# Poll: Would you pour ice watercover your head for charity? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-watercover-your-head-for-charity/695077 "2014-08-08T02:03:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-watercover-your-head-for-charity/695077/1 "2014-08-08T02:03:40Z")
I’m sure you’ve seen the videos of people dumping ice,water over their head, in an effort to raise $/awareness of ALS. Would you do it? ---
**Author:** ![AdmiralQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@AdmiralQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AdmiralQ)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-watercover-your-head-for-charity/695077/2 "2014-08-08T17:52:40Z")
People do this? Like it’s supposed to be sort of manly/heroic/self-sacrificing thing? It sounds like the tamest thing someone could dream up. Heck, on New Years Day we go swimming in Lake Michigan. Temperatures are usually in the teens. Many times you have to wade through floating blocks of ice. And we do this for fun. I’m not sure pouring ice water over your head really accomplishes anything. Just put a donation for ALS on your credit card. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-watercover-your-head-for-charity/695077/3 "2014-08-08T18:07:08Z")
I’d do it, but I fail to see the connection or justification wrt ALS. I’ve jumped into a dumpster filled with ice water a few times, which is no doubt worse. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-watercover-your-head-for-charity/695077/4 "2014-08-08T18:18:52Z")
I’d do it. Hell, here in Tucson this time of year, you don’t need a reason to pour ice water over your head. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-watercover-your-head-for-charity/695077/5 "2014-08-08T18:20:10Z")
[It’s a Boston thing](http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/08/07/boston-took-the-ice-bucket-challenge-now-your-turn-new-york-chicago-and-los-angeles/GxrDZxrxMuItTRkc7ZivlK/story.html?p1=Topofpage:Carousel_sub_headline), at least for now. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-watercover-your-head-for-charity/695077/6 "2014-08-08T18:35:15Z")
Ice water over the head isn’t that big of a deal. I’d do it and offer to match whatever other people contributed. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-watercover-your-head-for-charity/695077/7 "2014-08-08T19:39:24Z")
First of all, I will assume that the donors will find a way to give a target amount of money to charity, whether I humiliate myself or not. Second, I am outraged that in a fabulously wealthy and wasteful society, that silly pranks (or even sober charity) are essential to or associated with the means of distribution of working assets to undisputed public or social good. ---
**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 8, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-pour-ice-watercover-your-head-for-charity/695077/8 "2014-08-08T19:49:44Z")
Closed. See other thread with poll [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=730545).