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?

Bumping for the other threads!

I got nominated by my cousin. Have said there is no chance in hell i am doing it. I have severe Raynauds (am currently begging OH to put the heating on as my layers are annoying my belly) and am pregnant. I donate a lot of money to charity already. So no YANBU.

I have been nominated and will not be doing it.I donate tovarious charities and think Macmillan are great.I loathe seeing politicians taking part

People are inherently idiots when these sort of things begin

I think you missed out the word some at the start of this. Some people are indeed idiots in life and will do stupid things, if it wasn't this they would be taking risks and doing stupid things anyway such as jumping about balconies in Spanish hotels and then ending up dead or paralysed. The vast majority of people are raising money and treating it like a bit of fun - not jumping in disused quarries.

The lad who died did something unbelievably stupid. Nowhere in the ice bucket challenge have I seen that tombstoning is a good idea!
You can't blame the ice bucket challenge for that.
I've seen lots of kids do it, all have chosen to do it and all the ones I have seen, have loved it. There may be some who agreed to do it, then got upset because they didn't like it, but that's kids for you. I have seen my kids choose to take part in a water fight, then complain when they got squirted. They aren't coming to any harm from getting wet.

Of course It is your choice not to do it but there's nothing wrong with participating either. It has raised awareness and funds for the charities involved in research into this awful disease. It has also been a fun and has made everyone laugh where the no make up selfie thing was a lot more about look at me I am so beautiful in dimmed lighting and natural no make up.

The young lad who died just took things too far, it was his choice to do something so dangerous that has nothing to do with the charity.

Exactly - the ice bucket challenge is not endorsing people do anything other than throw ice water over their heads. It's voluntary, it's fun and no one is being pressured into doing it, especially people with health issues who would struggle to do it. I can see no issue with children participating if they are old enough to ask to do it along with their parents.

I think some people need to lighten up a bit personally.

I donated a little more to Water Aid this month

I don't like the challenge, simply because I think charity (choice of and nature of giving) should be a private matter and it starts to become an issue of bullying when children are challenging each other.

BTW - has anyone looked into the legitimacy of the charity itself? See this: www.healthnewsreview.org/2014/08/questions-about-the-ice-bucket-challenge/

in the UK it is a different organisation: mnda
i have no idea what their pay etc is, but they get so little money that i doubt it is megabucks

Thanks sanfairyanne - I take your point. Here's a link to the UK charity: Motor Neurone Disease Association.

toothless, why should charity support always be private? Charities NEED publicity. People give money to causes they are aware of. When they are not aware, because of a lack of publicity, then they can't donate.
A couple of months ago, hardly anyone had ever heard of ALS and many knew very little about MND. I think you would find that most people now have some idea of what they are. That could only happen through the publicity that a viral campaign can bring.

And why does challenge mean bullying? I've seen plenty of people decline. It's absolutely fine to decline.

winewinewine I'm not saying charity support should always be private, but that I prefer it that way. I take your point about raising the profile of the charity, but publicly pressuring someone into doing something is not on. Of course it's fine to decline, but the problem is when (as happened to a young niece of mine) you're uncomfortable about doing so due to peer pressure etc.

For the same reason I resent it when colleagues send round 'sponsor me to go on a jolly to Kilimanjaro' emails. You're forced into donating so as not to be seen as a cheapskate, even if you don't personally support the charity (nor its fundraising tactics).

I was nominated and I did it half an hour ago. No big deal, entertained the DCs, and I will trot off and donate once I have stopped wasting time on mumsnet in a second. I do tend to think that charity donations are a private affair, but raising awareness is no bad thing.

Can't abide the 'sponsor me on my jolly' requests, though.

I don't really mind who does it and who chooses not to. It's a good way to raise money. What I do object to is people being criticized when they choose to just donate instead. I've seen people on fb being called 'chicken' 'stick in the mud' ect. Charity should be a choice and people shouldn't be being pressured into doing something they are not comfortable with.

Do what I do.... Ignore your Facebook feed and requests.

Can't be any simpler than that.

I give to who I want when I want.

It's not the doing, or not doing, the ice bucket challenge that's pissing me off. It's the fact that as the days go by, I'm now seeing ever more people who have been nominated being hassled to get on with it and post the evidence that they've done the challenge. Only today I saw a mutual friend on Facebook being told "Still waiting for your video. Stop being a coward and a wimp and just do it".

Nobody should have to justify themselves. They should be able to choose whether they take the challenge and donate, or simply donate some money or even ignore the whole thing. It's just not reasonable to be repeatedly and publicly chased down on Facebook.

I'm 100% sure that harassment on social media was never intended to be an essential element of the ice bucket challenge.

I like what my DS posted with his video

"Some people see the challenge as a good way of “raising awareness and money; for a multitude of reasons, others don’t. That’s entirely fair enough. So rather than nominate three people who might not want to participate, I’m leaving this open to anyone who hasn’t already been nominated by someone else.
For the first three people to do the Ice Bucket Challenge naming me in the video as their sponsor, I will donate £5 to the MNDA, and £20 to a charity of your choosing."