Author Topic: TIME Magazine Person of the Year (Read 2711 times)

reyfer · « **on:** December 18, 2006, 07:42:28 PM »

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! The TIME magazine "Person of the Year" for 2006 is.....YOU!!!!
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/12/16/time.you.tm/index.html

And the JPH!P community is a perfect example of what the article says. I'm proud of being part of it.

tamatron · « **Reply #1 on:** December 18, 2006, 07:53:22 PM »

OMG! Thank you so much, TIME! I also think I've accomplished so many things this year.

WTF. They ran out of people to give it to or something?

reyfer · « **Reply #2 on:** December 18, 2006, 07:59:01 PM »

Quote from: tama-chan;262239

WTF. They ran out of people to give it to or something?

Perfect example of the next to last paragraph in the article...

Tuffty · « **Reply #3 on:** December 18, 2006, 07:59:16 PM »

Quote from: tama-chan;262239

WTF. They ran out of people to give it to or something?

That was my first thought too, which is somewhat depressing.

But, yay for me! I earned those A-level results goddammit.

Masabi · « **Reply #4 on:** December 18, 2006, 08:00:03 PM »

Yeah, I figured they were just too lazy to pick an actual person.

LovelyMermaid · « **Reply #5 on:** December 18, 2006, 08:56:33 PM »

[Mod Edit : ]

this article is an interesting view on humanity as a whole

I can appreciate that and I do think it took some thinking to come up with this "people of the year"

fudog · « **Reply #6 on:** December 18, 2006, 08:56:42 PM »

I would like to thank the Academy for this award...
To my fellow JPH!P members I couldn't have done it without u all...
I would like to dedicate this award to MariMari, although I did not know him personally, it is because of him and others like him that have allowed allowed all Hello Project fans all over the world to enjoy those superfly chicas... in high-def no doubt...

*begins to cry*

FREE TIBET

reyfer · « **Reply #7 on:** December 19, 2006, 12:50:36 AM »

I'm really happy they decided this instead of naming the iranian president or that a**hole-SOB-brainless "president" Chavez :MKbarf: (sorry, automatic reaction to that name)

suki* · « **Reply #8 on:** December 19, 2006, 08:21:18 AM »

Said this before and I'll say it again. Please refrain from exploding at each other out in public. Have "fun" with each other, slap each other around in PRIVATE, not out here. TIME just named YOU 'Person of the Year' so take a deep breath and drink that in~!!

Saburo · « **Reply #9 on:** December 19, 2006, 08:24:15 AM »

I'm still waiting for my invite to the awards banquet...

ctz · « **Reply #10 on:** December 19, 2006, 09:45:57 AM »

Quote from: suki*;262691

Said this before and I'll say it again. Please refrain from exploding at each other out in public. Have "fun" with each other, slap each other around in PRIVATE, not out here. TIME just named YOU 'Person of the Year' so take a deep breath and drink that in~!!

I kinda didn't understand what this was about...

But I think they cut a nice tradition by not choosing a real person. It's almost the same thing as giving Nobel prizes to organizations... I just like awarding real people more.

fudog · « **Reply #11 on:** December 20, 2006, 03:46:08 PM »

Quote from: reyfer;262421

I'm really happy they decided this instead of naming the iranian president or that a**hole-SOB-brainless "president" Chavez :MKbarf: (sorry, automatic reaction to that name)

well wasn't Bin Laden a finalist for this award a few years ago... i remember that Time got alot of heat for that one

still i could think of one person who should have recieved it... the guy who introduced micro-loans to third world countries, in Latin America women now have the means to produce local products and sell them to consumers/retail outlets

monkeyman · « **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2006, 12:34:34 PM »

Well, if you are going pander to a functionally illiterate public you may as well pander shamelessly.

Quote from: fudog;263471

well wasn't Bin Laden a finalist for this award a few years ago... i remember that Time got alot of heat for that one

still i could think of one person who should have recieved it... the guy who introduced micro-loans to third world countries, in Latin America women now have the means to produce local products and sell them to consumers/retail outlets

I don't think the American public would be very happy to have the neo-Marxist Bangladeshi economics professor Muhammad Yunus as Man of the Year. That whole Hizb ul-Tahrir philosophy confuses and frightens the heck out of Yanks or it would if they even knew what it was. Okay, a guy named Muhammad scares the crap out of them any way.

fudog · « **Reply #13 on:** December 21, 2006, 05:43:10 PM »

it's a shame though... the world's economic problems will not be solved by the industrialized world, but by the third world... and i totally agree with your point, we here in the states cringe when we hear muhammad

maliciel · « **Reply #14 on:** December 21, 2006, 07:03:53 PM »

COP-OUT

Excellent addition to the CV though.

Fracture · « **Reply #15 on:** December 21, 2006, 08:28:15 PM »

WTF, Tsunku got robbed.

On a serious note, this is rubbish. I understand what they're trying to say and all, but they really shoot themselves in the foot by citing places like MySpace. Methinks they're attaching a little too much significance to a site that's mostly weepy teen blogs with Linkin Park embeds.

StreakInTheSky · « **Reply #16 on:** December 22, 2006, 11:21:25 PM »

HOLY SHIT I'M ON TIME MAGAZINE!!! TAKE THAT MOM AND DAD!!! WHO SAID I WOULDN'T AMOUNT TO ANYTHING?!!!

Asmodai · « **Reply #17 on:** December 22, 2006, 11:34:46 PM »

As always, Time is a couple years behind technology trends...