JR accepts the Ice Bucket Challenge

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The gauntlet has been dropped...

An online donation of $1000 has been made to ALS Canada. Let's please pray a cure is found.

My challenge:

1) The Calgary Shooting Centre - James, John and Markus
2) Wolverine Supplies - John
3) Wild West Shooting Centre - Ken K.

 
lil_juiced_coupe said:
The whole point of the ice bucket challenge is drench cheap people in ice water. If your donating, you don't have to drench yourself. Kinda eliminates the whole point of the cause if your doing both. I find that weird.

Good on them for donating though. ALS Is a terrible thing to go through.
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No....the whole point is to raise money for ALSA so they can continue to fight/research ALS
 
I believe the intent was to donate $100 if you didn't dump ice water on yourself and $25 if you did
So its not just dumping ice water on you. Its to raise money and awareness for ALS
 
It upsets me to see all the celebs on social media that are getting drenched and (I assume) do not make a donation.

JR, you're a celeb of sorts - and I wanna say "Atta boy!" for stepping up and making the donation.
Even better, you still got wet in an effort to increase public awareness via the stunt/prank of it all.
 
Wretched said:
It upsets me to see all the celebs on social media that are getting drenched and (I assume) do not make a donation.

JR, you're a celeb of sorts - and I wanna say "Atta boy!" for stepping up and making the donation.
Even better, you still got wet in an effort to increase public awareness via the stunt/prank of it all.
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No most of them are donating as well as getting drenched. They drench themselves anyway to add to the spirit of the challenge as well as donating, it started as pay or get drenched, then morphed into pay and get drenched. Makes for better viral video.
 
Wretched said:
It upsets me to see all the celebs on social media that are getting drenched and (I assume) do not make a donation.

JR, you're a celeb of sorts - and I wanna say "Atta boy!" for stepping up and making the donation.
Even better, you still got wet in an effort to increase public awareness via the stunt/prank of it all.
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Exactly.

Who would have watched a video of him signing a check or donating online?

The videos made us pay attention to the topic and then allowed him to publicly challenge others.

His donation above and beyond the going rate was icing on the cake.

BZ JR
 
Just out of curiosity is everybody in on next weeks mud bucket for MS or do all the other charity organizations get screwed now cause everybody already jumped on the feel good bandwagon?
 
lil_juiced_coupe said:
The whole point of the ice bucket challenge is drench cheap people in ice water. If your donating, you don't have to drench yourself. Kinda eliminates the whole point of the cause if your doing both. I find that weird.

Good on them for donating though. ALS Is a terrible thing to go through.
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I think you're missing the point. The whole video-yourself-freaking-out-with-a-bucket-of-ice-dumped-on-your-head-for-laughs AND then challenging 3 of your friends to do it as well is a gimmick to create awareness and create an exponential growth factor. That's why it has gone so viral. Awareness is the main thing... how many people that chose 'the bucket', do you think ALSO donated? Or had a non-bucket-choosing friend or family member donate?

That is the point.
 
Ms359 said:
Just out of curiosity is everybody in on next weeks mud bucket for MS or do all the other charity organizations get screwed now cause everybody already jumped on the feel good bandwagon?
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That's been brought up in the media. But hey... what are you gonna do? Every charity is trying to find a gimmick. Some work better than others. Next month or next year, there will be another viral gimmick for cancer or aids or AG or... one of them...


As it is, some of the money going to ALS can also provide concurrent benefits to other charities as well...
 
I believe that the most interesting one of these video's was that of Patrick Stewart, his video is completely quiet except for the sound when he plops two ice cubes into a glass that he pours what I assume is an excellent scotch into, after writing a cheque for an undisclosed amount.

Scott
 
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