 Person of the Year, is time still relevant? |
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 Dec 13 2011, 06:22 AM
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 Oh, hello Dripping Yellow Madness  Group: Nazgul Posts: 9,505 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Park City Member No.: 17  |
TIME will announce the person of the year on wednesday. who do you think it'll be? my thoughts:
anonymous - time loves giving it to groups, and they probably think the internet H4X0RZLOL and occupy protestors are the same people. romney/gingrich - white people who cause a ruckus in an election year somebody involved in the arab spring - we don't know this person's name, but time does, and they want to tell you it. seal team six - they killed bin laden. and also they don't have a name, which gives time a boner. who it should be? not sure. last year the obvious answer was julian assange, but i really don't think any one person has impacted the news that substantially this year. maybe david stern? maybe tebow? maybe warren buffett? edit - thought about it, they'll probably give it to steve jobs. damn. -------------------- T-REX THAT'S HORSE RACIST
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Dec 13 2011, 11:08 AM
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 I LIKE MY SCALIA SPICY Group: Coach Class Posts: 6,873 Joined: 2-May 09 From: Tempe, AZ Member No.: 94 |
If TIME gives it to Steve Jobs, I will literally never read their magazine ever again.
...I guess that was a relatively empty threat, but still. smurf Steve Jobs. -------------------- No more talk about the old days
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Dec 13 2011, 06:51 PM
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 Chief of the Polar Bear Army Group: Nazgul Posts: 3,855 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Fairbanks, Alaska Member No.: 16 |
I think the criterion is "whoever influenced the news most this year". In that case Steve Jobs would seem like a strong candidate, regardless of how you personally feel about his accomplishments.
(Can't believe I'm the one defending Steve Jobs - I'm usually the pro-Microsoft side in Microsoft vs. Apple arguments!) |
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Dec 13 2011, 08:11 PM
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Oh, hello Dripping Yellow Madness Group: Nazgul Posts: 9,505 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Park City Member No.: 17 |
it is, but recently they've been using more as an award than an accurate measure. for instance, in 2001 the obvious answer was osama bin laden, but they gave it to giuliani because they didn't want to be seen as praising him. same goes for assange and zuckerberg last year. they like to give it to people they approve of. if it were really just a "who impacted the news most" contest, the american president would win almost every year.
-thought of another possibility: cantor or boehner, for all the debt ceiling drama. or maybe that guy with that tax pledge. -------------------- T-REX THAT'S HORSE RACIST
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Dec 13 2011, 08:21 PM
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I LIKE MY SCALIA SPICY Group: Coach Class Posts: 6,873 Joined: 2-May 09 From: Tempe, AZ Member No.: 94 |
I feel like this was a pretty hum-drum year in that sense. I'd say the head of the ECB would have been the most historically important man of the year, but that position changed over the course of the year.
Really, looking through the candidates they posted, I'm impressed by like, three of them. I'd probably vote for the Fukushima 50. -------------------- No more talk about the old days
It's time for something great |
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Dec 13 2011, 09:16 PM
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 Loving you like a love song Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 4,911 Joined: 1-May 09 From: OTP Member No.: 25 |
There was a time when a dude like Hitler could win it. Not anymore. TIME is all mainstream, now.
--------------------  It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes" |
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Dec 13 2011, 09:30 PM
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Chief of the Polar Bear Army Group: Nazgul Posts: 3,855 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Fairbanks, Alaska Member No.: 16 |
They did give it to Vladimir Putin in 2007. Not on the same level as Hitler, for sure, but definitely not a guy most people would consider a "good" newsmaker.
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Dec 13 2011, 10:01 PM
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Loving you like a love song Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 4,911 Joined: 1-May 09 From: OTP Member No.: 25 |
Yeah, but Putin is a badass judomaster/billionaire. I can see why people would name him man of the year.
-------------------- It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes" |
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Dec 14 2011, 08:45 PM
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Loving you like a love song Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 4,911 Joined: 1-May 09 From: OTP Member No.: 25 |
Protesters?
