Comments on AUDREY AND THE BAD APPLES: Samantha Brett strikes (my brain) again

Favourite Sam Brett cliche - 'sat on like a cheap ...

2008-05-17T16:06:00.000+09:30

Favourite Sam Brett cliche - 'sat on like a cheap pair of sunnies'. What a clever girl.

I didn't realise they syndicated her to the Age - thought it was just us SMH readers that had to suffer. You see her around the place a bit. She was doing some piece to camera just near my work when I went to get lunch, a couple months back. I crossed to the opposite side of the street so I couldn't be accidently be shot and then have my image apprehended and then be pointed out as a Sydney single and desperate female case-in-point. The thing that shits me most about her - after the banal, re-regurgiated word-poo she spits out, that is - is the fact that's she 23 and assumes to have had the life experience of 37 year old. She's shaggin' someone, for sure.

As for Sam DeBrito, I'm off to see him take on Emily Maguire at a SWF event next Saturday. My money is on Emily. Can't wait!

I can't hate Samantha Brett. She's just a sad Carr...

2008-05-11T16:17:00.000+09:30

I can't hate Samantha Brett. She's just a sad Carrie Bradshaw wannabe and picking on her would be like picking on someone born retarded. She's just stupid. I just want to pat her on the head and send her off to play with her Barbie Dolls.

I took my issue with Sibson's article and took the time to deconstruct it (i guess i had nothing better to do that day) and simply came to the conclusion that, like a lot of men of our generation, he was just a hypocrite and a misogynist. Whether he is aware of that i'm not sure, but i think he needs to look more at himself and his issues than to the poor women who mistakenly date him.

Of all the people who blog for The Age/SMH my hate is reserved for the other Sam, Sam de Brito, who seems to be cut from the same cloth as this Sibson douchebag.

What is The Age/SMH trying to tell us by hiring these bloggers?

SIGH ... yes, Sam in the City is awful. The worst ...

2008-05-08T14:36:00.000+09:30

SIGH ... yes, Sam in the City is awful. The worst thing is that she seems to be so popular. She just has the right hair and the right name, really. And a (Fendi?) bag full of cliches and cut-and-paste observations. She's Sydney-based, too. The Age probably use her because they get to for free (or just about free). I would expect to see her blogging for the Hun.

Thanks, Penni & Kath ... Penni, I reckon you should get an Age blog! After all, you have a profile you could leverage. It would be great. Word is, though, that Fairfax don't pay most of their bloggers (except, I'm guessing, Sam and Boy Sam (De Brito). They get their journos to do them in their spare time.

And I can't believe that English journo snooped in his date's notebook and thought that was a lesser crime than her doodles. Maybe she was doing it as a joke, anyway ...maybe she was deliberately trying to scare him off because he's obviously such a tool.

Why the fuck did I have to start working in the fu...

2008-05-07T20:47:00.000+09:30

Why the fuck did I have to start working in the fucking archive room (sans internet) on the day that you found this, thus missing out on the frantic typing of furious femmes? Fuckitty fuck!
I am so appalled that The Age, one of the 'left' broadsheets, would give this silly little piece a voice, she would be much better suited to the Herald Sun or something equally retrograde and facile. Of course she'd probably be called a slut on their comments forums. But if I were to suggest that this bind is further evidence that women are damned if they do, damned if they *can be bothered to finish the cliche* I will be called an evil Feminist. Again, GAH!

Gosh, you're brilliant. I have SO much to say abou...

2008-05-07T20:24:00.000+09:30

Gosh, you're brilliant. I have SO much to say about this, but I might just email you (or say it in person) instead. If you will excuse me, may I just use your comments section as a reunion dinner for a minute? I may? Cattermune, I have missed you dearly and don't know how to contact you - couldn't find your blog? Please write to me at contact_watchdog@hotmail.com so i can contact you. Has been too long.

Back to the topic at hand ... what I have to say will take too many pages, so I'll email you.

In the meantime, I'm off to mix a cosmo and plot ways to snare a man.

I think her "voice" is based on phrases cobbled fr...

2008-05-07T19:22:00.000+09:30

I think her "voice" is based on phrases cobbled from the voiceovers done by Carrie as she mused her columns each episode(does Sam, in fact, end each column with a rhetorical question?). This, together with snippets of the Helen Fielding oeuvre, and possibly some sexy cliches dug out of the chick lit canon - maybe Marion Keys?

I imagine a book of pink patent leather alphabetically filled with phrases, with the pages devoted to the use of terms such as 'singletons' or 'metrosexuals' heavily marked with tandoori tan fingerprints.

The other possibility is that her column is randomly generated by computer. Actually, it would explain a lot.

I was also annoyed by this article although i foun...

2008-05-07T18:30:00.000+09:30

I was also annoyed by this article although i found it at last to have some sort of opinion from Brett, almost as if she's a newly bitter woman. Usually her posts tackle issues far too complicated for her meager intellect, and only just fall short of sitting on the fence.
She just seems too lame to pay attention too these days.

