OK, that's it
I'm officially voting "Off the grid" as the most overused phrase by the Atlanta blogosphere this summer. Spacey, you started it but now everyone's using it. I have seen at least 3 other local bloggers use or over-use the phrase since then.
Mix it up, people. Say you'll be "offline" or even "away from the internets," fer chrissakes. But you are not off the grid because you are still presumably relying on electricity when you are on vacation or visiting family. So please, I beg of you, stop using an inaccurate and incredibly annoying phrase.
Thanks.
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Noe.
And where I'm at you should make no assumptions about lectricity.
I asked nicely. I won't next time.
Dang you lawyers are mean. Between you and Cindy Mac's team, metaphors are taking a real beatin' lately. Course I doubt any of mine are gonna win any fancy prizes, so why not let the blogosphere have at 'em? Not like they're hurtin' anybody, 'cept maybe a rocket scientist or two.
Ok, I'll stop now, 'cause I'm cracking my own self up way too much, and when that happens, always seems like people's feelin's get to hurtin'. I wish a scientist would investigate that phenomenom 'cause it weirds me out everytime it happens.
Wait, this was mean but saying someone was not ready for primetime was not?
I'm very confused.
And FWIW, I said you started the trend but do not blame you for making it annoyingly ubiquitous. That honor goes to one of those male bloggerati who adopted the phrase wholesale all at the same time. I haven't decided which one yet.
Also, I have PMS. I can get much, much meaner than this.
I always thought "off the grid" was kinda silly. You may not be blogging, but presumably you're still using your phone and checking email.
Thank you, the other lawyer chick gets it.
Rushing past the obligatory foreheadsmackgroan, I think Audacity raises a fair point, but I do know of a person or two who has said "off the grid" and included email and some extent of telephony as well (say on St. Simon's Island or something). In the 21st century, I think such a state refers primarily to information disconnect (thank you Terminator 3), and the mere consumption of electricity isn't a disqualifier. So instead of bashing the phrase altogether here, should we just say, don't use it so inaccurately?
If you are somewhere that lacks cell phone service and any available internet, I might consider it. But realistically, how many of us actually go to places like that anymore, especially in this country? I can't get my Blackberry to work at my parents' house in the mountains but they sure do have DSL.
"The grid" refers to the electrical grid--that's the issue I have with it being inaccurate. If you mean disconnected from technology then I think offline is a much more accurate word.
I've been using it for a while, don't remember where I first saw it. I like to think I use it (like most phrases) sparingly, though.
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