You Know You're an SSSS Addict When...

[Deirdre]

That is here already probably, but - when you look at your cats, one fat as hell, and one with damaged paw, and you just keep repeating A common cat is better than no cat... to comfort yourself.
At least it shows the propaganda IS working.

[Solokov]

When you find out about a scandanavian christmas time tradition and wonder if the yule-cat would be considered a good or bad thing in year 90.

[Sunflower]

...you read The Martian over Christmas break and your first thought is, "It's just like SSSS!  Decisive female captain, big, stoic, hard-to-understand foreign guy, cute little female (software) engineer with mad skillz, secretly soft-hearted egomaniac, incredible technology, friendship, self-sacrifice, and lots of black humor... and it's all about finding a sixth member of the crew!"

Your second thought is, "Da-aamn, NASA really plans ahead carefully for dangerous missions like this and allots plenty of resources.  What's wrong with the Stingy Quartet -- do they truly not care if their crew lives or dies?"

Let me add that "The Martian" is awesome.  It would particularly appeal to the SSSS readership, not just for the qualities listed above, but because it's basically all about engineering survival solutions in the most threatening circumstances.  (I'm lookin' at you, inhabiters of the weapons, uniform, and agriculture threads, especially...)

[starfallz]

You find yourself making porridge and buying crispbread.

[Sunflower]

You go feed the neighbors' Blessed Feline while they're on vacation, see that it's a large, white, long-haired cat with an orange tail and ears, and instantly think:
"Oooh!  It's a Minna-cat!" 

And your second thought is trying to figure out which character on her Dec. 26 Christmas card it is.  ("Braidy?  No, not skinny enough and tail is too light.  Mikkel?  Not quite large and fat enough -- though the sideburns are magnificent.  Well, it's loud-voiced, emotionally needy, and keeps grabbing my hand with its paws whenever I stop petting it, so it must be Emil!")

[Piney]

When you decide, in spite of your cat allergies, that you would get a cat solely to protect you during the apocalypse.

[kjeks]

  Well, it's loud-voiced, emotionally needy, and keeps grabbing my hand with its paws whenever I stop petting it, so it must be Emil!")

And now all I can think of is: "Yay, in one week you're going to work with 17 Emils each day"

[Solokov]

When a cat decides to start a fight with you you main train of thought is not "**** YOU TOO CAT!" (it actually was) it's "Oh **** I'm patient 0!" (I only thought of this later when driving home from work.)

[Crazybean]

It's Christmas and New Years's Eve and you check the comic site and the forum after your relatives leave.

You consider getting cats so you can call them Lallli and Tuuri even though you don't even like cats.

When you do something stupid you think "My brain just hat grade D moment".

When ssss completely eradicates and replaces your current fandom obsession in a single day.

[Piney]

When ssss completely eradicates and replaces your current fandom obsession in a single day.

Ditto. I can't remember what fandoms I was even into before I read SSSS.

[StellersJayC]

Ditto. I can't remember what fandoms I was even into before I read SSSS.

Me neither.

(Actually... I'm not sure there were any before this forum.)

[OrigamiOwl]

When you're in a ridiculous pose trying to get signal because you NEED INTERNET FOR FORUM OAO asdfghjkl

[Oh Deer]

It's Christmas and New Years's Eve and you check the comic site and the forum after your relatives leave..

And now it's The new year and I'm still on.....

[FrogEater]

...when you realise that Minna is almost as old as as young as your daughter (or the other way round, I think both are meaningful!)

Edit, after reading the post below :
... and that makes you happy for the rest of the day 

[P__]

...when you realise that Minna is almost as old as as young as your daughter (or the other way round, I think both are meaningful!)

and then you stay up until 3 because celebrating that fact is more important than any important homework you have D:

also, when you realize you just reached 200 comments, in only a month and a half