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RE: Ice Bucket Challenge
August 27, 2014 at 4:21 pm
I don't want to be a killjoy and I really appreciate this is raising a lot of money for charity but aren't we wasting a lot of energy making ice for this caper?
Just a thought.
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RE: Ice Bucket Challenge
August 27, 2014 at 4:24 pm
How much energy does it take to freeze water? Or just go to the store and buy a bag or two of ice? It's just ice.
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RE: Ice Bucket Challenge
August 27, 2014 at 6:58 pm
(August 16, 2014 at 10:42 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I was challenged by my best friend Anne on FB.
I now challenge all of you. It's for a great cause.
I donated to the American Heart Association instead.
Nothing against ALS or donating to it's research (my college roommate's dad died of it, and she now works with ALS patients), and I'm glad that it's getting this exposure and the research money brought in by the IBC, I just think my money should go to a cause that kills 85 times the number of people a year than ALS does...
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Nice video though.
(August 27, 2014 at 4:19 pm)Losty Wrote: You're supposed to donate even if you do the challenge. The point is to bring awareness.
Depends on "who's rules" you're following: Some people think you do the ice bucket in lieu of donating, some people say if you don't you donate $100, if you do the bucket you only donate $10 (some lesser amount than the $100).
Quote:I never even heard of this disease until people started doing the challenge.
It's also called Lou Gehrig's disease and it's the disease Stephen Hawking suffers from. You probably have heard of it, but like other diseases, conditions or afflictions with a multiple names you just didn't realize you'd heard of it.
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RE: Ice Bucket Challenge
August 27, 2014 at 7:10 pm
The American Heart Association probably gets more donations as well. From Gaijin Goomba's video, apparently there isn't even treatment for this disease. They just give you some medicine to ease the pain as you die.
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RE: Ice Bucket Challenge
August 27, 2014 at 7:26 pm
I'm a fan of cystic fibrosis charities, since I actually knew a few people with CF. However, there are many that feel that it's best to donate to a particular person/family than the disease's association (i.e. CFF). I do a little of both.
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RE: Ice Bucket Challenge
August 27, 2014 at 7:41 pm
(August 27, 2014 at 7:10 pm)Chad32 Wrote: The American Heart Association probably gets more donations as well. From Gaijin Goomba's video, apparently there isn't even treatment for this disease. They just give you some medicine to ease the pain as you die.
Are you meaning to say that people taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge are
also donating to the AHA, or some other charity?
I'll betcha they're not.
They're either 1) doing the bucket, 2) donating to
ALS research (that is, after all, what the IBC is all about) or 3) donating to ALS research
and doing the bucket.
My bet is that most people are only doing (1).
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RE: Ice Bucket Challenge
August 27, 2014 at 7:54 pm
I'm pretty sure the the Ice Bucket Challenge is what inspired Homer to pen those words in which he observed,
"Nothing then is more wretched anywhere than man of all that breathes and creeps upon this earth."
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