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19
Mar
13

Win a R1k iTunes Voucher With King Price And Your Tiger Pal

King Price LogoCompetition time here on TFW boys and girls and this week I’m offering up a R1 000 iTunes voucher to one lucky reader who is able to KLAP the challenge I’m about to set you guys.

So, here’s the dealy-o. King Price Insurance is the only insurance company that actually decreases your car insurance premiums month by month.

Their reasoning behind doing this is simple, it’s a fact that cars are a depreciating asset so in other words the older your car gets, the less it’s worth, so why should your insurance premiums increase month by month, that doesn’t make any damn sense!

You guys might have seen their ad on TV but if not, here it is:

 

 

I did some reading up about King Price before I wrote this post and I must say, they seem pretty legit.

Their business model works because the main strategy driving their business is client retention, which means keeping their clients happy and giving them exceptional service rather than sneakily pushing their premiums up year after year.

HOWEVER, on to the matter at hand, the R1 000 iTunes voucher King Price is offering one of you lucky basterds.

 

 

Here’s how the competition works – you need to post a comment below of no more than three sentences explaining how you think King Price gets away with decreasing their premiums month by month.

Let my main man Karl from the video be your inspiration when writing your comment.

In other words, the funniest, craziest, most original comment (as judged by me) will win the voucher.

To get you guys started, here’s an example I just cooked up:

King Price are able to decrease their insurance premiums every month because the ous don’t have to spend any money on electricity at any of their branches. Instead, they connect gym machines to a generator and invite buff charnas to KLAP IT 24/7 – instant free electricity boet!

 

 

Easy peasy Japanesey.

Today is Tuesday. On Friday I’ll choose my winner.

Got it? Cool. You can enter a maximum of three times, so if you’re not happy with your first two attempts, you’re welcome to post a third, but more than three and I’ll automatically delete them.

Go get ‘em Tigers Winking smile

-ST

06
Feb
13

Top Gear Is Back Mofos!

01_26_42MBI have a grudging respect for Top Gear because even though I’m no car fanatic, if it’s playing on someone’s telly I’ll almost always make a nice cuppa tea, grab the digestive biscuits and get stuck in.

Part of me’s also jealous of Clarkson and co. because they get up to some crazy sheeit. Remember when Clarkson and May (in a truck) raced Hammond (on a dogsled) from Canada to the North Pole?

Or when the gang painted pro-homosexual slogans on each other’s cars and drove into Alabama? Or what about the unbreakable Hilux back in season 3 that kept going despite being crashed into a tree, driven through a garden shed, and hit with a wrecking ball (among other things).

The good news for Top Gear junkies though is that the show is back on BBC Entertainment (DSTV Channel 120), starting tonight at 20:00.

To get you in the mood, here’s another moment that gave me goosies watching the show – the Bugatti Veyron vs the most high-tech strike fighter on the planet, the Euro Fighter Typhoon.

 

 

How bonkers was that?!

If you want to stand the chance of winning flights, accommodation and tickets to see the Top Gear Festival in Durban this year for you and a partner, all you have to do is watch every episode of the show (starting tonight) watch for a question to pop up on the screen and answer with #TopGearSA.

In the meantime, I’ve got some pics from the new season, courtesy of my friends at the ©BBC, to give you guys a taste of what to expect.

Check it:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That is all.

-ST

28
Jan
13

SlickTiger Klaps The Most Seffrican Flight, Has The Jol Of His LIFE!

Lead imageJus-LAAIK have I just flied back form the flippin’ BUFFEST event IN THE LAND or what! How buff am I talking about here?

Boedie, I’m talking about going up to the city of ous who INVENTED klapping gym, I’m talking about staying in a flippin SIX-STAR hotel, klapping flippin buff-it PRAWNS for supper, flippin GAMBLING with a other ou’s money, getting showferred to Lanzeria airport and meeting my pel Jacque Perrow!

