Real Life Imitates 'The Onion' Again

[major_clanger]

Swedish Goalkeeper Fails To Grasp Concept Of 'Metaphor'

Also, most spectacular case of Oh yes, I forgot they have cameras at this sort of thing I've ever seen.

Comments

[redbird]

What surprises me is that the cameras may not make any difference, since the story says there's no rule against what he did.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

I don't know what the Swedish Football Association does in such circumstances, but the English FA has, as I understand it, an offence of conduct bringing the game into disrepute. I have no idea if there is a local equivalent or if so whether it would be deemed a suitable way of dealing with this sort of thing.

Is 'moving the goalposts' or some similar metaphor common in the US? It's a very widely used phrase in the UK for 'changing the terms of the discussion'.

[redbird]

Quite common here; I don't know if it is in Sweden.

And the oddest things turn out not to be against the rules, often because nobody thought to pass a law. And sometimes for no apparent reason: a U.S. judge recently, and unhappily, threw out charges of animal cruelty against a man who was said to have had sexual contact with cattle (the judge said it couldn't be proven that the cattle had suffered). The charges were brought that way because, for no apparent reason, that state doesn't have laws against sex with animals.