All Men Are Liars

Sam de Brito has spent more than a decade writing for TV, film and newspapers. In his books, No Tattoos Before You’re Thirty and No Sex With Your Ex, he offers advice to his unborn children. In his offerings The Lost Boys and Hello Darkness, he takes the pulse of Aussie manhood. Now it's your turn as he expounds on the business of being a bloke.

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Likeable

Sam de Brito Everyone wants to be good at their job, but there's one often-overlooked skill that matters above all else.

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Idiots with power

Sam de Brito Parking inspectors, radio talkback hosts, local councillors ... they're literally everywhere.

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Swagger

Sam de Brito If riding a motorcycle is so much fun, why don't you ever see Harley Davidson owners smiling?

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Craaaaaazy

Sam de Brito Men used to think women were stupid; now they think they're crazy. There's a big difference ...

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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?

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The future's hard to swallow

Sam de Brito A US Gulf War veteran who calls himself ''Shoenice'' has clocked up more than 50 million views on YouTube with videos of himself eating stuff like sticks of deodorant, pencils, a jar of Vegemite and...

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All Men Are Liars TV

Sam de Brito Well, this is it for another year as your humble blogger shuffles once more into the heat haze of the Australian summer, cupping his manboobs, stripped of all dignity by another 12 months of...

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Joy versus pleasure

Sam de Brito Writing in The New York Review of Books this week, author Zadie Smith penned a wonderful reflection on the difference between pleasure and joy and I thought you might appreciate her distinction as we...

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Midcult

Sam de Brito Browsing the shelves of a newsagency used to be a pleasantly distracting experience but nowadays it leaves me feeling a little uneasy.

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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".

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Good to sea you

Sam de Brito I try not to laugh when I hear Aussies complaining about "bloody yanks" and "stupid seppos" like Americans are some kind of annoying cultural fungus instead one of the pillars supporting our way of...

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Living for oblivion

Sam de Brito In your drinking career I'm sure you've heard the old chestnut there's two types of boozers: those who drink and those who drink to get drunk ... but I wonder which are you? ...

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The point

Sam de Brito A couple of months ago I sat in on a rather thought-provoking "boot-camp" for men trying to improve their social skills with women and the head-trainer said something I've rolled around in my mind...

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Immortal

Sam de Brito In the lead-up to his death from cancer last year, R U OK Day founder Gavin Larkin had the touching idea of delivering his own eulogy via a video he recorded ...

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Big boy's pants

Sam de Brito Earlier this year, the wildly popular American advice columnist Dan Savage was asked if he wore shorts and replied "No. I'm a grown up" ...

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Governed by inferiors

Sam de Brito A while ago, Plato apparently said "one of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors", which I'm sure would ring in the ears of every...

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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.

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