THEN I’m talking about KLAPPING the most Seffrican flight to ever be flied, having a lag at Kurt Schoonrad and getting lekker emotional when secret KWAAIER OUS start singing the Seffrican national song 10,000,0000km above land.

This was another level of brand event, a level where you feel flippin SWAK when it’s all over but you carry the memories inside your flippin BRAIN for all of time.

kulula were of course the BUFF OUS who made all the flippin magic happen. Jus those charnas can make a ou lag! I mean HELL, from the time I arrived at the Cape Town airport and met my first charna of the trip, Murray Turner, until the time when I arrive back in Cape Town the day later now with FIVE new pels, I was lagging for THE ENTIRE TIME!

 

 

kulula also know a BELTER from a GROT OTTER, I can tell you that much and they ONLY invited BELTERS on this trip. After I met Murray at the airport I got on the plain to the land of the GYM KLAPPERS and sitting right next to me was BELTER NO.1 of the trip, let’s just call her “The Aeroplain Shouter”.

This chick was on ANOTHER FLIPPIN LEVEL! I was like, “Jus-laaik is this real or have I died and gone to a DREAM!”

Of course, she had nothing on my klap gym BELTER girlfriend J-Rab, you can see lekker pics of her here.

But ja… as per her name, The Aeroplane Shouter’s a bit loud on plains hey? When we took off from Cape Town, the Aeroplane Shouter was having a lekker chat with me and then the aerohostess was like “Hey! You! Flippin shuppud man, I’m trying to read out the safety instructions in case of sudden LOSS OF CABIN PRESSURE, ok?”

 

 

The adventure wasn’t over their! In The Land Of Okes Who Invented Klapping It we arrived and it was all dark and stuff already and rainy and hot and their was crazy traffic and charnas trying to crash into us and ous were like “Is this flippin MORDOR or what?!”

On the bus to Monty Casino Hotal where we stayed is where I met my second charna of the trip, Mr Cape Town who can only make a ou lag hey? Jus-LAAIK, with him and ol’ Slicky-T on the trip we had the belters and other ous flippin KAKKING THEY’RE PANT with laughter the WHOLE TIME.

Schweet thing about this Mr Cape Town ou is he’s like a flippin walking CAR BAR! We land on the other side and the ou’s like “Ive got warm Scottish beer in my bag!” and I’m like “Oke! Marry me!”

 

 

So the next thing I know we’re at the flippin larniest hotal in the land, Monty Casino, klapping BUFF-IT PRAWNS for supper and drinking Scottish beer what tastes like this fruit punch I made one time for a party but had to hide in my cupboard cause ous were drinking it on roids and klapping ous IN THE FACE and smashing they’re teeth in with chairs and kak and then I found it like a year later and was like, flip what’s that smell and so I drunk it and the next thing I remember I was naked in the street flippin RUGBY TACKLING CARS!

At that time, klapping the prawn buff-it was when I met the last two members of TEAM SLICKY-T, THE TEQUILA MONSTER and my charna Kuil from Jus’ Kickin’ It.

THE TEQUILA MONSTER was another one of the BELTERS kulula invited and FLIPPIN’ HELL! This belter from the minute she arrived until when we all were back was just like “WHO WANTS TEQUILA? LETS HAVE TEQUILA! COME HERE, DRINK THIS TEQUILA, DON’T BE A FLIPPIN MOF!”

 

 

So ja, we were the best of pels even though she made me feel like a ou had PUNCHED me in the liver the next day.

Kuil was a bit of a doos in the beginning, but then he gave us all his money to gamble with and we lost it and he was like “whatever, schweet” and I was like, “what a flippin legend!”

 

 

Also, when he rehalized I was THE SlickTiger what writed “Klapping Gym” he gave me this lekker long hug and I was like “Flip Kuil is that a banana in your pocket boet? I’m lekker hungry ou, do you mind if I have it?”

