to find the ice bucket thing embarrassing

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I do realise it's for charity and am happy to donate to charity but I find it cringeworthy and teenage all these sort of things which circulate on facebook - no make up, nominating people etc

Oh don't be ridiculous scaredycat of course I'm not superior because I know "how to have fun"...after all we all have a different definition of fun don't we. And I didn't say it was about being superior....it's about thinking you are superior, that couldn't possibly be someone that uses the word "sheep" now to describe people who have did it could it?!!

And yes of cores it's about some people looking down on others for doubt it, just because they don't get it, that some people either want to or have fun or whatever reason an individual has.

My friend has coined this "schmugging" - social media charity mugging! She's submitted it to urban dictionary

Oh stupid phone "course" and "doing" it, that should make it readable!

Tinkerball - I think the poster was referring to the original point of the campaign which asked for people to donate OR raise awareness by doing the Ice bucket challenge.

Those were the terms set out when it first started but people generously did both.

Thanks Squtternut. One that I found quite humbling was Fernando Ricksen, ex Glasgow Rangers footballer, who now has MND himself.

icanhaveadarkside. I TOTALLY agree with you You are simply teaching your child about consent and not to be coerced into doing anything she doesnt want to do. Thats no bad thing especially considering whats been in the news recently.

Is your friend keeping the post it notes in case she decides to go to HR.

A week ago i posted on another ice bucket thread saying there would very likely be bullying. And got told not to be daft And that no one would be bullied.

I don't understand how someone tipping a bucket of water over their head makes anyone suddenly able to afford or willing to make a donation to charity? It makes no sense to me... If I'm honest I think it's a shame that people can't just give some money without there having to be 'fun' involved... just my opinion!
I suppose it promotes awareness if nothing else, but personally reading stories about people who are fighting the disease is more likely to inspire me to give money than someone pouring water over themselves!

I thought they were good at first. MND isn't something that is very well known. It hasn't personally affected me but a family friend lost someone to it, and it seems such an extraordinarily cruel disease. But I'm not convinced that it has raised that much awareness. I doubt most of the people in my newsfeed are any more aware of what the symptoms are or just how difficult it makes people's lives.

I've also noticed that people have started to donate to their own chosen charity. I don't really think that's in the spirit of it. To me it seems like they're saying "yes, MND is bad but I'd rather support X" which I find a bit especially when it's a big national charity that receives lots of support and publicity already.

I haven't been nominated yet but if I am I will just donate again as I'm not in good enough health to cope with an ice bucket!

I haven't been nominated, but if I was, I'd ignore it. No way on Earth am I having ice water dumped over my head for no reason!

I already support my chosen charities through direct debits and one-off events (I did a marathon for Cancer Research UK last Sept), and OF COURSE MNDA is a terrible illness, very sad, etc etc, I can't (and won't) give to every deserving cause.

My FB was swamped with them last week. Luckily, they seem to be tailing off now, thank god.

Ive just seen an advert for a charity Go Sober this October.

Icanhaveadarkside......im guessing your friend is going to need a couple of post it notebooks for the notes shes going to leave at other workstations at her office making sure others take part.

Im teetotal so this would be a breeze.

If anyone is being bullied by a friend on Facebook, why the hell are they a friend? I am not friends with people who bully me!

Why are so many people, who are complaining about being bullied by their friends, so quick to criticise and name call (bully), people who have taken part in this?

Freddo I donated to MND. A condition I knew very little about before this campaign. I would not have donated to them before, precisely because I knew so little about it. In raising awareness, it raises funds. Without the Ice Bucket Challenge, how on earth would it ever have come to my attention?

I asked my children what AlS stood for - they couldn't tell me but one did at least look it up, and they had a vague idea about the English equivalent.

My boss is pressuring me to do it as are some of my colleagues. I know I have been nominated so I have gone off FB for the summer. The more they put pressure on me the more I react internally against it. I am the oldest person in our company and I just think it is bloody undignified. I choose my charities and do regular donations to Cafod and World Vision. These are my own quiet choices. It is now getting to the point that I am avoiding certain people. This is just another form of bloody bullying OK

And I don't like people being put on the spot in public to donate either.

I think it's ok to do the bucket thing and then post it, encouraging ALL friends to donate and to pass it IF THEY WANT TO.

And this
reading stories about people who are fighting the disease is more likely to inspire me to give money than someone pouring water over themselves!

Wine Wine these colleagues are colleagues so I cannot just "unfriend"them. I am the ONLY person who has not done it at work. I have offered to do a donation without the challenge, I wonder how many Challengers have supported a charity such as Water Aid for instance? I had a 2year subscription to donate to them a few years back, all this does not "cut" with the "thumb screwers" at work, I am sick of the whole goddam effing thing...

hollie ALS

Ask them if they are doing Go Sober this October Candy.

Thugs tip bucket of ice water over homeless man in wheelchair.

ENOUGH!

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ice-bucket-challenge-bully-video-4132259