IceTrojan

One of my fb friends posted this.... this chart is just about deflection. Most people singlehandedly can't stop the beef industry. But surely they can resist the urge to waste 2-15 gallons of water.

Yes, the water "wasted" from this challenge is a mere fraction of what beef uses. However, with a media-estimated 1mil videos posted and the charts 5 gals of water average per person, that's still 5mil gals (19mil L) of water wasted. That's a lot of water.

My stance is: if you do it, do it while standing in a natural body of water.

eponymous_coward

Most people can just as easily resist the urge to drink coffee or milk, or eat tomatoes, chocolate or beef. But we don't see scolding about doing that in a drought. I don't think the scolding being done here is particularly logical, much like how people fear nuclear power plants and airline crashes, but blithely drive in cars that kill orders of magnitude more people every year.

LETTERBOY

I can't stand Dougie, but any criticism he (or anyone else) gets for doing this is asinine.

MaxVO

I thought this was a publicity campaign for the idiots with the buckets over their heads.

TrojanHorse

Likewise

the first thing that came to my mind was Rocks from about 30K feet

brewdog11

Sounds like something that would come from "Alex Jones discusses the Ice Bucket challenge" to me... Mass hysteria? I guess I just don't see it as that, but to each their own.

AANYC1981

I would have liked to dump a bucket of ice water on him too.

elitetraveler

I thought it was funny he passed it forward to the head of the FA and Pilots union --

-- it was certainly a good team bonding type thing -- same as giving up the executive parking spot and his donation of $1 million to AA team members who are in need because of a financial problem.

I am disappointed about the changes to AAdvantage -- and the meals -- however, overall it sounds like it is a large net cost increase upgrading US. I think he lost the forest through the trees in not going the last mile (and UA is apparently finally getting off its a**).

Criticisms of US around FA service and dirty planes are just completely not true -- both AA and US are a mixed bag.

I think those folks who are using the ALS challenge to criticize DP would have done so as well if he had declined the ice bucket and just wrote the check (although he did both).

relangford

SMI/J over at UA also did the challenge. Don't know about Richard Anderson over at DL. It is inane, but effective at getting donations. I say kudos to Parker for playing along. ALS needs publicity.

wetrat0

I thought the ice bucket challenge was to donate OR dump ice water on yourself. So does this mean that DP didn't donate?

elitetraveler

I think it's donate 100 or dump ice and only 10 -- DP at the end that he was making a donation --- didnt say the amount -- he and his wife personally donated $1 million to AA employees in need last year.

CMK10

Doug Parker heard "ice bucket" and signed on before he even knew what it was

coachrowsey

LMAO I wouldn't doubt it.