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The quality of posts in the ever sinking miles & points blogosphere continues to, well, sink. Sometimes I feel like I am reading the National Enquirer or another click baity “news” source, sad!
So, lets focus on the best and leave the deserved beatings for the BLOG BUZZ section. TBB does not kiss ass for click favors!
How can Jet Blue keep doing these deals? After Amazon, they now do another with Icelandair. I know I know, not as big but still! My point is whoever is working at JetBlue loyalty program…they are not lazy! Oh, these two airlines are offering double points if you fly by July 7! Is it time to go to Iceland? Which is not as exotic as it used to be…lately.
I usually don’t do these but hey, it is kind of slow out there. Great flight review: Etihad A380 First Class Apartment, Abu Dhabi to Melbourne.
Adorable photos of pets struggling to understand furniture. Lol time.
10 entries from the 2017 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year contest. One day I will have an entry in there #inmydreams
The Travel Diary: Discovering Dubai’s Hidden Beauty. This is great.
We go inside an underground nuclear bunker in Japan. Wow!
My dreamcar: Ford GT Up close and personal.
How many calories are in a shot of your favorite liquor. TBB educates!
Personal finance fix of the day: The Anatomy of Market Tops. This is a must read.
BLOG BUZZ
This section is for advanced level hobbyists and veteran blog readers & personal rants & stuff
Looks like another MegaDo is coming later this year. Definitely NOT free when you add up tickets to/from beginning destination and lodging! And you get Hyatt Explorist status with a 20 night challenge for Globalist, that’s it? I am one of the few who ever managed to do this for freeeeeee, back in 2010 at MegaDO2.
Lets clear this up once and for all, there are no 100k Chase Ink Preferred offers for Small Business Week. Of course these are available if you apply at the branch through a BRG (Business Relationship Manager). Anyone know what happens and when to our beloved Ink Plus and Ink Bold cards?
Lets get something straight. This is my hobby. For the past 20+ years or so. The sea of bloggers out there….I was reading them all since they all started. I have seen the evolution from a hobby to big time businesses for a few. And all in between. I have always done things differently and always had that outsider aura surrounding me. Aura? WTF, how did I come up with that just now! My Blogs I Like list has been dwindling. The evolution to click baity tabloid and credit card affiliate pumping fest is just unrelenting, sad! So, here is a sample from yesterday, click on the graph below. What I go through for you guys! I thought there was a niche for a blog to review blogs, so TBB was born. I don’t believe what happened next, shocking! Lol.
I’ll just make a few comments on the blogging action yesterday…Because I can. Alexa rankings and clicks be damned! I type my thoughts here on blogs. I am your blog critic. Critics take a lot of shit. But carry on. It’s like my own type of therapy. And I like it 🙂
So, View From The Wing, desperate to find anything that has click bait potential, found some incident aboard a plane and someone pulled out their phone and recorded it. Then posted it online and…here we go again. The pathetic copying just began, follow it all on the graph in reverse chronological order. I don’t give a shit about your take on the incident, ok? If you click on this crap, YOU are part of the click bait problem. Flames are shooting from my head right now #notreally. Well, he continued with more aboard incidents the rest of the day, just pure tabloid shit. If this guy is a thought leader I am the most interesting man in the world! I can’t wait to see Doctor of Credit send him more readers who obviously can benefit from such insightful reporting lol.
Another mega sucky post was the one over at The Points Guy about doing a credit card draft post. So, some staff members, in their ongoing quest to come up with ANY excuse to pump more credit cards to their readers…just sit around and just go on and on about credit cards and then bang, bang, bang here come the affiliate links, this is what they do best. Another good writer Julian has been converted to a writer writing anything to convert readers. how sad. This is what happens when people go to work for the other side. I am not sure I will invite him to my home again. Julian that is, not Brian lol.
And this troll Ingy just does not want to leave my blog, wow! Hey you guys, according to him you all suck as you have low credit scores so I better start pumping my secured credit cards. Ok, thanks for the suggestion…I mean, I am running out of WTFs, sad!
And I leave you with this…
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Felix cinco de drinko. First!
Feliz* stupid apple autocorrect!! Why don’t they want use to be bilingual.
I forgot to buy tequila at DXB to celebrate!
Going to be an expensive night at the Ritz…
Bronze baby
Hi guys, I was so busy looking at my secured credit cards and trying to find an excuse to pump them in a series of posts next week 🙂
Raining second day in a row in Ann Arbor….wish I was back in FLL with the Bryant HVAC women at their conference.
I think I have enough eclectic material to do two “3 Links I Love” best type posts over the weekend…hope I get to it. Because you know researching those secured credit cards take so long and I need to find the ones where you can all qualify as your credit scores are so low woohoo!
TBBon!
I’ll look at your secured CC links but first I need to go and get a payday loan. Then I have to walk to the welfare office, hoping they don’t detect that I just got done smoking crack. btw I’m typing this on a computer at the library as I’m obviously homeless.
Think Ingy just jumped up and screamed “Told you all this is the type of person reading this blog!”.
I recommend you apply for 7 secured credit cards…the same day! Make it today, hurryyyyy, last chance!
Typo patrol aka troll mode: BRM not BRG I don’t think the bankers have started helping with hotel best rate guarantees just yet. Maybe I should apply for that TPG editor position, can I use you as a reference?
As for Ingy’s reply to my question regarding credit scores I fail to see the logic in his response. Supporting his claim by demeaning the post of 1,2,3 or gold, silver…. but how is that any reflection of someones credit score or greater intelligence. In this same sentence, he uses four exclamation points to show us the talented author and prolific blog post writer he once used to be.