Can we really expect anything more substantial from the blog previously named 'Sam In The City'?

On a side note she has to have one of the most annoying 'voices' in writing ever.. Its so contrived and fake, does she have any personality at all?

Poo Bum Bugger Shit Fart - second last sentence sh...

2008-05-07T11:41:00.000+09:30

Poo Bum Bugger Shit Fart - second last sentence should be 'landed a bloke' not blog. Freudian slip.

Hear fuckin' hear Audrey! Firstly, I am surprised...

2008-05-07T11:38:00.000+09:30

Hear fuckin' hear Audrey! Firstly, I am surprised you even bother to read Ms Brett's poly-cretinous, mono-synaptic prose masquerading as representing the travails of the real single women and;
Secondly, I often wonder why she's the right blogger for the topic about straight women's (lack of) love lives when she's still single?

Methinks she's shagging one of the Age or SMH staff (or is someone's neice), or, in the case of Daniel Cleaver describing Bridget's job, she should stick to "Fannying about with press releases." Ironically appropriate.

Cattermune, I have a mate who added his wife's surname to his (as did she). Both now double-barrelled and super happy.

Agree too with Penni - Jabberwocky, Blakkat, Baino and the loaded blog are out there sharing real stuff without needing to compare themselves to any one of the idious four SATC girls.

Throw away the manolos and stick to sensible flats - and I say that as someone who has successfully landed a blog without using any of Sam Brett's 'advice'. Rant over; Toblerone to inhale.

Yar, me too, I hate Sam Brett. I hate her bloody g...

2008-05-07T11:25:00.000+09:30

Yar, me too, I hate Sam Brett. I hate her bloody guts. She's witless and boring, a string of cliches without a skeleton. I wonder if she even exists, or she's actually Andrew Jaspan, a colleague he invented in his big lonely office because no one at The Age likes him? I mean, if Jaspan was going to invent an imaginary friendly colleague, she may as well be a hottie, right? Or perhaps he dresses up as her, like in Psycho.

She completely icky. I bet she has a brazillion, don't you?

Well I have a brazillion reasons to hate her guts!

DEATH TO BRETT. AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY.

"On one occasion, I sent a text to a woman I'd jus...

2008-05-07T10:19:00.000+09:30

"On one occasion, I sent a text to a woman I'd just been on a date with to say I'd had a fantastic time and would love to see her again," Sibson says. "The reply I got read: 'I'd like to see you next week but I need to know where we are going if I'm to commit to this relationship.' We'd barely spent three hours together. How was I meant to know if I wanted a relationship with her?"

(Nicked from Sam Brett).

Turns out it was a pretty vaild question though. Do you think he texted back 'I'm planning on writing a condescending article about you and several other women I've dated three times, as if I know all about your hopes, dreams, ambitions and inner psyches and then basically slam all womenkind - is that cool?' (He'd have to have nimble thumbs).

I bet Sam only got the job because her name is Sam.

There's so many people who blog beautifully about Melbourne life (for example Jabberwocky and Muppinstuff). None of them blog for The Age.

Ugh. Seriously, just, ugh.Also, if I had taken som...

2008-05-07T10:12:00.000+09:30

Ugh. Seriously, just, ugh.

Also, if I had taken some of the men I went on disasterous dates with as indicative of the entire sex, I would hate and loathe all men. Oh wait, I'm a man-hating feminazi. Perhaps I have.

On the other hand, I have a lovely partner who does the cooking and the cleaning and etc. I'm confused. Why doesn't my life fit a stereotype? Which Sex and the City character am I? When was Brigid Jones on Sex in the City anyway?

Halp! I am so confused. Can Samantha Brett please explain my life for me?

I hate Samantha Brett - knowing full well the grav...

2008-05-07T09:38:00.000+09:30

I hate Samantha Brett - knowing full well the gravity of the word. The woman can hardly string a coherent sentence together and her politics are a disgrace.

I am angered that she gets column space while the rest of us (well some of us) labour away editing boring newsletters and doing other less glamourous (but also less obnoxious/dangerous) things.

She seems eminently suited to writing the sort of PR twaddle that goes straight into my bin - if only that was what she was doing instead of assaulting our eyes with her nonsense.

Well I must be a card carrying fem-nazi, 'cos my r...

2008-05-07T07:22:00.000+09:30

Well I must be a card carrying fem-nazi, 'cos my reaction to the latest Brett idiocy seems to be the same as yours.
Sadly though I seem to be addicted to reading said idiocy - kind of like my (now recovered from) Miranda Divine addiction. They seem to spark my underlying feminism/liberalism like nothing else.
However I found that Sam's stupidity was outweighed yesterday by the fantastic effort of a man in California to take his wife's name in marriage . Might have to hand in the man-hating membership, as I am feeling very warm and fuzzy towards that gentleman.