Trends and Fads (ie: Ice Bucket Challenge)

[Michelangelo]

Hey everyone,

What do cool guys or socially savy men do when trends or fads come around? Do they go along with them (follow?), ignore them (risk being seen as unhip?) or do some sort of middle ground?

As, for example, what would you do if nominated for the Ice Bucket Challenge (or any other "challenge") which has been going around recently?

-Michaelangelo

 

[PinotNoir]

I just ignore it when someone challenges me haha. However, I did help a friend by pouring a cooler of ice water (with my other friend) on top of his head for a video.

I just don't want ice water poured on myself.

It's kind of like the old cliché.... will you jump off a bridge if everyone else is doing it? You won't be viewed as "unhip"; instead, you'll be viewed as a rebel and independent.

But, if you think it would be funny and/or think of a good idea, then feel free to do it.... It kind of depends on where you are posting this too. If it's on facebook and your facebook profile is mainly for friends only (like mine), then it won't matter. However, if you've built your facebook profile up to be for "seduction" and are friends with women that you are dating and/or girlfriends, then I wouldn't do it, unless you do it with her in a bikini....

What would James Bond do? Most likely he wouldn't have any time. He doesn't have time for that shit. But, if he did, then he'd probably have a hot woman sitting next to him while shooting a hole in a bucket of water that pours down on top of her, and then he'd say, "Oops, I missed." "James! This is vodka and lemon!" "Well, in that case, better not let that go to waste." *Picks her up and carries her off*....

Bottom line.... just do what you want. Make sure that you're doing it because you want to, not because everyone else is doing it (and this should be clear to people in the way you do it). And if you do follow a fad/trend, make sure to add your own unique style/touch to it.

 

[Franco]

Pinot has a good reply and mostly mirrors my sentiments.

If you're going to do it, just make sure that it's because you actually want to (and not because you were challenged and someone "threatened" that you had to donate money otherwise). If you think it would be fun to pour ice cold water on your head, record it, and post it on Facebook or Instagram, then go for it. If you feel like donating money to ALS is something that you've been wanting to do anyway, then go for it.

Just don't do either one if you really don't want to just because someone told you that you should. That's the main point being made here. =)

- Franco

 

[Thedoctor]

Agree with the replies here. Just wanted to add this article that I stumbled upon:

https://ca.shine.yahoo.com/challenging- ... 20977.html

-John

 

[Rage]

The other guys gave good replies and my personal opinion on the topic would be roughly the same as theirs.

I had a first date with a girl quite recently and this topic came up, and this was what I had remarked to her:

Hb - have you done the ice bucket challenge
Me - what? (kind of was a random thing for her to ask me just right at that moment of the date)
Hb - idk everyone's been doing it lol
Me - no I haven't. ... usually when everyone's doing something I run the other way haha
Hb - that's really good (qualifying me) ; everyone usually follows the crowd

Personally I happen to be pretty rebellious and anti "doing what everyone else is doing just because they are doing it" and you have the option to be that as a socially savvy guy.

A lot of the time it ends up being a good thing and a good cause and it bugs me then that I'm so repelled to something because the masses are doing it... but if you feel that way you can communicate that to women and have them respond to it positively/in your favor.