[QUOTE=bcp19;298329]The double ch threw me off a bit though... normally you'd have either according to research or according to a researcher[/QUOTE]
Just goes to show you how our brain works... I read it as "According to research" because that's the way it's usually written.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;298338]Just goes to show you how our brain works... I read it as "According to research" because that's the way it's usually written.[/QUOTE]
I read it as "According to a ?...cheese??...rechsearch???...Hmm, researcher works..."

Old news, I am also not native speaker, and all my colleagues (mainly germans and thais, and in the past also chinese and also romanians) had no problem to read and understand everything. We had that discussion/conception long ago in the past about "average chinese pupil" (that is student in the mid-school) being more intelligent then the "average western pupil", because of their "pictographic" writing system (learning thousands of those thingies instead of 26 letters, from the very early life). Few times we discussed with language specialists, biologist and even a brain surgeon about this and all of them seems to dismount this conception, based on the idea that every man/women, no matter his/her nation (that includes westerners, russians, bla bla) is in fact learning "words" and not letters. This is how your brain works and you can do nothing about. You learn and recognize the word, and not its components, same way as you recognize a car, a computer, a lamp, etc, and not its components. The reverse is considered a disease. (See first season of "Prison Break" movie, haha, wonderful movie, but do not waste your time to see the other seasons, they are totally garbage compared with the first).

God does not exist. There I said it. Now what?
 

[url]http://www.examiner.com/article/atheist-arrested-sent-to-jail-for-posting-god-doesn-t-exist-on-facebook[/url]

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[QUOTE=Xyzzy;298713][COLOR=White].[/COLOR][/QUOTE]Did you shoot those?
I have seen a squirrel make a fool of a cat:cat: that was chasing it around a carpeted room.:kitten:

[QUOTE]Did you shoot those?[/QUOTE]No, we don't think they have rabies or anything like that.

:max:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;298739]No, we don't think they have rabies or anything like that.[/QUOTE]Where you the photographer or was one of your tribe the photog?

[QUOTE]Where you the photographer or was one of your tribe the photog?[/QUOTE]No, we just received the sequence of photographs in an email. We checked Snopes to see if they might be fake but there was no mention of them. The photographs look pretty real to us.

We have added squirrels to our list of animals to not piss off.

:choppa:

If you ignore the music, the video is pretty cool.

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Leading paragraph from [URL="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-religion-analytical-thinking-20120427,0,5374010.story"]Thinking can undermine religious faith[/URL]:

[quote]Scientists have revealed one of the reasons why some folks are less religious than others: They think more analytically, rather than going with their gut. And thinking analytically can cause religious belief to wane — for skeptics and true believers alike.[/quote]