And he was like, “NO! I’m, um. Saving it for later…” Which is fine. A ou’s banana is his banana. NEVER eat that ous banana if he’s saving it for later. Unless, you know, you’ve had a bit of brannewyn en coke and ‘”Careless Whisper” is playing and the ou is passed out on the couch and stuff…

 

 

But ja. Anyway.

The next day we started early and went to Lanzeria airport where their was gumboot dancers, ous flippin JUGGLING soccer balls, photo booths and the best of all, my good buddy JACQUE PERROW rapping his songs before we all got on the most Seffrican flight.

 

 

Only the MOST Seffrican ous could go on this flight and what a collection of Seffrican ous did we see! One-legged bee-keepers from Bloemfontein, nervous Indian okes in circus clothes, the WORKS BOET!

I sat next to this lekker ou of the name of DANIEL who was all quiet in the beginning of the trip while I was klapping my padkos and schmaaking all the flippin SPACE I had around me for my PECS, BICEPS, TRICEPS, LATS, TRAPS and DELTS on kulula’s new planes which are obviously built for ous who like to KLAP IT.

Then the most hectic stuffs happened when we were reached 10,000,0000km above the land. Charnas were like, “Ok ous, let’s sing our national song” and I was like “Flip man, I can’t sing for kak, how embarassing are this going to be?” when my charna Daniel next to me suddenly stood up and started singing the national song in the voice of a angle!

 

 

There were secret flippin CHOIR NINJAS on the plane! About 10 of the ous what sang with lank EMOTION and made ous cry they felt so proud to be Seffrican and stuff.

Not me though. Everyone knows COWBOYS DON’T CRY BOET. My eyes were just watering because of the sour worms oke, jus-LAAIK…

 

 

After that I had a lekker jol with my old pel Jacque Perrow and this pic got taken of us too buff ous looking flippin TUFF!

 

 

The plain took us in a lekker big circle over some of The Land Of Okes Who Invented Klapping It’s most beautiful attractions like Haartebeespoort Dam, Sun City and the Mine Dumps.

This was a flight like no other. Ous were all talking to the other ous, finding out more about each other, sharing there stories and having a lag. It were the only time I can remember charnas being treated like kings and queens of the land just because we were all Seffrican.

kulula are flippin LEGENDS for reminding us that no matter all the bad stuff, we can still laugh, we can still be proud that we come from this land because their is no one else in all the world like us and their never will be.

After we landed, me and my new blogger buddy charnas klapped a beer together at the Lanzeria airport bar and agreed that it had been a amazing 24 hours of SHOUTING ON AEROPLANES, DRINKING SCOTTISH BEER, SMASHING TEQUILA, GAMBLING WITH KUIL’S MONEY, CHILLING WITH JACQUE PERROW, BEING PROUDLY SEFFRICAN ON A FLIPPIN PLAIN, LAGGING UNTIL OUR ABS WERE LEKKER STIFF and BEING TREATED LIKE FLIPPIN KINGS AND QUEENS OF THE LAND!

 

 

To all the kulula ous who made the trip possible, thank you for inviting us to be a part of the most Seffrican flight ever, it was a MASSIVE JOL from start to finish.

To the members of Team Slicky-T, The Aeroplane Shouter, The Tequila Monster, Kuil, Mr Cape Town and Murray thanks for putting up with all my kak for a full 24 hours, you ous deserve a prize or something.

Until next time buff ous and serious belters, keep KLAPPING IT!

-ST

20
Dec
12

SlickTiger And The Gigantic kulula Paper Plane Invite

kulula inviteAs a kid, I prided myself on the fact that I could fold a paper jet that flew at such an incredible velocity that one time another kid made the mistake of stepping into its flight path and nearly lost an eye.

So naturally I was more than stoked when kulula delivered the flippin GIGANTIC paper plane you see pictured on the left which, as it turns out, doubles as an invitation to “The Most South African Flight Ever”.

