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You can try yourself to see if you get any of these as I got nothing at all. Maybe you are not that interested in the Amex promo to transfer miles to JetBlue. But you should be interested in them 10k Amex Membership Rewards points…again.
I guess there may be some award seats soon to, please sit down, Leon Mexico lol.
I have never stayed in a Mandarin Oriental hotel yet. With just 28 properties, no loyalty program and that mega lux feel to the chain, it may be a while. But wait! They are starting their own program and you can get some benefits, like free breakfast! Nothing like paying hundreds of dollars and getting breakfast for freeeeeee!
Walt Disney’s marketing job is just epic, they keep increasing their prices and people still go there in droves. If you want to save some money…Walt Disney World on Points & Miles 2018: Discounted Park Tickets.
I say screw Disney and head over to roller coaster heaven Cedar Point. Here are the 2018 changes. Steel Vengeance baby!
China now has its own Atlantis resort. With the largest open-air aquarium.
I think this is great! Seychelles is swapping its sovereign debt with a plan to protect its ocean. I wish Greece can work out something like that…
Actually, this is a good post about the best way to reduce your risk of bed bugs.
…a recent study concludes that the best way to reduce your risk of bed bugs is to keep your dirty and worn clothing off of the floor, which will supposedly prevent the spread of the vermin to other places, as bed bugs have a tendency to “hitchhike” using the belongings of people.
What a wonderful and touching story. About immigrants. About America! Searching for the Woman Who Saved My Immigrant Family from Homelessness.
I wondered what ever happened to former Australian NBA player Luc Longley. Great article about him here with some nuggets of his NBA playing days. The Long Life of Luc Longley. I remember vividly this game!
If basketball Twitter were around in 1996, the November 8 game between the Bulls and the Pistons would have set it ablaze. For a brief, miraculous instant, Luc Longley looked like the best center on the planet. He sliced and tomahawk-dunked his way to 16 first-quarter points—nearly matching his previous game high. Michael Jordan wasn’t—and here we pause for emphasis—a generous coworker. But after the quarter, he offered Longley a compliment. “I knew you had it in ya’,” Jordan said.
Everyone probably knows the song by New Order titled Blue Monday. If you don’t, look it up kids. And here is an absolutely mind blowing version of it with instruments from the 1930’s, WOW!
Everyone reads Warren Buffett’s annual letter. I think this one was very boring. He is losing a step I am telling you lol.
This is very cool and so remote that I assure you no travel expert or thought leaders ever visited it! An Abandoned BE-6 Floatplane Monument.
There are only four known BE-6 planes left in the world. One in Kiev, two in Chinese speaking lands and one is here, at the Arctic Kola peninsula. It’s in the worst condition because its placed as a monument. However if they didn’t put it on display it was probably been scraped as it stands here as a monument for fifty years already, since 1968.
Nice trip report pics: A Royal Vacation: Edinburgh, Sterling and Hadrian’s Wall!
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I have a (bad?) habit on Twitter RTing some of the Titans and then making a parody of their posts so it can be seen by some of their followers who will discover my blog which will help them in immeasurable ways…but Doctor of Credit informed me that RTing Titans only helps them because it helps their social media rankings. So I am torn. What do you think? Or should I do it like this and this?
Be careful of dangerous bullshit out there!
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Fox news has high standards…!
Yes RT of tweets only elevates the original tweet. OTOH, a tweet has a half life of what 5-10 minutes?
I am still torn on how to do that RT thingie…
I think more than likely people are laughing at you on the RT thing not with you. Sadly no one cares that they pump and its good for their bidness. So tilt against that windmill my friend but its all in your head if you think you are making a difference.
As long as I still get emails thanking me for what TBB does and stands for I will continue this crusade. I am like the Lone Gunman. It fits my personality. I…dig it 🙂
You know what’s my favorite type of email. It is this…
“Hi, I discovered the hobby with FTG…and then I am glad I found your site. You helped me realize all they were doing is trying to convert me every day. It did not take long but still. I am ashamed I helped that site. I guess I was not responsible enough and trusted that oil snake salesman and his minions”.
So, I guess you are saying to drop both RT ways. You know I won’t, I was just looking for feedback which is more effective. The 2nd one is sure more labor intensive lol.
Glad to see I can still get under your skin 😉
Thanks for the laughs Ingy.
And the conversions too, those to me are extra. And you know it.
You never even said a Thank You to me for keeping you entertained/educated/inspired for five years straight. And keeping your legacy alive. As nobody else cares anymore. You are welcome amigo.
The more I blog and learn…whenever I think how early you sold…my head starts shaking and I think it may fall off from all the shaking.
Thank you for my Alexa rankings toooooo!