Then he goes in for the real kill, bringing up the 10 cards a month!!!! I wonder if he and whomever he includes in his 300 plus cards actively use the lower than highest offer links that his former blog provides? While I would like to give George a Sapphire preferred card click, I think the 70+5K preapproval offer from the local banker is a better offer so even George himself would say do that.
Ok enough troll food for the day, flying SW for the first time in years. Is there a secret of checking in on the app (blog post idea anyone?). My wife and I checked in within seconds one person on the app one on the laptop and we are over 35 people apart. With the app person being way ahead. I should have spent that $11
BRM vs BRG, very funny!
I am shocked you fail to see any logic in the troll’s responses here 🙂
My readers are too intelligent, Titan type blogs thrive on keeping readers ignorant. Like….getting them to apply for shitty credit cards, seven at a time when they are looking for one cash back card. That should be a felony but…
Very interesting on the SW checkin in the app vs laptop! I forgot to do it once and I paid dearly for it in a middle seat…so I just pay the $11 now. But still…35 people apart is…insane!
You were bragging about the quality of the comments. Glad to see your doctorate help you get your numbers in numerical order.
As far best links, I could care less at this point. We’ve done all our international travel and have a boatload of miles still left in the bank to fund domestic travel.
71 countries and made several $M while doing it. Sleep well at night, healthy, happy with friends and family. Financially secure, on the beach or bike riding everyday and I’ve still got a few minutes a day try to help George move from jealous and angry to happy and grateful for all the hobby has given both of us.
Ingy, you are not healthy. Even as you tell us you are healthy and happy with friends and bike riding “everyday”, you know I told you are obese and need to lose about 40 pounds.
I am your true friend for telling you this. Get off the computer and go for a jog. Your arterial plaque is building every single time you type a character on your keyboard.
Thank you so much for your concern. I actually had a stress test after a false positive several years ago and clean as a whistle. Just finished my annual exam and numbers all OK including ultra sound on all arteries. Yes a few overweight but constantly watching it. Must be getting to you if all you got is obese. I thought George suggested no personal insults. But you snowflakes just keep on trying. Your leader has you all conditioned to think like he does. Now that’s the shame.
Based on your recommendation of jogging I can see why you are only a Doctor to the stars. The real world knows its so bad for your knees at my age.
Click those TBB links now. 400 of you readers should be able to get higher than 10 approved apps per month?? Well unless your scores are too low or too young to apply.
George, I’m gonna have to start charging you for these reader pep talks!!!!!!
Not “obese”, but “morbidly obese”. It’s a medical term, not a personal insult.
Taken via a spot check exam, from a (safe) distance.
No international trips anymore? Is that because Trump now bans washed-up credit card hacks from entering the country?
YOu don’t mean George’s favorite blogger do you??? He can never take it back.
Everything Anthony Wiener 24/7
Today’s JAWDROPPING BREAKING WIENER NEWS (warning graphic photo, 21 and over only)
http://nypost.com/cover/covers-for-may-4-2017/
HOW THE F. is this guy and his wife not in jail for this?
Correction…WEINER NOT WIENER, now I feel like a big dick.
If true, this is bad.
I forgot to include in the above
(Disclaimer: This link contains non-tznius pictures.)
Taking another pass at Feedly this morning, only 98 unread…
Thoughts as I go through them:
It is amazing to me how many links I feature here end up as separate blog posts all over the blogosphere. Every freaking day. And selling credit cards with them…And no HTs back to me, ever, PHUCK!
Just a reminder that that JetBlue Plus card for 30k miles is also available here with my links. Full disclosure: It is NOT a secured card, lol.
There will not be a Tagging Miles post if there was no link back to his idol VFTW.
Bloggers continue to milk that Delta onboard incident…
We don’t give a shit about Etihad apartment requests…
I fell like going for sushi for lunch today…
LivingTheDream
Used your link for a Barclay Arrival+, TBB. Can I request a personalized rant?
Thanks.
My pleasure…a personalized rant for you (gotta be quick as I am going out to lunch)
How did you qualify for this card? This is a premium card and a high credit score is a prerequisite…which, logically, explains the awfully low response angry bloggers get who demean other blogs and can’t even get ten apps per month. In other words, why are you even reading a failing blog with such low Alexa rankings. It is so obvious to all nobody cares…only some people with obviously way too much time on their hands keep checking and commenting in such failing blogs several times a day demeaning other readers (some homeless, some addicts, see above, nothing personal Phil, just saying) and having such deep conversations as who will be first or second and who has the best bot.
You follow your leader Hemholtz….I am going to follow the sushi scent right now and enjoy my lunch.
Maybe I do pesonalized rants for each app #winning
But you gotta give me a hint to…narrow it down next time if possible 🙂
I just had an orgasmic thought….
If every troll comment was a CSP app #wow
Thanks again, enjoy the weekend!
What kind of car insurance do you get when you’re abroad (Norway) when you already have primary car rental insurance via your shiny credit card?
Is there anything you add when you use the same car to enter a new country?
Thanks
I think right at about this comment…TBB comments have surpassed the total comments in an FTG post for the month!
Here we go again claiming to be a blog critic and promoting his number of comments. SOS
“Comments. Get your comments here. Comments!”
After lunch and I have this urgent desire to yawn 😉
Dear TBB snowflake readers:
This is your leader.
I am conditioning you again to…come back tomorrow and read another blog post as I just scheduled it. I think you will enjoy it, I sure did.
Yeah, keep the personal insults down you snowflakes with such low credit scoress lol.
Anyways, the rain stopped finally.
I have the material for Sunday blog post too.
Enjoy your weekend!
P.S. “snowflakes” ROFL