[Closed] Eric "the mans man" Bristow

always been a ****er..........imho.

I can believe it. He used to come in to a pub I worked in about 20 years ago. Would arrive in his roller with his driver (who was also his mate). Always paid with a £50, even for subsequent rounds after you'd given him change. Guy was/is a bit of an arse really.

Wow. Is this the same "tough guy" that couldn't throw darts cos he was too nervous? PRick

Seems like a complete knobber to me.

Just cost him his job at Sky .

What a spectacularly unpleasant turd of a man

a spectacularly unpleasant turd of a man

Nicely summed up 😆

Amazon prime will be falling over themselves to sign him up.

I reckon nearly if not all of us here are appalled by his comments. But do we live in a bubble? Is there support for his viewpoint? And what do we do when confronted with it?

In Bill Burr's last special he did a bit about the Duck Dynasty guy. Basically along the lines of "what did you think the Duck Dynasty guy would say? Did you think he'd have some really progressive views on same sex relationships?"

Same here. "Old school" darts player in not very enlightened shocker.

How can you not be "enlightened" about child rape?

Is there support for his viewpoint? And what do we do when confronted with it?

Judging by the responses he was getting on twitter, there is very little support for his viewpoint, and he was confronted for it.

I'm sure it's been deleted by now but the gist of his rant was about the abuser and how he was a "poof". Later he relented and agreed to refer to him as a "paedo" instead

Judging by the responses he was getting on twitter, there is very little support for his viewpoint, and he was confronted for it.

Good.

I thought he was referring to the victims as poofs as they didn't fight back, as such?

Rachel

[quote=allthegear ]I thought he was referring to the victims as poofs as they didn't fight back, as such?
Rachel

Probably both but the one tweet I can remember was asking why they didn't "batter the poof" later in life

I thought he was referring to the victims as poofs as they didn't fight back, as such?

Actually, one of the victims did fight back, and Bennell retaliated by destroying his prospects.

In Bill Burr's last special he did a bit about the Duck Dynasty guy.

who? the what?

{googles Duck Dynasty}

wow

America is a strange, strange place.

SKY have just fired him as a pundit.

Exactly the kind of attitude that made it so difficult for the victims to talk about it (which BTW I think makes them way bigger than than bristow) and allowed the abusers to to get away with it for as long as they did.

Free speech sometimes means hearing people saying things you don't like.

Luckily it also means those people getting to hear just what twunts others think they are, and losing their job because of it! 🙂

TBH I suspect that Bristow is just repeating comments from the terraces. Many football fans are hardly enlightened in their views are they?

Bristow is just a mouthpiece who throws darts and drinks beer for a living. If he's not clever enough to keep his outdated views in his head then tough titty.

Might be a looney but if some football coach was touching me when i was a kid as i got older i would have went back and sorted that poof ou

That was his tweet.

Another of Bristow’s tweets stated “bet the rugby boys are ok” – prompting a reply from Brian Moore, the former England hooker who himself was abused as a child. “I’m not even going to address the many reasons these tweets are wrong. I’ll just say ignorance is no excuse for this idiocy,” he wrote.

doris5000 - Member

In Bill Burr's last special he did a bit about the Duck Dynasty guy.

who? the what?

{googles Duck Dynasty}

wow

America is a strange, strange place

A lot of the US reality stars are as equally right of centre as they are hard of thought.

Todd Hoffman, serial idiot and star of 'Gold Rush' - notorious for doing incredibly stupid things on the show will often mention his faith in God as being the reason why he takes stupid risks (just like our PM it seems) because he firmly and truly believes that God wants him to be rich. Most of his crew wore "Make America Great Again" hats last summer.

Tom, massive fat guy formally of Fast n' Loud now Misfit Garage, often treads a link between complete idiot and misunderstood Genius (mostly Idiot) his Facebook page, public Facebook page, was a mess of racist, xenophobic memes and laughable conspiracy theories until someone finally took it down.

That's before you even get to the Gun Nut programmes, the less said about Will Hayden the better really.

Amazon prime will be falling over themselves to sign him up.

Nice work, 8/10

I met him once, he was a **** then, nothing has changed.

jeez how can anyone be so thick and crass at the same time

I have no idea, but there's a significant number of them out there.

I read the Guardian piece about it and my jaw nearly hit the floor. I'm not sure anyone could have fitted in more ill-informed, prejudiced, vile and utterly incorrect opinions into that number of words.

Sky have done the right thing - at least it might hit the oaf in the pocket and make him think a bit about himself, but probably not.

Amazon prime will be falling over themselves to sign him up.

I reckon Trump will back him for an ambassador role though.

Just one thought, maybe we could re-arrange it slightly and get Brian Moore to 'sort' Bristow out. That would be worth the admission fee.

Just one thought, maybe we could re-arrange it slightly and get Brian Moore to 'sort' Bristow out. That would be worth the admission fee.

With all entry fees going to NSPCC. I totally get there may be some ethical issues here but I would be well up for that.

Tommy Mair got 25000 people offering him tweets of support as a 'Hero' for killing Jo Cox

the world is full of *****

I know it's meant in jest and usually taken that way by the person it's directed at but do we "unwittingly" do a hypocritically similar thing when using "MTFU" ?

