Fairly short post, just so much filler stuff!
TRAVEL
Yomadic does Kotor, Montenegro.
Rio Timelapse.
Time of Rio from MOOV on Vimeo. Originally found on Matador Network here.
11 Incredible Island Airports. By The World Geography.
MILES/POINTS
Everything you wanted to learn about British Airways Avios. Right to the point, no fluff. By Dans Deals
I received an email from Delta (yes I still hold Silver Medallion status) offering me Gold status in the Club Carlson program. I get Gold with the Club Carlson Visa (insert imaginary affiliate link here!) anyway. But, oh boy, are these guys determined to piss off every partner they get in bed with or what? I can’t see how Starwood likes this Delta move…it is obvious now that Delta has become THE slut of the airlines:-)
You remember the 3rd Quarter Hilton Promo from yesterday? Well, better check the ridiculously long NON participating hotel list! Wow…why even bother?
ON MY MIND
I may have an interview of another blogger up here at some point. It could be a long time, you know that by now!
You want to read some funny stuff? Hedge funds are now allowed to advertise. Twitter exploded and there are some VERY hilarious tweets with the hashtag #hedgefundslogans
No mas.
ODDZ & ENDZ
Amazing Pencil Portraits Drawn Onto Dollar Bills by “Hash” Ashish Patel.
BLOG BUZZ
Looks like the Bengali Miles Guru joined Hack My Trip. I wonder what happened at Milevalue for him to leave or he would be double dipping? Interesting. It’s like the free agency market or maybe he was claimed off the waiver list lol.
Million Mile Secrets had a The Points Guy-like massive post on how to get United miles. I counted 33 cc links, yikes! My eye sockets still hurt! Why bother including the Starwood SPG cards with their horrific transfer to United ratio, why???
Mile Nerd is at it again: “It’s always a struggle when I want to link to another blog. Why? Because I meet so many bloggers who are such douchebags. Come on, deep down you guys know it’s true.”
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haha nice move Buzz. I feel honored 🙂 So you lost the first place after scoring 4 days in a row to a newcomer to the blog names Agenda Gal 😛 Sounds like The Agenda Guy got to you from his comments yesterday.
Imatation is the biggest form of flattery. If only you could imitate the link fest blogs to make some money off of the tabloid.
Thanks anyways 🙂
I think you and Agenda gal should get together to talk strategy;-)
uh oh, Started banning IPs Buzz? That is sinking to a new low. 😛 I knew it will get to you sooner rather than later. Like another reader posted a while ago, unfortunately for you, we are in the 21st century. So yah bitching about bloggers ain’t bringing you chase links, regardless of what anyone has promised you/duped you into.
And you really think we cannot say who “Agenda gal” is ? Sorry for the butt hurt yesterday. Just want to make sure you play fair (Disclosing is optional). I have got Ariana and FTG’s back even though no affiliation with them and they probably are laughing at this (just because I know they rile you up the best).
I wouldn’t know how to ban IPs! Feel free to show me how:-) TBB ain’t no douchebag…at least not yet lol.
So…who is Agenda gal?
Second! Douchebags!
Darn 😉
I even gave hint to Jeff…so disappointing:-)
Welcome Agenda (oh oh) gal!
Hope I was not included in the douchebag list…oh dear god, I so hope I was not!!!!
Not today anyways haha still cracking myself up :D. You get a raincheck because today it felt like an honest slap and not the usual tap on the wrist when it came to the most douchy blog of them all.
I can guess who the interviewee might be. Hope it is harvson or DD.
Not telling. You just need to wait…and you may be waiting for a long long time! Same for affiliate links too, thank you for your support, you know I appreciate it;-)
Glad you crack yourself up because nobody is laughing with you, just at you.
You sound better with a rib up your ass :). But thanks for laughing at me. It makes it worthwhile to make someone laugh 🙂 Hopefully the sex change operation went smooth 😉
Freaking scanner just stopped working…Need to reboot, hate when that happens!
It has to be the “insider trading” job …lol… I was just here a couple of minutes ago. Thanks.
Persistence wins!
Stumbled across your site recently, and enjoy it! I can’t believe you find time to look at so many blogs daily, mad props to you. So MMS must have set some kind of record? I tried to comment on it but I see he moderates his comments now? Whats the deal with that?
Are you the one guy in the world with an Agenda ? Brace yourself for the gangbangers (actually the plurality is for shits and giggles) 😛
He uses words like a rapper badass, but he is just a loser white kid with his hat on sideways. Whatz ur rap name Jizzy Jizz?
Not falling for this race trap so letting it slide.
I believe the record is 39. Can’t remember if it was MMS or TPG, it is one of them for sure.
Yeah, MMS moderates to kick out certain commenters with an agenda, cough:-)
“bad” comments are a distractions when ur selling CC applications to newbies. Think about MMS as the guy on campus giving u a free t-shirt to sign up for a CC.
except he’s probably driving a Lamborghini :). Go mms
Hey, nothing wrong to get free Tshirts! I used to do this making up an SSN. I did not buy a Tshirt for all of my 20s, had so many left over:-) Oh, those were the days lol.
I’ll be disappointed if he went for the Lamborghini before the student loans were paid off. And a house. I like to drive Mercedes Benz cars for FREE!
