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TIME editors rely on a wide range of opinions when choosing the Person of the Year. The conversation begins in September, when every TIME employee is asked to pitch a candidate. Those ideas and many others are brought together in an all-staff meeting, where writers and editors have five minutes to persuade their colleagues.No names are ruled out, and last year we heard passionate cases for Vladimir Putin, Taylor Swift and everyone in between. Our Person of the Year poll is another valuable resource. TIME editors listen intently to readers' voices.The Person of the Year is officially "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year." That may sound vague, but it’s surprising how helpful it can be to return to that simple description after a long debate. We see Person of the Year as a historical record. As Deputy Managing Editor Radhika Jones put it in 2013, "[T]he pick also needs to have archival value. You need the sense that it will stand the test of time."In the moment before the Person of the Year is revealed, only a handful of TIME employees already know the decision. The rest of the newsroom is still guessing, chattering back and forth, eyes glued to TIME’s Twitter account. Editor-At-Large Belinda Luscombe wrote in December, “I've worked at TIME for almost two decades and I’ve never once known the identity of the Person of the Year (or POY, to us semi-insiders) before the printers in Oklahoma do."Last year, one group clearly matched that criteria better than all the others, as Editor Nancy Gibbs explained, "for tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving, the Ebola fighters are TIME’s 2014 Person of the Year."Please leave us a comment if you think there are other ways we should reach out to readers for their thoughts later this year!

Well the first name that came to mind is Ross Greer.Ross has never had a job, failed university and dropped out, was elected by no-one by name on a pro-green Manifesto which he promptly abandoned. Blamed unionists last year for the SNPs exam results debacle and wants to prosecute executives and employees of oil companies in Scotland.Very rich parents from one of the richest parts of the country and good communist on £70,000 lecturing to the rest of us.A spineless weasel if ever there was one.

I read this somewhere. I forget the source but this blew my mind:Spongebob is 47 years old.Yeah. I know. Wild, right?‘But Mason, how could you possibly know this?’SIMPLE. In the Spongebob Movie, when Spongebob is looking at the ‘Employee of the Month’ awards, he says he has 374. That divided by 12 is 31.Due to the fact that the minimum working age is 16, we can then deduce Spongebob is 47.