I know it's meant in jest and usually taken that way by the person it's directed at but do we "unwittingly" do a hypocritically similar thing when using "MTFU" ?

Err, no.

Hardly, context couldn't be any more different

do we "unwittingly" do a hypocritically similar thing when using "MTFU" ?

Not aware of either myself or anyone else on here ever telling a victim of child rape to MTFU.

What a odd question to ask.

World was always full of idiots. The only thing that changed is social media which is both the mouth piece and the noose by which the idiots get found and found out.

John Lowe and Jocky Wilson RIP were miles better anyway.

If there's one person who's shown he's a true man it's Andy Woodward. It took some guts to do what he's done (and the others too).

Andy, you can look anyone in the eye and be proud of who and what you are.

As much as I'm heartened by the amount of shit he's getting and the majority support for him being a complete cock this...

Tommy Mair got 25000 people offering him tweets of support as a 'Hero' for killing Jo Cox

...is just awful. I find it hard to get my head around those type of people; the absence of empathy.

BigButSlimmerBloke

Exactly the kind of attitude that made it so difficult for the victims to talk about it (which BTW I think makes them way bigger than than bristow) and allowed the abusers to to get away with it for as long as they did.

I believe the guy in question told these lads he would murder their parents if they said anything.

[quote=teasel ]As much as I'm heartened by the amount of shit he's getting and the majority support for him being a complete cock this...
Tommy Mair got 25000 people offering him tweets of support as a 'Hero' for killing Jo Cox
...is just awful. I find it hard to get my head around those type of people; the absence of empathy.

Article in a local newspaper about a Syrian refugee family who had been settled locally. A year since arriving. Real success story. Good news tale. These were some of the comments on the article

Regime will kicked out all these trash!

Then many more will come and start demanding the society cater to their religion...

.lets just say that 'if' we get bombed in the uk lose our home and everything we can just go to any country and they will give us a free home etc etc.....

Send them home

etc

"Eric, you require (p)45"

Vile pig of a man

It's shocking really. What is darts if not a sport steeped in the egalitarian ethic of modern liberal Britain?

Absolutely disgusting. Hopefully he is no longer welcome at any of his usual hang outs.

Always thought he was a bit of a ****t!

So, are we all agreed that the Crafty Cockernee is not the liberal we once took him for?

Tommy Mair got 25000 people offering him tweets of support as a 'Hero' for killing Jo Cox
...is just awful. I find it hard to get my head around those type of people; the absence of empathy.

we had the brexiters and the press doing there very best to demonise immigrants and refugees at the time, theyve been emboldened by the toxic atmosphere thevote created and the hate crimes that increased after, another example

thankfully Bristow's comments have been given the short shrift they deserve,

Might be a looney but if some football coach was touching me when i was a kid as i got older i would have went back and sorted that poof ou

Was this all he said? Or was there more?

I got the impression he was calling football players soft for not sorting out the abuser, which can perhaps be implied from that tweet, but in isolation that tweet is not as bad as has been made out. I reckon many macho blokes on the street who haven't been the victim of abuse may think the same...

kimbers

we had the brexiters and the press doing there very best to demonise immigrants and refugees at the time, theyve been emboldened the toxic atmosphere the
vote created and teh hate crimes that increased after, another example

thankfully Bristow's comments have been given the short shrift they deserve,

Hey wouldn't it be grate if there was a thread where people could discuss all this "brexit stuff" and therein they could make unhelpful sweeping generalisations about everyone who voted they way they would have voted, had they actually voted, call them racist, xenophobic child molestation endorsing bigots and in doing so we can deepen the trench between political views, shut down real debate. Isn't that a great idea? Someone should start a thread.

...or 3

I always thought Bristow had a whiff of Saville about him. A sort of sleaze that makes you shudder. Doth he protest too much?

Hey wouldn't it be grate if there was a thread where people could discuss all this "brexit stuff" and therein they could make unhelpful sweeping generalisations about everyone who voted they way they would have voted, had they actually voted, call them racist, xenophobic child molestation endorsing bigots and in doing so we can deepen the trench between political views, shut down real debate. Isn't that a great idea? Someone should start a thread.

brexiters are child molesters?

well I wouldnt go that far !!

Well said Jimjam, I get annoyed when everything gets turned into Brexshit opinions...

As for Bristow, what a horrible vile man.

Was this all he said? Or was there more?

I got the impression he was calling football players soft for not sorting out the abuser, which can perhaps be implied from that tweet, but in isolation that tweet is not as bad as has been made out. I reckon many macho blokes on the street who haven't been the victim of abuse may think the same...

yeah there was plenty more and it's all out there ponline. he's deleted the tweets now but they referred variously to wimps, real men, etc etc.

The trouble is there's a lot of people who think like him, but people are having to be PC and keep their mouths shut and their opinions in the closet.

Hence why when people can do something like vote behind a closed ballot, people like Trump and Farage, get votes.

It's why a lot of the opinion polls are getting it so drastically wrong, in a poll people tell the polsters what they want to hear!

brexiters are child molesters?

well I wouldnt go that far !!

