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The sadist assault on the 'Coldplay couple'

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Re: The sadist assault on the 'Coldplay couple'

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Pro tip : Don’t be seen at a public event with someone that is not your spouse/partner

Nah, that's cheating 101. The real pro tip is not to be seen fondling her breasts on camera.

What's the current read on this. If he'd been on camera fondling his own wife's breasts at the concert, would that be OK? Or should they "get a room"? Would he still need to resign? Or just issue a public apology?

Re: The sadist assault on the 'Coldplay couple'

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, that's cheating 101. The real pro tip is not to be seen fondling her breasts on camera.

What's the current read on this. If he'd been on camera fondling his own wife's breasts at the concert, would that be OK? Or should they "get a room"? Would he still need to resign? Or just issue a public apology?

Nobody would have recognized he was a semi public figure

Re: The sadist assault on the 'Coldplay couple'

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> There might be a story here about the hypocrisy of a CEO and an HR officer having an in-house affair that might get lesser-ranking employees fired.

Uh, what? They did get fired. It doesn't matter what level of the company you occupy, it's going to be against company policy to have a relationship with another employee over whom you have any degree of control (i.e. for a CEO, literally anyone).

They will probably both have a hard time getting another job since they both breached a very core workplace policy. Their reaction was not even shame so much as a (somewhat misguided) attempt at self-preservation.

Re: The sadist assault on the 'Coldplay couple'

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Huge flaw in his reasoning: > Group chats, dating apps, emails — or in Byron’s and Cabot’s case, simply being in public with no intention to be filmed — should not be subject to public judgement. He's equating things where you should have an expectation of privacy with "simply" cheating on one's spouse in a public space. And why does intention matter? People should have expectations of privacy in public spaces if the…

If you have an expectation of privacy in any of those, you are mistaken.

One of the first things I told my daughter when I gave her her first cell phone is never text anything you don’t want someone to screenshot and send it to everyone you know.

Sure enough, literally yesterday she got a text from friend A asking if my daughter liked her more than friend B.

Friend B sent the message from friend A’s phone as a test.

The year is 2025 and sadly the only place I have an expectation of privacy anymore is inside my own house verbally speaking to my family. And even then I expect my location to be available to more people than I care to admit.

Re: The sadist assault on the 'Coldplay couple'

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, that's cheating 101. The real pro tip is not to be seen fondling her breasts on camera.

What's the current read on this. If he'd been on camera fondling his own wife's breasts at the concert, would that be OK? Or should they "get a room"? Would he still need to resign? Or just issue a public apology?

What? No one would care if he wasn't cheating with a company employee.

Re: The sadist assault on the 'Coldplay couple'

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the current read on this. If he'd been on camera fondling his own wife's breasts at the concert, would that be OK? Or should they "get a room"? Would he still need to resign? Or just issue a public apology?

What? No one would care if he wasn't cheating with a company employee.

Right, but if you are cheating, you're probably shouldn't be fondling.

It raises the question of the woman sitting next to them who is there underling who apparently aided and abetted in the coverup of the inappropriate relationship ...

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