3 minutes ago, zain611 said:

Yes, going to be logging on monthly for that free reward. Not that long ago I completed the 10 daily challenges and got 1 million. Not sure what else to buy now unless I could get that 170z lookalike. 

oh, you mean the ZR380 that you can only get through arena wars?
I'm currently sitting on $196m in GTA online atm. 
I'm intrigued by them saying when it releases on PS5 it will be extended and enhanced. I wanna know what they mean by "extended". 

39 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

I don't like how my nosiness has caused a moral dilemma this evening....

Started checking MOT history on cars in our car park out of boredom...and noticed one has no MOT.  It ran out in March and the extension didn't start until March 30th right?

It's still being driven daily...  Trouble is, I can't tell him I was checking MOT history for the fun of it can I!?

I've never even spoken to him before lol.

 

You know I think I feel so much better since lockdown started apart from heartache I have. For some reason when I'm driving or just generally out and I see bad drivers it just sticks in my head for some time and start fantasising negatively about it then start getting emotionals about things which never happened. Don't know but this thing I don't really do now thank god. 

Only thing is I just need to keep myself physically busy for my mental health 

12 minutes ago, Nick Y said:

oh, you mean the ZR380 that you can only get through arena wars?
I'm currently sitting on $196m in GTA online atm. 
I'm intrigued by them saying when it releases on PS5 it will be extended and enhanced. I wanna know what they mean by "extended". 

It was the older style fairlady. 

I think likely they might try adding more updates on the PS5 version and stop on the PS4 to entice people to upgrades and make more money. Probably other stuff might be added on single player. Hopefully graphics will be better. 

Do like the new ratchet and clank and odd world soulstorm

1 minute ago, zain611 said:

It was the older style fairlady. 

I think likely they might try adding more updates on the PS5 version and stop on the PS4 to entice people to upgrades and make more money. Probably other stuff might be added on single player. Hopefully graphics will be better. 

Do like the new ratchet and clank and odd world soulstorm

Oh, the Karin 190Z then? I already have that one along with 110 others, lol. 
GTA Online is also going as a standalone game on PS5 so you won't need GTA V to play it.
I'm hoping that it'll bring a map update to add other areas of SA.

Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing Abe again. I hope you can still make him pass gas, lol. 

1 hour ago, TomsFocus said:

I don't like how my nosiness has caused a moral dilemma this evening....

Started checking MOT history on cars in our car park out of boredom...and noticed one has no MOT.  It ran out in March and the extension didn't start until March 30th right?

It's still being driven daily...  Trouble is, I can't tell him I was checking MOT history for the fun of it can I!?

I've never even spoken to him before lol.

 

He must be incredibly lucky unless you live in a rural area to be driving for months without getting caught!  When I genuinely forgot about the 405's MOT I got stopped within a month of it expiring and a £100 fine, which was fair enough.

That said I know somebody at work who drove theirs for about 6 months before realising it expired when they couldn't re-tax the car! 

1 hour ago, Nick Y said:

Tom, if it is being driven on the road and you've seen it being driven on the road then you can report it to the police. If it expired in March before the 6 month extension came into place and you can clearly see on the DVLA database it has no MOT the report it. You'll need the make, model, colour and location. The police will know who the owner is and they'll probably keep an eye out for it being driven. 

The vehicle insurance will be invalid right now too (no valid MOT = no insurance) so that's another offence of driving without insurance. 

I'm sure it's a genuine mistake, I don't want to get him in trouble with the police.  You've made up my mind though, I should definitely try to tell him somehow.

 

20 minutes ago, jmurray01 said:

He must be incredibly lucky unless you live in a rural area to be driving for months without getting caught!  When I genuinely forgot about the 405's MOT I got stopped within a month of it expiring and a £100 fine, which was fair enough.

That said I know somebody at work who drove theirs for about 6 months before realising it expired when they couldn't re-tax the car! 

Semi-rural but we only live about 2 miles from the police station!

They've probably got better things to be doing right now though!

