Here are the candidates time is looking at.
People I thought should be actually considered I bolded. Feel free to throw in your own candidates.
http://www.time.com/time/person-of-the-year/2012/
QuoteKim Jong Un
Mohamed Morsi
Malala Yousafzai
Psy
The Mars Rover
Stephen Colbert
Bashar Assad
Undocumented Immigrants
Barack Obama
The Higgs Boson Particle
Felix Baumgartner
Jon Stewart
Pussy Riot
Hillary Clinton
Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein
Bill Clinton
Michael Phelps
Gabby Douglas
Sandra Fluke
Ai Weiwei
Joe Biden
Chris Christie
John Roberts
Mitt Romney
Marissa Mayer
Mo Farah
Benjamin Netanyahu
Michael Bloomberg
Paul Ryan
Jay-Z
Tim Cook
Mario Draghi
Xi Jinping
Bo Xilai
Sheldon Adelson
E.L. James
Karl Rove
Roger Goodell
Susan Rice
Nate Silver.
You.
Quote from: Habbaku on December 03, 2012, 01:35:30 AM
You.
Thanks, but I already was Person of the Year once. Let's give someone else a chance.
I think Putin should be up there. This is the year when he finally dispensed with the pretense of democracy with a strong leader, and made a play to be a full out autocrat.
I guess Xi Jinping, though with how the CPC transfer of power goes that was hardly a shocking turn of events. Oh for the days when things would be going along boringly then Mao would do something crazy out of the blue and fuck the place up for a few years. Sure there were millions of dead but it sure made it more entertainig.
I guess Asaad seems the logical one considering Syria has been ever-present in the news.
As has Elizabeth II, should be her. :bowler:
the Mars Rover!
Quote from: Valmy on December 03, 2012, 02:04:43 AM
I guess Xi Jinping
It would really help those Chinese dude's chances if they didn't look like they came off an assembly line. I haven't been able to tell one Chinese bigwig from another since Deng Xiaping.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 03, 2012, 04:03:07 AM
Quote from: Valmy on December 03, 2012, 02:04:43 AM
I guess Xi Jinping
It would really help those Chinese dude's chances if they didn't look like they came off an assembly line. I haven't been able to tell one Chinese bigwig from another since Deng Xiaping.
That's raciss!
Quote from: DGuller on December 03, 2012, 04:08:43 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 03, 2012, 04:03:07 AM
Quote from: Valmy on December 03, 2012, 02:04:43 AM
I guess Xi Jinping
It would really help those Chinese dude's chances if they didn't look like they came off an assembly line. I haven't been able to tell one Chinese bigwig from another since Deng Xiaping.
That's raciss!
Nah, it's agist. Once you're about 800 years old, you look pretty much like any other 800 year-old, regardless of race.
Joe Biden, dude is awesome.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 03, 2012, 04:03:07 AM
Quote from: Valmy on December 03, 2012, 02:04:43 AM
I guess Xi Jinping
It would really help those Chinese dude's chances if they didn't look like they came off an assembly line. I haven't been able to tell one Chinese bigwig from another since Deng Xiaping.
Yes. They are simply not memorable.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 03, 2012, 03:29:25 AM
Quote from: garbon on December 03, 2012, 12:39:37 AM
Susan Rice
You can't possibly be serious.
Why not? It would be keeping in line with honoring black people simply for showing up. :)
Lindsey Lohan
Me. I don't mind getting the award again.
QuoteBenjamin Netanyahu
:lmfao:
Only two contenders according to the website poll, and Kim Jung Un is beating that beat up Afghani girl by a small margin.
QuoteSandra Fluke
Ugly cunt who couldn't get more than a dozen people to see she campaign stops. Plus, WHORE PILLS.
If a mere particle can be Person of the Year...would that mean Time is taking a bold anti-abortion stance? :P
Quote from: Martinus on December 03, 2012, 08:56:49 AM
QuoteBenjamin Netanyahu
:lmfao:
And that is more laughable than 80% of that list? I mean Roger Goodell? Paul Ryan?
Quote from: garbon on December 03, 2012, 08:19:46 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 03, 2012, 03:29:25 AM
Quote from: garbon on December 03, 2012, 12:39:37 AM
Susan Rice
You can't possibly be serious.