I’m trying Minimum Wage to keep your numbers up above 10 per month. You know that to be true. It is such an insignificant amount in relation to all the others with links they don’t even feel your presence.
You also know (but won’t say anything about it as is counters your BS message) that I’m only here to give you back what you so freely and venomously say about others. I’m of another generation. One that believed that
“if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”
As hard as it is to keep on you, I will, until you change your tune. You certainly can be critical of some of the practices, but don’t need to be such an asshole in the process. I’m just making sure you know how it feels.
As far as legacy, who gives a shit. It been 6 years, and I barely even follow the blogs other than for new sign up bonuses and to laugh at your antics.
Your story is stale MW. I’m very happy with my departure time, the circumstances and the return I got on the time invested.
I hope someday you can say the same.
But damn” You’re the lowest paid travel blogger in the space. Minimum Wage seems the best moniker for your efforts.
Peace, Love, Whine, Copy and Paste
I don’t remember seeing many TED talks here, but this one might interest you.
https://www.ted.com/talks/keith_chen_could_your_language_affect_your_ability_to_save_money?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
Looks interesting, I bookmarked it and will get to it…eventually, thanks. But not before I pump more secured credit cards lol.
Terrific piece on Luc Longley. Good to see where Steve Kerr came from.
Yeah, that was great to read…I remember those days…when the Detroit Pistons had real talented teams #goodolddays
That Wandering Armenian guy is such an ass! You should have a list of asshole bloggers and he should be at the top!
Why are you so easy on the Forward Cabin guy? He is the one who blatantly plagiarized Personal Finance Digest and the Randy team gave him a promotion to run FTUs (which now cost an absurd $249 per head before discounts). Now he is onto a scam pissing off the Hyatt execs. Ingy would probably applaud his move to make money off irrresponsible people who happen to trust what this “expert” says
Your buddy Doctor of Credit probably sleeps with a photo of Gary Leff over his bed. He is so addicted to linking to him as Ingy is addicted to your blog!
That abandoned plane is amazing, never seen or heard of it before. Are you connected to that Russian site? 😉
Great content today, thank you.
And another basement dweller steps forward. It is amazing the number of followers that have self identified based on the title given them by an old, has been, washed up, nobody blogger that sold way too soon for a pocket full of cash.
Such easily manipulated fish George. You have to start pumping those secured cards more often!!!!
Have a Great Day B Boys You guys sure are fun.
And she is still not your President
Rick-
You have nothing to be ashamed of because you did your best.
Agreed. Five years total was plenty for me. And with young tech savvy bucks like Brian and daraius on the way up, I was thrilled to step aside.
All George’s “way too early” comments are absolutely meaningless. But he needs something to be angry about or angry at so I just yawn and move on.
That’s so true. Young guys, new blood, time to head for the exit.
Buzz is just saying you left too soon because of the millions of dollars you’d have made by not selling. But you said it yourself: There’s more to life than money.
Wasn’t FTG the first blog to do ‘travel challenges’? The TBB research team was going through some of those old posts-very interesting.
I honestly don’t remember. I remember Sunday reader success stories but keep in mind I’m old, not very smart, and, ask George what else I am or are not
Welcome Basement Supervisor —-> Love the handle!
>>>>>>>>>Buzz is just saying you left too soon because of the millions of dollars you’d have made by not selling.
Bingo. Exactly what I am saying. It is so SAD indeed.
>>>>>>>Wasn’t FTG the first blog to do ‘travel challenges’?
YES! I forgot about them because they were soooo atrocious. I swear the first question to answer in each “challenge” was this one:
-Which credit card we can sell today to make us more money?
There were some dooozies. BS self-serving crap fed to moron irresponsible readers intentionally kept in the dark. I just need to get a bucket to barf again…
Ingy yesterday:
“Because for some, it really isn’t all about the money.”
Ingy today:
“…pimping, pumping, and copying and pasting to bunch of basement boys for minimum wage. And now down to only four days per week because it’s just not worth the seven day effort.”
LOL, thanks for the entertainment Ingy!
You will say absolutely anything to look good won’t you George?
Quote one was my position. Your added quote is what you do.
The world can see George. You are a punk
https://twitter.com/FlyerTalkerinA2/status/968962281777324032
Let me get back to pimping my secured cards to my basement clown readers who do not have a high credit score and do not want to support me…
Thanks for staying true to the blog mission Ingy.
The only other reasons I can think of why they don’t support you are:
1. You don’t provide valuable content (it’s all copy and paste)
2. They don’t trust you like they do other bloggers. Maybe because they can see you’ll say or do anything to make yourself look good. But in any event, you are still a minimum wage blogger
To all:
For Ingy, it is ALWAYS about DA MONEY!
And he left millions on the table for selling out FIRST.
