A distraption happens during the experience of checking your phone/computer for something specific, but falling into the trap of responding to a message or alert (or other distraption) that you find when you go to do your original task, which then gets you lost in a series of follow-on distraptions until you have forgotten what it was you originally wanted to do in the first place.
I wanted to write you that email, but I must have got caught in a distraption, and then before I knew it three-hours had gone by before I remembered, half-way through a making of the Dark Crystal series, that I was supposed to do something important..
by Xplody October 11, 2019
Get the Distraption mug.Something pleasant which draws attention from a situation which could be awkward or embarrassing for those involved. Distraction cake originated in British teen dramedy "Skins" where Emily Fitch produced a delicious chocolate cake, seemingly from thin air, in order to remove attention from Naomi Campbell who was being heckled about her sexuality - presumably as an act to show her undying love.
Cook: I know the cure
Naomi: The cure for what?
Cook: It's my cock
Naomi: What the hell are you talking about?
*Awkward glances and laughter*
Emily: Hey look what I made! (Produces delicious distraction cake)
Naomi: The cure for what?
Cook: It's my cock
Naomi: What the hell are you talking about?
*Awkward glances and laughter*
Emily: Hey look what I made! (Produces delicious distraction cake)
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Celebrities that have been enlisted by the U.S Government to keep the public eye off of what is really going on...
Paris Hilton's crotch... Britney Spears cooch... Anna Nicole Smith America's Princess Di... all government operatives...a collective Weapon of Mass Distraction (WMD) if you will...
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The Great Disruption could be the biggest challenge in human history since the collapse of the Roman Empire in 466 A.D.
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Get the distraction dance mug."Dude my girlfriend and I were fucking and in walks my brother letting me know my 18 year old female neighbor was downstairs... with the results from her pregnancy test. Talk about a mating disruption..."
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Buzzword used by Silicon Valley gurus, often in conjunction with innovation, as in 'disruptive innovation'. It's supposed to sound cool and radical - like revolution - but it's also terribly empty, so technies and entrepreneurs using the term constantly have to explain why the digital world is so disruptive, compared to like the Industrial Revolution. Which is where it all falls flat.
Buzzword used by Silicon Valley gurus, often in conjunction with innovation, as in 'disruptive innovation'. It's supposed to sound cool and radical - like revolution - but it's also terribly empty, so technies and entrepreneurs using the term constantly have to explain why the digital world is so disruptive, compared to like the Industrial Revolution. Which is where it all falls flat.
"We are creating a 3D World, where Data and Digital combine to Disrupt current business models. Only when that happens, you actually see Disruption at work."
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