This flight will comprise South Africa’s most diverse and representative set of locals who will all jet off together to celebrate kulula’s passion for travel.

But enough of that, back to the gigantic paper plane!

As you’ll see from the pictures below, the kulula ous took a lot of time to get the details of the plane right:

 

 

 

They even put a tail flap on this badboy, too legit!

 

 

After throwing the paper plane at a number of my colleagues and coworkers, then bringing it home and throwing it off our balcony at unsuspecting passers-by, I finally today decided to check out the FB app for The Most South African Flight,  which is www.facebook.com/iflykulula.

There you can officially enter the Most South African Flight competition and be a part of this historic moment when the most diverse South Africans you could imagine (“Calitzdorp clog dancers, Bloemfontein organic cheese makers, Durban bee-keepers, urban goat herders, hipster grannies, one-armed lesbian mud wrestlers from Springbok” etc.) jet off together into the sunset.

Best part of it all is that I’ll be there representing the anthropomorphised blogger / gym klapping community of lesser Vredehoek.

Bada bing bada bang!

-ST

01
Oct
12

The Tiger Swaps His Mind For Tiger-Print Tighty Whiteys

Tiger UndiesI think it’s a testament to my skills as a blogger that I’ve turned SlickTiger into a brand people understand so well that I have not one, but TWO pairs of tiger underpants donated by strangers.

But it doesn’t stop there, as part of Capitec’s “Swapping Mall” initiative at this year’s Rocking The Daisies, I will soon own THREE pairs of tiger underpants!

Can anyone reading this handle that?! I was speechless with joy when Capitec contacted me, offering me the underpants you see in the picture above in exchange for something, anything, that I’d like to offer up in return.

It’s such a killer idea. You bring something you’d like to swap to Rocking The Daisies this year (can literally be anything you don’t want) and at the Capitec stand you can exchange it for anything your heart fancies.

The last time they did this, they valued your item and gave you an appropriate number of swapping vouchers so that someone swapping their broken Havaianas can’t walk away with a Macbook Pro (no lies, someone actually brought a Macbook Pro to swap).

Here’s a vid explaining the whole concept:

 

 

So the burning question I’m sure you’re thinking is what am I offering in return for the incredible pair of underwear you see below:

 

 

Well, as you may have guessed from the titles of this post, I will be exchanging MY MIND for those undeniably sexy briefs.

As I write this I am already downloading my favourite movies, songs, games and other random junk that has influenced my life in one way or another from my mind onto a DVD (DVDs?).

Hopefully I can finish it in time to post a pic on this site before Thursday so you can hunt it down instead of some random who’ll probably think they’ve stumbled on a bunch of DVDs made by a raving lunatic.

I’m calling it “The Tiger’s Mind”. Lemme know if you manage to track it down, could be worth hundreds one day.

-ST

27
Sep
12

Win A Weekend Getaway Courtesy Of Tsogo Sun And Your Tiger Pal

TsogoSale1 - 800px wideThe competitions are coming in thick and fast on TFW these days folks which means I can finally reward my loyal readers with some boodle.

That’s right, boodle. I chose that word carefully to invoke piratey scenes of golden rolling dunes, blue skies, turquoise oceans and rum because if you play your cards right, that’s exactly what you’ll win.

See, my new buddies over at Tsogo Sun have officially launched a summer sale where you can save 25% on a holiday at one of their hotels in Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu Natal or the Western Cape, but you gotta move fast, the offer closes tomorrow at 8pm!

Alternatively, you could just win a weekend getaway for two at one of the hotels listed in the link above by doing something I like to call “writing well”.

 

 

“Writing well” is not as easy as it looks on this site. Sure most people have a keyboard and can push the buttons on it, but can they push those buttons in exactly the right order to create something meaningful? Something that could win them the free weekend of a LIFETIME?!

