Did you participate either by getting your head soaked or by sponsoring someone who did, or did you mock those who did either?
Well, the awful truth about where the money went has been revealed: A crapload of money was raised, it went to where it was supposed to go, and it has done a lot of good. So good on alla youse what participated in the silliness. 
I donated money.
Wasn’t the ice bucket dump to get out of giving money? I’m guessing a whole lot of people were dumping ice water on their heads without actually knowing why, besides, “everyone else was doing it.”
And the guy who started the challenge:
Mr. Frates actually died a week or two ago, but at least he died knowing he made a difference
Color me clueless. I thought he was still alive, or am I mixing him up with someone else?
Good to hear, I’ve given money to help ALS, but thought the ice bucket challenge was stupid. I’m surprised and happy to be pretty much wrong about it also being somewhat useless. Still think the act itself (ice bucket dump) was pretty stupid. About time stupidity was a positive.
I’m not in the habit of ranking diseases, but ALS is a horrible, horrible one. I’m glad money (and awareness) was raised.
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I remember it well. My entire office building of 17 floors participated. We had a huge crowd out in the parking lot, even made the local news. It was over 100 degrees the day we did it, so it wasn’t all that uncomfortable. ������
I donated. And dumped water over my head, cause I was stupid. My then office all donated quite a bit.
I’m sure there are better ways to fund medical research; albeit less liquid, and not as post-worthy on the net.
That’s what took DesertWife twenty-five years ago. Unlike cancer, there isn’t much pain, mostly the remaining muscles being overstressed trying to take up the slack of those no longer working. However, you still get to watch your loved one waste away, a formerly vibrant personality dim when, as in DW’s case, she can’t get enough air into her lungs because her diaphragm is no longer working right.
We knew from the literature that the vast majority of patients who went on a ventilator never went off of it; her first crisis was her last as even a cuirass would mean she would be confined to a bed for the rest of her life. The bravest thing I have ever done in my life was to tell her that last night that the quality of her life was what was important. “Do not be afraid to stay because of how much work you will be; do not be afraid to go because of how lonely I will be,” because I knew what her answer would be.
The next morning at 7am the intubation was removed. She began to fail about forty-five minutes later. After asking her daughters and me – with a tablet as she could no longer speak – “Does this make sense?” she refused to be intubated again. She died about twelve hours later.
So, call me prejudiced but I put ALS near the top of my Horrid Disease list.
I thought the worst part of the Ice Bucket challenge was seeing celebrities pour water over their heads. That was supposed to be the way out of donating, so it was effectively rich and famous people making a big show out of not donating to charity.
I mean, in your defense, it JUST happened.
Huh, I guess I’m misremembering. I thought it was more along the lines of “I’d pay $$ to see [specific celebrity] have ice water poured all over him,” and then you’d text a payment in to a number provided in the youtube video of the event.
Celebs generally made a donation and still did the challenge.Like Bill Gates. Or Reed Hastings.
Whereas I rather liked Patrick Stewart’s video, where he wrote the check, and then took one ice cube out of the bucket to put into his drink. 
This is incorrect. He is currently in the hospita. He has been on the news here every morning for the past week.
Despite death reports Pete Frates resting comfortably in hospital
I actually think the idea of doing it to get out of it helped the cause, as it made everyone feel like they were going above and beyond when they paid it anyways. Which is what nearly everyone actually did, because otherwise you came off like a jerk.
My favorite was Dave Grohl’s Carrie style Ice Bucket Challenge.
