Ice Bucket Challenge

[derspiess]

My brother did it this afternoon:

http://www.bengals.com/media-lounge/videos/Bengals-Take-On-Ice-Bucket-Challenge/0860bce3-34f8-437d-ad98-7ef9a38dbada

Which one was your brother?

Uh, the white dude  

He's all the way on the right*.  The other guys are brothers, just not my brother.





*go ahead, Seedy.  Make the joke.

[Liep]

Even without the obvious giveaway I could've guessed it was the one challenging someone from a brewery.

[CountDeMoney]

Wait, it's just a bucket of ice water over your head?  That's weak as shit.

People with ALS can't do it.  Insensitive bastard.

[derspiess]

Even without the obvious giveaway I could've guessed it was the one challenging someone from a brewery.

[garbon]

Wait, it's just a bucket of ice water over your head?  That's weak as shit.

People with ALS can't do it.  Insensitive bastard.

Wasn't this whole thing started by someone with ALS who instructed someone (also with ALS) to pour ice water on him?

[CountDeMoney]

I dunno.  They bruise like ripe bananas, though.

[Barrister]

Wait, it's just a bucket of ice water over your head?  That's weak as shit.

People with ALS can't do it.  Insensitive bastard.

Wasn't this whole thing started by someone with ALS who instructed someone (also with ALS) to pour ice water on him?

Apparently it got started somewhat at random, and it's not quite clear how ALS got associated with it (though it's nice that it did, as otherwise it would just be a stupid internet meme instead of actually helpful).

[alfred russel]

My brother did it this afternoon:

http://www.bengals.com/media-lounge/videos/Bengals-Take-On-Ice-Bucket-Challenge/0860bce3-34f8-437d-ad98-7ef9a38dbada

Oh fuck, was that Duane Starks? What is he doing in the Bengals IT department?

[garbon]

Wait, it's just a bucket of ice water over your head?  That's weak as shit.

People with ALS can't do it.  Insensitive bastard.

Wasn't this whole thing started by someone with ALS who instructed someone (also with ALS) to pour ice water on him?

Apparently it got started somewhat at random, and it's not quite clear how ALS got associated with it (though it's nice that it did, as otherwise it would just be a stupid internet meme instead of actually helpful).

Ah actually this suggests that it was indeed golf but ALS was connected from pretty much near the start in this flare-up:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-the-ice-bucket-challenge-got-its-start-1408049557

There have been other ice-bucket challenges, including one by "Today" show anchor Matt Lauer, who did one live on air in July for a hospital.

Then, on July 15, golfer Chris Kennedy did the ice-bucket challenge and challenged his cousin Jeanette Senerchia of Pelham, N.Y., whose husband, Anthony, has had ALS for 11 years. A day later she did the challenge while her 6-year-old daughter filmed her in front of their house.

"Our whole town got involved as well as my husband's older siblings and their friends on Facebook, so it just kind of blew up and it was nonstop," said Ms. Senerchia.

Ms. Senerchia's network on Facebook connected with Pat Quinn, a 31-year-old in Yonkers, N.Y., who was diagnosed with ALS in March 2013. "A friend of mine was a friend of theirs and when they commented on it I saw it," said Mr. Quinn.

[derspiess]

My brother did it this afternoon:

http://www.bengals.com/media-lounge/videos/Bengals-Take-On-Ice-Bucket-Challenge/0860bce3-34f8-437d-ad98-7ef9a38dbada

Oh fuck, was that Duane Starks? What is he doing in the Bengals IT department?

Starks is a coaching intern in the minority coaching program thingie.  I think he's only here for the preseason.  It's mostly coaches in the video.

[Eddie Teach]

In related news... (possibly nsfw)

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhV55eQVN2ykm35c11

[CountDeMoney]

I challenged myself to the Iced Nipples Challenge.  I lost.  And yet, I won.
PERKY

[Martinus]

I hate our culture. Any idiot thing becomes cool because you are "doing it for charity".

[garbon]

I hate our culture. Any idiot thing becomes cool because you are "doing it for charity".

[Viking]

Feels like a sleazy way to name-drop.