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call me a taxi
28 Aug 14 10:20
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This one, from a 2 year old in the Midlands, hit youtube and has had 5,000,000 hits already.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQT31Noq1eE

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Report The Knight • August 28, 2014 11:10 AM BST
Am I the only one who find 'ice bucket challenges' tedious and childish.

At Beverley races last Sunday, they could hardly wait to fit one in between races 2 and 3. In fact, I think those who run that course would have preferred seven ice-bucket challenges and one race instead of the other way around.

OK, great, money is being raised for charity but still a load of bo**ox....
Report lovegod • August 28, 2014 12:50 PM BST
I'm with you Knight.

Maybe we could start a throw yourself of a cliff for Charity event?
Report call me a taxi • August 28, 2014 1:17 PM BST
My eldest daughter's best friend volunteered for it. She sat in the garden and waited for her bucket of iced water with her eyes closed. After she got drenched and finished screaming (tbf there was a LOT of ice in the bucket) she was handed a towel.

As she sat drying herself off, she got covered with 4 more totally unexpected buckets from those who sneaked up from hiding behind the garden shed.

They should have taped the scream on it's own for use in horror movies.  LaughLaugh

Another one I saw that was 'shared' on Facebook, was a bloke in a yellow rubber cape, snorkel and flippers. He walked backwards up a ladder for 3 or 4 rungs, and dived head first into a large bucket of ice water, but it tipped up and threw him into the garden fence. Laugh
Report doantwin2easy • August 28, 2014 1:24 PM BST
it'll be more fun in the winter, if we can just keep this pyramid scheme alive.
Report Facts • August 28, 2014 7:58 PM BST
The Knight

Spot on.

On par with Children In Need capers.
Report call me a taxi • August 29, 2014 1:31 PM BST
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Report mememe • August 29, 2014 1:39 PM BST
I'm sponsoring people at £1 a go on what I'm calling the M6 Rush Hour dash.
Quite simply I'll donate £1 to charity to anybody willing to run across the M6 near Spaghetti J between 7-30 and 9-00 weekday mornings.
OK it'll cost me, but it will rid the country of quite a few morons - and it WILL be for a good cause ... and you can put an ice bucket on your head if you like.
Go on line to Funerals'r'us.gone.uk
Report Aunty Post • August 29, 2014 2:24 PM BST
Don't know when this crazy thing started as never heard talk of it but kept seeing vids of people doing it.

My son and his girl just did it in Madeira, but if anyone nominates me they can get stuffed.
Report TheChaser • August 29, 2014 2:26 PM BST
at least they could do it int the snow to make them a bit colder
Report Aunty Post • August 29, 2014 2:27 PM BST
I'm sponsoring people at £1 a go on what I'm calling the M6 Rush Hour dash.

With the traffic at a standstill you could crawl on your hands and knees, and be perfectly safe.
Report mememe • August 29, 2014 2:42 PM BST
Aunty,
sorry I missed out the bit about the blindfold.
They'll still do it.
Report Harry R Scrack • August 29, 2014 5:21 PM BST
As a diabetic I'm gonna ask people to raise awareness by sticking their toes in a blender to let people know what its like to lose parts of your body.

I'm gonna toss of a tramp over the weekend too for Shelter, anyone else in?
Report MC Roller • August 29, 2014 5:35 PM BST
I got nominated but told them to wait until the snow arrives. The ice bucket shouldn't melt then.
Report Harry R Scrack • August 29, 2014 5:57 PM BST
Anyone know who Robin Williams nominated on his challenge?
Report cdog • August 29, 2014 8:35 PM BST
This is worth a look through for those that haven't seen it Laugh http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/just-donate-money-again?bffb
Report cdog • August 29, 2014 8:35 PM BST
This is worth a look through for those that haven't seen it Laugh http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/just-donate-money-again?bffb
Report 666_v • August 29, 2014 8:36 PM BST
It's a little known fact but people can actually donate money to any charity they chose - without the need to say "look at me, I'm so original, I'll show the world by doing what the other idiots are doing".
Report 666_v • August 29, 2014 8:36 PM BST
*choose
Report Howdi • August 29, 2014 9:02 PM BST
celebs have turned it into a pathetic its al about me venture and of course clare balding had to do one at the races

How fecking boring its become. No originality in it at al.
Report Just Checking • August 29, 2014 9:11 PM BST
"No originality in it at al."

I think it's a complete load of sh*t and far more about attention seeking than doing good, but at least THIS one was original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLZOjLv0_6k
Devil
Report akabula • August 29, 2014 9:13 PM BST
Darling and Salmond should have been its swansong. Was sickening to watch.
Report Ken Masters • August 29, 2014 9:15 PM BST
Makes me sick, when the CIA were doing it to the Iraqis all the lefties were up in arms but get Facebook involved and it's smiles all day long.
Report akabula • August 29, 2014 9:21 PM BST
Laugh
Report Clouseau • August 29, 2014 9:30 PM BST
Fine lines, Ken, I know, but I think the CIA were tipping the person into the bucket; not vice versa.Laugh
Report Howdi • August 29, 2014 9:52 PM BST
Laugh
Report Hank Hill • August 29, 2014 10:03 PM BST
Ken Laugh
Report The Knight • August 29, 2014 10:46 PM BST
666_v

Spot on...

I was 54 last week and the older I get the more stupid many other people now seem to be...not an original thought between most of them..

Here is another example of crass stupidity (to me at least) - nothing to do with ice bucket challenge.

Football fans who pay almost £100 in Premiership and then bay to have the opposition's top players sent off at every opportunity. Yes, they want their team to win but surely best they do it fair and square?

It's like me lashing out £100 for the best seat at a top London theatre and then screaming for the lead actor to go off stage and not come back...

Honestly, I could go on and on at the stupidity of today......and don't get me started above the team of children who run Beverley racecourse!!!
Report Emden • August 29, 2014 11:05 PM BST
Alec Salmond nominated the Queen - says a lot about him
Report Facts • August 30, 2014 10:04 AM BST
666_ v


Absolutely correct. The  ' look at me ' society is pathetic.
Report Just Checking • August 30, 2014 11:51 AM BST
"Alec Salmond nominated the Queen - says a lot about him"
Oh he completely politicised it, as usual. Nominated Cameron and then shouted "Go Scotland" - he just can't switch the tap of nationalist cr*p off. Completely cringeworthy. I wonder if the ***** shouts that on the vinegar strokes? Laugh...Sad Damn that's a really horrible image.
Report Gin • August 30, 2014 1:20 PM BST
We need to start spreading this Mischief



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Report call me a taxi • August 30, 2014 1:23 PM BST
^^ What is it?

Classic forum users can't see it.
Report the.mad.dog.man • August 30, 2014 5:31 PM BST
the queen doing one next week
Report doantwin2easy • August 30, 2014 8:57 PM BST

Aug 30, 2014 -- 7:23AM, call me a taxi wrote:


^^ What is it?Classic forum users can't see it.


just a bit of whipped cream and Cheryl's butt cheeks

Report Just Checking • August 30, 2014 9:06 PM BST
I passed some teenagers filming one today.
Serious stuff though, not on a phone, but an actual video camera on a tripod. Quality attentions seeking.
Report Just Checking • August 30, 2014 9:07 PM BST
I hate it when I hit submit and spot the typo before it 'goes'. I should add this to the irritation thread ;)
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