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I have never flown Frontier Airlines. This is a guide on what to expect.
Hmm, interesting post: The oldest attraction you can visit in each state.
I think this is going to be more popular going forward: The new travel luxury is going offline—and you’ll even be rewarded for it. Shocked to see this hotel chain mentioned in this excerpt:
Upscale hotel and resort chain Wyndham Grand is offering discounts at some of its properties to guests who are willing to lock away their phones as part of their “Reconnected” experience, aimed at families who are traveling together. Wyndham’s (rather sad) research found that 54% of kids think their parents check their phones too often, while 32% feel unimportant when their parents are on their phones. Wyndham’s “resident reconnecter” Noelle Nicolai explains that the initiative was, at least in part, inspired by hotel general managers who reported seeing so many parents distracted by their phones pool-side or at the restaurant.
This is kind of fun: How every country in the world responds to a sneeze. Bless you TBB readers!
I really like ramen. How to eat ramen.
This is a great article. Can’t wait for spring to ride my bike, my new hobby I guess. How exercise in old age prevents the immune system from declining.
We don’t see many trip reports from Eritrea: Architecture in Asmara, Eritrea.
Interesting infographic: How pilots use the seatbelt sign to send secret messages to the crew.
This is very sad. ‘Europe Does Not See Us As Human’: Stranded Refugees Struggle In Greece. Many Greeks feel the same way about what is going on just like this couple below.
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The best Chase cards that ARE subject to 5/24. The comments also contain good information.
A trip report by Dan of DansDeals: The Final United 747 Flight.
Anyone seen Shaun from Miles to Memories? Sold out perhaps? To Mark!
I had a productive weekend #taxstuff.
And I leave you with this…No conversions again? Going to my basement!
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Gold!
Boom… miss those upper deck flights…
Feeling golden Mr. Nice? You should.
My new morning hangout is a McDonalds! Warm inside, decent fresh coffee, $1.06 for large with free refills, kick ass wifi!
TBB you have crossed over one of the two “old person” milestones: sitting in McDs for hours and openly singing its praises. Next up, or are you already there, trying to force feed your kids guest sandwiches. I get why olds love McDs, but still can’t wrap my head fully around the sandwich thing. My best theory is a combination of laziness and the overwhelming desire to take care of others.
MTM seems to have suffered the worst of all the BA blogs that followed what you have to assume was a platform-wide mandate to add writers to keep content flowing. To Shawn’s credit writing and personal content creation is probably a lot easier than managing a team of hodgepodged writers and content creators. Perhaps he is just going full-time reseller or something.
The deal dude used to be the exclamation point king, he never went for less than 3 but now it seems like everyone just has to use at least 1 per headline.
My wife’s grandfather was such a regular at his local McDonald’s back in the day they gave him a ceramic McD’s coffee mug and just kept it there for him waiting each morning.
I actually have some McDonald’s news: they’re test marketing the use of fresh (as opposed to frozen) beef on their quarter pounder in Charlotte and a few other markets. I tried it last week and I was pleasantly surprised. You bite into it expecting the usual McDonald’s taste but get something better.
Anybody else here ever have pneumonia? I’ve had it for about a month now, and while the worst is behind me it apparently takes a long time for it to totally go away. 0/10, do not recommend.
What’s the usual McDonald taste? Salt and grease?
I have not eaten anything at McD’s in many years. It was time to find another hangout because:
Local Starbucks is just phucking freezing. I tolerated it for a while but last month I was next to a fireplace and I was still freezing! Found a barista working in another store who told me “we missed you”. I told him “I am freezing in there”. And he says “Yeah, I moved here because I was freezing too” lol.
At Panera nobody gives a shit anymore to brew fresh coffee.
Whats the logic behind hanging out at a Panera or McD’s or Starbucks?
Part of my morning routine…escaping from my freezing basement!
Claiming Silver on Monday!
When I get bought out by TPG I will pay back all the medal winners…
excluding the bots 🙂
You already paid me back with that TG amenity kit! I owe YOU! Panera or McDs gift card?
