We bring you Cape Town bv drone, visit Bishkek Kyrgyzstan and Masjid Al Haram in Mecca, get to pumping SPG cards like everyone else, laugh at hotel gyms, look at some spectacular photographs again, shake our heads in disbelief after another Trump show and more!
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Quick post as the latest update of my tax software has screwed up quite a few things around here…
Not that there is much worthy stuff going on around the blogosphere, it is just sad out there. Everyone trying to sell credit cards to newbies as more experienced hobbyists have had most of the credit cards (with their lucrative signup bonuses). I mean, how excited can you be as each promo comes around? It is always the same….trying to get you to BUY ( Limited time, hurry, highest offer possible, last chance, biggest ever, blah blah blah).
Like I said, not much going on.
Cape Town by drone. I love drones.
Stop kidding yourself: You’re not going to use the hotel gym. So…honest lol. We want to but…
There is a lot of personal finance wisdom in this post: Where I Disagree With Charlie Munger. Especially this part:
“…most investors can handle a 10% correction, people start freaking out a little once we hit the 20% level, the panic sets in at 30% losses and anything over 40% is ‘get me out no matter what I don’t even care anymore’ levels.”
Trump’s press conference, WTF was that? The nine most insane moments from Donald Trump’s reality-challenged press conference. Unbelievable, believe me. Bigly. Big league…oh how I wished I was a big league blogger 🙂
2017 Underwater Photographer of the Year Winners. So many awesome photographs to choose from…I couldn’t so go see them all.
Winners of the 2017 World Press Photo Contest. This pic below deserved to win #speechless. Take a look at the others, they are amazing, must click!
A walking tour of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Love obscure places and old Soviet architecture, so…brutal!
I guess you can call this Buzz edition the photo link edition, here is another one: Inside Masjid Al Haram in Mecca. Wow, what an experience to be there!
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Warning: Freddie’s awards season. When loyalty programs email you to vote for them. Tell them to go screw themselves like they have been screwing us lately!
You know it is prime time credit card selling time when this blog comes out of retirement to SELL them again!
The funny thing is that I still get attacked for attacking the pumpers for doing the same thing I am apparently doing so much of here, seriously? Thanks for the laughs guys. Here is some truth: Based on what I paid for the San Diego TBB reader meetup in San Diego and paying Nikos for the Kazakhstan trip reports I am way in the hole this month. Thank God for the Chase Sapphire Reserve promo last month…but lets get serious, this blogging gig is not making me rich. I think it may be preventing me to get rich woohoo! Ok, I just feel better now, thanks for letting me rant #catharsis
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George, remember that the post I had by Daraius’s cousin Cyrus where I linked to ridiculously expensive stuff on Amazon? I made like $8 in Amazon referrals from that post, which brought my total 2016 Amazon referral income to $8.
I ‘ll try to change that next time I buy toilet paper on Amazon 🙂
Haha the hotel gym – so very true. I’m 42 years old and I can count on one hand the times I’ve actually done it!
Would the term “fake news” apply to many of the pumping blogger posts – especially the ones hawking an inferior offer to what’s available elsewhere?? 🙂
That assassination photo always looked to me like something out of a movie poster – surreal.
I work out at home. I go on vacation to do things I dont do with my normal routine. I can workout in a nondescript room at home anytime. Presumably I am somewhere different/awesome and dont want to waste an hr in the gym on the trip
I try to exercise at least daily. But, oh man, when I go on vacation and conferences…it is sooooooo hard, so easy to say “phuck it” and indulge 🙂
Buzz, checking in to the Prado Suite momentarily here at the Del Mar Fairmont. Hope you did not Jizz this place up, is it ok to sit on the couch? …….. just got a low 5 figure offer for my Ivanka2024 domain name, this is one investment I think that is going to allow me to stay at Fairmonts on my own dime, cha ching!!! Go Trump Go, absolute joy for 112 minutes watching that press conference. Seeing how the press spun it today was a joke! But what do expect from a networks like CNN, who hires a scum bag, shake down artist like Al Sharpton (for you young boys and girls out there, google this f’s past).
almost forgot, please leave hypocritical (free speech ) hateful responses below, I will be to busy golfing to read them.
correction…too bus
Enjoy the Fairmont, it is an awesome property.
How can you or anyone like the total freakshow of a press conferences is just beyond me. But then again, I never understood why some people like to listen to Drake or eat durian…
That guy could be the star of the Jerry Springer show.