Bleh. This means the Occupiers are gonna take credit for something the Middle East accomplished. Way to piggyback, asshats. -------------------- It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes" |
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Dec 14 2011, 08:55 PM
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Oh, hello Dripping Yellow Madness Group: Nazgul Posts: 9,505 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Park City Member No.: 17 |
all of ^that.
-------------------- T-REX THAT'S HORSE RACIST
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Dec 14 2011, 09:00 PM
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 Leftenant of the big guns Group: Soylent Greens Posts: 2,027 Joined: 30-September 09 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 277 |
Way to go, Time: make your Person of the Year an abstract concept. That's just cheating.
-------------------- Viva los conquistadores!
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Dec 14 2011, 09:07 PM
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 Kantsler Bol'shoj Slavyanofil'stva Group: Blue Man Group Posts: 3,226 Joined: 2-May 09 From: Tempe, AZ Member No.: 105 |
PotY was "You" once...abstraction isn't new for them.
Also, how blue-balled do you think TIME was when not only did we have the Arab Spring, but then the Occupy movement started, too? I'm honestly kinda shocked New York isn't coated in jism from the explosion or that there isn't just a giant crater left behind where their corporate offices once were. -------------------- QUOTE (overly_critical_man @ Sep 19 2011, 11:04 AM)  QUOTE (Research Monkey @ Sep 19 2011, 08:59 AM) Also, why are there serious posts in here when we could be talking about ass and bacon? I often lie awake in bed at night, wondering this to myself. |
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Dec 14 2011, 09:11 PM
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Loving you like a love song Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 4,911 Joined: 1-May 09 From: OTP Member No.: 25 |
Jobs got jobbed. #OccupyTIME.
-------------------- It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes" |
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Dec 14 2011, 10:10 PM
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Oh, hello Dripping Yellow Madness Group: Nazgul Posts: 9,505 Joined: 1-May 09 From: Park City Member No.: 17 |
QUOTE (Widget! @ Dec 14 2011, 01:07 PM) PotY was "You" once...abstraction isn't new for them. i put "time's person of the year 2006" on my application to harvard. i, uh...i didn't get into harvard. -------------------- T-REX THAT'S HORSE RACIST
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Dec 14 2011, 10:51 PM
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Leftenant of the big guns Group: Soylent Greens Posts: 2,027 Joined: 30-September 09 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 277 |
QUOTE (debator @ Dec 14 2011, 10:10 PM) QUOTE (Widget! @ Dec 14 2011, 01:07 PM) PotY was "You" once...abstraction isn't new for them. i put "time's person of the year 2006" on my application to harvard. i, uh...i didn't get into harvard. Hell, I would have counted that in your favour for the wit alone. -------------------- Viva los conquistadores!
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Dec 16 2011, 07:29 PM
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Loving you like a love song Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 4,911 Joined: 1-May 09 From: OTP Member No.: 25 |
Maybe it's just me, but it's not really an accomplishment if I'm sharing an award with 7 billion other people. It's like winning a participant certificate...without the certificate.
In short... smurf you, TIME -------------------- It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes" |
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Mar 1 2012, 06:08 PM
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Loving you like a love song Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 4,911 Joined: 1-May 09 From: OTP Member No.: 25 |
I think Jeremy Lin's got this in the bag, guys.
-------------------- It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes" |
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Mar 1 2012, 08:00 PM
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Leftenant of the big guns Group: Soylent Greens Posts: 2,027 Joined: 30-September 09 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 277 |
QUOTE (overly_critical_man @ Mar 1 2012, 06:08 PM) I think Jeremy Lin's got this in the bag, guys. If he keeps it up. Thus far, he's just Tebow 1.1 -------------------- Viva los conquistadores!
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Mar 1 2012, 08:38 PM
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Loving you like a love song Group: Yellow Perils Posts: 4,911 Joined: 1-May 09 From: OTP Member No.: 25 |
Matt Janowski showing the world how living across an ocean can enhance one's ignorance beyond mortal comprehension.
-------------------- It's a love story, baby, just say, "Yes" |
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