With no paper involved, “tablet” makes even less sense. I’m quite old, it’s not an age thing.

Given how you’re using it, you could further confuse her by calling it a “chock.”

Some people are allergic to them, but I don’t know if there’s a Venn diagram overlap with your allergies

Can you do pink peppercorns? They’re a different kind of tree but might have the same chemical.

Otherwise, some of the most “chili” flavors come from cumin and Mexican oregano and garlic. Coriander is another, and you could add a little kick with allspice. Roasting your bell peppers whole until the skin gets partly charred will give you a faux chipotle flavor. You then discard the seeds and throw them in the blender or food processor so you aren’t eating big chunks of char. Onions of course and tomatoes (canned crushed is fine) and of course ground beef and some beans, I use a can of kidney beans, with the liquid, but use what you like. Often some corn flour or meal is added for thicker, you could crush a few chips or crumble a corn tortilla for that.

I’ve got this all out of order! Char peppers under the broiler first, take out and let cool. Saute your onions in a little olive or corn oil, add garlic and beef, get it browned, add spices, turn down the heat while you get the seeds out of the peppers and chop/puree them. Add them, the tomatoes and beans, taste and add salt, and check if you got all those haphazard spices in. (It’s not done, it needs to simmer awhile, but it’s cooked enough to be safe.) Simmer for… maybe 30 minutes? Or until you’re ready to eat it? If it seems runny, add the tortilla/chip “flour” to thicken it.

See now, I like this even though her armor is dangerous. Because she’s clearly all grown up, fully clothed, empowered af, and sexy.

https://wafflegame.net/daily

Link for the lazy

I believe you meant “raising hell” as in bringing it too the surface of Earth and recruiting Satan’s legions to fight with you, not razing hell as in cutting it down, because how would that help?

Oh c’mon, I just had the sudden urge to say “irregardless!” and decided not to resist it for once.

You are if course right and they are wrong. But it’s possible they learned this by being yelled at by some curmudgeon who sits at home with their lights on, watching TV on Halloween but screaming at anyone who dares ask for candy. And at all the houses with kids, who welcome them, the parent is out chaperoning their little tribe. Ergo bowl. I say parent because of course they’re all divorced by the time the kids are walking.

How to teach them right? Put a sign on your gatepost, not at the door, easily seen from the street. Remember, if they’re under 3rd grade they’re still learning to read, so keep it simple:

RING BELL FOR CANDY! 🎃🍫🍭🍬👻

Once they do that, you can remind them to say Trick or Treat, and/or admire their costumes.

Baby steps.

Irregardless!

Don’t use nose tissues as toilet paper!

They’re made stronger for sneezes, not designed to “dissolve.”

They’ll gunk up your pipes !

I interpreted “I despise getting ready in the dark and getting home in the dark” as you hating both equally. As an adult, I agree I’d rather get up and drive to work in darkness to gain a little daytime after work. But I recall as a child being miserable going to school in darkness.

The difference between DST and ST isn’t going to help that. The daylight is shorter regardless.

I, on the other hand, am such a pedant I will point out that twats is plural, not possessive, so it doesn’t get an apostrophe. Upvoted your comment, though.

Along the same lines, I’m getting close to Medicare age and swamped with ads for “Medicare Advantage” plans which are for-profit and notorious for denial of care. Meanwhile I can’t even get government information about Medicare itself and/or basic supplement plans for another few months. I know that if you start with Advantage it can be very difficult to get back to real Medicare and exclusion of preexisting conditions can apply, just like in pre-Obama days.

Illegal, or do you just have to go through the same process as any other name change?

Personally I ditched my problematic last name gladly, but my MIL kept hers

Thank Time I’m so old both i and my offspring are done with all that, but looks like it’s delayed again this year…

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/fafsa-rollout-delayed-again

It’s especially irritating when it’s something like a wedding invitation, they should know you well enough to get it right! Often that comes down to some old fuddy-duddy’s misogyny.

Even if she had taken your surname, she still has her own first name, not John!

Agreed on most points but any political “swag pinned to your bag” would be illegal within 100 feet of a polling place

So now that you’ve got your Y problem solved, what was the X problem that led you to trying to remember the phrase? Or did you solve that part, but still had that nagging question in the back of your mind?

You’re SoCal? One of the things I do miss about the other place was the Los Angeles sub. The one here is practically non-existent.

In addition to making the show sound more authentic, there’s a bonus tourism boosting angle: “filmed before a live studio audience” that could include YOU!

One fun thing to do when visiting relatives come to Los Angeles is to go be part of the studio audience of a favorite show. And it’s free. (Maybe not some shows, I haven’t done research.) We took my cousin to “Jeopardy!” back when Trebek was host. Watching later we could hear his distinctive laugh. And it was fun to know the winner ahead of time.