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?

I do hope not!

Maybe you could say something along the lines of "this is a very underfunded area of research and people with ALS are just as much worth saving as those with cancer or other life-limiting illnesses" - perhaps that would drive the point home as well, without being directly confrontational about their choices?

Yes, I think I will. Today is 6mths to the day that I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and my prognosis if fairly good so far. I can only imagine if I had no chance of survival, and the charity for my illness was so little known and underfunded.

I hope your treatment goes well and is successful, TM - your own diagnosis is scary enough.

Ham I'm truly sorry to hear about your Mum, MND is truly disgusting

My dd was very upset to be nominated twice yesterday and won't be doing it, some kids do NOT like attention and you "have" to post the video ... I told her to say I said no point as we already donated to MND charity before it started (we did, friend was recently diagnosed) and bow out that way.
It was a tad like cyber bullying ....
As this all went on, as I was having the very conversation, I got nominated .... I just had surgery a week ago and well, fuck off.

I am already charity aware AND most of the kids who already did it, don't donate anyway .... Plus, you pay less to charity if you do it than if yu decline so ummmm it's better to decline?

No worries Thumbwitch, I didn't think that at all. :)

I've seen people doing it with little babies

Phew, that's a relief, thanks cheepskram

lottie - that's awful :(

My dc were nominated and think it's loads of fun.

Obviously, I'm not going to pour ice water over my three year old! But last I checked, getting wet wasn't life-threatening for them.

It was also a great chance to explain a bit about the disease and about giving to charity.

Dh got nominated and hasn't done it yet (he's away with work), so he put up a pic of his donation. Job done.

There's really no need for all the angst.

My friend did it with her almost year old. His was a tiny cup with plain water. No difference to the water used at a baptism. He giggled away. I think that you need to take each case on an individual basis and not necessarily judge.

Oh look, if they're just getting a cup of water chucked over them, that's no issue at all of course - but a bucket of ice water on a baby would be pretty dangerous I'd think. And you can guarantee there'd be some idiots out there who would do the bucket of ice water. :(

To say people are doing it are "PATHETIC" bbqsteak is pretty insulting and nasty actually. It's a bit of fun no-one is being forced to be involved in if they don't want to and it's raising money for charities, what's wrong with that! So what if people are "attention seeking"? Does it really matter, how sneery you sound.

If anyone was idiotic to chuck a bucket of ice over a baby then the challenge is going to be the least of their worries really once social services become involved!

Stupid-slacktivism-challenges

I quite agree Thumbwitch.

Doing it at all to children too young to understand just marks you out as a fucking smug, thoughtless, attention-craving idiot. Your children are not accessories for you to posture with.

Pastperfect go back and read my posts and please copy and paste and show me where i have moaned about attention seekers.

Darkesteyes Sun 24-Aug-14 21:31:50
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

People take things to extreme in all walks of life. Generally the challenge is harmless. I'm sure mnda are glad of the funds raised and that their charity is being given a boost.

If someone is nominated and they don't want to do it then they don't have to.

No need to get upset about it.

News has emerged today if the first death related to the challenge

All I've read so far is it was in a spot famous for tombstoning.

People are inherently idiots when these sort of things begin

OH God that's sad. People really shouldn't jump into disused quarries at any time though, there's usually piles of crap in them! friends of mine used to practise their SCUBA diving in disused gravel pits, they said there were so many things like shopping trolleys, bikes, old cars, metal drums, all sorts down there!

Thanks for the link thumbwitch

Peer pressure is a nasty thing and many a young man filled with bravado, egged on by his friends, feeling unable to back out for fear of losing face has lost their lives in similar challenges.

This ice bucket challenge manages to demonstrate both the best and worst aspects of social media now. As a means of raising money and awareness it's been very impressive. Unfortunately, from an initially good idea, the reality is that people are now feeling pressurised into taking the challenge.

It's also totally unreasonable to chuck buckets of ice water over animals and children too young to make an informed decision for themselves. Someone who is a friend of a friend of mine on FB has just nominated a 5 year old child with special needs.

Well I very much hope that that 5yo's parents tell the "friend" to do one, Summer - or that they do it with warm water instead. Bloody idiots!

I'm hoping that the child's parents do, indeed tell her to "do" one, Thumbwitch . I normally don't get involved in other people's crap on Facebook but I've messaged my friend and suggested that she points out how downright wrong this particular challenge is.