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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Nominations

strorusstrorus Member Posts: 328 Arc User
edited August 2014 in Ten Forward
Hi,

I nominate Capt Smirk, LaughingTrendy and Capt Geko to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge! :P
Hehe
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    As I heard a guy in Hydrophobia once say, "I only have 2 balls, and neither of them are crystal." LOL. Nevertheless, I bet he'd be able to predict, with 100% certainly, that this thread will be locked very soon. :P
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  • induperatorinduperator Member Posts: 806 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    strorus wrote: »
    Hi,

    I nominate Capt Smirk, LaughingTrendy and Capt Geko to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge! :P
    Hehe
    This should be in Ten Forward
  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I nominate whoever concocted all these lame social media "challenges" for sterilization for the good of the gene pool.
  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    meimeitoo wrote: »
    As I heard a guy in Hydrophobia once say, "I only have 2 balls, and neither of them are crystal." LOL. Nevertheless, I bet he'd be able to predict, with 100% certainly, that this thread will be locked very soon. :P

    I guess he wasn't Tholian. Lol, then again, a Tholian would probably die from this. :D
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    I nominate whoever concocted all these lame social media "challenges" for sterilization for the good of the gene pool.

    Seconded.

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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    I nominate whoever concocted all these lame social media "challenges" for sterilization for the good of the gene pool.

    I know, how dare people raise money for a good cause, we need to get rid of people like that, the human race is better off
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  • jarodroto123jarodroto123 Member Posts: 1,337 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    I nominate whoever concocted all these lame social media "challenges" for sterilization for the good of the gene pool.

    wow.....this is to raise awareness about ALS....and its been bringing the people fighting it huge amounts of donations....think before you post
  • rickdankorickdanko Member Posts: 470 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Exactly how does pouring ice water over your head make money appear in the lab's bank account? You want to help cure ALS? Write a check.
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  • sle1989sle1989 Member Posts: 552 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Oh yeah, it's not like these social media challenges make any difference at all.


    At least Trendy and Smirk should do this during the next live stream.

    Exactly how does pouring ice water over your head make money appear in the lab's bank account? You want to help cure ALS? Write a check.

    It raises awareness so that more people do write checks.
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  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    jarodroto123 wrote: »
    wow.....this is to raise awareness about ALS....and its been bringing the people fighting it huge amounts of donations....think before you post
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    I know, how dare people raise money for a good cause, we need to get rid of people like that, the human race is better off

    And ALS has what to do with STO? Think before you post.

    And writing checks to ALS research does more for ALS than stupid "America's Funniest Home Videos" grade stunts. Once again, think before you post.
  • jarodroto123jarodroto123 Member Posts: 1,337 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    rickdanko wrote: »
    Exactly how does pouring ice water over your head make money appear in the lab's bank account? You want to help cure ALS? Write a check.

    Lol except most of the people doing this are also donating money, and everyone who does it nominates more people to do it. By making this a social media thing they have basically gotten the attention of 90% of the wired world.
  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    And ALS has what to do with STO? Think before you post.

    And writing checks to ALS research does more for ALS than stupid "America's Funniest Home Videos" grade stunts. Once again, think before you post.

    This AFV stunts have already raised millions for ALS :eek:


    The only thing I agree with you is that this should be in Ten Forward
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  • askrayaskray Member Posts: 3,329 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    1) as others have said, this has brought attention and a lot of support for ALS. Which my mother in law has so I'm happy to see this kind of "promotion" being done to get the people talking about a serious terminal disease.

    2) Moved to ten forward :P
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  • empireofsteveempireofsteve Member Posts: 665 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    I nominate whoever concocted all these lame social media "challenges" for sterilization for the good of the gene pool.

    Actually the guy who started it just recently died from ALS.
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    empireofsteve wrote: »
    Actually the guy who started it just recently died from ALS.

    Well, there's your cure for ALS right there.
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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Shouldn't this be added to the FCT thread? With all the rest of the drek that people keep posting ad nauseum?
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    iconians wrote: »
    Well, there's your cure for ALS right there.

    Dude. That's not cool. Not cool at ALL.
  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    Dude. That's not cool. Not cool at ALL.

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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    I know, how dare people raise money for a good cause, we need to get rid of people like that, the human race is better off

    The ALS Association has publicized the results they have gotten from this--and the jump in donations is really mindblowing.

    http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/08/12/ice-bucket-challenge-brings-4-million-in-donations-to-als-association/

    I think it's pretty unfortunate to see people snubbing something that has brought in such results.

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  • generalmocogeneralmoco Member Posts: 1,634
    edited August 2014
    edited by me!!!
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    iconians wrote: »
    "We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases." -- Thomas Browne
    Still not cool.
    gulberat wrote: »
    The ALS Association has publicized the results they have gotten from this--and the jump in donations is really mindblowing.

    http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/08/12/ice-bucket-challenge-brings-4-million-in-donations-to-als-association/

    I think it's pretty unfortunate to see people snubbing something that has brought in such results.

    I'm of several minds about this.

    1. It's unequivocally good that donations have spiked.

    2. It should NOT take some lame social-media weaksauce challenge to get people to be charitable, especially to a cause like ALS research.

    3. While the social-media stupid makes my brain hurt, this HAS gotten results. In an ideal world, however, people would just give money to causes like this without having stupid social-media stunts to egg them on.

    So. Happy about the funds being raised for such a noble cause, but despairing for humanity.
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    If the social media aspect offends you, write the check and don't do the challenge, but I don't see any downside at all to the challenge for those who do it. The key will be to find ways to sustain the momentum this has started--but this has the benefits, for instance, of adding to the ALS Association's mailing lists, and giving them further ideas about how to target their outreach.

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  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    worffan101 wrote: »
    3. While the social-media stupid makes my brain hurt, this HAS gotten results. In an ideal world, however, people would just give money to causes like this without having stupid social-media stunts to egg them on.

    But we live in the real world, not the ideal one. So since this has gotten results, we can now look forward to "Ice swimming for AIDS," "Bungie Jumping for [pick your favorite type of] cancer," "Wet t-shirt challenge for Multiple Sclerosis," "Belly-flopping for concussion awareness," and it's only going to spiral downward from there as long as anyone thinks there's money to be had.

    Calling it now.
    worffan101 wrote: »
    So. Happy about the funds being raised for such a noble cause, but despairing for humanity.

    Welcome to my world.
  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    gulberat wrote: »
    If the social media aspect offends you, write the check and don't do the challenge, but I don't see any downside at all to the challenge for those who do it. The key will be to find ways to sustain the momentum this has started--but this has the benefits, for instance, of adding to the ALS Association's mailing lists, and giving them further ideas about how to target their outreach.

    In general, I agree.

    The problem comes, however, when I get challenged to do the stupid stunt despite having already given a not inconsiderable portion of my meager funds to the cause in question. When I try to explain my situation, I get called a coward and get told that I must not care about people dying slow, horrible deaths and get doxxed on Tumblr.

    It's happened before. So do please forgive me for my strong dislike of social media stunts.
  • bumperthumperbumperthumper Member Posts: 513 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    @the OP:

    You need to film and post yourself doing the challenge in order to challenge others.

    On that note, since this is a STO forum, I would hope to see Trekkies in uniform doing it. It would help donations and would help to bring more light to STO.

    Imagine Taco doing this. It would have a frakkin spaceship going over his head at the end! EPIC!
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