Only one way to find out…

The rules are simple. Write me one sentence in the comments section below telling me why you need a holiday.

And please don’t give me a bleeding-heart story about some depressing tragedy you’ve endured that somehow qualifies you for a holiday.

 

 

This is not a soap opera, it’s a blog site for people with a sense of humour.

So the golden rule applies, make me laugh and you’re in with a fighting chance, capiche?

One sentence explaining why you need a holiday that is funny (the sentence, not the holiday).

If you feel your first attempt is rubbish, you are more than welcome to enter more than once, but try to cap it at 5 entries or you’ll start looking desperate and the other kids on the site will laugh at you.

Entries will close at 5pm and a winner will be announced tomorrow at 9am.

Here’s the small print in bolded writing:

Ts and Cs

The prize is subject to the following terms and conditions:

  • Your prize is valid until 07 January 2013. The accommodation must be taken up within this period, as the expiry date will not be extended.
  • Your prize is not transferable, may not be converted to cash and, if lost, will not be re-issued by Tsogo Sun hotels.
  • You may take advantage of your prize at any time, subject to availability, convenient to yourself and to the hotel as specified above, with the exception of school holidays, public holidays and certain other peak periods that may be identified by the hotel.
  • To redeem your prize, please contact our Customer Contact Centre in Johannesburg on telephone number 0861 44 77 44 and the Reservations agent will make the booking on your behalf.  Please note that you will be required to fax a copy of this letter to the Reservations agent to secure your booking.
  • You will be required to produce this original prize letter on check in at the hotel – no copies will be accepted.

 

Do me proud ya buncha flippin maniacs.

Do me proud.

-ST

29
Aug
12

How The Tiger Unlocks The Power Of The Interwebs

UntitledVodacom are doing a sick campaign at the moment where they’re asking SA’s top bloggers and influencers to share the secrets of how they unlock the power of the internet.

Naturally they called up your buddy ol’ pal Slicky-T, because it’s a well-documented fact that I’ve been unlocking the power of the interwebs since the mid-90s yo.

Back then, the internet was a joke. The information published on most websites was notoriously unreliable, pages took days to load and downloading a 10MB file would have probably taken at least three hours.

Still though, I can’t tell you how many times I listened to the dial-up tone of my 56k modem in eager anticipation as I trawled the internet for free guitar tabs, walkthroughs for games I was stuck on or dodgey free games sites.

 

 

There was just this feeling back then that we weren’t even scratching the surface of what the internet was capable of. It was the Wild West, before the social media revolution, just huge tracts of untamed super-highway.

Anyway, I digest. The real purpose of this piece is to give you guys a little insight into what I’ve learned over the past 15 odd years on the interwebs, specifically when it comes to finding new music and bands because it’s something I think I’ve gotten down to a fine art.

Firstly, I’ll hit you guys with a few of the music site links I hit on a regular basis to stay in touch with what’s going down in the music world.

To any hipster readers out there, lemme just warn you in advance: these sites are totes mainstream ok? If that has you feeling a little awks, just light up a Gauloises, jump on your fixie and go bitch to your friends at the vinyl store about what a philistine SlickTiger is.

Great. Now that that’s out the way, here are my top 6 music sites:

www.spin.com (there is a player on the top of the screen with a sneaky red down arrow. Hit that arrow to stream entire new albums for free)

 

www.rollingstone.com

 

www.nme.com (killer album reviews)

 

www.pitchfork.com

 

www.spinner.com (also great for streaming new full albums, even if most of them are so weird I’m not sure if they can be classified as music…)

 

www.stereogum.com

 

www.npr.org (hit the “Music” link on this site, then scroll down and hit the “First Listen” link on the right. Again, you can stream a lot of new albums for free here and NPR ALWAYS get the albums before they’re released)

 

www.texxandthecity.com (and how could I not mention my favourite local music site. Texx is a total badass, this is THE site for local music news)

 

 

So that’s pretty much where I get my music fix on the ol’ interwebs.