Durian is and Drake are both amazing
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Durian and Drake are both amazing*
My wife likes Durian too and I told her if she eats it while I am present in a 50 mile radius it is prime time Divorce time…and I am not kidding.
First time I went near that shit I thought there was a dog corpse nearby #nightmares
Drake puts me to sleep faster than a Frugal Travel Guy credit card sales post 🙂
George yesterday’s news conference was awesome to many of us, but saying that publicly will get you shout down. I understand your side, you were not born here, perhaps you know people here that came here illegally. But the forced to be silent majority do not agree with you, sorry. Jizzy out, this time forever.
Not sure about the “silent majority” part…but, if true, it is very sad.
this going to be 8 GREAT YEARS, maybe 16, Ivanka2024!
We’ll see when you change your tune…
why didn’t you post a link for the entire new conference….stop spreading fake/edited crap
I do not want to hurt my readers or have them commit harm to themselves after attempting to sit through that beyond embarrassing lunatic performance! I had more links to share, that one was just…purfect 🙂
George if this does not get your Alexa rating up, I give up. there were 5 comments when I got here.
thank you.
Still no SPG clicks today…Forgot to say something today, I am a moron. Phew, DansDeals will not hammer me today for pumping LOL
Sorry the San Diego meetup put you in the hole, but I sure enjoyed those tacos!
Lol….Oh yea those tacos were excellent! And I know a thing or two about tacos 🙂
I really enjoyed it and I am glad I picked up the tab. And as I did for the party at my house for the Ann Arbor Art Fair DO and Brooklyn Reality Tour last year! I need to find a way to launder my blog profits you know lol. Best way was paying for my trip to Iran and deducting it, hell yeah!
I was just ranting a bit last night…not sure why but clicks fell off the edge of a cliff come February, wow. From Best to Worst….I keep it interesting…like Trump lol.
I was a quiet but huge trump supporter pre-election (mainly because sick of the system and thought any change would be good)
But the guy has absolutely lost his marbles and then some. Anyone rational can and should see that.
Though I’d still prefer trump over hillz, I’d take bernnn over trump even though his fiscal and economic policy is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum
There is no doubt many felt like we could use a non politician in there just to shock the system a bit. I even felt that this could end up beneficial, maybe change the way things were done for so long.
But this guy is just so flawed. So flawed is beyond shocking. I can’t believe this dude is the US President, what have we done!
Hillary sure did not excite voters but imho still preferring Trump over Hillary is absurd. Lets see how you and Jizzy feel a little more into this “fine tuned machine”<——-WTF!
But there are positives: It is not boring, SNL rocks again and I can tell my 14 yr old daughter with a straight face "If he can become President, so can you!"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/world/europe/greece-bailout-black-market.html?_r=0
It’s an unfolding tragedy…
These leftist guys are the biggest morons. Not that the previous guys were not. But THESE guys are in a league of their own.
I have written about it a few times here…Most have no idea the unique clusterphuck Greece is.
#whereisthebottom
So many Greeks are corrupt and selfish to the core. No wonder it’s at the top of the EU corruption list. It’s a morally failed state. If Scandinavians can pay a sh!tload in taxes so can Greeks. ” I’ll use the system but I won’t pay into it.” They need to put these freeloaders in jail. Why are there few tax dodgers in Scandinavia? Because the tax man is creative and has tremendous power. They can go after any asset. Just suck the money from their bank accounts or take their stocks or property.
This sentence is BS
“The heart of the matter for an ever-rising number of citizens and businesses is that they simply do not have the financial resources anymore to meet their rising tax obligations”
ABC,
If only was that simple. I have written here a couple of posts about what Greece is about. It is not easy to grasp and impossible for non Greeks. Normal rules do not apply. It is not only a morally failed state, it is a FAILED state Period!
I posted a picture some time ago of the Minister of Health giving a speech in his Ministry headquarters while smoking when there is a law in the books making that illegal. Try to put your head around that. Everyone bitches about people not obeying laws when they apply at them, they go on protesting violently…
Dont get me started…
The society and the people must change. Leaders must show the way. It is not happening. It is getting worse. I fear for the mother country and my mother whose pension has now been cut by a third and her taxes tripled. Imagine this happening here…or maybe not.
The last sentence is, sadly, true. I NEVER saw a homeless person on Greece growing up there, now they are everywhere…Yes, MANY can not pay…