RANDOMS 2025 #14

 

TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE

This movie is from 1987, and it is based on a Norman Mailer book, it got terrible reviews, and many people consider it to be appalling. In some ways it is, but I have to say I still think it is one of the most entertaining movies I've ever seen.

I recently watched it again, and still found it enthralling. Yes the acting is a bit odd, but compared to the limp, woke, turgid crap that passes for movies these days, this is a work of sheer genius.

The reviews are terrible, but ignore them, reviewers don't know shit from chewed dates. And this movie is definitely chewed dates!

This review is quite entertaining really: https://film-authority.com/2021/03/24/tough-guys-dont-dance/

 "Tough Guys Don’t Dance is trash, but it’s amusingly self-important trash, a film that lays open the vanities and miscalculations of the creative force behind it"

"For bad movie fans, it’s a masterpiece of over-ripe dialogue, ridiculously melodramatic situations, and rabid, macho posturing that curdles the moment it hits the screen. Over 30 years later, we’re still talking about Tough Guys Don’t Dance"

 

WHERE HAVE ALL THE LOLS GONE

 Is society becoming increasingly humourless? Or is it just me? In an attempt to assess this objectively I've been trying to do some comparisons. 

Clearly movies are not funny any more, and I don't think anyone who isn't retarded would try to argue that one. Movies are not anything any more, they are all just utter shit.

So how about LOLPICS? Being a bit of a compulsive collector I save any images that I think are funny, and since 2019 I seem to have saved over 600 pictures each year.

 But in 2023 the numbers starting noticeably dropping off, then in 2024 there were even less, and after a quarter of 2025 I'm on target for only about 160 images - just 1/4 of the number I used to collect up.

So I've posted my last six LOLPIC Galleries from 2019 to 2025 online to see if something is really going on here:

LOLPICS 2019 - Total 624

LOLPICS 2020 - Total 738

 LOLPICS 2021 - Total 902

 LOLPICS 2022 - Total 682

LOLPICS 2023 - Total 391

 LOLPICS 2024 - Total 149

LOLPICS 2025 - Total 125

 

COCA COLA PAGE

 A Coca-Cola page has been added to this Sift blog.

Imagine pushing this poison for over a century and getting away with it…

It’s so common place that it goes unmentioned, and unchallenged. Its logo is in every shop and street, it sponsors TV programs, appears almost everywhere, and is readily valued and accepted by the unthinking masses. It’s “down with kids” who drink truckloads of the stuff and have it for breakfast. It even has thousands of devoted fans, and millions of addicted consumers.

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AN END TO BLOGGING ABOUT BLOGGING

April The First is a better day than many to make crazy new month's resolutions, being April Fool's day and all that. But I'm not taking the piss here, this is really my plan.

From April 1 2025 I plan to make the following changes to my blogging:

1. NO MORE BLOGGING ABOUT BLOGGING - Going on about blogging is the blogging equivalent of taking selfies, & I've been going on excessively about my blogs over the past few weeks. It's enough to bore the legs off a donkey. Black blogs, purple blogs, hit counters, whatever. I even have a tag for all these posts about blogging: "blogging". 

OK, that's enough, I'll attempt to stop blogging about blogging here. This is my current blog, it is purple, I'm not optimizing my tags for crawlers, and I'm not trying to promote it to search engines or social media. If barely anyone else reads it, too bad, I read it!

2. ONE HOUR MAXIMUM PER DAY - It's not like anyone is paying me to post all this crap online. It is an entertaining hobby but I really have other things to do, so I need to cap it. I will time how much time I spend blogging each day with my stylish yellow stopwatch from Ali Express. If my latest post isn't finished I will leave it in drafts and finish it off tomorrow.

 

3. LET GO OF THIS GRAND IDEA OF ONE POST EACH DAY - There is this voice in my head that says a real blog has to have one full length post each day. No more and no less. Where did this stupid anal rule come from? I would be better off without it. I want to post whatever and whenever, loose and free, without that school teacher figure cracking a whip in my mind.