Medium finds missing woman in UK river - Page 56

Vixen · 22nd April 2023, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by The Man

That's just what those dang psychic cats want you to think. When a psychic cat bleps, that's when they do their dastardly mind control on you!!!

Don't diss the cat.

Vixen · 22nd April 2023, 01:27 AM

Originally Posted by LondonJohn

Eh?????

That's like saying: when I ask you what sort of chair you have, you say "a blue chair", and you declaring that the "blue" in "blue chair" is suddenly a noun.

You're simply wrong. If one makes a distinction between different categorisations of crime, and one chooses to label one "serious crime" and the other "minor crime" (capitalisations or not), this doesn't somehow magically change the words "serious" and "minor" into nouns. They're still the same adjectives they always were.

My post referred to SIO Smith's area of speciality. So, to aid comprehension, think of the Traffic Police. We have the Road Traffic Act. So far, so good? Under the auspices of the Road Traffic Act we have minor traffic offences and more serious ones. Does that make sense? Likewise, under the Serious Crime Act we have - out of a whole range of crimes that fall under this umbrella - minor serious crimes (such as wounding with intent) and then we have the more grave ones, such as international drug smuggling, of which SIO Smith has been the successful participant in cracking down on in Blackpool. Are you still following? To make the comparison clear, the fact of a minor traffic offence does not in any way equate to a minor serious crime. However, in the grand scheme of things an offence under the Road Traffic Act being dealt with by Traffic Police will rarely equate in terms of court sentencing and gravity to an offence under the Serious Crime Act. The term 'minor' refers only to the category under which it comes. Your claim that there cannot be such a thing as a minor serious crime is thus dismissed.

Vixen · 22nd April 2023, 01:30 AM

Originally Posted by Georg

Well, I did not ask what you would see as such, I asked for citations to find out if anyone else besides you uses those expressions.
Seems like no one does (not too big a surprise).

Are you really wondering why you are not taken seriously to even a minor degree?

Here is a good place for you to come up to speed.

https://www.scribbr.com/nouns-and-pr...0other%20media.

Lothian · 22nd April 2023, 02:27 AM

Originally Posted by Vixen

Don't diss the cat.

I can assure you, it is not the cat that is considered the idiot.

Mojo · 22nd April 2023, 02:56 AM

Originally Posted by Vixen

'Minor' doesn't cancel out the proper noun 'serious' within the context of something labelled 'Serious Crime'. Thus, it is possible to have a bad Good Friday*, a low High Court, a short Life Sentence, a slow Quick Step, etc., etc.

*(I know the 'Good' here doesn't actually mean 'good'.)

Originally Posted by Alderbank

'serious' is not a proper noun. A proper noun is the name for a specific place, person or thing. They are easy to recognise in English because proper nouns are always capitalised to distinguish them from common nouns.

It's not even a noun. It's an adjective.

Originally Posted by Vixen

Wrong.

Quote:

A proper noun is a noun that serves as the name for a specific place, person, or thing. To distinguish them from common nouns, proper nouns are always capitalized in English.

Proper nouns include personal names, place names, names of companies and organizations, and the titles of books, films, songs, and other media.

https://www.scribbr.com/nouns-and-pr...0other%20media.

"Serious Crime Agency" is a proper noun; "serious crime" is a compound noun; "serious" is an adjective. "Serious" on its own is only a proper noun if you're talking about the Luther Allison album, or something like that.

Quote:

In the context of my post re SIO Rebecca Smith I very clearly referred to Serious and Organised Crime - note the capitalisation. I assume you are familiar with organisations having a 'Human Resources' department or a 'Logistics' department. = Proper Noun. The Lancashire Police have one under the auspices of Serious Crime.

Can you supply any information about this entity called "Serious Crime" that you say supports a department of Lancashire Police?

Vixen · 22nd April 2023, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by Mojo

"Serious Crime Agency" is a proper noun; "serious crime" is a compound noun; "serious" is an adjective. "Serious" on its own is only a proper noun if you're talking about the Luther Allison album, or something like that.

Can you supply any information about this entity called "Serious Crime" that you say supports a department of Lancashire Police?