No worries. Just get your mother in law to use my links. Because, you know, the mother in law rule and all that 🙂
Interesting about the oldest sites in each state. I live maybe 45 minutes from Serpent Mound in Ohio and have never been even though I’m interested in that sort of thing! Rainbow Row is cool – Charleston SC is one of my favorite US cities.
Always been fascinated with the ancient pueblo and the mound builder cultures. I think there was so much more to the people that lived in the Americas long ago than what we’ll ever probably realize.
Do some blogs get paid by the exclamation point?
Ryan wrote “I think there was so much more…”
Read the book 1491 for some insight into just how much more there was. I read it a couple years back and it is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. The sequel, 1493, is pretty good, too.
For Michigan, I had never heard of the place!
Thanks for the tip, I’ll check that out!
Agree 1491 is a great book.
One thing to keep in mind: there were no large domesticated animals in the Americas that could help transport heavy items. The Cahokia mounds in Illinois was predominantly built by hand.
Something happened in the late 1970s that made the average citizen fatter (independent of age).
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYFe-zlX0AAs3Xc.jpg:large
Possibly related to changes to US farm bills in the 1970s, led to a rapid increase in food production and thus an increase in food portion sizes; accelerated marketing, availability, and affordability of energy dense foods; and widespread introduction of cheap and potent sweetening agents, such as high-fructose corn syrup, which infiltrated the food system and affected the whole population simultaneously.
One picture is a thousand words right?
Wow!
Thanks, ABC, good info! My money’s on High Fructose Corn Syrup.
I can only drink sugar-sweetened soda pop, a few years ago I switched and my IBS-type symptoms went completely away….
What could ever go wrong with upwards of 200k refugees flowing into and thru a country of 10m in 2015? That seemed completely workable.
on a monthly basis
Disturbing and unacceptable at all levels
To Raffles:
Got competition buddy.
JordonCox
Fast learner #pumping
Jordon Cox? Is that a porn star?
Doubt it…but in these days of amateur porn sites…ya never know!
Ha ha! I can really see the City guys who read me going for that ….
So the oldest sites are either some mounds piled up in the stone age by native americans or some building put up by a settler in the 18th century? Sad… I’m sure your greek heart cries at such list…
If you watched “Ancient Aliens” you’d know those mounds are actually landing pads for alien spacecraft! 🙂
I always wondered, those conspiracy nuts who think the pyramids and such were “landing pads” for ancient alien spaceships…why the phuck would a species able to build an interstellar spaceship require a landing pad to begin with? Much less one made tediously of stone or earth? Seems like a rather obvious hole in their theory! lol
Maybe it was the stupid humans who wanted to build something really really high to reach the “fire gods from the sky” 🙂
Busy day! Good links too.
You missed a medal today! It will cost between 0.0 and 0.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx dollars when TPG buys me out hehe
Hey Buzz!
I found the perfect topical story! It has Greeks, Football, Guns, and Russians, must read!!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewchampion/greek-soccer-match-suspended-team-owner-gun
I was watching that game!
When you think Greek soccer can not reach a new low….they do! Actually, this is holds true of Greece as well.
Two minute explanation: Greek soccer is the joke of Europe. Most teams are owned by shady characters laundering money and involved in betting syndicates. Most teams have run of the mills foreign players as the best Greek players play abroad. The level of play is low. The attendance numbers are shockingly low. Fan (if you can call them that) violence is embarrassing. I mean, you can’t bring your little kids to a game in Greece if you care about their safety.
Back in my days in the late 70’s and 80’s we were watching great games with local players. It really meant something to play for the local pro team. These days it sadly does not. We will fill up the stadium in my hometown Larissa, standing room only, 18,000 plus fans. Nowadays, getting 8,000 to a game is considered a miracle. Some first level games in Greece feature less than 500 fans per game. Heck my local high school games can get that!
