What the heck is the "ice bucket challenge"? And where do you go to sign up NOT to do it?

its an event where people are dumping ice water on their heads to raise awarness (and money) for ALS (lou geric's (sp?) disease)

its for a good cause

I don't blame you for this, but more and more I have disdain for excusing stupid behavior (I'm calling the behavior stupid, not the people who do it) by saying it's for "charity" or for "a good cause". In fact, I laughed at the point in Monsters University where they had a line satirizing this--the "for charity" thing was selling photos of picked-upon characters caught in a totally humiliating situation. In other words, the only difference is that those being humiliated and those acting "for charity" were not the same people.

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Getting back to the comic, I do hope those weren't real snakes (who the heck put them in there, anyway?)....

actually if you do the challenge you have to donate some money... otherwise its kind of pointless... and everyone I've seen do the challenge, donated money

That's more or less what I was trying to say--if it's pointless to do it if you're not donating money, why are you doing it? There are other ways to be charitable.

Basically The Ice Bucket challenge is a viral meme to spread awareness for ALS, or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. If you want more info on what that is, visit this website; http://www.alsa.org/about-als/ but to sum it up, it is a disease which slowly paralyzes your body until it shuts down and dies. It has no known cure or even a treatment, victims are given medication to make it hurt less, and even though it is not 100% fatal is still a nightmare to be put through.

The Ice Bucket Challenge is simply a way for people to spread awareness, but has had the unfortunate effect of people not even bothering to do the research as to why it was even started. Despite many people forgetting to mention it when they do something related to this challenge, it has still managed to raise a huge amount of awareness for this rare disease.

So you're half right; many of these people are doing it because they think it's funny, and then themselves perform it with no idea as to why it's even a thing. It's stupid behavior promoting stupid behavior.


However, many people promote and donate to this cause because of this challenge, and because of this challenge going viral, $41.8 million has been raised.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/b.....lion.html?_r=0


Hope that helps clear things up.

Thank you very much for explaining. I suppose that's the good that comes out of this--I didn't know anything about ALS until now. Still, what a way to raise awareness for it. Please excuse me, as I don't mean to offend, but I'm reminded of an old PSA commercial against crack cocaine being given by (I'm not making this up) Pee-Wee Herman. Not Paul Reubens the actor, specifically Pee-Wee Herman the character says "This...is crack."

Alleluia! If any good is coming out of this nonsense, it isn't a total waste. Again, my only concern is that the end doesn't justify the means, especially when there are other means.

God bless!

I just picked up Manga studio 5 a few days ago.

Can't play with it until I get a tablet of some kind, but I am looking forward to learning it.

Cute joke/strip too.


-Badger-

made me laugh so hard it hurts

*looks in his bucket* Hey this is just ice water, what happened to my snake bucket?

Oh dear, although I find this hilarious I'm worried this might cause a few sleepless nights for you O.O

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If they're Australian snakes I am so screwed.....

I wouldn't worry, they'd have already fanged you by now if they were :3 Or coiled and constricted something, these snakes seem quite benign :3

they might not even be actual snakes at all! they could be legless lizards!

Do you think Gen would feel better if they were?

well, they're less bitey.

About 25% less?

that said, Gen's lucky that the bucket only contained snakes...

could you imagine spiders?

*gets the willies and fluffs out all over* Gah spiders! Now I'm going to be the one freaking out.

pssh. spiders aren't much to worry about...


it's when they come with not only a healthbar, but their own boss music... that's when you worry.

If they're Australian *anythings*.... =)

http://cdn.meme.li/instances/250x250/52699340.jpg

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the snake things look highly confused :)

When she gets the snakes off and catches her breath...
ice water won't cool her off
in fact that person...with the snakes will be under water
ice or not
lmao :3

*falls over laughing*

Has anybody seen my snakes? they're in a bucket... well, shoot, back to the woods to find more i guess...

I had it with these motherf*cking snakes in this motherf*cking bucket.

Even funnier would be the dumb TV edit; "Enough is ENOUGH! I've had it with these monkey-fightin' snakes in this Monday-to-Friday bucket!"

and the snakes themselves are like "gen? chill out, lady, we like you! don't worry!" ^.^

At least it was ice water with eels?

Snakes....why did it have to be snakes?.....

Dang, you beat me to it!

D'awww! All da cute little snakies! :D

With the heat wave going around here, I figure an ice bucket wouldn't be as much of a challenge as it would be a refreshing way to cool off :p But snakes aren't very effective that that...

The snake bucket challenge is for endometriosis research. :B

Be nice, Gen! It took Mrs. Wexler's kindergarten class all afternoon to make those play-doh snakes!

Some folks around here have taken on this challenge...though the snakes seem far more interesting! x3

Cobra!!

Commander!

Gen has a fear of snakes?

HA!!!

But as a Florida Girl it would have been funnier as a bucket of anole lizards.

Or a bucket of Palmetto bugs.

Worse.. it could have been all the animatronic characters from "It's a Small World."

'Snakes..why did it have to be snakes?' hehehehe

And yet, those are about the cutest snakes i've ever seen.


I wasn't actually aware that this was for a good cause untill the other day, I thought it was just another of these dumb facebook trends following that "jump in the pool with your clothes on" thing that suddenly everyone was doing. And now I feel sorry about all the stuff I said about this ice bucket challenge >.>;

Thank god you weren't on a plane. :3

Things like this are reasons why I love you! ;)

Only Gen would have a bucket filled with something other than Ice XD.

Every time I see a reference online to the ice bucket challenge, I think of this comic =0)

What is the story behind this picture?