 

 

I DO NOT LIKE receiving my new TV today delivered by “Team KnowHow” and it is smashed to pieces! What the hell guys. Huge cracks on the screen, and I waited 2 weeks for this? Incredible
 

 

1 hour ago, The Finance Guy said:

I DO NOT LIKE receiving my new TV today delivered by “Team KnowHow” and it is smashed to pieces! What the hell guys. Huge cracks on the screen, and I waited 2 weeks for this? Incredible
 

 

Definitely need to contact them about this or even email them with the pictures. Funny enough I just came back from my uncle's house who bought a Samsung TV. When we got there we noticed it was a LG TV it changed it to. 

1 hour ago, The Finance Guy said:

I DO NOT LIKE receiving my new TV today delivered by “Team KnowHow” and it is smashed to pieces! What the hell guys. Huge cracks on the screen, and I waited 2 weeks for this? Incredible
 

 

Yikes, that's not good. Looks like it's been kicked or something heavy has dropped onto it. 
I'd definitely be complaining and asking for some money off a replacement. 

For sure they will be getting an angry phone call tomorrow and they will be coming to collect the broken one, leaving a replacement behind when they do

20 minutes ago, The Finance Guy said:

For sure they will be getting an angry phone call tomorrow and they will be coming to collect the broken one, leaving a replacement behind when they do

Team Know How needs to be renamed "Team Know How Not To". Their delivery staff are crap and their tech support knows hardly anything about most products. 
At least when I worked for Comet we knew how to look after delivery stock and had knowledge of electronics and installations. 

We bought a desktop with CRT monitor from PC World back in 2000...Windows Millennium Edition.

Watched the floor staff trying to reach the box as it was on the top shelf...and knock one straight onto the floor below at least 10ft down...  Whoops!

Fortunately they managed to get a second one down for us...  I always wondered if they just stuck the first one back on the shelf again!

 

In other news, the car with no MOT has already left this morning!  Will have to try and catch him later...

12 hours ago, The Finance Guy said:

I DO NOT LIKE receiving my new TV today delivered by “Team KnowHow” and it is smashed to pieces! What the hell guys. Huge cracks on the screen, and I waited 2 weeks for this? Incredible
 

 

I take it they didn't unpack the TV for you? I got the impression that the delivery team unpacked and setup whatever you bought, hardly a 'Know-how delivery' if all they do is deliver. 

12 hours ago, The Finance Guy said:

I DO NOT LIKE receiving my new TV today delivered by “Team KnowHow” and it is smashed to pieces! What the hell guys. Huge cracks on the screen, and I waited 2 weeks for this? Incredible

What's the box like? looks like it's been hit with a fork-lift or pallet truck,
I had that happen to a Kallax unit from Ikea, one of the thick sides had been caved in, didn't notice until I got everything out,
I wasn't going to pack all that up and take it back (time & fuel), so bad side is against wall, I always check for box damage now.

17 minutes ago, RAIDER32 said:

What's the box like? looks like it's been hit with a fork-lift or pallet truck,
I had that happen to a Kallax unit from Ikea, one of the thick sides had been caved in, didn't notice until I got everything out,
I wasn't going to pack all that up and take it back (time & fuel), so bad side is against wall, I always check for box damage now.

The box is completely fine. I can’t understand how it would have happened tbh. 
 

I’ve called them and they’re bringing me a replacement in a few days and taking away the damaged one. They offered an alternative up to 10% more expensive, but such a small uplift didn’t really get me anything any better, so I opted just to take the same as I ordered in a few days. 

As well as the box being fine, I’ve just looked at the damage again and the worst of it is at points which are protected by polystyrene in the box, so it must have been damaged before packing into the box. 

9 minutes ago, The Finance Guy said:

As well as the box being fine, I’ve just looked at the damage again and the worst of it is at points which are protected by polystyrene in the box, so it must have been damaged before packing into the box. 

No way that TV left the factory in that box, someone has swapped it somewhere down the line.
I got a 2TB External Drive from Argos and all I could see was 500GB, I then noticed a sticker on box saying it had been returned,
finally twigged it had been drive swapped when it looked like it had been formatted on a Mac.
 

