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  • Just seen this take on the ice bucket situation:

    "This is not intending to offend anyone, but I am not tipping a bucket of ice over my head in order that myself and someone else may donate £3. Instead I would prefer to donate a more significant sum silently to a charity that is closer to me. Sorry to disappoint the people that nominated me, x"

    If you can't see the irony in that statement my dear then there is truly no hope for you.

    If you think that shaming people into making charitable donations is a positive thing there's no hope for you.

  • Don't get me wrong - I am in no way an advocate of this whole thing - nothing in my post suggests I am! I just thought it was rather amusing that someone would look down on people publicly giving to charity then publicly stating they give to charity!

  • I just thought it was rather amusing that someone would look down on people publicly giving to charity then publicly stating they give to charity!

    I dunno, for me its partly the whole £3 thing that everyone seems to be doing. Especially when some people that I know that have done it spent more than that buying bags of ice from the supermarket. It seems - to me - to be very "look at me, I gave to charity, I'm saving the world" and I don't see a one off £3 donation as so horrendously noble that it needs shouting about on the internet.

    I get the whole getting more people to do it thing but I don't see 'charity coz its fashionable' as a positive thing. I also know people who donate silently and whose donations equate to quite a lot of people donating £3 publicly and who do so on a monthly basis, not a one off coz it's fashionable basis.

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