All Men Are Liars on Beer
All Men Are Liars
What are we good for?
Sam de Brito Hey, tough guy. How do you think you'd fare in a war ... against your grandparents?
All Men Are Liars
A beautiful lie
Sam de Brito Who says there's no truth in advertising these days? Me, for one.
All men are liars
Fat man
Sam de Brito Did you ever stop to think that maybe it's the ones who let it all hang out we should be worshipping?
All men are liars
Fireworks
Sam de Brito Did you see the fireworks on Australia Day?! Weren't they just wonderful?!! Weren't they just like every other friggin' fireworks display you've seen since age 10?
All men are liars
The built-in reaction
Sam de Brito Jack White, the former singer and guitarist with The White Stripes, last week had a dig at Lady Gaga, describing her persona as "all artifice. It's all image with no meaning behind it".
All men are liars
Unintended consequences
Sam de Brito Every time I visit a Third World country, I'm impressed that items designed for one use have been converted into something else entirely.
Wi-Finance
Sam de Brito Not to bang on about it, but I'm currently in Vietnam having a truly great holiday and once again I've been struck by how much Australians overcomplicate things ...
Untranslatable
Sam de Brito There's a term in Vietnamese "di nhau" which basically translates as "meeting friends to have a cheap beer at a streetside stall, eat small plates of food and shoot the breeze" but, aside from that...
Bores
Sam de Brito It's troubling to admit, but I'm a bore. A "new-father bore" to be precise - one of those blokes who whips out his mobile to show you the video of him looking for "monsters" with his two-year-old...
The vibe
Sam de Brito Julia can. Tony cannot. Malcolm will. Kevin will not. No, Dr Seuss isn't visiting Canberra, I jotted those words down recently because - to paraphrase The Castle's Dennis Denuto - it seems to be "the...
Room to Read
Sam de Brito Recently, I met a young Perth woman who'd had both her knees broken with a crowbar by her boyfriend ...
Death knock
Sam de Brito Everybody, it seems, knows how to do a journalist's job better than they do; with more integrity, greater insight, fuller imagination and better "splleing".
Science!
Sam de Brito Aside from hearing my mate's cancer is in remission because he stood up and shouted "NON-HAPPENING MOTHERF---ER!" to Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the thing that thrilled me this week was news of the ...
Best cities for the single guy
Sam de Brito Having returned once again to the dating trenches, I've been surprised by how many attractive women there are in Sydney and how few of them want to have sex with me ...
Fatso
Sam de Brito I'd hate to give you the impression my mates are a pack of yobbo loudmouths because, they're not - honest - but, carrying on from yesterday's post about political correctness, I'd like to tell you...
I feel so good, I wanna get drunk
Sam de Brito You ever spent a week eating well, exercising like a demon, drinking your friggin' eight glasses of water a day, stretching, doing all the stuff we're told we're supposed to do, and none of the bad...
In praise of beer
Sam de Brito Perhaps I'm misreading it, but is there not just a whiff of dopey self-congratulation in the media coverage Australians are drinking less beer and more wine and spirits? ...
Man love
Sam de Brito So, I went on a hot date recently and I'm not sure how to follow up with ... well ... him ...
All time
Sam de Brito On Australia Day at my local beach I watched a charming fellow scream "you f---ing slut" at a policewoman before offering to have sex with her in an unconventional and painful manner ...
Push it
Sam de Brito A while back, a certain women's magazine called to ask me if I'd write a small opinion piece about whether new mothers ought to buy their male partners "push presents" for being their rock during...
