Official LGP Facebook Complaint Thread

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Start the Chug a Beer challenge and you have to donate $10 to AA.

That'll piss some people off.

My buddy did that Friday night. He was drunk and posted a video challenging 3 people to drink. He said "its not going to make anyone not have a disease, but just do it anyway." It was funny because he was ripped and probably had no idea he did it until his phone started blowing up in the morning with notifications.

If I'm not mistaken this was an actual thing before the ice bucket challenge. I just remember people challenging each other on my Facebook to chug a beer (they didn't include the AA part, I don't think).

[Letang Is The Truth]

i remember my first beer

[count2infinity]

I'm not doing the ice bucket challenge.

There are multiple reasons I wont' do this. I'm also not donating to ALS, for similar reasons. Here are my reasons:

1. I'm not dumping a bucket of cold ice water over my head.
2. I don't have $100 to donate to an organization that I have very little investment in.
3. America. I happen to live there. I have a choice to do whatever I'd like.
4. (The biggest reason for not). The ALS association receives somewhere between 15 and 20 million dollars per year, of which a decent majority they use to provide grants for research. However, because they are a national nonprofit, I was curious as to where all that money goes. The thing about nonprofits is that you can pretty easily see where their money is spent. Did you know: Their CEO makes $265,908 per year? That's not including unreportable compensation. While I understand her compensation (she's running an organization with receipts around $20 million), I'm still not a huge fan of donating money to an organization that I have no investment in--and also, that I could just potentially be paying for an individual's salary.
5. ALS Association missing out on my $100 is way less impactful than, say, my local United Way missing out on my $100 (Although, a very small portion of that goes to a national dues that also helps to way overpay somebody's salary, but that's besides the point). Basically, I choose to give to local nonprofits because I think they're more/most important. I'd much rather support an organization that I believe in, that will make the most impact in an area that I think needs impact. Although I have donated to large national nonprofits in the past, and will probably continue to do so, I still will donate much more money in my life to local nonprofits.
6. Contrary to what some of you believe, I have very little disposable income. That means I'm not donating money I don't have to some place.

So here's my challenge: Go find a local organization (it could be as easy as walking to your local library *wink* *wink*) that you truly care about and give them a donation. In a place like that, even $10 can make the difference between a good year and a bad one.

TL;DR: I'm not dowsing myself in a bucket of ice water, but I will donate money to the Bedford United Way Campaign as soon as I have money.

[Letang Is The Truth]

it seems like that person could have consolidated points 2, 5, and 6 in to one point

[count2infinity]

agreed.

[dodint]

United Way is not on the top of my list of chosen charities. Unless they've changed their tune, they have too much 'overhead' in their operation.

[blackjack68]

Thanks for changing the thread name and making read this thread list 5 times before finding it.

#irrationalpetpeeveinthewrongthread

[newarenanow]

I agree with that person from Bedford. No organization should have any walks, 5Ks, community events, or anything other than set up viewing cages with people that are affected by the disease inside of them and a detailed, in depth description of said disease. We can even put homeless and poor people in there as well, but in a seperate area so they don't get sick. Only donate locally, and if you are working for one of these organizations, work for free or minimum wage even though it takes the same amount, if not more work than your average ordinary for profit company. This is a serious world we live in. Keep it that way.

Or, instead of b*tching about it, just don't donate if you don't want to or it is not your top priority. That would work as well.

[KennyTheKangaroo]

stop avoiding the pitt thread, nan

[count2infinity]

there's a pitt thread?

[count2infinity]

btw... Charlie Sheen doing it right:

[youtube][/youtube]

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

I'm surprised he didn't fill it with coke

[count2infinity]

Does anyone know of anywhere that could use a fairly large donation of kids books? Besides Goodwill because they will just profit off of them.

[dodint]

lol

[columbia]

To be fair, Goodwill has some pretty sketchy labor practices when it comes to employing disabled workers; I wouldn't donate to them.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

btw... Charlie Sheen doing it right:

[youtube][/youtube]

videos been removed...what was it? Other than Charlie Sheen, of course...

[KennyTheKangaroo]

To be fair, Goodwill has some pretty sketchy labor practices when it comes to employing disabled workers; I wouldn't donate to them.

do tell.

[count2infinity]

To be fair, Goodwill has some pretty sketchy labor practices when it comes to employing disabled workers; I wouldn't donate to them.

what company would this lady be looking to donate to that wouldn't make money off the books? I just don't get it...

[columbia]

To be fair, Goodwill has some pretty sketchy labor practices when it comes to employing disabled workers; I wouldn't donate to them.

do tell.

For Sheila Leigland, a blind Goodwill employee in Great Falls, Montana, earning $3.99 an hour was already tough. But when the Rockville, Md.-based nonprofit wanted to cut her salary to $2.75, she decided it was time to quit. “I want to be paid a living wage for meaningful work,” she says. Blind since birth, Leigland, 58, survives on disability payments. “It’s not just me—all Goodwill employees deserve the same. They call themselves leaders in providing opportunity for the disabled, but since when did opportunity look like a quarter an hour?”

Leigland’s husband Harold, 66, a former massage therapist, also works at Goodwill, earning $5.40 an hour. No, that isn’t anywhere near the minimum wage.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/ ... d-workers/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Part of the problem is that it is, well, legal.

[Hockeynut!]

Yeah, my neighbor's son has Down's Syndrome and he goes to the "workshop" every day where he does things like bag small parts for local factories, etc. He doesn't make enough to pay for his lunch.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Apparently the Goodwill CEO made $725k in 2011.

[PghSkins]

So tired of the "97% of my friends won't post this" crap.

Guess what, bucco, I am the 97%.

Same people who are "friends" with anyone they have a vague connection to like we went to the same elementary school, right?

These I finally started to turn down. Had to get over some kind of guilt thing.

[viva la ben]

Spinning off messenger was dumb enough, but removing the functionality from the original app, is nothing but greed.

[mac5155]

Yeah what is the big issue with it that people are refusing to install the messenger app?

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

this crap: [youtube][/youtube]