Why not? It would be keeping in line with honoring black people simply for showing up. :)
Well, she did accomplish the unthinkable: making me feel relieved at hearing John Kerry's name mentioned as a possible Secretary of State.
It's Obama.
Quote from: garbon on December 19, 2012, 10:31:59 AM
It's Obama.
Not sure I agree with that. To be perfectly honest, I'd pick Nate Silver over Obama this year.
Quote from: merithyn on December 19, 2012, 10:33:53 AM
Not sure I agree with that. To be perfectly honest, I'd pick Nate Silver over Obama this year.
:rolleyes: Just because he is gay. Marti-lover
Quote from: PDH on December 19, 2012, 10:38:07 AM
Quote from: merithyn on December 19, 2012, 10:33:53 AM
Not sure I agree with that. To be perfectly honest, I'd pick Nate Silver over Obama this year.
:rolleyes: Just because he is gay. Marti-lover
Actually, no. It's because he's managed to show the value in information organization, data programming, and the overall value in mixed polls over individual polls. And he's not your typical hero. He's a little, gay, geeky guy who would have been spit on in my high school.
I admire him a great deal, and I feel like this year, he really earned Person of the Year.
Quote from: merithyn on December 19, 2012, 10:57:18 AM
Actually, no. It's because he's managed to show the value in information organization, data programming, and the overall value in mixed polls over individual polls. And he's not your typical hero. He's a little, gay, geeky guy who would have been spit on in my high school.
I admire him a great deal, and I feel like this year, he really earned Person of the Year.
And until this point we didn't realize there was value in organization and data programming?
Substantively, he isn't anything more than the political version of Jimmy the Greek.
I don't expect everyone to agree with me. The question was who I thought should be the Person of the Year, not who would get everyone's approval. :mellow:
Quote from: merithyn on December 19, 2012, 11:07:48 AM
I don't expect everyone to agree with me. The question was who I thought should be the Person of the Year, not who would get everyone's approval. :mellow:
:P
Quote from: merithyn on December 19, 2012, 11:07:48 AM
I don't expect everyone to agree with me. The question was who I thought should be the Person of the Year, not who would get everyone's approval. :mellow:
I would agree with you. :)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/603279_10151316680916749_2134471056_n.jpg)
His impact on the world has been essentially zip.
Quote from: DGuller on December 19, 2012, 12:28:56 PM
Quote from: merithyn on December 19, 2012, 11:07:48 AM
I don't expect everyone to agree with me. The question was who I thought should be the Person of the Year, not who would get everyone's approval. :mellow:
I would agree with you. :)
Everybody knows you've had your blueberries removed.
What did Obama achieve this year except for reelection?
Quote from: Zanza on December 19, 2012, 12:45:04 PM
What did Obama achieve this year except for reelection?
His drones achieved alot.
I have a fixation on that guy.
Where do I go to pick up the award ?
Yeah, the TIME article mentions almost nothing about Obama's first term; just how impressed they are with how he won female, minority, and young voters (again). (https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.paradoxplaza.com%2Fforum%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Frofl2.gif&hash=dcd4b9bc4776e21885226ef96c7f3f68daf36e00)
Pretty lame. Time might as well make the Presidential election winner the Person of the Year every four years.
Quote from: Valmy on December 19, 2012, 01:23:37 PM
Pretty lame. Time might as well make the Presidential election winner the Person of the Year every four years.
I have a feeling that this will only work if every four years Obama wins.
Time seems to have quite the hard-on for him.
He deserves another Peace Prize too. It's been a while since the last one.
I agree. We are at peace with a lot of countries right now, after all. :)
With the ashes of Newsweek still smoldering, I guess Time has to try to make themselves look even sillier.
Lulz, haters.
You're all just pissed that Time didn't pick "You" again. :P
Quote from: Zanza on December 19, 2012, 12:45:04 PM
What did Obama achieve this year except for reelection?
The near destruction of the GOP tards?
Upon some reflection I really don't have a problem with Obama being selected. He had a pretty good year for himself and won a spectacular victory in November.
IT'S A TRAP
If Obama does well this term as promised, then he should justifiably be selected again in 2016.