I don’t know if I’m driving slower, or everyone else is driving more quickly. I’m driving at the speed limit, and people seem to be pulling away from me massively atm. What’s going on?!

19 minutes ago, dtulip8 said:

I don’t know if I’m driving slower, or everyone else is driving more quickly. I’m driving at the speed limit, and people seem to be pulling away from me massively atm. What’s going on?!

Speed limits!?  There's a virus pandemic and riots and protests everywhere and statues being ripped down...the country is falling into chaos, no one cares about speed limits any more! 

Oh, and those of us that are only driving once a week have certain urges to satisfy.   I failed 4 regens across Friday and Monday morning so needed to clear it out...and actually enjoyed thrashing the backroads to clear it out...driving like a complete ***** is fun, no wonder people do it...first drive I've actually enjoyed for months...and with the bonus that it finally completed a regen!

29 minutes ago, dtulip8 said:

I don’t know if I’m driving slower, or everyone else is driving more quickly. I’m driving at the speed limit, and people seem to be pulling away from me massively atm. What’s going on?!

I've only got 3 months to go now before my last (and only!) misdemeanour is off the slate, so I'm being extra cautious when I do venture out. There do seem to be a lot of chancers about, as you suggest, which is a bit daft in my area as the camera vans (and officers lurking with handheld radar guns), are, if anything, even more active than usual!😃

4 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

Speed limits!?  There's a virus pandemic and riots and protests everywhere and statues being ripped down...the country is falling into chaos, no one cares about speed limits any more! 

Oh, and those of us that are only driving once a week have certain urges to satisfy.   I failed 4 regens across Friday and Monday morning so needed to clear it out...and actually enjoyed thrashing the backroads to clear it out...driving like a complete ***** is fun, no wonder people do it...first drive I've actually enjoyed for months...and with the bonus that it finally completed a regen!

Lol I’d rather not be wiped out by one of the idiots though 😂. I expect they’ll be whinging when they caught as well haha. I’m out driving almost everyday with my job, so don’t really need to let off any steam with it.

@Eric Bloodaxe I thought I was going to get done for speeding a few weeks ago, so I’ve been rather cautious too since then. Luckily nothing came of it!

Watch where you're going then...  There's always some idiot ready to wipe you out...if you can't beat them, join them!

In fairness, there's a difference between driving quickly and driving dangerously...  I'd much rather be surrounded by speeders than people not paying attention!

 

4 minutes ago, dtulip8 said:

I thought I was going to get done for speeding a few weeks ago, so I’ve been rather cautious too since then. Luckily nothing came of it!

Lol I'd been pretty cautious for the previous 50 years (well, mostly😃) but it only takes a moment's inattention in the wrong place and there you go! Luckily I was only slightly over and was able to opt for the course which was actually very good. 

 

1 hour ago, TomsFocus said:

Watch where you're going then...  There's always some idiot ready to wipe you out...if you can't beat them, join them!

In fairness, there's a difference between driving quickly and driving dangerously...  I'd much rather be surrounded by speeders than people not paying attention!

 

Haha I agree there, I have no problem with people making good progress- I try to when I can and it’s appropriate.

21 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

Speed limits!?  There's a virus pandemic and riots and protests everywhere and statues being ripped down...the country is falling into chaos, no one cares about speed limits any more! 

Oh, and those of us that are only driving once a week have certain urges to satisfy.   I failed 4 regens across Friday and Monday morning so needed to clear it out...and actually enjoyed thrashing the backroads to clear it out...driving like a complete ***** is fun, no wonder people do it...first drive I've actually enjoyed for months...and with the bonus that it finally completed a regen!

Just a few days back I went on a 10 mile drive to my paternal grandparents house. When coming back I really did open up the engine on the dual carriageway. Best thing is it's so quiet on the roads I didn't worry about any stupid driver. Really love how the car picks up speed in the higher gears also. Hardly been driving much especially on a dual carriageway so hopefully that run cleared some stuff out the engine.