Ok, now it gets thicker. The dude caught with the gun is a Russian of Greek descent. Came out of the blue years ago and started buying stuff all over Greece. He is a Putin clown, part of Putin’s sinister plan to bring Russia back to prominence. You may have heard the dude is involved in helping elect Trump and Brexit? He is VERY friendly with the current leftist Greek government and has received favors worth MILLIONS. Lets see if the Greek state will go after him and arrest him because, even with low Greek standards, seeing someone on the soccer pitch with a gun who is not police is shocking! And he is the President of the team calling the referee “you are a dead man”. Unbelievable hey? Not in Greece, everything is possible!
In the same stadium just last week, there was another big game against this PAOK team and another Athenian team. A fan threw a cash register paper roll and hit the coach of the Athenian team in the face who got injured (probably overplayed his injuries, coaches dive too!). The game never started. Rules say, the local team gets 3 points deduced and plays the next 2 games with closed doors (no fans). Well, thanks to connections of this mother phucker, amazingly, the decision is turned back and voila, everyone goes to this game yesterday that would probably go a long way to decide this year’s champions.
It was actually a pretty good game, especially in the second half. In the 89th minute, PAOK scores but it appears it is an offsides call. VERY tough call, very close. Poor refs. The center ref points to a good goal but then the assistant referee tells him to talk. Then mayhem ensues. That is when this asshole comes in with his bodyguards, forgets he has taken off the jacket, the gun shows and the idiot threatens the ref not to overturn the goal call. Now with instant replay…it appears they decide (and I agree) that it was offsides. As a former ref, the key is to make the right call. Well, they made the right call in the end. Oh shit, mayhem. Fans on the pitch, players fighting…Athenian teams leave the pitch for their safety. TWO HOURS LATER the ref (amazingly) over turns it again and says the goal is good and wants the Athenian team back to finish the game. LOL. The Athenian team say no phucking way.
It is a sad pathetic joke.
I could go on…
I think you wrote more here than in your entire post! I should get one of them shiny medals that the ScottBot always wins.
Thanks for the background. For me the second-best aspect of your blog (keeping newbs informed is #1) is the educational value.
My #1 is: Getting Ingy out of his basement and “socialize” with the outside world 🙂
You guys need some real old stuff to look at. The last house we lived in in Chelsea, which is a totally average house for the area, is older than a large chunk of places on that list 🙂
Pffft, I grew up pumping gas at my dad’s gas station when they first found this place…
http://www.larissa-theatre.com/en/
Ok, Greeks work slow 🙂
So, Doctor of Credit just can not stop linking back to his idol View From The Wing.
And today he posts that awesome article I found about the Lottery Hackers and, wait for it, HTs to Travel With Grant.
Thanks Doc.
Anyone else who thinks that blog deserves a place in the Like list? No way!
The good doctor always works off 1 data point… I feel ya buzz it was your story out of curiosity did “Ebates Grant” HT you? Side note, since he works for Ebates shouldn’t he disclose this when he is pumping their double cash days and his referral link?
Looks like you got through to bad write Mark he went no ! points today.
Oh, I forgot to check…I was so eager to make my point on the Doc 🙂
1st world hotel problem:
Whoever decided to start putting shallow flat sinks in hotel bathrooms: Just stop!
Sinks are a solved problem. Sinks should be deep and curved. Shallow flat sinks splash water on your clothes, and leave globs of toothpaste that don’t go down the drain.
https://twitter.com/LakshmiA1/status/973579357150093312
I agree 100%!
In fact, I never considered anything BUT a normal sink for my basement!
Not posting Tuesdays and Thursdays hurts my Alexa rankings. Since I have not checked them i years maybe Ingy can confirm.
Meanwhile, looks like the phucking moron had enough of salad eating Rex…
Oh, Stormy is in Michigan. I heard it is sold out, can’t wait for the memoir books by her, Hope and Rex LOL.
Good post shaping up for tomorrrow.
I thought about getting back on TTH posting but then I looked at my links and…changed my mind. It will be a reach to hit two digits of conversions this month. Maybe when we get 3 months in a row, two to go, lets do this 🙂
Other than that….same old BS in the blogosphere. Bunch of ass kissing bloggers amid the regular crowd of slick salesmen…Yawn….