mike carey

From flights of plaster ducks on the wall in our houses to ...

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?