Category Archive: opinion

Skateboarding’s Identity Crisis

Ever since the birth of skateboarding in the ʻ60s, the now trendy bastard-child of surf(board?)ing has been riddled with the notion of identity and has escalated into a full-blown identity crisis faced by… Read More

How to survive Winter Wonderland

When Dean Martin sang ‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland’ all those years ago, I’m 100% certain he did not have the annual Hyde Park festivities in mind; hundreds of overpriced Bratwurst stalls, stands… Read More

Arcade Fire, They Kind of Matter… A Lot

Claire Little makes her Somethingyousaid.com debut with some reflections on musical figureheads, Arcade Fire:  David Bowie – an early fan of the band – saw it. Their third studio album The Suburbs confirmed it. Now… Read More

How to pick up a Chick, by Jess Matthews

Hey fellas, Somethingyousaid.com’s Jess Matthews has got some invaluable advice… Some days I truly believe that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. Other days I truly believe that’s a crock… Read More

Opinion: Abbott’s real and present danger

Somethingyousaid.com considers the danger of the Australian Prime Minister denying a quarter of a Century’s research linking climate change to bush fires:  It’s been one full week since a menacing cloud of smoke descended… Read More

How to go to a festival and not be a fuckwit

Going to a festival is HARD WORK. There’s set times to balance, mental weather conditions to endure, potent beverages to be consumed in dangerous quantities, police dogs to avoid, fake tan to be applied,… Read More

Five things plus-size designers get wrong

What’s it take to get a decent frock on a fat chick? Somethingyousaid.com writer and ample babe Marta Jary tells plus-size designers what they’re STILL doing wrong… every single time. A decade ago when… Read More

Gay or Nay? How to have good Gaydar

According to Something You Said’s Tammy Potakh and Ty Tong, having a good Gaydar is important these days if you’re in the single-and-struggling-to-mingle gang. Here are their thoughts on how to improve your… Read More

Opinion: What’s goin’ on Syria?

While Syria continues to tear itself apart, UNICEF is working within the country and its neighbouring lands to provide children with medical care, as Tessa Dhanaraj explains: The violence in Syria seems to be an… Read More

How to share a hostel room & not be an idiot

Travelling blesses us with some of the most poignant highs of our lives, but with those blissful new horizons come some pretty grizzly doses of reality. Usually in the form of shared accommodation.… Read More

Music: An Anti-War Playlist

Tenley Nordstrom prepares herself for President Obama’s term-defining speech on Syria tonight by putting together a playlist of anti-war anthems: Wake up America. It’s time for your denial to be over. You voted… Read More