as 'Assertive idiots'... they;re complete numbskulls but assertive enough to pick up a gun and do damage.
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 01:38 PM
Perhaps it's how low the bar has been set for social media, in that it is a constant competition for attention. But at least this has a positive spirit and is for a good cause.
In other words, for a lot of these people it certainly is narcissistic self indulgence, but at least the purpose is a good one.
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 01:59 PM
Its merely middle-class and upper-class men and women attention-whoring.
'Look at me, I dumped a bucket of ice on my head for charity!'
Bitch please. I take a cold water shower at 4:30 AM everyday and charity is when your left hand doesn't know that your right hand has given.
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 02:14 PM
Intentions...it's all about intentions.
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 03:24 PM
Good marketing / social media aspect to it, but personally I hate the peer pressure nature of it. I almost never cave in to peer pressure or groupthink. I won't do it or pay up if I get tagged. Don't like being forced into doing something I normally wouldn't do.
Slightly off topic, I'd be more charitable if the government didn't force charity on me by taking a huge chunk of my tax revenues and handing them out in vote buying and social control programs to irresponsible people.
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 03:33 PM
I don't understand any of this but seen it on FB a bunch of people pouring water. I don't know what ALS is either nor do I care to ask anyone any more. I'm turning into Archie Bunker slowly and enjoying it.
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 03:38 PM
^ Its a horrible disease where your body slowly goes paralyzed over time, every single muscle shuts down until you are a vegetable on life support. Kind of like a much more horrible form of MS. Best way I can put it.
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 03:45 PM
^also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Lou was a legendary NY Yankees baseball player.
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 03:58 PM
For most of the people posting ice bucket videos of themselves on Facebook, Vine, and Instagram, the charity part remains a postscript. As for “raising awareness,” few of the videos I’ve seen contain any substantive information about the disease, why the money is needed, or how it will be used. More than anything else, the ice bucket videos feel like an exercise in raising awareness of one’s own ego, self-importance, and/or attractiveness in a wet T-shirt. Just another way of patting yourself on the back and say "Hey, look at me, I'm doing something important for charity" when in actuality they have not done anything substantive with long term impact. Instead of actually donating money to ALS research or volunteering, the ice bucket challenge videos is just another way for people to stroke their own egos but in the guise of charity. Why not donate the money you used to buy that bag of ice and give it to ALS research instead? Oh well then people won't get to see me dump ice water on myself on social media. You "support" the fight against ALS? Well how do you exactly support it? With actual, quantifiable, long-term impactful assets (money/volunteering)? Or do you think just saying the words "I support the fight against ALS" is actually enough?
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
08-18-2014, 04:12 PM
Feels more and more like the movie Idiocracy is coming true.