We bring you the new Silvercar fees, recommend you the best Greek islands, the new UFO ETF, visit Mount Fanjing again, how AA & Amex are going down, the “shocking” news marijuana can help humans enjoy sex more, meet the unique army guards in Athens, a new productivity hack, a new way to search for images, more amazing photography, my first flight diversion and more!
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For whatever reason this post will be shorter than others. Maybe it is following along the demise of the miles/points addict as everything is being killed and devalued all around us, sad!
Remember when Silvercar came out and it was all the rage? And then Audi bought the company. And then, you know, fees started appearing: Higher Fees Are Tarnishing Silvercar’s Reputation. One of these days I am going to do my first rental with it lol.
I am asked this question often, so here you go! The Best Greek Islands to Visit for 7 Types of Traveler.
Since we are on the Greek beat…You have seen the guards in Athens doing their thing with their traditional costumes, including white skirts and all. In this article you can find out more about them: The Men Who Would Be Statues: Inside the World of the Evzones. It is kind of a unique honor to do this…
Why did they even do a study on this? 🙂 Marijuana may improve women’s enjoyment of sex.
You probably knew you can do an advanced search in Google…but did you know you can do one searching for images too? Google Advanced Image Search.
I agree with this: The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No. I will never say no though to you clicking my links lol.
Personal finance related link: You know when we may have hit peak ETF when another comes out and its trading symbol is, please sit down, UFO…smh.
More of the most powerful Press photos of 2019 so far. Amazing!
Okay, more photos of Mount Fanjing!
And now we are entering BLOG BUZZ, a section for advanced hobbyists and veteran miles and points blog readers.
I had a short business trip over the weekend. And after years of flying I had my first diversion…The American Airlines pilot told us we were landing in Oklahoma City instead of Dallas! Apparently it all worked out okay as I picked up my rental car late and, due to the grace period, I was charged for only one day instead of two #winning. I have to admit that the diversion was a bit exciting and…terrifying as you had no idea what was in store…surrendering to mighty Nature.
Doug Parker, AA’s CEO, sure has made the airline a ghost of its former self . Next day I saw a line to rebook in DFW that was by FAR the longest I had ever seen. Update: Well, guess what? After back to back delays my flight was canceled. That rebooking line looked way longer! The AA Twitter team came through and I am rebooked the next day at 10.45 am. They would not budge of course for a hotel voucher. So it was after 1 am and the Centurion lounge opens at 5.30 am…so I found a nice bench and went for it. I think I am getting too old for this! I hope I fly out today, wish me luck!
Yeah, I used 15k British Airways Avios and $5.60 to fly roundtrip but…oh boy….this trip was painful. I probably picked one of the worst weekends to fly into Dallas, weather wise!
Talking about painful, so was my visit to the Dallas Amex Centurion Lounge. I had to talk my way out of the 3 hour before departure rule only to pound pavement to grab an open seat by the food. And the lines…oh my god. I can not wait to be done with the Platinum card #enough. Update: I am so glad I had the card in my pocket as I was first in line when it opened at 5.30 am and headed straight to the shower!
And the prize for the most ridiculous clickbait headline post since last TBB post goes to:
First-Class Passengers Shamed For Playing Barefoot Footsie Midflight – The Points Guy
I mean…I can’t shake my head much more you guys…
And I leave you with this…Attack Monday like this cool dog!
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I had better luck on a trip to Chicago. Forgot my satchel by baggage. It had my old Diamond luggage tag. Delta called, got the hotel and had it sent by messenger. Status helps.
One of the Stars of the number #1 rated and most beloved comedy TV show in Canada, CORNER GAS. You can watch all 6 seasons for free on Prime TV. Really funny, wholesome humor, unless you are offended easily by the word J…..ss, said by a cranky old man who complains about everything……rated 2 thumbs up by Siskel and Eggbert.
thanks I will give it a look
Man, there are so many cool islands in Greece! I’m a fan of Rhodes but need to explore some others, too, next time.
bluecat……was it Green Papaya Pho, you recommended?
I think you and Lucky were supposed to be on the same flight!
I know, pretty wild. He probably blew several cc conversions to buy ticket on Delta outta here!
Dude, don’t make me do a post with a new Comments Policy like my buddy Ben/Lucky ok?
#NoMoreJackasses
we have enough in washington DC!
and at CNN and MSNBC
and bloggers who scream about the Russians rigging the Election for 2 years, kicking up hate against the leader of this great Country…..fill in the blank,_____!
Please do not use the word Jackass…It demeans my blog.
If you don’t like it you can go read some other blog.
I don’t have time to be killing spam and other comments like this, come on!
so then I shall
saying the things you do about THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES demeans this blog, (censored) ______! Ungrateful for the chance you have been given to live here.
Hey, I saw this same thing in 1933, written in German!
Notice OCaaT managed to squeeze a couple of links into a simple post about a flight cancellation.
It’s ALL about the conversions for the plastic pimps
‘It’s all about conversions’ – Ingy
Certainly has turned out that way hasn’t it?
TPG UK appears to be launching next week… Raffles, if you see this, best of luck and I hope you (and GSTP, if that counts as UK?) are able to squash it like a bug.
I assume the launch of an official “TPG UK” means they’ve managed to get UK affiliate relationships of some kind, otherwise it couldn’t possibly be worth the investment they seem to be making.
I’m always amazed at the bazillions of comments on HFP posts, so I’m sure that loyal following will give it an edge. But a new entrant throwing around that BankRate money could be a definite challenge.
It will be interesting to watch…
They should have bought HFP…or maybe his price was too high 🙂
Last six comments by various handles all were by Ramsey.
WTF dude!
Come on!
Trying to get back after a mega clusterphuck with AA at DFW and trying to catch up and…I don’t have time to read these comments…at least no j—s stuff.
Did you get that too TBB? WTF does this mean, how do we comply???
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Maybe Discover had enough of TPG and got out…More banks to follow soon?
The so-called border “crisis” was manufactured by the Russian traitor tRump to feed red meat to his racist/xenophobic/bigot/prejudiced/illiterate deplorable base! Plain and simple fact!