Sad!
Seth is a force for good, calling out bull where he finds it – often from his fellow BA writers.
Team Randy is not what it was. Health and personal issues have caused major issues there. What looks like one entity is a lot of separate ventures each with its own shareholders. I would expect Ben, Gary and Greg to jointly buy BA at some point.
@ Raffles: Force for good? Lol. Calling out BS without actually naming names and instead leading readers to waste their times to figure out who is he referring to…Not sure that would be deemed as a force for good. But we are all different.
BasementPatrol makes some good points on that cabin dude imho.
@ Ingy: Yawn. Thanks for reading and commenting every day. You could have been phoning it in still and doing thousands of conversions but you sold too early because…lets face it, you are not that smart
@BasementPatrol: Wandering Armenian’s writing bores me to death. Too dry I don’t need a dryer. If that list ever happens…I wonder where I should place Ingy 🙂
Good points on the Forward Cabin. I am not going to provide free publicity for this guy. I don’t think people get the consequences of their actions in this era of “let’s get rich online” and I think it is sad.
No comment on DoC, you know where I stand. Deleting his blog from the TBB Blogs to Like was one of the easiest decisions ever made here.
Gotta run!
Yawn is right!
“…..you are not to smart”
Says the guy pimping, pumping, and copying and pasting to bunch of basement boys for minimum wage. And now down to only four days per week because it’s just not worth the seven day effort. Yea George. You nailed that one.
I love how “you are not that smart” got mysteriously changed to “you are not to (sic) smart”!
Comedy gold!
Love this.
Great catch bluecat
Ingy accused me yesterday (or was it two days ago? Can’t tell…he never leaves his favorite hangout online!) that I can’t quote…
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha
WA/Seth is one of the smartest but he can be a real a-hole sometimes! And blogging isn’t one of those professions where you can be the best and treat people like crap.
And the blogger he called out is The Forward Cabin for those of you wondering. I don’t think his idea is terrible. He and his clients are probably stupid but that doesn’t make the idea stupid too. I just used a Marriott cert on a friend (made him primary, not secondary). People do it everyday. Granted it is probably fraud but since when has that stopped anyone?
https://www.patreon.com/theforwardcabin
Agreed on the first paragraph 🙂
>>>>>>I just used a Marriott cert on a friend (made him primary, not secondary). People do it everyday. Granted it is probably fraud but since when has that stopped anyone?
Exactly 🙁
I don’t get your dislike. The discussion here seems to be about this post:
https://blog.wandr.me/2018/02/loyalty-scam-uninformed/
I’m far from a newbie, and it took me a couple read-throughs to figure out what scam WA was talking about, and I don’t know or care which blogger he’s referring to. I really hadn’t run across that hotel loyalty scam WA was talking about, and it’s one I can now recognize if I see a website offering something like that.
In general, I like the WA blog because I like the destinations he talks about, and his focus on
UNESCO places matches up with my interests. But, to each his own, I guess.
I knew what the scam was about, that was not MY point. Pretty common if you ask me. So what, another “expert” trying to make money of his “expertise” online. This happens EVERY FREAKING DAY in this space! So, if you are going to call a practice out spell it all out and respect your readers’ time and don’t lead them to go googling and patreoning searching. We all have limited time, there are far more worthy blogs to pay attention to these days. This dude likes to call out Boarding Area led initiatives out but still hosts his blog there.
If you like UNESCO focused places you should be reading Rapid Travel Chai.
At the end of the day, please support blogs you like. We disagree on this blog. Okay, no big deal. I am sure some think my blog sucks. Like Ingy. But he doesn’t leave 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
P.S. I know how to search and cut and paste, etc. I entered the phrase in the proper places and nothing came up. I was not the only one. He wasted my time. Maybe it is a browser thingie? Or whatever. Not worth wasting more time on this. Lets all move on.
Okay, George, the Blue Monday song was great! Please add a song to every post and I will make sure I am back each day!
I also like the question about the retweeting thing, especially savoring the irony of DoC being the person to tell you not to not help the Titans. I’ll bet he enjoyed telling you that, as he gets a lot of similar advice from you. 🙂
Anyway, got to go to the gym with New Order song (the original versions) to pump me up!!!
I have been thinking to add links to a song or two I like in each blog post. But I am afraid I may scare some readers off 🙂
Yeah, pretty ironic DoC pointed that out to me, isn’t it?
Sad day. Lost my Banana Republic Luxe status.
Noooooooooooo!
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Will get to the comments later, busy day. Including being the unpaid Uber driver for 5 fifteen year old girls today (half day of school).
