I had a lovely ex-boyfriend who, in the midst of whatever argument we were having, would just start shaking his head with exasperation and say "I wish you could just be *rational* about this" ('rational' meaning 'calm and agreeing with what I want'). He never figured out the correlation between calling me 'irrational' because I was angry/disagreeing with him and the supreme tower of feminist RAGE that followed after.
My mother is a colour-blind carrier and my father's colour-blind. My brother's very colour-blind and my two sisters are both what we call "colour-lazy"--they get mixed up with hues but can tell the difference if they are put next to each other. I'm guessing they have Deuteranopia, since they have this problem the most with purples and browns.
Luckily I came through okay (thank Mendel!) otherwise it would have made my career as a graphic designer tricky...
I just find it interesting to note that females have less than a 1% chance of being colour-blind but there are two of them in my immediate family alone.
When they came out with the ruling, my grandmother refused to leave the house for days, worried that she'd be forced to go grocery shopping or something with all the hordes of topless women. I have yet to see a woman using her right to go topless at anything other than a completely understandable locale (ie, the beach). Even then, not very often and only in TO.
I think that whenever Republican debates--on any level of government--are televised, there should be a flashing disclaimer along the bottom (like a weather warning).
"YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OWN OPINIONS BUT NOT YOUR OWN FACTS"
Dammit, Joss Whedon, you know I love you, but you have to stop killing off the awesome secondary characters all. The. Damn. Time. It's not a twist if you do it often enough that we can see it coming!
I think this is a big part of it. When I'm single, I'm just as likely to have a bowl of cereal and an apple for dinner because I can't be arsed to cook anything, but when I have a boyfriend who appreciates food, suddenly the portion sizes get bigger and the meals become more regular.
And I think the flip side is that the boyfriends *lose* weight because they are eating "healthier" (ie actual food-based) meals and not bachelor chow all the time.
I felt the same way when I had to give up caffeine for health reasons. I suffered through the week of withdrawal and then switched to full-time decaf, because I couldn't give up my morning coffee. And I still can't--people laugh when I grouch about not having had my morning cup, because they know it's psychological and it "shouldn't matter". But it does. Anyway, the decaf method certainly worked for me, you just have to give yourself the weaning period--no need to give up the ritual. :)
To be fair to the scriptwriters on SG:A, Sheppard only ever had the one expression regardless of what he was doing. And I say that as a fan.
Personally I am enjoying the fact that, en masse, we seem to have read the title and gone "YES! THAT GAME FROM TNG!" before even clicking the link. That takes some serious, twenty-year suckitude. :)