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Have a look at this ad, from Haribo.



Now, have a look at this hugely popular Will Ferrel sketch.



Tsk tsk Haribo.

Johnathan Ross Ate My Dingo, Baby.

Slow news week again, lads?

Apparently he made a joke about his producer having sex with an old lady.

It's in the News of the World, I'm not going to give a link for reasons I'll explain later.

There's a similar piece in the Mail on Sunday if you want something even more reactionary with your cereal, but I would encourage anyone reading this not to go there either.

For anyone who's in any doubt as to why this is happening again, let me fill you in.

MONEY.

I'd be willing to bet my favourite teapot (I do love it so) that circulation for all the tabloids who ran with the witch hunt the last time this happened went through the fucking roof. I'd double bet you that same teapot that the News of the World, the Daily Mail and the The Sun had somebody watching Johnathan Ross's shows this week like a fucking hawk for anything, anything, that could be seen as slightly offensive to anyone. And why?

MONEY.

Think of how many times the web pages of the newspapers will be visited in the next few days by people who are both there for the witch hunt or disgusted by all the hysteria. Think of the people who'll buy the papers to see what all the fuss is about. Think of all the radio, TV and newspaper coverage there's probably going to be about this during the week, directly refercing the papers involved. Think of all the fucking MONEY these papers are going to make selling this shit to any idiot that'll buy it.

They don't really give a shit about the joke he told, taking one look at The Daily Mail's gushing obiturary for noted bigot and renowned cunt Bernard Manning would confirm that. They only care about blowing up this shit as big as it can get so they can bleed more money from the Moral Majority they claim to represent.

Some comments from the page in question so you don't have to look at the rest of it;

cant stand the mam! he should have been sacked on the spot after the last episode,he needs some of his own medicine and then see how he reacts....not very well as we all know!ive seen him spit his dummy out many a time on tv.

Good idea, although if you can't stand your mam you should really find a better forum for expressing that then the News of the Worlds comment section.

Are you all insaine ,Sack the man he is a liability . Teach him once and for all .Foul mouthed pervert!!!!!

That's a good point too. I mean, are we all insaine?

I AM UTTERLY DISGUSTED THAT ROSS HAS DONE IT
AGAIN ! IF THE B B C BOSS,S WILL NOT LISTEN TO
THE TAPE , THEY SHOULD BE SACKED ALONG WITH
ROSS . WITHOUT ANY CASH PAYOUT ! MOST DECENT
PEOPLE STRUGGLE TO PAY THEIR LICENCE , THESE
IDIOTS GET PAID MILLIONS OF OUR MONEY TO MAKE
FUN OF PEOPLE WHO CAN NOT DEFEND THEIR
SELVES !

See the button next to the "A" key on your keyboard? Caps Lock? Try unpressing it. Just think, you were around a centimetre away from not sounding like a maniac.

And then, this beauty.

MY NAM IS 80 YEARS OLD!!!! WOUD YOU HAVE SEX WITH HER YOU SICK MAN?!

Is that a hypothetical question? Or a proposal?

A Poo at Pauls

Why?

Blog Awards

Looseville has been long (very, very long) listed for Best Newcomer and Best Humour in the Irish blog awards.

Check out the list here.

Early predictions?

Best Humour - Probably going to the Irish Sentinel. Why? It's fucking excellent. That's why.

Best Newcomer - Trust Tommy. You'd be hard pressed to bet against the young lad.

Delighted to be Long Listed though, especially when I've only really been going since November.

Thanks to everyone who nominated me.

Compare the Meerkat

As advertising gimmicks go, this is probably one of the better ones.

Get Off My Ride

The Fall of Homer

Before I start, I do realize that the following has probably been done a thousands times before but, as much as it pains me to say it, The Simpsons sucks now. Sucks fucking hard.

First of all,I'll freely admit that my shit is influenced more by the Simpsons then any other show. Being 15-16 when Seasons 4-9 aired over here completely redefined comedy for me and shaped my sense of humour down a completely different path.

But the show has been on the decline for some time now but I haven't really been able to put my finger on it, until tonight. I was watching an episode online where Homer framed Marge for drink driving or some bullshit. Here's the deal.

The decline in quality of The Simpsons is directly related to Homers descent from good natured boob to idiotic, mean spirited prick.

Remember at the end of the first "in the future" episode where Lisa visits a fortune teller? The one where she marries the English guy, Hugh and in the end Lisa runs up to Homer and he tells her about all the things he did at the fair that day as they walk into the distance?

Now compare that Homer to the reckless vehicle of negligent stupidity that ruins everything he touches and you see where its all started to go wrong. I don't care about Homer anymore and, in fact, I actively dislike him.

I think this decline started for me in the Episode in Season 10 where Homer was supposed to give his dad a kidney except his cowardice led him to leaving his father to die. The problem isn't his kidney. Homer has no heart anymore.

And it's killing the show.

UPDATE: Apparently there's a new Simpsons episode airing on Sunday where Homer suspects a Muslim man - get this! - of being a terrorist! Check out the description from the Sun website (hilarious parts of the upcoming episode highlighted below for convenience)

Tomorrow’s controversial episode of the TV cartoon sees Homer — catchphrase D’oh! — mispronounce Allah as Oliver and call the Koran the Corona after son Bart becomes pals with the Muslim man’s son Bashir.

Classic! Not so much scraping the bottom of the barrel as scraping the fucking Earths Mantle.

Oh what a gloriously hilarious misunderstanding!
Hopefully we'll all learn a little about religious tolerance while
enjoying a good laugh at Homer's nincompooped japery!

More traffic in the last 3 days then I had all last month...

And then my laptop breaks down and I can't update. God damn. Worse still is that I can't update Looseville to tell anybody that. It's like I'm shouting in vain at a group of people that can't hear me. Gah! When I get my laptop back I'm going to fuck it out the window.*

*UPDATE: I won't do that. That would be a bad idea.

Knowing Me, Knowing Gnu

I have a webalizer on my site. Shows me unique visitors, page views, IP addresses, most popular comics, the secret fears of all my readers, country of origin and what people searched for when they came to site. Setra setra.

Weirdly enough, a good few people (well, 13 or so) ended up on Looseville searching for "Gnu's" on Google. They came across this page (look down the bottom near the news post). I'm not sure what's sadder, the fact they went looking for Gnu related content and found my shit instead of actual Gnu content or the fact they were looking for Gnu related shit in the fucking first place.

What the fuck?

Mac Trouble

Who would've thought that the "I've Got a Bad Feeling About This" t-shirt would be so prophetic, eh? The ol' Powerbook went on the fritz today and as a result, you'd better get used to looking at this comic for the next day or so. 

Such a pity too, because I've been getting a lot more readers from the Irish Independent article here where Looseville is named as one of the websites to watch during 2009. Hurrah! Flann O Brien? Why thank you, sir!

I'll be updating here for the next day or so while the Mac is the shop. 

If I could indulge myself for a minute...

Round about 5 years ago now (fuck!) I started doing comics again after fucking around for years in the back of various school journals with James Dwyer.

Number 2 there eventually became one of the most popular comics I did for Mongrel (in terms of the number of prints I sold at least.)

Other People's Loosevilles

Ahhh, some good old fashioned art envy. These are some of the pieces other people have done of my Looseville characters.

By Eric

By Aurelie

By Gav on his fucking Bebo page, of all things.

by Al at Hybrid-Vigour