Guys, HEADS UP! Breaking:
Rude Exchange Over Carry-On Bag – But Who Was Rude? – Live and Let’s Fly
This guy…
Trump will get the best people
LOL
https://qz.com/1218095/ben-carson-spent-31000-on-dining-set-at-hud-thats-more-than-some-hud-support-recipients-make-in-a-year/
I got it! Form a small band
“Minimum Wage and the Basement Boys”
Anyone remember Steve Van Zandt? Sure you do-Silvio on the Sopranos.
He met Bruce Springsteen when they were both 16 years old, and Van Zandt went on to produce Springsteen’s albums from 1975 to 1980, as well as play guitar in the E Street Band. In 1981, while reportedly earning $600 a week with Bruce, Van Zandt quit.
Way too early-The band’s next album was ‘Born in the USA’. The album sold 30 million copies, the band played sold out stadium shows and at the end of the tour, Springsteen reportedly gave each band member a $1 million bonus. Way too early.
So Van Zandt went online and started trolling other bands’ websites and bragging about what a big shot he was.
No he didn’t. He toured and recorded with his own band, co-starred in the Sopranos for 8 years, set-up a syndicated radio show and sold it to over 100 radio stations. He also set-up his own record label and signed dozens of bands. Plus he created one channel on Sirius satellite radio and curates another.
Oh, and he rejoined the E St Band in 1999 when it reformed and has gone on to play hundreds of concerts all over the world.
Seems it’s one thing to quit early. And another to just pack it in.
“Some guys they just give up livin’,
And start dying little by little, piece by piece.
Some guys come home from work and wash-up
And go racing in the street.”
Great lesson on Steve Van Zandt. Respect!
at least DOC admits it now. his RT BS has always been self serving. he sees it as good for him instead of bad for readers he sends to pimp bloggers.
If I did what normal bloggers do my Alexa and conversions will be way better 🙂
Can someone intervene for Ingy? He makes no sense. I am serious!
Ingy yesterday: “Because for some, it really isn’t all about the money.”
Ingy today: ‘I’m trying Minimum Wage to keep your numbers up above 10 per month. You know that to be true. It is such an insignificant amount in relation to all the others with links they don’t even feel your presence.”
The contradiction in the two statements is evident. Apparently, it only applies to him and not George!
Ingy says: “I’m of another generation. One that believed that “if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all””
And then he proceeds with vitriol like no other. If this is not a sign of a mega asshole I don’t know what is. Shocking really! An elder statesman…is sure not!
One of his assholish gems: “But damn” You’re the lowest paid travel blogger in the space. Minimum Wage seems the best moniker for your efforts.”
Do not forget that for ‘some isn’t about the money’. What a joke! No wonder he feels leaving a legacy is shit. I think he nailed something right on finally. He sure did not nail that sell out date, so embarrassing to sell out FIRST when more bozo bloggers are STILL coming into this space STILL SIX YEARS LATER!!!!!
Thanks to reader Sam about the great educational lessons on people who sold too early. It worked out well for Steve. Some spend their time doing something useful with their time and other spend it trolling blogs they despise every day. Today Ingy made NINE comments here. NINE!!! His own blog would take weeks to get NINE comments! This is not normal.
I must admit it is entertaining though…and I bet great for George’s Alexa rankings haha.
I think George should just do a blog post tomorrow saying “Hi” and let Ingy scream in the comments. You know, because, you know…if you can’t say anything nice anywhere else, come and spew it at TBB and make yourself look an old mean clown!
Question for TBB: Will the Detroit Pistons make the playoffs? Do a contest to guess Stan’s firing date 😉 Or make it a “travel challenge” 😉
I’m guessing Alzheimer’s is setting in with Ingy. Not sure how else to explain the inconsistencies – he can’t be that obtuse can he?
I am not sure he is seeing/noticing them.
Same with Trump 🙂
As Ryan below has indicated, not sure there is any hope this guy will comprehend how bad he looks. Amazing.
I stopped counting how many comments he made. The day is not over yet, he may top Nine lol.
Ingy is my entertainment. I am probably pissing off and may be losing some readers. And, never forget, conversions. So what? I laugh with every comment he makes. It is like caffeine or something. He won’t leave. And I don’t want him to because who knows (only himself lol) where my Alexa rankings will be then 🙂
Breaking:
WATCH: Man Strips Down and Battles Ground Crew on the Tarmac in Charlotte – View From that Sad Wing
#barf
Buzz-
Ingy’s having trouble remembering some of FTG’s travel challenges.
How about I have Carol over in TBB Archives hit the Wayback Machine and see what pops out?
Carol is a valued TBB team member.
Never phones it in either 🙂
Yes!
I just scheduled a post tomorrow…
Started small and then, you know, did not want to phone it in as some other former bloggers used to do to make money. I DO give a shit about legacy 🙂