To not do the ice bucket challenge

[Morethanalittlebitconfused]

I've not been nominated so it's a moot point really but if I were nominated I point blank wouldn't do it

DH thinks I'm being unreasonable on this, am I?

Lighten up. Its a bit of fun that raises money for charity. My son loved doing it and asked what is Macmillan to which I explained all about it. Awareness raised and money donated. End of.

I AM DONATING SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM

For Christs sake it's a bit of fun! And if any charity benefits from it.. That's good isn't it?! And if some idiots do it to show off and don't nominate.. Well they are pricks .

Darkesteyes .. calm down :)

And out of principal I am going to have a coffee morning for MND next year!!! Love Macmillan and raise money for them but please let one of the degenerative neurological diseases have the limelight for a while.

I didn't know that ALS was MND before this whole thing started. So it raised my awareness and I'm going to donate.

I wouldn't do the ice bucket thing myself, even if nominated, partly because of health issues (severe Raynauds) and partly because I'd just prefer to quietly donate without being doused... Having said that, there were twenty-somethings chucking ice buckets over each other in our garden earlier and I don't have a problem with that. They will donate and hopefully do some awareness-raising themselves.

To my way of thinking, if it raises awareness it can't be a bad thing, even if there are elements of the campaign that people don't agree with.

I only found out about Macmillan hijacking the campaign on here and feel that's very bad form.

And i thought it was for MND not Macmillan.

DH has emphysema. And ischemic heart disease. I cant risk catching a chill, passing it on to him and making him ill.

I got nominated.

I paid up rather than do it.

A very good friend lost her Mother to motor neurone disease so I was happy to donate (and have donated to them before).

I ignored my nomination for the make up free selfie though.

Macmillan have the coffee morning.

Which is why i suggested on the Chat thread an MND (ALS) Afternoon Cream Tea!

I like the MND afternoon cream tea idea!

on the same day?

I'm not doing it. Instead, I've donated to MND, and posted some information about MND on Facebook with a link to their website.

• MND association

Oh my word, some of you are SO mean-spirited "why would I want to watch identical videos" "I watched three and then stopped". You have elected to accept these people as friends, surely you can glean SOME joy from watching (most people laugh whilst doing it, although it's blardy horrible). If you let yourself go and take the sticks out of your arses, you might enjoy life for a change. For the record, I have done it, nominated and donated. Ultimately, those less fortunate have gained a helluva lot more than they have before and that's got to be a good thing in my book.

I agree ^^
It's been a fun way of fundraising. It isn't compulsory, if people don't want to do it, then just don't do it, but stop whining about people who are doing it. They aren't doing anyone any harm and it has done a great job of increasing awareness.
I cannot understand why people are complaining about other people doing this!

I object to the manipulative and coercive nature of these gimmicky campaigns. Sure, raising awareness is great, but do it in a less insidious way. It's good old-fashioned peer pressure when all is said and done.

peer pressure is just a polite phrase for bullying IMO.

I never said i objected to others doing it. Because i dont.

But i do object to being pressured and bullied into doing it.

I saw a post on Twitter from a young lad whose father dumped two ice buckets on him this morning at 3am waking him up.

Good job the young lad (hopefully) doesnt have an undiagnosed heart murmour.

Its had a 4 year old boy in tears and frightened the hell out of a dog.

Because, winewinewine, some people don't appear to be happy until they have something to be offended by. It's a shame really.

UncleT what kind of campaigns could raise anywhere near the level of awareness or tens of millions of funds, in a few short months, that you would find more acceptable?

darkesteyes I didn't think you had even been nominated. Who is bullying you to do it?

God I've been nominated. I have a FB account but try not to put too many photos up of my family and myself. I certainly don't want to put up a video of my 6 year old DD in a swimming costume and T-shirt being doused in cold water and I certainly don't want to put a video of myself sitting there dripping wet in a t-shirt - not a pretty sight. I'm in cold Northern Europe, neurological auto-immune disease has touched my life very closely - I'm skint. But I feel under pressure and I don't like it.

I know I will be called a killjoy and a tightwad and my kids will think I'm boring. Great.

I havent been nominated.........yet.

I put up a status asking not to be. Considering half my fb is the fuckers who bullied me at school (i went to the reuninon 3 years ago) i fully expected to be.

notmytypes post rubber stamps what ive been saying.

Another one here for not doing it.
I do not want to be publicly 'forced', 'shamed' or 'embarrassed' into donating to charity. I donate to a lot of charities and already involve myself in many other national and public charity events.
I can't donate to every charity JUST BECAUSE someone nominates me on FB. I also didn't do the 'no make-up' for breast cancer awareness. Although I did give to the charity.
I do not need to publicly embarrass myself to give to charity and I do know of some people being called 'tight' or 'mean-spirited' because they said no. That amounts to bullying.

YY junkfood Social media can be great for raising awareness but the bullying really shows up the dark side of social media.

You don't have to do.it and part of the whole thing is you text ice if you've done it and fine if you haven't. If you text fine it costs slightly more so there really isn't any pressure to do it they're not expecting everyone to. Just be sure text the MND number

I didnt do the challenge but donated £10 to MND Scotland instead and put a link on facebook for MNDA so that people knew who originally made the challenge go viral.

I paid by paypal on the MND Scotland website and later found out you could do it by text - ICED14 £5 to 70070 (or put in any amount of £'s e.g. put £3 instead of the £5). It is ICED55 £5 (or other amount) to 70070 for MND England.