TBB
StillFrugalGuy:-)
TOFTG works for me 😉
Wouldn’t it be badass rapper? The agenda-twins are hard to follow and seem to be in need of meds, or In my rapper terminology scripts.
Yeah…it’s getting insane in here:-)
Loyalty Lobby brought a smile with his new series: “Whine Wednesdays” – this week, “Dumbed Down Airline Systems”!
Saw that too and smiled too!
Who is Agenda Gal you ask? Agenda Gal is like a costumed crime fighter for the internet. My mission is to protect the good people of the blogosphere (like George and Dariaus ) from losers and douches like Agenda Guy.
Agenda Guy formerly known as anonymous, is hateful and angry. Why does he hate Dariaus so much? Because he is the only one turned down by MMS for the weekly interview, as too inexperienced.
Why does he hate TBB? That is a little more complicated, So I read up on my Sigmund Freud. Freud suggest that perhaps Agenda Guy’s parents have asked him to start paying rent or move out and get a job. Agenda Gal thinks he is so angry because he found out that SIZE does matter, and God short changed him. Sorry PEE WEE, ps learn how to spell imitation or use spell check.
>>>>>>>>>>Because he is the only one turned down by MMS for the weekly interview, as too inexperienced.
Funniest comment of the week!!!!!
Daraius not “Dariaus” (spell check -> Check) 😉 But was that intentional 😉 ?
Sorry to disappoint but not hateful or angry at all 🙂 But I can see why you are angry. That turned down by MMS for interview comment was indeed hilarious hahah 😀 Brought a question to my mind. How many have actually turned down to get interviewed by MMS 😉
And when will you get a nose job? Doubt that will change the ugliness though 😉
>>>>>>>>>>>>>How many have actually turned down to get interviewed by MMS 😉
That would be great to know indeed! My guess none or just one or two
I hear you about a nose job. But since this venture is not bringing me any money feel free to donate to me, thank you!
Oh come on Buzz. Nose job comment was not for you.
Really no beef with you man. Not sure why you are being dragged into the MMS persecution card in the same sentence by this clown. You don’t need any defending. Just play fair, or don’t, but be prepared if some object to it. You act like you need shielding by this puppet and creating a me-vs-you scenario and making it tougher for yourself.
It’s not that hard.
If you take a good look at my nose you would understand lol.
I play fair. And I am prepared if some object to it. There will always be someone who objects to everything on da internet:-)
Sometimes I wonder about your….agenda:-)
Eh, the BMG does too much Lucky-ism for my taste, i.e., “here is a toilet… here is an airplane seat… here is a hallway… here is a drink.” Pass. Also, I’d encourage him (or Scott) to change their MV headlines of the type “Getting to Sri Lanka and Malaysia for only 20K miles!” to include the origin. It’s lame to discover on further reading that the discount only applies if you start in Singapore. Mackenzie and Amol’s work up until now at HMT has been pretty good. (Disclaimer: Scott once sent me $5.)
The funniest comment of the MMS Chase-fest was “Brett” saying “I appreciate having all the information on United miles in 1 post” and calling you and WA “2nd rate bloggers who no one reads!” Sharp as a tennis ball, that Brett. Who is this Aramean and why is he Wandering? He probably doesn’t know half as much as Daraius does about United. What a loooooser! (Might also want to look up the word “series.”)
This morning I learned that the Italian language comes from a dialect of Florence, just like Spanish came from the dialect of Castile. Thanks for that, free alumni magazine.
Speaking of douchebags, I’d still like to know who was rude to AZGuy.
Yeah, these trip reports are painful to read indeed. And the trend is to break them out in several installments and drag the pain on and on. For my trip report, I put the darn mega long TR thing together to get it over with to justify my tax deductions:-)
Yeah, HMT blog is doing pretty good.
I never went back to read more on the MMS Chase-fest post after I left my incendiary comment that it was not cool to throw in the SPG links in it! Please tell Brett if you see him there that only “friends and family” and a few with agendas read me:-)
Deep thought by me last night: Is fracking directly correlated to sinkholes??
Wow, such praise! I should send you $10. Things have been on an upward swing since then. 🙂
TBB is not bought by just $10, come on, we have some standards around here:-)
I’m coming out of the closet. Be very afraid.
“Is fracking directly correlated to sinkholes?”
Maybe, maybe not. Scary though! (Maybe need a bomb shelter in the bedroom?!)
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/does-fracking-cause-earthquakes/
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/why-are-giant-sinkholes-appearing-all-over-america-is-something-happening-to-the-earths-crust
Heard on NPR something…it was on that train derailment in Canada. Apparently they can not get the oil fast enough…Five years ago there were about 10,000 trains cars full of oil. Today it is 230,000. Wait. Not the end of it. They expect this last number to DOUBLE! All this messing with the earth just can’t be good. But from what I hear South Dakota is a nice place to be these days. I have a realtor friend there who can’t sell homes fast enough!
I live on Vancouver Island and I have a funny story.
We had a conference for the company I work and some of our clients didn’t think that we had an airport!
Whaaat? Vancouver? Hope they were not Canadians:-) Actually they were likely Americans lol.