We bring you the best Southeast Asia IHG hotels, discover for you an awesome Hajj trip report, get you more free Virgin America points, a great resource of all the card linked reward programs, look inside a North Korean passport, visit some awesome cities, wonder why rich keep working, bring you a beautiful rant against Wells Fargo and we are buzzing it up big time…not like we ever stopped, ole!
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Complete List of Card-Linked Reward Programs. What a great list!
The 6 Best IHG Rewards Hotels in Southeast Asia For Your Points. Not sure these are the best as all lists are subjective. While these are great suggestions make sure you compare how much you pay vs points!
Another free 500 Virgin America points.
The 26 most crime-free, financially equal, and healthy cities in the world. The cities you see here will shock you! 🙂
The weirdest superstitions from around the world. Order goat kebab in Kigali!
Inside a North Korean passport. Fascinating, one of world’s rarest travel documents.
The Free-Time Paradox in America. Fascinating article that attempts to answer this: The rich were meant to have the most leisure time. The working poor were meant to have the least. The opposite is happening. Why? Excerpts that make you go WTF or just THINK!
So, what are are these young, non-working men doing with their time? Three quarters of their additional leisure time is spent with video games…
…60 years later, it seems more true to say that it is not leisure that defines the lives of so many rich Americans. It is work.
The answers, according to the author are: 1. The availability of attractive work for poor men (especially black men) is falling, as the availability of cheap entertainment is rising. 2. Social forces cultivate a conspicuous industriousness (even workaholism) among affluent college graduates. 3. Leisure is getting “leaky.”
Best potato chips ever! But you can not eat them. Unless you are in jail #sosad If I was a pumping blogger I would assault you just about now with my credit card links saying something stupid and sneaky to distract you…
Your personal finance post of the day: The Only Vice That Cannot Be Forgiven. A beautiful vicious rant against Wells Fargo #respect Yeah, I am still angry about these assholes!
Awesome trip report in FlyerTalk: Hajj, A Journey of a Lifetime: An Insiders Look
This library is just awesome…
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If you know stuff that can adhere to the mission of the blog (see top of post, sorry no red arrow, never learned how to do those!) please let me know. Keep this section buzzzzzzing, Rick I/Ingy totally hates it #sweeeet.
And we are back in its own little corner…because…I just felt like it. This is a blog as you go along, no rhyme, no reason, whatever comes to my head, things that interest me…apparently it has become clearly obvious that several Boarding Area bloggers are really interested in credit card sales commissions!
Must read: “seriously – oyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.” Seriously…
As I said many times, I value my readers’ time. I did not write about this “deal” because I was certain it would end this way…Hotel Deal Dead: 2nd Night Free Offer at Waldrof, Conrad and Curio.
A short history of the DansDealSeminars. And how Million Mile Secrets just had to blog about something that probably generated a lot of revenue for his business ^%*%$. And this comment by reader Yitz intact:
The fact that MMS wrote about it should be an alert. That person has never written anything original. Ever. That stuff was stolen straight from the DDS, after promising specifically not to, and without a word of credit being given to the source. Dubash is among the filthiest in the business.
Hey, I am not angry, I am the Travel BLOGGER BUZZ…get it?
I mean, I could go on and on. Like how One Mile Credit Card at a Time was ripped in the comments for posting the “awesome” 50k of offer for that Amex card when so many better offers (not paying commission to him!) are floating around.
Is it just me or is the amount of credit card shilling getting out of control lately? I mean, I wrote my famous pumpization of the hobby post back in June 2014 and now look around you, so many pumping the same credit cards. Day in. Day out. Non-stop. It is mind blowing!
I sound like a broken record…Phuck it! Enjoy the weekend!
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No love for the Best Western Rewards Business Credit Card from First National Bank of Omaha? You can up to 80,000 bonus points in the first year after spending only $25.
Hi medal winners!
I saw the BW card offer. Definitely higher than usual…especially from this weird bank!
To get the full 80k, it requires some ridiculous spend!
My two stays at a BW have been very bad experiences. Especially the one in Lansing was awful, oh the beer smell…yikes (Priceline stay).
Here is the direct link:
https://www.firstbankcard.com/bestwestern/landingpage/refresh/index-cardpage4.fhtml
The 50k Barclaycard Arrival Plus affiliate offer is out so expect some major pumping ahead, beware!
Since my dinky links are so secondary in importance…they still state 40,000 as the signing bonus BUT the 50k offer comes up when you click to apply!
So, go ahead. Choose wisely who you give the clicks to…
In the meantime, another ridiculous mainstream article by the credit card pumping diva The Points Guy Inc, wow:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-points-guy-brian-kelly-once-you-fly-first-class-you-cant-go-back-to-coach-2016-09-15
Oh yes the shilling is ramping up in full force on this one already! Not that it’s a bad card at all but it will be the card-of-the-year-of-the-week right now
One Credit Card at a Time made TWO whole blog posts about it too, smh.
Buzz,
Need some help from the community. Wife & I were shutdown by Barclays in July 2015 as they didn’t like our spending. All cards were shut down including Aviator cards.
Any chance if we can get approved now(more than a year).
I would say based on my own personal experience on getting denied by Barclay’s more times than by my wife (for oral pleasure), that there is NO CHANCE IN HELL!
Can I say Oral Pleasure here at TBB? If not please delete, Senor Buzz.
my apologies Buzz for writing ORAL PLEASURE, next time I will write Blowjob and class things up around here……………………………sorry, too much coffee today….can’t stop writing on TBB.
@smbayguy: I do not have direct experience with this. I have included your question in tomorrow’s post. I hope Ramsey is wrong but…
@Ramsey: You can say anything you want.
Ramsey-
I imagine Buzz will let you say it, but if you want it, you’re reading the wrong blog.
If you don’t mind sharing, what generally was it about the spending patterns that caused it?
Barclay’s has a long memory. For that matter, on total shutdowns, just about everybody does.
Is it my own personal HELL, or is this happening to everyone else? Every time I go to Reddit Churning, there is a banner ad on top featuring a smiling picture of Geoff from Noobtraveler wearing headsets. WTF!!! Is this my punishment for goofing on NOOBTRAVELER here at TBB?
And btw…..Why doesn’t he know how to spell Jeff?
You too?
Not only that, he is on one of my Twitter lists and I only see his cc posts…not like he EVER posts anything else. The day affiliate links go down, this dude does not make another post…
“Dubash is among the filthiest in the business.”
You only have one reputation.
I hope Darius selling his was worth it.
MMS.
I am pretty sure their divorce attorneys sure thought it was 🙂
I agree w/ your statement.
How do you divide a reputation in a marital separation agreement?
Well, when your reputation is down to “0” it’s 0/0!!
Probably laughing all the way to the bank.
So was the divorce attorney(s) LOL
lol, the irony that you posted an article about a vice that cannot be forgiven and that vice is hypocrisy. That’s too funny.