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Panti Bliss: the new Ronnie O'Brien?

Snickers Man

Panti Bliss has come in 29th place on a Time Magazine reader's poll to determine the 100 most influential people in the world

In this he/she follows in the footsteps of illustrious compatriot Ronnie O'Brien, a once promising young footballer from Bray who actually spent a few seasons as a youth on the books of Italian giants Juventus.

When that club's supporters hosted an Internet poll to find the Juventus "Player of the Century" who do you think was up there with the likes of Zinnedine Zidane, Roberto Bettega, Paolo Rossi, John Charles, Michel Platini, Zbigniew Boniek?

Yep. Ronnie O'Brien, who by then was plying his trade in the USA.

Irish people can't resist an internet prank, it seems.

Indeed, flushed with their success they then moved on to a TIME poll to find the Person of The Century and the bould Ronnie finished quite high on that one too.

Now it seems that Irish internet pranksters have managed to get our local equivalent of the Shrieking Yale Girl into the upper echelons of a more recent Time poll.

Some people have too much time on their hands

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K-9

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

But I think some people suspect his influence has been completely over stated and that it was purely a media decided to attribute him with this influence and that he doesn't deserve anywhere near the credit he has received.

There has to be a figure head type these days, add in twitter and away you go.

galljga1

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

Panti Bliss has been made look like Martin Luther King by the Media.

Was he blacked up? That's disgraceful.

The_Captain

Arrogant sap who loves himself, basically a gay Alan Kelly

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dav3 wrote: »

It's always amusing to see people get so worked up over drag queens and referring to them as 'he'. You do understand that they are just characters and certain traits may be over exaggerated for entertainment purposes?

It's a bit like going to a Christmas panto and being outraged by the carry on of the panto dame *clutches rosary beads*.

In this country at least, we have an almost endless news cycle of old men in suits acting like children, all in the name of politics. So when something different pops up on our news channels, I see it as a welcome relief, not something to get worked up over or have a rant about.

Who's getting worked up or ranting on this thread?

or do you mean in society in general?

andekwarhola

Obviously I've zero problem with anybody's lifestyle and so on but there must be thousands of liberal enough types like myself that are faintly mystified as to why such a person garners so much attention and lionization but just usually says nothing as to do so would probably invoke judgement from one's more right-on acquaintances for whom the likes of PB appear to a ostentatious badge of valour.

Snickers Man

spurious wrote: »

Wow, so many haters.

People who disagree with a particular point of view aren't necessarily "haters". There's room for all viewpoints.

Everlong1

Where is Bono on the list?