'Twas a pretty dull year. I nominate the Mayans, for their little prank.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on December 19, 2012, 08:21:06 PM
'Twas a pretty dull year. I nominate the Mayans, for their little prank.
Ooh, good one. Can anyone explain to me why people seem to be taking it so seriously? Even most people I hear joke about it seem a slight bit nervous.
I'm not sure exactly how Mayan calender resets got translated in to "End of the World".
Quote from: derspiess on December 19, 2012, 08:27:09 PM
Ooh, good one. Can anyone explain to me why people seem to be taking it so seriously? Even most people I hear joke about it seem a slight bit nervous.
I think it's the build up; the date has been mentioned for years and now it's finally here.
Quote from: Valmy on December 19, 2012, 01:23:37 PM
Pretty lame. Time might as well make the Presidential election winner the Person of the Year every four years.
Time is boxed into a corner. They practically can't chose someone with a great impact on the world that is considered by Americans to be a bad guy (such as when they picked Hitler), because that would be too controversial. They probably don't want to pick someone that most Americans haven't heard of, so that handicaps a lot of foreigners. They probably don't want to pick someone from a special interest or advocacy group, for fear of appearing to partisan.
You run the candidates through those filters, and you get a very short list, and the president is always on there.
Doesn't seem like anyone on Tim's list would be a more obvious choice.
Maybe the Burmese odd couple, but that is a bit exotic for an American middlebrow audience.
Same problem with Draghi, plus it's a little odd to name the world's second most important central banker as Top Guy for the year.
How about Teh Syrian People?
Quote from: alfred russel on December 19, 2012, 08:52:06 PM
Quote from: Valmy on December 19, 2012, 01:23:37 PM
Pretty lame. Time might as well make the Presidential election winner the Person of the Year every four years.
Time is boxed into a corner. They practically can't chose someone with a great impact on the world that is considered by Americans to be a bad guy (such as when they picked Hitler), because that would be too controversial. They probably don't want to pick someone that most Americans haven't heard of, so that handicaps a lot of foreigners. They probably don't want to pick someone from a special interest or advocacy group, for fear of appearing to partisan.
You run the candidates through those filters, and you get a very short list, and the president is always on there.
I believe one of their worst selling issues was the Man of the Year 1979. People took it as an endorsement of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Only other individual candidate I can think of is Draghi. Which would be an esoteric choice.
And far better this than 'you' or 'the protester'.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 19, 2012, 09:39:30 PM
How about Teh Syrian People?
They were on The Atlantic's list.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/12/judgment-5-better-choices-for-person-of-the-year-than-barack-obama/266472/
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on December 19, 2012, 10:44:48 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 19, 2012, 09:39:30 PM
How about Teh Syrian People?
They won in 2011.
B.C.
Back then the literary readers were predominately middle eastern, aka a unibrow audience.
Quote from: garbon on December 19, 2012, 10:10:30 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 19, 2012, 09:39:30 PM
How about Teh Syrian People?
They were on The Atlantic's list.
That'll only last until they kill our ambassador and somebody finds a black woman to blame for it.
They went with Barry.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 25, 2012, 06:37:09 PM
They went with Barry.
Umm...that's.why I revived the thread on the 19th. :unsure:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 25, 2012, 06:37:09 PM
They went with Barry.
I Googled it for more information, and it turns out that he beat Mitt Romney. :huh: Did anyone else hear about this? :o
Quote from: DGuller on December 25, 2012, 07:49:26 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 25, 2012, 06:37:09 PM
They went with Barry.
I Googled it for more information, and it turns out that he beat Mitt Romney. :huh: Did anyone else hear about this? :o
All the polls that Phil posted suggested otherwise. What could have possibly happened?
Quote from: Razgovory on December 25, 2012, 07:51:09 PM
Quote from: DGuller on December 25, 2012, 07:49:26 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 25, 2012, 06:37:09 PM
They went with Barry.
I Googled it for more information, and it turns out that he beat Mitt Romney. :huh: Did anyone else hear about this? :o
All the polls that Phil posted suggested otherwise. What could have possibly happened?
I predicted that Obama would win. :wacko: