Category Archive: lifestyle

How To: Decorate on a budget

One of the many joys of Sydney’s rental market (alongside such delights as having to provide a comprehensive life-history and the promise of your first-born to secure a lease), is the fact that… Read More

Transform a Room with Accessories

Somethingyousaid.com offers some useful pointers about how to transform a room with accessories: If you want to give your home a bit of a decorative lift without going to the effort and expense… Read More

Lego builds the Sydney Opera House

Who doesn’t love Lego? Boring people, that’s who (or perhaps people who accidentally trod bare-footed on Lego pieces as a kid and got shooting pains up their leg – ouuchhhhhh). Anyway, we love… Read More

Lifestyle: Krav Maga is brutal but fun

Somethingyousaid.com attempts Krav Maga, the self-defence fighting system of Israeli Defence Forces: I am exhausted, I can’t feel my arms and quite possibly cannot distinguish between left and right, up or down at the… Read More

Food: Olly tries out Bert’s Pies

Somethingyousaid.com’s Oliver Heath samples the latest pie offerings: A few years back I snuck into the ATP musicians’ afterparty and a friend boasted that Nick Cave had just asked him where to get… Read More

Video: Can Music Get You Laid?

Check this. Reggie Watts conducted this Socio-Musicology Experiment: Can Music Get You Laid? You would think the answer to be firmly within the affirmative. After all, why else would approximately 80% of dudes even… Read More

Dating, non-responses and Nathaniel P

Something You Said’s Elaina Ransford explains that everyone knows Nathaniel: Remember that awesome scene in Midnight in Paris when the Hemingway character says that he knows he’ll hate the main character’s book because… Read More

Opinion: Elfy Scott on veganism

Average Joe Veganism and why the Naysayers can Fuck Right Off. I would consider myself a thoroughly devoted follower of something I like to refer to as ‘average Joe veganism’. I’m unfaltering in… Read More

Restaurant review: L’Autre Pied

The internet is currently awash with voucher sites and offers such as groupon, vouchercloud, time-out etc, that provide fantastic deals on eating out at hugely discounted prices. I picked up one of these… Read More

Olly cooks with Annabel Langbein

Somethingyousaid.com’s Oliver Heath hangs with New Zealand food personality AnnabeI Langbein:  As much as I occasionally enjoy a beer and burger, I’ve been a little bothered lately by how extreme popular eating habits are.… Read More

Album review: Marshmallow Pavement

Sydney-based creative folk, The A&R Department, have just launched their first foray into music compilations. It’s an indie-assortment of Australian Acts that they’re proud to have taken under their wings over the years.… Read More

Play ping-pong for free in the UK

Who doesn’t like a game of ping-pong? No-one, that’s who. What’s not to like? There’s minimal running around involved and it kinda makes you feel like a giant. At somethingyousaid.com, our abilities range… Read More