mike carey

Maybe not, it comes from Latin via French to be a Middle English word for an ecclesiastical decree, and a decree could be in favour or against something. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sanction

To me, cut along socioeconomic lines just didn't work as English in this context. I don't see cut along and cut across as being opposites. Cut along works when you have scissors and something with a line along which to cut it. I can't think of a simple construction that describes something you'd expect to be indisciminate affecting a town differently in a way that reflects unrelated characteristics of the town. Perhaps the flooding affected the town along socioeconomic lines. Bottom line, newspapers dispense with their subeditors at their peril.

Fair call!

@Truereview, I know there is no metro there, but where are the photos from Punta?

Hmm, why mention an American talk show, when this is an Australian or Argentine plug?

I hope the guy who just cut me off in traffic has his favorite book made into a movie & the characters are nothing like he imagined them

You show-off, TR!

For those of you who want 'thoughtful' to go with hot, David Pocock is your man. He was born in Zimbabwe and moved to Australia as a kid when his family was forced off their farm. He now plays rugby in my city. He runs charities helping people in Zimbabwe. He has refused to marry his [female] partner until equal marriage is the law in Australia. He called out a homophobic slur on the rugby field in a professional match (with the result that the slurrer went to a Sydney Convicts [gay] rugby practice session to make amends). He was arrested for chaining himself to a fence at a disputed coal mine site in NW NSW to protest the environmental damage.

Shameless, TR, shameless!!

@Truereview, summer will be here within weeks, provided you stay in Punta del Este!

Some great pics there @Truereview from subways and the tube. Thank you!

John Kerry.

@Truereview so, more photos from out front of your beach house?

@Truereview has a collection of alluring avatars!

Oh, @Truereview why do you have to post pictures of the people you meet on the playa de Punta del Este?

Lol, you have succeeded in that! Out of left field, these guys have been posting gay Uruguay comments in their timeline.

@Truereview are you so busy in PdE that you have to keep teasing us here with these pics?

Saw this posted on Twitter: 'Watched a girl take a 'broken, do not use" sign off Whole Foods sliding door, take a pic w it over her heart, then walk into the broken door.'

I can't compete with an account of service in any of the various first class cabins. I've only travelled in first class once, from Penang to Singapore (via KL) on MAS. (AA first class on a J class QF ticket doesn't count.) If I planned to travel once every two or so years I might consider flying first class, but I hope to travel more often. I value a decent experience in the air, and in the lounge before departure. I flew economy SYD-DFW early this year (in an A380), the service was good and I was complimented for wearing a jacket and tie (why they would do that I have no idea). The person in front of me said that they had requested a vegetarian meal, the cabin staff were unaware but arranged for the first class chef to prepare a vegetarian meal for the passenger. On my return flight I upgraded to premium economy. First class it ain't, but the leg room and the service was good. More recently I flew across Australia in business class (flat bed seats, but it was a daylight flight so who cares), and taking into account the business class lounge, I was sufficiently pampered. I understand that competing first class cabins are interesting, but for me competing steps above economy are enough.