I tell everyone who wants to get into new bands and music the same thing – as with most things in life, with new music on the interwebs the 80/20 rule applies.

In other words, 80% of what you’ll find on all those sites is a load of horse dung. Even if you give those tracks and albums a few listens, they will remain utterly shite in every way. Do not let that deter you.

I say this because that last 20% will be pure gold. They will be songs and albums that you will listen to for the rest of your life and it won’t be the same old, lame old regurgitated left overs everyone else listens to.

They will be songs and albums that mean something to you and the people you care about and when you play those albums in years to come, they will always remind you of the moment in your life when you discovered them for the first time.

 

 

It has been and continues to be a powerful belief of mine that music will save us. No other art form that I’ve come across can capture raw emotion so perfectly and communicate it with such eloquence.

Never give up on finding new music. Never fall into the trap of listening to the same bands hundreds of times over until their music is so familiar it almost means nothing to you.

Move on. Change. Adapt. Leave that old music in the past, where it belongs, and choose a new soundtrack for your life before the audience watching dies of boredom.

 

 

So that’s one of the ways I unlock the power of the internet boys and girls, but stay tuned next week because your buddy Slick may or may not have a little competition up his sleeve that will definitely help you unlock the power of the internet as well.

Later Party People Winking smile

-ST

06
Aug
12

Happy 21st Birthday Interwebs!

220px-Nyan_cat_250px_frame Exactly 21 years ago today, a man by the name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee launched a pretty ambitious undertaking which he called the “WWW Project”.

His aim was to allow all links to be made to any information anywhere in the world and to give access to those links to people at no cost.

Fast forward to 2012 and the thought of life without the internet is pretty unbearable. What the hell would we do at work all day if it weren’t for Facebook, Twitter, funny pictures of cats and videos of people failing at life in hilariously painful ways?

Today is also significant though because it marks the beginning of a local start-up which is making its debut as a publicly available service. It’s called “moneysmart” (www.moneysmart.co.za) and it’s a free, online personal finance management platform that helps you budget and tracks your expenses.

moneysmart decided to launch on this momentous day because like the interwebs, moneysmart developed their product to make life easier, built it with everyone in mind and made it free to use.

 

 

Weirdly enough, I actually used moneysmart during its beta phase because I can budget about as well as I can play an accordion whilst riding a unicycle.

I found the whole process to be pretty pain-free – you download your bank statements from your online banking platform, upload them into moneysmart (don’t worry, it’s totally legit and uses bank-level security verified by VeriSign, McAfee and TRUSTe) and start allocating what transactions captured on your statements relate to which monthly expenses.

Once you’ve done that, you can see plain as day exactly how much money you’re spending every month and more importantly, what you’re spending that money on.

 

 

From there you can set budgeting goals and actually start to manage your money in order to achieve those goals.

I haven’t tried the system since it’s come out of beta phase, but you bet your ass I’ll give it another whirl today and let you guys know how it works out.

In the meantime though, moneysmart is inviting South Africans to pay tribute to the interwebs and its founder Sir Tim by either tweeting personal anecdotes about their experiences with the web using the hashtag #web21 or by posting messages on Facebook (www.facebook.com/moneysmartsa).

The best ones will be used as part of a personalised video birthday card that features tributes from some of SA’s greatest techies; Matthew Buckland, Arthur Goldstuck, Alan Knot-Craig Jnr, Adriaan Pienaar, Eric Edelstein, Eran Eyal and Tobie Van Zyl.

This card will then be presented to the man himself, Sir Tim, at 16h00 our time (which should be at right about the time Sir Tim is enjoying his morning eggs and baky).

 

 

So get involved party people! If your story cuts the mustard, the very man who invented the interwebs will see it.

Worth playing for? I’ll give you a minute to strategise and then let’s get started 😉

-ST