Get the Temporex mug.A Temporary Distraction Measure or TDM for short is the basis of modern politics and business. Anytime a politician forms a committee to 'look into' something it is nothing but a ruse intended to temporarily distract the voting public long enough for them to forget all about it.
Anything (Committee, poll, vote, investigation, senate hearing, etc) that can be used to successfully distract people from issues that they were formally concerned about long enough for them to forget completely about it.
Anything that makes you (the voter) think we (politicians) are doing something about it when we're really not.
Anything (Committee, poll, vote, investigation, senate hearing, etc) that can be used to successfully distract people from issues that they were formally concerned about long enough for them to forget completely about it.
Anything that makes you (the voter) think we (politicians) are doing something about it when we're really not.
E.X. Senate Democrats hold hearings to investigate windfall profits generated by the obscene price of oil.
Two weeks later, the American public will have forgotten all about it and will rest content that the government is doing it's job. Hence, it was a successful Temporary Distraction Measure.
E.X. During the Senate hearing over whether to clarify net neutrality, the Senators rambled on for a few weeks until another celebrity got knocked up and everybody that was wanting it codified, forgot all about it.
Temporary Distraction Measure
Two weeks later, the American public will have forgotten all about it and will rest content that the government is doing it's job. Hence, it was a successful Temporary Distraction Measure.
E.X. During the Senate hearing over whether to clarify net neutrality, the Senators rambled on for a few weeks until another celebrity got knocked up and everybody that was wanting it codified, forgot all about it.
Temporary Distraction Measure
by Crashingtests July 4, 2008
Get the Temporary Distraction Measure mug.Related Words
The act of loosely raising one’s pants, capris, or shorts, along with any undergarments, in order to switch stalls in an empty public restroom due to the absence of toilet paper in the original stall. Persons performing the temporary pull-up must do so in such a way as to minimize drippage or the transfer of poo particles onto his or her clothing.
Jill’s search for a clean toilet seat landed her in a stall with no toilet paper, so she had to do the temporary pull-up in order to find a stall with toilet paper.
by Miss ET August 9, 2008
Get the temporary pull-up mug.n. An attractive female bartender who utilizes her feminine wiles to push more liquor sales to inebriated male patrons.
by Khanhster July 16, 2010
Get the Bar Temptress mug.Habitually mean.
"In one hand Aunt Marge held an enormous suitcase, and tucked under the other was an old and evil-tempered bulldog."
by MalumLibrum958 August 16, 2020
Get the Evil-tempered mug."I know she stinks of sweat and oil of olay but the tangerine temptress would get it today" said old Special K as he watched her leave his office.
by Liam Daish July 2, 2004
Get the tangerine temptress mug.a break in a relationship where one person (or both) wants to stay away from the other for a period of time to find out who they are, to clear things up, or anything else. They usually end up with broken relationships, and there's a chance of never getting back together, depending. Temporaries are usually a soft way of saying "it's over."
Boy: Look, I think we need to take a temporary break up.
Girl: Screw it, just break it off for real.
Girl: Screw it, just break it off for real.
by JackyDee February 28, 2008
Get the temporary break mug.