We learn about Hyatt Centric, Explore Norway, visit Ericeira Portugal the surf Mecca, pass to you the best read on Greece lately and lots more!
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It was a travel day for me. Back again on a Delta plane, two actually. Detroit to Los Angeles and then to San Diego. Very uneventful flights, Delta does a good job in the air as we all know. Highlight of the flight to LA was an FA pimping a Delta Amex card HARD earning 30k Skymiles.,..oh boy!
I don’t know about you but sitting across the aisle from another passenger wearing a surgical mask freaks me out…
I managed to get through all the blog posts. Only to realize how boring this hobby has become. Or perhaps all the good stuff has moved underground…
I mean when the news of the day is some Hyatt initiative about being Centric or something. Anyways, a good read is the one by Travel Codex on this topic.
Exploring Norway With a Wildlife Photographer – The Adventure Blog The natural beauty of Norway is breath taking. And so ridiculously expensive too!
Ericeira: Portugal’s Surf Mecca – Matador Network Looks very nice.
I like to avoid politics and religion in my personal Facebook page. You can debate this stuff to oblivion and since I have family and many in Greece as friends I really do not need the aggravation, I am aggravated enough going over Titanic blog posts! Anyways, I like to blast things on Twitter, it fits my personality more. Anyways, here is my point. If you are interested on the country of Greece and what is going on there and how we are not dealing with a normal country here, PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE. That’s all you need to know. The end…
is coming.
I found it totally hilarious that Million Miles Secrets finally discovered Hotel Hustle…How come these Titan experts find this stuff so late and we total dweebs here at TBB bring it to you eons ago? Don’t answer it 🙂 Actually, this tool showed so much promise but it now has gotten so enhanced, so much color everywhere, so many secondary features, so many ads…eeeek! So I went back to AwardMapper, works for me.
Holy linguini! Pumping bloggers made the Korean Air Chase Ultimate Rewards a ridiculous blog post barrage. It is not there, it is coming back sometime, it is definitely coming, it is still not back yet but sources say it may be back, sources say it is definitely coming back, it is coming back we are just waiting for the date, we may have a date hang in there. Do you think we will have so many posts about this crap if it wasn’t for the good old Chase Ink cards to sell? If you say you probably do not belong here, I feel so so sad for you. Anyways, in the latest installments of this ongoing saga (equivalent to the ridiculous proportions of the macadamia nut incident!), The Points Guy pushed the Ink card links in the 3rd line of the post. Shaking my head…
Mommy Points continues to pump like no other mommy blogger. I mean, are we really even trying anymore to pretend this is all about stacking anymore? Pleeeeease.
Why is Milevalue always looking for a new award booker? Is it the growth or…cough.
Delta Points can only do a pump post about Uber and could not hold back from inserting an Amex SPG link too. Hmm, I wonder which one pays better?
Suckers are born every minute as they say. Actually I should know that in my financial services industry that is full of charlatans.
10 Things Not Enough Kids Know Before Going To College – Vox Fantastic read, I passed it on to son.
Posts, if they appear, will be short or non existent the rest of the week. I do not prepare posts as drafts or have staff and interns and guest writers pumping content. It’s one and done. Me. Spontaneous. Self-expression. BOOM!
Here is me at the conference!
Okay, one more. Don’t ever forget this blog is primarily about entertainment!
Hey, this looks like my gym!
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I AM FOURTH, BUT CHASE CREDIT CARDS ARE FIRST IN YOUR HEART.
Today I popped my cherry with my first TBB credit card app (instant approval churning the Barclaycard Arrival Plus™ World Elite MasterCard®). I used to support a blogger who now yaps frequently about a red card. The latest needless post about his card on Monday was the last straw.
I’m guilty of also having supported FM. My mind is now much clearer.
I was shocked to find out how limited his MS activity was. Why constantly masturbate about point/cent values? Clearly sitting on his laurels now.
Regarding wanking, two good tweets today (safe for work)
by God @TheTweetOfGod
-You can’t hold hands with god when you’re masturbating
“Wrong! That’s why I gave you two hands.”
https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/560417929708044289
“Analyst question about battery life on the iWatch: “It charges with wrist motion so it’ll depend on the person. You’re probably fine.”
https://twitter.com/ReformedBroker/status/560205440450297858
HikerT: Thank you very much. But I would love to take clicks away from the Blogs in the Ignore list first and foremost.
ABC: LOVED those two tweets from @TheTweetOfGod which is totally hilarious, my kind of account to follow!
Met a colleague here who told me his wife is big into miles…and then the zinger “She reads Mommy Points”…I almost blew the coffee I was drinking at his face. That was so painful!
That Extra Pack of Peanuts guy has a post on Redbird…yikes!
Frequent Miler officially jumped the shark when he hired an employee. His posts now look suspiciously like he’s cut and pasted MMS or TPG material…all that’s missing from his latest posts (that have a few dozen cards mentioned) are the hyperlinks under each. Wonder how long before the hyperlinks show up en masse?
I wouldn’t have him on the Blogs I Like list. Heck, he’s far worse than the run of the mill CC pimps like MV and TPG because his blog outs means and methods to the lazy and ignorant, which is ruining the hobby at an ever-faster pace.
And it is indeed sad for a guy who’s entire claim to fame in blogdom is that he’s a MS King. But he confesses he’s really a lazy piker and that his main MS method is REDcard? That’s pathetic. Marathon Man does more in a few weeks than FM does in a year…and yet FM is the “expert”. Roll eyes.
But hey, if you want to learn how to exploit 1-800 Flowers, FM’s your guy…
Gotta love the pimp guy coming out this morning with how great Avios are from Miami, then 2 hours later when the devaluation news hits, linkbait to: “Since you have nearly 3 months to book flights at the old prices, now would be a great time to get the British Airways Visa”
Probably still better than PM&M copying and pasting the cc marketing copy as is…
Back to learning…
George, you did recently ask your readers to suggest pruning your like list. This is my suggestion. Please exclude all sites that write about ways to MSing, excluding reselling and those that mention them subtly. They are in a way culprits for the declining MS avenues. Writing user guides on grocery stores to buy GCs – WTF? Today a popular grocery store that i was using to buy GCs freely, said cash only. They have 100s of GCs in stock but cash only. I see it becoming the next 2+1 letter drug store in the making. At this going rate, God save MSing and MSers and the art of MSing. Hinting grocery stores should be sufficient. Writing user guides are for kids. Let adults figure out where the $&@) needs to be inserted. There is no need to tell them where to find them and insert them. Sorry for being unparliamentary but i get a feeling that at some stage the great art of MSing would simply die or as you rightly said will be totally underground due to these irresponsible bloggers.