We bring you all the Avios airline partners, find you great Etihad award space, fly on Air Force One, cry together with the Amex Rewards Abuse Team, visit the Hilton Northolme in Seychelles, RIP to hero John Glenn, visit the brutal war against drugs in the Philippines, we beat up financial salespeople and bloggers as usual, and more. And hey, it is Friday!
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Getting through a super busy stretch…when usually November – December is quieter. No, I am not talking about the blog…which is an amazing money making machine. Yesterday my site lost 72 cents! My haters are laughing…hey I like to entertain all readers!
You can use Avios to fly on 34 different airlines. Good luck. And don’t let them hideous fuel surcharges hit you in the face!
If you were thinking about traveling to Seychelles, here is a good review of the Hilton Northolme hotel.
Do you have lots of AA miles and AMEX Membership Rewards points like me? You want to go to the Middle East and then Africa? There is some great Etihad Biz/First award space.
Why do so many countries end in “-stan”? Sometimes I wondered about that too. Stan means land…in Persian apparently. #mindblown
RIP John Glenn. Watch him talk about the human need for curiosity and wonder. Basically defines the TBB experience. Or something like that.
“They are slaughtering us like animals”. Epic report in the New York Times of the rampage going on against drug dealers and drug addicts in the Philippines. Drug addicts need help…
7 Deadly Sins of Financial Salespeople. I have come in contact with this hideous species in my career. Perhaps it has influenced my deep antipathy towards them and marketers of financial products (like so many bloggers in this space!). Some will stop at nothing to make that sale/conversion! STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THEM!
Incredible history of Air Force One. I really enjoyed this piece and I think you will too. Oh, I learned a lot. #neverstopeducating
The pockets of the Old Hong Kong. Not sure why so many Hong Kong related links lately. But it is sure picturesque imho.
This pic, wow! Muse by Dmitry Rogozhkin,
This crap just never stops. It never ceases to amaze me! How bloggers find any excuse they can to slip in credit card affiliate links in their crappy content because, please sit down, it pays so much more than ads or Amazon links (pre JetBlue days)! Hey newbies, you are just being sold to. Every freaking day! Wake up and vote with your clicks elsewhere! Don’t let The Points Guy Inc buy your silence by treating you to dinner and live concert by some dude I never heard of, all paid by the plastic they pump at that site every day!
Well, this is news to me but totally not surprised. Amex built a new team: Rewards Abuse Team. We are getting picked off one by one…I blame greedy credit card pushing bloggers of course…RAT, how appropriate!
And I leave you with this…
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While TBB is undoubtedly the most entertaining blog in the travelsphere, he is being followed in close second right now by the recent existential crisis that poor Lucky is experiencing….
Recently he got bored spending a 3 hour layover in the LH First Class terminal and thought booking a direct flight might have been better; even though it would only have been in Austrian business class….. Next he’s going to say that he doesn’t know why some people go hungry when they could just eat cake!
I don’t go to Lucky’s blog anymore. I do get his daily email with short previews of all the day’s posts….and I shake my head to the mega crapiola the site has become. Caught something about some kids going to his room or something….how juvenile…but hey, the Ritz Carlton card must be great
Ben is quite the expert on whether you should turn right or left upon leaving the elevator.
Or as Dylan wrote:
“I received your letter yesterday,
About the time the doorknob broke.
When you asked me how I was doing,
Was that some kind of joke?”
See you Sunday, cavelleros.
Believe It Or Not….George when you GOOGLE your name…..the first G.P. on the list is a leading Trump Financial Adviser…..you can’t make this stuff up, talk about KARMA. TRUE STUFF
Google’s search engine optimization algorithm is ………….. suboptimal. Readily manipulated by Alt-Right.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook
During the campaign, I had several emails and phone calls from press wanting to talk to me while thinking I am that guy in Trump’s advising team. One was all the way from Australia! I had to politely decline. A positive is that I saw his father speak in a Greek TV channel and let me tell you, him and his son are very pro Greece….a lot more than we ever had in the ear of any US President. It can’t hurt I guess.
That article about search, YIKES!
@ABC Thank God the media is Readily manipulated by Alt-Left.
I’ll take that over Ctrl-left.
ABC, Are you here legally???????? QUICK answer this question (no googling), in 10 seconds………
WHAT NUMBER PRESIDENT WAS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN?
Ctrl-Alt-Del
Ugh. Getting MO’s at PO’s via VGC seems to be on its last leg. Time to adapt and move on to plan B.
Seems to be the trend…
Will Michael Lewis’ new book be worth reading?
There are other great books covering behavioral economics.
Catherine S. gave it 3.0 out of 5 stars on AMZN with the insightful comment “I have yet to read this, so I can’t judge it really.”
Well, he has a knack of writing about things that make them very enjoyable to read. I did not like the one about the fast traders. I will get to it eventually.
Oh, get some JetBlue miles 🙂
Amazon is pretty much dead. Lost 72 cents on Thursday, nada on Friday.
One card sale credited so far in December, thanks to Brenton.
For you aspiring blogger looking to get rich via blogging, this is a warning.
Taking Mrs. TBB out to a romantic restaurant in Ann Arbor, celebrate anniversary…a little late but hey, who is counting!
Can a Titan buy me out or something?
Merry Christmas! Enjoy the coffee!