Tag Archive: opinion

How to have a new start in the New Year

Somethingyousaid.com’s Victoria Mietchen suggests some easy ways to approach your life in a fulfilling manner… Some years are great, and some years – not so great. For all our planning, we cannot anticipate everything… Read More

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

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

Culture-shock, identity and acceptance

Somethingyousaid.com’s Harriet Cheney considers the extreme differences between one area of a country and another: I relocated from Sydney to Darwin and a part of me got lost. The extreme culture-shock that I… Read More

Reasons Tony Abbott is bad for Australia

While it’s difficult to conjure a single reason why anyone would willingly place an abhorrent, gaffe-prone, anachronism of a human-being in charge of their country, bewilderingly, Tony Abbott this weekend became Australia’s Prime… 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

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

Fashion’s weighty problem

Former model Tenley Nordstrom discusses a constantly-debated argument from a different angle: Just about every other week there seems to be controversy stirring up over too-thin models. The level of discussion ranges widely… Read More