The breakfast using my cert at the Radisson LAX was excellent. I must admit if all the Radissons were like this property, this chain could be mentioned in the same breath as, say, the Sheratons or the Doubletrees. Hey bloggers, can you do a blog about the BEST properties to use our gazillion Club Carlson points? Especially now that we will get even more CC points courtesy of US Bank’s (be careful with them, these bankers can be as weird as the ones at Barclays) new VISA card!
The best part of FTU is connecting with old friends and meeting in person the many people you have gotten to know online! I have been touched by all the positive feedback on my blog! I never set out to be this controversial blogger. I set out to speak my mind, do some satire, give back something positive and make a contribution to the overall good of humanity. Sometimes this may require some critique. I INVITE critique of my blog and me, it means you care! Oh oh, I am feeling this may be a longer post. I always remember my thereapist’s instructions: “George, let it all out, let it go”…Ok baby I am going to let it gooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
We hereby introduce the start of FRU (Frequently Ranting University) in 2013. Currently seeking speakers for the following sessions:
–Affiliate Network Companies: Are they Evil? Panel discussion moderated by TBB. We are presently looking for at least five bloggers who got the boot suddenly. THIS is your chance to take revenge!
–Major anti Bank Ranting Free-Form Session: You come up to the microphone and tell us why a particular bank blows. You are guaranteed a prize!
–Anti non Bank Ranting Free-Form Session: Anti Cartera, anti Wyndham, anti Spirit, super anti Ryan Air, anti Donald Trump, anti your weird neighbor, anti Kim Il Jung, etc etc etc. Gruaranteed prize winners too!
-“Angry mosquitoes” reunion session: All the participants in the now shut down infamous “Deal Killing blog” thread in FlyerTalk are cordially invited to continue their spectacular fireworks. Rick the Frugal Travel Guy is to make special appearance with a ton of Marriott $50 gift cards, we all know he can not stay away from this, it is too much fun, just admit it my friend.
–Teleconference special session: “Chris Elliott awards Ben OneMileataTime the Best Blog prize”. We see them handshake and we all burst out laughing for an hour straight. Who needs alcohol or weed when you see Chris’s face about to explode and Ben’s major grinning!
-A short list of prominent bloggers have been invited to allow themselves to be attacked brutally with a massive pie on their faces. Of course it will be all for charity! Let’s see who will be accepting our generous offer? Randy Petersen volunteered for this but come on…Would you prefer to throw a pie to Randy or Daraius?
-Frequent Miler will make a special appearance and finally reveal to the whole world THE way to get 8x on everything! It is a personal favor to me to pay me back for all the positive press and cc apps I pushed to his site as he refused to give me a commission for my share! I always put my readers first!
-The Grand Finale will be UNFORGETTABLE. This is the event you will NOT want to miss. Drumroll…A fistfight between Chris Elliott and Gary Leff. The fight of the century, it will be settled once and for all! Bets will be taken and all proceeds will go to charity! A fully staffed ambulance will be outside the premises. You won’t believe the logistics to rent an ambulance, omg!
-And you thought we are done? Come on, we start conferences that shake things up! We are all about innovation and originality. The GRAND GRAND Finale will be….Drumroll….more Drumroll…
The Identity of Points Envy will be Revealed for the first time ever! Bets will be taken before hand and all proceeds will go to Charity.
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Points Envy Ejected from FTU! Don’t worry Points Envy, screw FTU! Help us take FRU higher, to infinity and beyond!
I have a few more but will post them after I leave FTU so my personal safety can be guaranteed! I think the above is enough to let me barely escape!
LOL, amusing post TBB!!! Regarding my now closed “Deal Killing Blogs” thread on FT, if anybody (TBB readers?) wants to put some work in to get it reopened, per my request the Mod told me it would be reopened once I get together the lists of deals that have been killed by the bloggers as I alluded to in the first 3 posts of the thread. I have been busy (and out of town over Thanksgiving week), but so far I have gone through all of MMS’s posts as well as a good chunk of gleff’s posts to find out what deals they have killed. If any readers want to go thru TPG/FTG/Mommy/etc’s posts, please feel free to and PM me (on FT) with your findings and I will add them to my compilation and get the thread reopened sooner. Then everybody can air their gripes about MMS cutting security lines while flying to/from FTU at LAX by using fraudulent “elite status” cards. 😉 And you can get more good ideas for future blog posts from it as well TBB. 🙂
I think the FT moderator is being unreasonable. Then again the title was a bit unreasonable too:-) I think there are so many outlets online these days, narrowing it down to a specific blog post or specific FT thread post is just too hard! The info is getting out and we can’t do much to stop it. We can go private forums but they don’t seem to flourish or last. Many now are keeping deals to themselves or very tight circles. It’s a whole new ball game. It’s like the Wild West. You add the easy money from the credit card links and it is becoming an orgy the Romans woould be proud of! Since we like orgies here at TBB, we decided to jump in:-) Blog monetization goals are intact. Piss off all the bloggers and compel them to give TBB hush money to stop ranting against them! Nobody offered us any hush money yet but they will when nobody signs up for boring FTU anymore and they all sign up for FRU? Thanks for volunteering to moderate the “Deal Killing blogs” session, lol. Yes, I am joking!
Where is FRU proposed to be held? Cleveland, Lodi, Fargo?
TBB is currently working on booking a location. Wherever it is, we WILL have water running!
TBB, if you hold this event in Brooklyn (that’s in New York City), I promise to attend. I also promise to bring a delicious pie from one of the famous bakeries I stop at on the BRT (Brooklyn Reality Tour). George, since this is your idea, what can of pie do you like? I’m sure the FTG will let me throw the first pie (at you) in his honor!!
dhammer53
We write on Club Carlson / Radisson 😛
http://www.heelsfirsttravel.com/2012/10/11/good-time-to-top-off-radisson-points-with-50-purchasing-bonus/
@dhammer53: How about some good old pumpkin pie:-) I would love to be the recipient of such pie from my good friend FTG…it will cost him though…I am sure he can afford it;-)
@Jeanne:Ok. I have so many Club Carlson points already, I certainly do not need to buy more:-)
Why not hold FRU in FRU? Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
or HansGolden’s house
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and HansGolden’s House are in the lead now:-)