miles away
(UK, figurative) Not paying attention; distracted or daydreaming.
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That doesn't even sound loud? I have trucks on my street, I'm a half mile away from a train station, a few miles away from the airport, all of those things are way louder than this video
It's the same everywhere. I couldn't get jobs in supermarkets and restaurants when I left school because I didn't have experience and that's all employers wanted. I had to wait for someone to take a chance on me. That…
What I don't get, and hear me out here, is why hummingbird hawkmoths bother. You can see what most mimics are driving at - and they're usually mimicing something present and useful in their environment. So why mimic p…
sometimes the helicopter crew has to land miles away then take a regular ambulance with the patient the rest of the way sometimes the hospital turns down patients because of the hassle of coordinating landings and ca…
Id fly u to Madrid but land at an airport 268 miles away... and claim its Madrid and shuttle bus u there
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(UK, figurative) Not paying attention; distracted or daydreaming.
“That doesn't even sound loud? I have trucks on my street, I'm a half mile away from a train station, a few miles away from the airport, all of those things are way louder than this video”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It's the same everywhere. I couldn't get jobs in supermarkets and restaurants when I left school because I didn't have experience and that's all employers wanted. I had to wait for someone to take a chance on me. That person was 70 miles away from where I lived...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“What I don't get, and hear me out here, is why hummingbird hawkmoths bother. You can see what most mimics are driving at - and they're usually mimicing something present and useful in their environment. So why mimic perfectly a bird thousands of miles away?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“sometimes the helicopter crew has to land miles away then take a regular ambulance with the patient the rest of the way sometimes the hospital turns down patients because of the hassle of coordinating landings and care sometimes patients go by ground taking more time”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Id fly u to Madrid but land at an airport 268 miles away... and claim its Madrid and shuttle bus u there”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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