All these "celebrities" I've seen doing the ice bucket challenge for a good cause, absolutely none of them have mentioned the charity, the cause, or how to donate. Self publicity at its best. Embarrassing.
Think he's a knob but fair play to Charlie sheen for doing this https://youtube.com/watch?v=qat9gR5nrpM
Except the idea is to dose yourself in ice AND to donate. Anyway, it's all self-promotion, just donate. It's doing my head in, fed up of seeing all the posts.
Yeah I saw that as well. Saves wasting water. Verne Troyer (mini-me) also did something a little different. He used ice cold milk while eating an oreo as there is a drought in LA at the moment!
Do you write a column for The Independent? http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-on-the-als-ice-bucket-challenge-9681666.html
Anything that gets awareness out there is fine by me - my brother was diagnosed with MND last August. 1 male in a 1000 is the statistic which is pretty frightening. A year later he is in a wheelchair and losing movement in his arms. Realistically at the rate it is progressing he has a year left and he has already made his plans for travel to Geneva at the end after discussion with his wife. I can't say I blame him. I knew nothing really until he got the diagnosis. Now I know far more than I ever wanted to know. Celebrities dowsing themselves over social media is better than cat videos in my view. Donations to the MND charities have increased, and people now seem to actually know what this truly terrible disease is. Last year some onlookers seemed to think my brother was drunk rather than ill. Keep going I say.
Somebody has nominated Devante Cole. I've told him via twitter to nominate Ben Mansford. Amazed that Flicker and Keith aren't on this. That I would like to see.
This stories got a slightly ironic twist COREY Griffin, 27, the co-founder of the Ice Bucket Challenge has tragically drowned. The Boston Globe reports that Griffin had just attended a fundraiser for ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease on Friday at which he helped raise $US100,000 in honour of his friend Pete Frates, whose struggle with the disease helped turn the Ice Bucket Challenge into a viral craze. At about 2am he dove off a building at Straight Wharf in Nantucket before floating to the surface and then sinking without a trace. Off-duty Nantucket lifeguard Colin Perry managed to recover Griffin from the bottom of the harbour and he was taken to Nantucket Cottage Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3am. http://mobile.news.com.au/technolog...ving-off-a-wharf/story-fnjwnhzf-1227031379609
I've seen loads of celebs that have asked people to donate, and it's all awareness driving anyway, resulting in millions being raised for a disease that most people weren't fully aware of a month ago. There's some right **** posted on Social Media these days, this isn't one of them.
This is very moving. http://www.upworthy.com/the-last-ic...o-see-and-you-really-should-see-it?g=6&c=ufb1
A Dad of a close friend of mine in Canada suffers from this disease and awareness of it has been really, really low. I met him last Christmas for the first time, but seeing him them compared to how I know he was just three or four years ago was frightening. The more awareness there is around this the better. As a country we need to stop being so negative about everything, proper miserable for miserable's sake sometimes. P.S. Nicola Roberts just did the ice bucket challenge. Not only did I enjoy watching it, she mentioned the charity as well.
