webofevil | One lion in a shirt

Readers of

agent_snow's journal will already know all this, but it's too good not to commemorate here all over again:

Fifa's mascot for the 2006 World Cup has been unveiled. It's a lion wearing a football shirt and boots but, for some reason, nothing else.

His constant companion is, of course, his football. Here he is, in a romantic moment, offering it—in fact, we're probably meant to infer from this, her—a rose.

How healthy can their relationship be, though, if he's already unstable enough not to notice that he's wandering around in public without any underwear, and, more to the point, is at his happiest when he's kicking her in the head?

If I were related to this football, I'd be very worried about her and would urgently be advising her to consider leaving her trouserless partner, with all the depressing Stepford conversations that would entail: "But I feel so safe when he's standing on my head," etc etc.