# Poll: Would you pour ice water over your head for charity? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080 "2014-08-08T02:11:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/101 "2014-08-23T01:49:40Z")
[Sir Patrick Stewart](http://t.co/FEtuebCZIL) knows how to play this game 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/102 "2014-08-23T23:46:24Z")
Me doing it. NSFW due to language.[spoiler] > **[Ice Bucket Surratt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEStJQcz6ME%5B%2Fspoiler%5D)** > > The one featuring me. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/103 "2014-08-24T01:02:10Z")
[quote=“Sampiro, post:102, topic:695080”] Me doing it. NSFW due to language. [/QUOTE] I wish she had done a close up of your face,when she said that she was not filming. lol Declan ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/104 "2014-08-24T01:09:07Z")
Bored. Move on. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/105 "2014-08-24T01:18:33Z")
[quote=“Sampiro, post:102, topic:695080”] Me doing it. NSFW due to language. [/QUOTE] You drama queen, you! Seriously, great job. And you’re looking good! I like this beard on ya. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/106 "2014-08-24T01:35:48Z")
The [Foo Fighters’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLZOjLv0_6k) is the best one yet. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Bored. Move on. Thank you for informing us. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/107 "2014-08-24T03:58:04Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > The [Foo Fighters’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLZOjLv0_6k) is the best one yet. > > Thank you for informing us. :rolleyes: It was a survey. I answered the question. I will not respond to nastiness as this is not the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/108 "2014-08-25T17:11:10Z")
Was on Facebook, discussing challenge ideas for Spina Bifida awareness. Someone mentioned that ice water is used because it shocks the nervous system, ALS being a nervous system disease. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/109 "2014-08-25T18:34:21Z")
While my previous response was at least somewhat positive, that was before I knew the specifics. I like the idea of people volunteering to do it and pay money. I like the idea of a challenge to make it more fun. I do not like the idea of the challenge requiring you to pay money. Especially since who you challenge is public. There’s no built-in opt out. While I thought the guy who broke the Starbucks chain was being a jerk, I do agree that people should not feel guilted into giving to charity. I am against using guilt to raise money, period. There are certain websites I would support by turning off my adblocker, but they decided to pull out a guilt trip, so they will never get anything from me. With a worthy cause, I wouldn’t be so strict about that, but I definitely am less than inclined to contribute to this due to the factors given. I won’t ruin anyone else’s fun like the Starbucks asshole, but I won’t participate either. (I would like to just try the ice bucket thing for the experience, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/110 "2014-08-25T19:13:25Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Especially since who you challenge is public. There’s no built-in opt out. To date, 4 of the people challenged when I was (I was challenged twice, each person naming 3) and the 3 I challenged have opted out just fine. 😉 I really have no hard feelings if they don’t, and I deliberately chose people who to my knowledge can afford the donation, but, no responses to date. C’est la vie; it’s for a good cause, but it’s just an Internet meme. And it’s one HELL OF A LOT better than having people arrested for March-of-Dimes (about which don’t even get me started- I officially HATE that promotion and have threatened unfriending on Facebook and physical violence in person to the next person who does it to me). ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/111 "2014-08-25T20:02:47Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Was on Facebook, discussing challenge ideas for Spina Bifida awareness. Someone mentioned that ice water is used because it shocks the nervous system, ALS being a nervous system disease. That is revisionist history. I first saw this last year sometime when it wasn’t attached to ALS. The Cold Water Challenge was gaining popularity over the winter for various causes. In it people would jump into cold bodies of water for charity. When winter turned into spring jumping into pleasantly warm water did not seem to be that much of a challenge. So ice buckets were substituted. Also several people were hurt and killed by jumping into water of unknown depth. It shifted to ALS in June of this year. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080/112 "2014-08-26T13:15:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Bored. Move on. Don’t come into a thread just to announce your distain for the topic at hand. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-water-over-your-head-for-charity/695080.md?page=5)