ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Has anyone on Sythe been nominated to complete the ice bucket challenge? If so I'd love to see some of your videos. I've been a part of two in the last two days which both have been really fun. Last night we took two of our fire trucks down to a local field and one of our firefighters dumped a bucket of ice on his head, got hit was an attack line and had a tanker dumped on him. (I'll get the video on here soon)

This afternoon at work we dumped a load of water on somebody using a loader for their challenge.

For those who don't know this is about who are affected by ALS, making people more aware of ALS and raising money to help research.

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[Torag]

I personally haven't. It's a fucking waste of water if you ask me.

 

[funbox]

People are doing this for the attention, and I'll bet you that almost none of them actually donate to charity.

If i wanted to donate to a charity, i'll do so willingly. Not to post a video on facebook/youtube to get attention from other people.

 

I'd rather donate to a different charity, but that's just me so I have no interest.

 

I fucking hate trends. Everyone does it for attention, even the ones who brag about donating.

 

[zgangz]

Cool, any reason to donate to a good cause

 

[TylerG4HQ]

I feel majority of people do it for fun instead of the actual cause. It's more of an attention grabber kind of thing. If I were ever nominated to do it, I'd go Charlie Sheen's way and donate cash.

 

Meh, the campaign has raised money so its a positive.

But I'm tired of hearing about it, I don't want to dump ice on my head, and I don't want to give money to an ALS foundation. I'm a generous person, but there are other charities I'd rather give my money.

 

[3ugene]

This was a great idea. Why the hell are people so upset. A waste of water? Mate I bet you don't have 30 second showers or recycle bath water. This is the 21st century, water is in abundance. Sure as hell is a lot more positive than all the other "challenges" out there.

 

[Ps4god]

maybe sythe should do it like when we a recording we can reffer some people to do it lol and donate some money through paypal for cancer or something support them

 

[Gin]

This is fine as long as people don't rip off their community by lying as" im donating 10k" and they are not.

 

Yea, it's a gimmick, sure people do it for attention: just like the flour challenge, the chile challenge, the necknominations, the no make up selfie.. the ice bucket challenge. But hey, it is helping because the ALS foundation have raised about 30M$ now. Not everyone is donating when they do it but so what? All it takes is for someone to then search for more funny ones or failed ones and see the "ALS" donation link or charity website and then find out about ALS.

I'll post something I found online:

my dad died from ALS when i was 3 years old. he was 36. my mom was 33. that was 30 years ago. now i’m the same age my mom was when my dad died. and there is still no cure for ALS.
this is what happens when you have ALS: your muscles slowly stop working, one part at a time. for my dad, first he couldn’t use one of his hands. then his arm. then the other arm. then he couldn’t walk. then he couldn’t stand up. then he couldn’t talk. then he couldn’t swallow. then he couldn’t breathe. then he was dead.
this all took about two years. he was diagnosed when i was about one year old. the only memories i have about my dad are of an inert body in a wheelchair or lying in a bed with a bunch of tubes stuck into it. as i was learning to talk, he was losing the ability to speak. as i was learning to walk, he stopped being able to move. my mom often had to choose between who she was going to help go to the bathroom at any given moment: her husband or her toddler.
after my dad died, my mom took over the philadelphia chapter of the ALS association. it consisted of a shoebox full of notecards with names on it. now it is a multi-million dollar organization with a large staff. she is still in charge. my mom is one of the most amazing people on the planet, basically.
these past couple weeks have been mind-boggling. i have openly wept watching so many of these videos. i still don’t completely get how all of this has happened, but now we live in a world in which lil wayne and taylor swift and oprah and justin timberlake and weird al and bill gates talk about ALS. my mom just emailed me this sentence: “lebron james ice bucket challenge.” i mean, IS THIS REAL LIFE?! i just keep saying over and over: holy shit. holy shit. holy shit.
so far, it has raised over 10 million dollars… and counting. my mom has spent every single day of her life for the past three decades trying to get this kind of attention and funds for this disease.
i don’t care if it’s a stupid gimmick. i don’t care if people are just doing this because it’s trendy or because they want pats on the back. i don’t care if it’s the new harlem shake. i don’t care if for the rest of my life, when i talk about ALS, i have to say “you know, the ice bucket disease.”
please, everybody, please keep pouring buckets of ice over your heads. please keep donating money. please keep talking about this.
my mom’s chapter:
http://www.alsphiladelphia.org/
p.s. the only reason i haven’t done my own ice bucket challenge yet is because i wanted to do it with my mom. we’re seeing each other next week, so it will happen then, i promise.

At the end of the day, people now know ALS exists and that it needs researched and some sort of progress can be made to change people's lives. People like Bill Gates & Oprah putting their faces on a charity's name when people have fought their whole lives for that kind of exposure is amazing. Gimmicks will come and go but suffering and grief will continue for these diseases. If you can donate, cool, if you can't, cool, if you just wana do the video, cool, if you want to do the video and donate somewhere else, cool, if you dont want to do anything, cool.

 

[Ps4god]

I compltley support this guys plz support with me and let's make our own vids challenging other sythe members and raising money then as a community we donate the money id like to really help out
I hate watching ppl suffer

 

[X4NRSA]

I fucking hate trends. Everyone does it for attention, even the ones who brag about donating.

Charities love it, because as much as you hate it, its an effective marketing strategy that does generate results.

 

[FullBlownAIDS]

before the ice bucket challenge they would only receive around 1.9m a year now because of this they already raised over 22.9m which is fantastic. I asked like 5 people what als is nobody knew but they knew what the ice bucket challenge is lol.

 

[n4n0]

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Yea, it's a gimmick, sure people do it for attention: just like the flour challenge, the chile challenge, the necknominations, the no make up selfie.. the ice bucket challenge. But hey, it is helping because the ALS foundation have raised about 30M$ now. Not everyone is donating when they do it but so what? All it takes is for someone to then search for more funny ones or failed ones and see the "ALS" donation link or charity website and then find out about ALS.

I'll post something I found online:



At the end of the day, people now know ALS exists and that it needs researched and some sort of progress can be made to change people's lives. People like Bill Gates & Oprah putting their faces on a charity's name when people have fought their whole lives for that kind of exposure is amazing. Gimmicks will come and go but suffering and grief will continue for these diseases. If you can donate, cool, if you can't, cool, if you just wana do the video, cool, if you want to do the video and donate somewhere else, cool, if you dont want to do anything, cool.

This is my thoughts pretty well. If it introduces ALS to everyone we can at least recognize its danger. I can honestly say up until now I really didn't know much about ALS but I looked into and learned simply because of this challenge.