within shoveling distance

Being in close enough proximity to a person, place or thing that one could reasonably assume you could bury a body and still get away without getting caught or found out.

“Hey, where's Tom these days?” “Oh. he's within shoveling distance.”

by Trixie Lynn Freebush January 20, 2021

distance screeching

A feeling when conditions from the past are haunting us and still make noises in our heads, although they seem to be distant. Can apply to historical conditions. Past events influence today’s minds and actions. E.g. our own past, as well as societal, institutional pasts inevitably shape theories and how we look at them. What we teach and learn today is intertwined with our past. Echoes reproduce power structures and reach into the present. The original sound can deform, how it is heard from a distance changes (e.g. become shriller). Although today many look on colonialism more critically, it still shapes institutions, worldviews, actions. It is visible in the books resting in our libraries, in the accessibility of institutions (Decolonising Knowledge: What Is Decolonisation? | Rolando Vázquez Melken 5:24), how history is told by western museums. We must recognize and draw attention to this screeching (e.g. as one can see in the actions Mwazulu Diyabanza does in Museums (Gimlet)). We need to question who owns, who tells stories, defines, has power, whose voices are being heard? To decolonize we must recognize that power structures are still active. We must question the sounds from the past without denying they exist, but by reshaping how we perceive them and making sure they are not repeated, by making sure they are not echoes.

Sources:
Decolonising Knowledge: What Is Decolonisation? Rolando Vázquez Melken. 2021.
Gimlet. I Want To Report A Theft.

“I still have a distance screeching.”

“I think you got distance screeching.”

“These theories are distance screeched. *”

*However, colonial power structures should be labeled as such as clear as possible. The proposed term should be seen more as an additional visualization.

by l;;;; December 10, 2023

Cigarette distance

The unit of measurement that smokers use between destinations to determine if they should light up a cigarette, with the reasonable certainty it will be smoked by the time they arrive. White trash only use this measurement when giving directions to other white trash.

Jimmy to his common law wife: How far is the Walmart from the bar?

Common law wife to Jimmy: the cigarette distance is about 3 cigarettes.

by Grant Rampus February 15, 2019

Social Distancing

SOCIAL MEDIA:
Not clicking emojis, 'likes' or reply, on the ill considered comments of the angry, uneducated, self absorbed people you discover are in your social circle (especially during a time of crisis).

YOU: "I don't understand all this stock piling, I mean it's ridiculous and so selfish..........I better take 3 please (I have an

elderly mother / my wife told me to get 3 / I only eat wholemeal / what do you mean only 2)"

ME: Social Distancing

by Salop Sense March 20, 2020

distance discord

The greatest discord on the planet

Bro this distance discord is DOPEEEE

by Sexy Billy October 25, 2017

Humanity distancing

Individuals with significant advantages who distance themselves from the rest of humanity by advocating policies that create unfair advantages for themselves and multiple barriers to others such as those in the middle and lower classes and/or minorities. Instead of playing fair and getting their share based on effort they want unfair advantages for themselves when dividing up the pie, when taking risks, and when needing to be bailed out. They also want distance themselves from the rules and to rig the systems of justice and rules against the collective body of humans.

Humanity distancing policies favoring a few of the richest of the rich narcissists to maintain a safe distance above the others in society to assure that the downward pressure from above and a trickling supply downward to those below them have only enough to get by and have a significant number of constraints to prevent the majority from rising above and improving their situation.

by mlhiss April 6, 2020

hottie from a distance

When someone looks hot from a distance but when you get close they are almost always a butterface or hat hot or horse faced but that's harder to see from far.

"Oh man I thought that girl was fine but when she got closer she was hottie from a distance."

"OMG look at that hot guy."
"No, I know him, he's hottie from a distance. When he gets closer you'll see."

by Tarbrow November 27, 2013