To ask your opinion on the ear biting incident at the Snooker Championship?

I don't need to use any 'imagination' to see that this MAN is behaving inappropriately with a young boy.

I find it very worrying that you think it's normal.

Exactly. It's sinister and nasty and weird. 10s of 1000s of people saying this cannot be wrong! It's gross. Ewwwwwww. I am seriously worried that a few posters are thinking this is a 'normal' way for a MAN to behave with a child. 😬

that is your imagination that is all, letting run away with you @SabreIsMyFave

Yes he does @Willmafrockfit I have seen the video too.

no he doesnt @SabreIsMyFave
i have seen the video

Yes he does. And it's sickening. WTF has the 'camera person' got to do with it? It's him doing it, not the 'camera person!'

he doesnt do it in a sensual way fgs, annoying by the looks of it.
got that camera person has a lot to answer for

In the same way the guy in the video is doing it?

Playing with kid, making monster noises, kids laughing, general sillyness, biting ear = Normal.

Standing behind child, leaning down, nuzzling his face, gently nibbling an pulling ear, no reaction from child = not normal.

He does it in the style of an adult with a partner.
Not a father.

My dad used to bite my ear sometimes.

He was 110% not a weirdo

Unfortunately your history is clouding your judgment.

the boy didnt care
agree, stop clutching your pearls and jumping to hideous conclusions.

It's always really shocking to me that on a parenting group (mostly frequented by women) overt displays of potential abuse is dismissed by some as playful, or ridiculed as 'pearl clutching'.

Even in plain sight, on live tv, people will make excuses for men. It's not ok. Even if it was playful (it isn't!) - doing something on live tv to embarrass your child is a shitty thing to do. No excuses.

It was really weird . I hope it's being looked into ? The way the child reacted it just seemed to think it was normal .

This.

It’s the lack of reaction from the boy that makes this so creepy. If he’d laughed or even demonstrated surprise in some way it wouldn’t be quite so odd. It feels like this boy has no agency over himself.

That's it, the boy's reaction (or lack of it) puts this on another level. Even if it was "dad messing about" and the boy was laughing and pulling away it would be creepy as hell and totally inappropriate, but that passivity ...

The thing is, if this was 'messing about' behaviour the kid would have laughed/pulled away/pushed the dad.

You can see the child freeze when he starts nuzzling him. And during the bite.

It looks like dissociation to me. A sign that this has happened before.

And I was abused as a child (physically and mentally) and I still do this now if anyone starts shouting around me or getting violent.

Difficult to see as faces blurred.
However, my first thought it was a father and son, maybe playful and not actually biting, but the kind of mucking about parents and younger kids do. Not sure though.

It definitely looks to me like a lick, then whisper, then ear nibble.

And it's the boy's non-reaction, rather than him reacting in a jokey "ew, get away!" manner, that makes this seem particularly sinister.

Well said.

A very dangerous attitude to have actually is calling men paedophiles with no real evidence apart from some possibly playful possibly not ear nibble. Christ

He doesn’t appear to be saying anything he’s kind of nuzzling into his cheek in a really odd fashion (like you would with a partner, not a child) but I agree there is also no licking. Once again, it’s his facial expression as he's doing it that has made people feel it is not quite right.

For all the people gleefully sharing and asking for the uncensored version.

1. You are breaching this child's privacy. Yes , other people shared it before you , but you are still part of the problem. Imagine being this kid and having to face your peers, your classmates, your teachers next week . Simply because they might've watched the video. That's without the made up "facts" and speculation and added salubrious details.

1. If it is the worst case scenario, this is child sexual abuse. You are sharing and asking for depictions of child sexual abuse.

And for what? What exactly will you achieve from your sofa at home? Especially since the police are aware and are investigating.

I've not heard "collywobbles" in a long time!