Eric Bristow is as thick as brick and no where near as useful. The thing that concerns me is he felt it ok to tweet what he did. He must mix with some right toxic idiots 🙄

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In these circumstances I try to look at what the persons intentions were rather than how inappropriate their use of words may be.

I bet there is some tension in the air over the Mr & Mrs Bristow's dinner table tonight as he has choked off his income stream.

He's on the tellybox in the morning with Piers Morgan, that'll be interesting.

Article in a local newspaper about a Syrian refugee family who had been settled locally. A year since arriving. Real success story. Good news tale. These were some of the comments on the article

Again, I can't get my head around the viewpoint of those comments. It appears so undeveloped and backward-thinking but I have a feeling it's so much more than that.

The trouble is there's a lot of people who think like him, but people are having to be PC and keep their mouths shut and their opinions in the closet

In what way is not being misogynist, racist politically correct?

It isn't politically correct, it's just 'being decent' as a person.

The trouble is there's a lot of people who think like him, but people are having to be PC and keep their mouths shut and their opinions in the closet.

Hence why when people can do something like vote behind a closed ballot, people like Trump and Farage, get votes.

It's why a lot of the opinion polls are getting it so drastically wrong, in a poll people tell the polsters what they want to hear!

Bristow is a moron but I'd suggest he won't be without some support in his view.

I suggest white, male people primarily, who are not happy about a world that is changing to give others the rights and freedoms they've always enjoyed.

Its not rights or freedoms - its privilege. People are afraid of losing their privilege - possibly because they suspect they haven't earned it.

as above there are quite a few village idiots who also share his views, it didnt happen to them, they of course wouldnt let it happen to them by a person in power over them, but it did to quite a few lads, it altered their lives their relationships, their way of life, and only by a few speaking out will more speak out about those wrongs inflicted on themselves.

for that reason Bristow YOURE FIRED.

Its not rights or freedoms - its privilege. People are afraid of losing their privilege

And I don't envy politicians who are stuck between doing the right thing in eroding this privilege but at the same time alienating a large part of the people who vote for them. Then someone comes along and says they'll make a Britain/USA great again (for those who feel they're losing their privilege) and they get voted in.

It's horrible.

Bristow's comments are loathsome and he is an odious individual but, regrettably, is representative of a
proportion of the UK population; to be more specific, the english population and a proportion which is more than many would wish to acknowledge.
Remove the oxygen of publicity from Bristow and others - and terminate any/all media contracts.
This will not remove the vermin or eliminate their views but it will be a start.

I have little doubt that he will have said Brexit is, in part, about reclaiming control of our own laws but when asked to state which laws he is particularly concerned about.......adopt the goldfish facial expression - mouth opens and closes but no words emerge, eyes blink blankly, no answer, don't understand the question.

Eric, why don't you just stick the dart into your eye and let us enjoy you?

He's on the tellybox in the morning with Piers Morgan, that'll be interesting.

Turn *off*.

Ooh trumpy will be upset that he offered nigel the job when there is clearly a better candidate around.

“I’m not even going to address the many reasons these tweets are wrong. I’ll just say ignorance is no excuse for this idiocy,” Moore

Classy response, from Moore I thought.

frankconway - Member
Bristow's comments are loathsome and he is an odious individual but, regrettably, is representative of a
proportion of the UK population; to be more specific, the english population and a proportion which is more than many would wish to acknowledge.
Remove the oxygen of publicity from Bristow and others - and terminate any/all media contracts.
This will not remove the vermin or eliminate their views but it will be a start.
I have little doubt that he will have said Brexit is, in part, about reclaiming control of our own laws but when asked to state which laws he is particularly concerned about.......adopt the goldfish facial expression - mouth opens and closes but no words emerge, eyes blink blankly, no answer, don't understand the question.
Eric, why don't you just stick the dart into your eye and let us enjoy you?

I would happily watch him stick a dart in his eye, but what has brexit got to do with anything that Bristow said.

 

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To be fair, he's going to find his revenue stream drying up very quickly, getting as much as he can now before it dries completely is not his worst idea...

Still a scrum bag mind you.

Bristow wanted £5k for a BBC interview this morning, which thankfully they refused. What a man....

"I know why I've been vilified but if one child comes forward quicker or one abuser thinks twice about the likelihood of being confronted then it will have been worth it."

ah, he was just thinking about the kids welfare all along. Bless.

Bristow wanted £5k for a BBC interview this morning, which thankfully they refused

and then he appears on ITV. Did they pay him?

Ahh, glad I missed the 70's in the UK..

What a class of homegrown nob.

"I know why I've been vilified but if one child comes forward quicker or one abuser thinks twice about the likelihood of being confronted then it will have been worth it."

ah, he was just thinking about the kids welfare all along. Bless.

I know I'm possibly making the mistake of [s]over[/s]-thinking it, but how does he think belittling the people who've, very publicly, come forward, will encourage victims to come forward?

Bristow wanted £5k for a BBC interview this morning, which thankfully they refused. What a man....

Do they pay any guests and do they publicise what and who they pay?