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GoldZilla Grand Master

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Maybe this should be a new topic?

Why did you REALLY buy a Stagea.?

Do you want to drive a stocker?

Do you want to drive a better looking stocker.?

Do you want a Stealth with 200 awkw?

Do you only LOVE Nissans?

As Professor Julius Somner-Miller said, "WHY IS IT SO"

IS it all EGO EGO EGO?

Have we really run out of things to say?

Some soul searching required to keep this topic going.

And I fink mi tipein is gettin batter..

Hmm, I bought my Stagea because I'd wanted a Skyline for YEARS, but they're so common now that it's almost ridiculous, and buying an R32 now is a bit more of a gamble due to the age they're hitting now. Seeing as my R32 (if it ever eventuated) was gonna be a four-door anyway, why not get something even more unique with the benefit of wagon space, ATESSA and a half-a-litre more engine capacity.

Also, I bought a Stagea because it's pretty much the ultimate street sleeper!

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Ska Grand Master

Ska

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Maybe this should be a new topic?

meh why not, I mean everyone else has started topics for no reasons lately, must be a new craze :devil:

Why did you REALLY buy a Stagea.?

I had 1 R33, that had been flogged and was in desperate need of a gearbox rebuild and/or engine rebuild.

The stagea appeared at the right place, right time, right price. I was getting married and the crapped out skyline was going to be needing some big bucks to keep it going, so why not swap a 178rwkw crapped out R33 for a ~200awkw awd?

Do you want to drive a stocker?

No

Do you want to drive a better looking stocker.?

No

Do you want a Stealth with 200 awkw?

I want more than 200awkw, that is for sure!

Do you only LOVE Nissans?

Basically, but there is enough Cy love for everyone!

As Professor Julius Somner-Miller said, "WHY IS IT SO"

IS it all EGO EGO EGO?

It had thew space I needed for a family and the power to boot, did I need to think about to too hard, no.

Have we really run out of things to say?

I dont think I have........ have I? I wonder sometimes, in string theory it states that a string propagating in flat 26-dimensional spacetime with coordinates Xm(s,t) can give rise to four different quantum mechanically consistent string theories, depending on the choice of boundary conditions used to solve the equations of motion. The choices are divided into two categories:

A. Are the strings open (with free ends) or closed (with ends joined together in a loop)?

B. Are the strings orientable (you can tell which direction you're traveling along the string) or unorientable (you can't tell which direction you're traveling along the string)?

There are four different combinations of options, giving rise to the four bosonic string theories shown in the table below. Notice in the table that open string theories also contain closed strings. Why is this? Because an open string can sometimes join its two free ends and become a closed string and then break apart again into an open string. In pure closed string theory, the analog of that process does not occur.

The bosonic string theories are all unstable because the lowest excitation mode, or the ground state, is a tachyon with M2=-1/a'. The massless particle spectrum always includes the graviton, so gravity is always a part of any bosonic string theory. The vector boson is similar to the photon of electromagnetism or the gauge fields of any Yang-Mills theory. The antisymmetric tensor field carries a force that is difficult to describe in this short space. The strings act as a source of this field.

Tangles Grand Master

Tangles

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PS. You can tell the people who either dont work, wont work or are ripping the boss off by posting during working hours.

bwahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahhahaha x 1974286740723150752315

'sif I care! funny that, after 9yrs with the same company I dare 'em every week to sack me (they can too, easily, with the new workplace laws).

............ hen you dont care anymore whats the worst that can happen?

Now _____> on that string theory................... :(

Ska Grand Master

Ska

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so... should this stagezilla/cruiseliner thing even be mentioned, or would he get in trouble for this? I mean, i knew, but didnt think it should be openly discussed...

Cy?

No it can be discussed, but when someone says one thing, others are bound to jump in and say, "No no no, that is not what happened, blah blah blah..." and I dont want it to end up with me having to moderate posts or users.

So it was just a pre-emptive way of stopping that, keep it to PM's and then I dont have to worry bout anything :(

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