I wanted to do it but he challenged me exactly one day before I was going on holidays with my mum and wasn't able to do my video. I went travelling in Europe for two weeks, reason for which I haven't written anything lately, and thought nobody would give a damn about the challenge when I came back. I was so wrong! 2 weeks later the ice bucket challenge was an international sensation! I got another challenge by Katy at the end of the month.
So I decided to take my opportunity and so I did. Here's my video.
As I said at the beginning, I think of it as one of the things people do for charity so very often. In a certain way, people in the maths department kept doing it that way and most of them kept donating for their favourite cause. However, I think in Mexico it seemed like a big deal for many haters. I believe their argument has to do with the shortage of water of certain communities and we were just using it for a stupid challenge... and well, they are not wrong.
Having said that, I consider myself a very "green" person and I consciously try wasting less water, generate less solid wastes, and in general have a lower carbon footprint than the average user in my situation. I can't back up my intentions with actual data, but that's not the point here, what I want to say is that that was something I thought from the beginning and that's why I decided to do the challenge with water that was already there.
It would have been already freezing cold had it been winter, but even during the British summer you may say is not that cold, so I did put some ice on it.
I don't believe (in the sense of Reservoir Dogs's Mr. Pink) doing stuff for charity... unless it is actually donating or doing the real science. I didn't do the ice bucket challenge because I felt I was raising awareness of the ALS disease, I did it because I thought it was fun.
