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Titus then went on to say, If only Tim Paine was a Federal MP, he'd have been able to keep his job.
Farrrkkkkkkkk.
Horror blow for us ahead of the Ashes and for The Kids legacy.
Will play on (good) but will cost him a lot reputation and $$$ wise.
Horror blow for us ahead of the Ashes and for The Kids legacy.
Will play on (good) but will cost him a lot reputation and $$$ wise.
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Paine Quote
"I will remain a committed member of the Australian cricket team and look forward with anticipation to what is a huge Ashes tour."
Must say, I've never really understood the whole contemporary cultural phenomenon of sexting and *smile*-pics.
Leaving all the moral and/or criminal aspects aside that surface from these situations, it just makes no practical sense. What do they (blokes) think it's actually going to achieve? Totally fruitless. I'll engage in the odd flirty text with my wife, but never delve into outright crudeness (there's a massive difference between the two, which many blokes' tone deaf level of EQ seems to miss). For the simple reason that it's always seemed self evident to me that women generally aren't into that. Maybe blokes watch too much porn and see a saturated level of crude dirty talk coming out of the actors' mouths and forget it's not the real world. They are just that - actors.
Not to mention that sending texts like this (particularly leaving yourself wide open by engaging in it outside of his marriage), it is out in the digital world for all eternity, to rise from the dead at any moment and destroy you.
Again, leaving the moral aspects aside for a moment, it's just so dumb, dumb, dumb from so many angles. And I will never cease to be amazed at how seemingly intelligent people in society keep making this mistake over and over again.
Leaving all the moral and/or criminal aspects aside that surface from these situations, it just makes no practical sense. What do they (blokes) think it's actually going to achieve? Totally fruitless. I'll engage in the odd flirty text with my wife, but never delve into outright crudeness (there's a massive difference between the two, which many blokes' tone deaf level of EQ seems to miss). For the simple reason that it's always seemed self evident to me that women generally aren't into that. Maybe blokes watch too much porn and see a saturated level of crude dirty talk coming out of the actors' mouths and forget it's not the real world. They are just that - actors.
Not to mention that sending texts like this (particularly leaving yourself wide open by engaging in it outside of his marriage), it is out in the digital world for all eternity, to rise from the dead at any moment and destroy you.
Again, leaving the moral aspects aside for a moment, it's just so dumb, dumb, dumb from so many angles. And I will never cease to be amazed at how seemingly intelligent people in society keep making this mistake over and over again.
Agree, why you would do this on the internet or by text I have no idea. Computers are very good at some things, and not losing stuff which has been put online is one of them. Very silly.
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I don't mind that he's not captain anymore, being tactically poor and DRS-terrible, and at 37 he can now be picked or not solely based on his merits as keeper-batsman, but it's a private matter that hurt no one but himself and his family (presuming the woman involved was open to receiving said pics). Given that, it's frankly no one else's business.
Meh. Meh, I say.
Meh. Meh, I say.
Excerpt of the texts. Definitely two way street:
Paine’s lewd messages were sent to the woman on November 22 and 23, 2017 - the eve and morning of his return to the Australian Test team after seven years out of the side.
He and the woman had exchanged dozens of texts throughout that year.
But the correspondence became increasingly flirtatious between the woman and Paine, who has been married since 2016.
On November 22, 2017, after the woman joked about “partying like a rockstar”, Paine texted: “I like good girl (name removed). But this other one sounds interesting.”
“When I’m good I’m good. When I am bad I am brilliant,” she added, prompting Paine to ask: “Brilliantly bad??”
The following morning, just hours before Paine was due to take the field against England, the woman texted: “I will think naughty thoughts about you whilst we watch the TV.”
“I’m cracking! Ha ha. Naughty thoughts like what? I’m about to give something firm a pull…,” Paine responded.
The woman texted him back saying: “Ha, sorry I’m getting ready for work … it’s a big day for us kids.”
Then Paine texted: “Will you want to taste my ***?? F*** me, I’m seriously hard.”
In apparent reference to Paine’s wicket keeping duties later that day, the woman wrote in response: “I thought we were resting hands.”
Paine responded: “Can’t rest them when I’m this hard!! Need to ease the tension … Finish me off with those lips then (name deleted)”.
The text ended with a wink-face emoji.
Paine then sent what is described in correspondence as an unsolicited “*smile* pic”, before asking the woman: “Finish me off right now!!!”
The woman has claimed she was taken aback and found it offensive.
Paine’s lewd messages were sent to the woman on November 22 and 23, 2017 - the eve and morning of his return to the Australian Test team after seven years out of the side.
He and the woman had exchanged dozens of texts throughout that year.
But the correspondence became increasingly flirtatious between the woman and Paine, who has been married since 2016.
On November 22, 2017, after the woman joked about “partying like a rockstar”, Paine texted: “I like good girl (name removed). But this other one sounds interesting.”
“When I’m good I’m good. When I am bad I am brilliant,” she added, prompting Paine to ask: “Brilliantly bad??”
The following morning, just hours before Paine was due to take the field against England, the woman texted: “I will think naughty thoughts about you whilst we watch the TV.”
“I’m cracking! Ha ha. Naughty thoughts like what? I’m about to give something firm a pull…,” Paine responded.
The woman texted him back saying: “Ha, sorry I’m getting ready for work … it’s a big day for us kids.”
Then Paine texted: “Will you want to taste my ***?? F*** me, I’m seriously hard.”
In apparent reference to Paine’s wicket keeping duties later that day, the woman wrote in response: “I thought we were resting hands.”
Paine responded: “Can’t rest them when I’m this hard!! Need to ease the tension … Finish me off with those lips then (name deleted)”.
The text ended with a wink-face emoji.
Paine then sent what is described in correspondence as an unsolicited “*smile* pic”, before asking the woman: “Finish me off right now!!!”
The woman has claimed she was taken aback and found it offensive.
Seriously aren’t there enough examples of texting this stuff bringing people undone to be a warning ? It is just so incredibly stupid.
Some smart people are sometimes just so dumb.
Some smart people are sometimes just so dumb.
It's really not hard to avoid such digital fall out. Just don't send such texts. Pretty easy really.
Here's a test that some blokes should ask themselves before sending a text of this nature that potentially lands them in trouble. Why not pick up the phone and call her? Say what you were about to say in a text, to her verbally. What's that? The social filter of inhibitions that people have evolved over thousands of years mean you wouldn't actually say that in verbal interactions? It's too awkward? Well there's your self evident answer. If you won't say it to her verbally, don't text it to her.
Not a full proof self-guard for those who are totally incompetent in the EQ stakes. But for many others who have got themselves into trouble this way, it would be.
If you wouldn't say it to her in phone conversation, or to her face, don't say it at all. I think that is one of the major issues of how electronic communication (whether it texting, or social media) acts as a deranging element to the collective societal mind. It seems to act as a retardant to people's social filter and natural inhibitions. Meaning we are more prone to say, do and act in ways electronically that we wouldn't have the guts to do in physical social settings. And those inhibitions we have evolved over thousands of years have been essential elements to humans forming cohesive societies.
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