I refer you to my original post in this matter.

zooterkin · 22nd April 2023, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by Vixen

I refer you to my original post in this matter.

This one?

Originally Posted by Vixen

It's what I heard, although I don't know how true it is. Might have been in an intelligence gathering role. For a standard missing person investigation it seems unusual to me as a layperson that the SIO brought in is generally associated with Serious Organised and associated Crime; drug smuggling and what have you. It could just be that the family were seen as 'high profile', hence the top brains assigned to it.

Thermal · 22nd April 2023, 07:45 AM

Ok I don't mean to backpedal the discussion but the cats were not just psychic, but they are proven to have the abilities of a medium to channel human ghosts, even though they are small animals??

Would that make them small medium highly clairvoyants?

Mojo · 22nd April 2023, 07:48 AM

Originally Posted by zooterkin

This one?

That doesn't fit, because it's a department of Lancashire Police. Vixen was talking about a department of Lancashire Police being under the patronage of something called "Organised Crime".

Vixen · 22nd April 2023, 07:50 AM

Originally Posted by zooterkin

This one?

No. We were discussing the term 'minor serious crime' in direct respect of SIO Smith, then heading the Lancashire Police Serious and Organised Crime. That one.

The Man · 23rd April 2023, 06:47 AM

Originally Posted by Vixen

Don't diss the cat.

Hey, it dissed me first by giving me a Kitté raspberry!!

R.I.P Kitté 2006-2023

Georg · 23rd April 2023, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by Vixen

Here is a good place for you to come up to speed.

https://www.scribbr.com/nouns-and-pr...0other%20media.

BS.
I asked you for citations where someone besides you uses the expressions low High Court, or a short Life Sentence.
Your link does not contain any, and the link you provided before doesn't either.

It's not me who has to come up to speed.
You pulled those expressions out of where the sun don't shine and are simply not able to admit it.

Darat · 23rd April 2023, 09:30 AM

Anyone got a link to how many of the 3,269.23 people who went missing in the previous week Rothwell has found this week?

P.J. Denyer · 23rd April 2023, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

Anyone got a link to how many of the 3,269.23 people who went missing in the previous week Rothwell has found this week?

The 0.23 must have been messy!

Reformed Offlian · 23rd April 2023, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by Georg

Are you really wondering why you are not taken seriously to even a minor degree?

Not even to a substantial minor degree?

Georg · 23rd April 2023, 10:54 PM

Not sure.
Let's have a major little discussion about it.

GlennB · 24th April 2023, 04:32 AM

It's a big deal, but only a little one.

LondonJohn · 24th April 2023, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by GlennB

It's a big deal, but only a little one.

Yes, this. Shout it quietly from the rooftops.

CompusMentus · 25th April 2023, 03:03 AM

Rothwell is a busy boy on Thursday night (27th April)

He is traipsing all the way to West London to star as guest medium at Fulham Spiritualist Church at 19:30 (GMT)

You can pop in on the Zoom meeting for this event.

Meeting ID: 689 400 7125
Password: FULHAM

Compus

Darat · 25th April 2023, 04:47 AM

Originally Posted by CompusMentus

Rothwell is a busy boy on Thursday night (27th April)

He is traipsing all the way to West London to star as guest medium at Fulham Spiritualist Church at 19:30 (GMT)

You can pop in on the Zoom meeting for this event.

Meeting ID: 689 400 7125
Password: FULHAM

Compus

Perhaps he'll start with a list and location of all the missing people that he found last week?

And yes I know I am being unfair, I know he doesn't claim to be able to find all missing people - but even just the dead ones his "gift" works on would be a comfort to many....

CompusMentus · 25th April 2023, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

Perhaps he'll start with a list and location of all the missing people that he found last week?

Yes and when I wake in the morning the Pope will be a Protestant

Compus

22nd April 2023, 01:19 AM	#2201
Vixen Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 32,715	Originally Posted by The Man That's just what those dang psychic cats want you to think. When a psychic cat bleps, that's when they do their dastardly mind control on you!!! Don't diss the cat.
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22nd April 2023, 01:27 AM	#2202
Vixen Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 32,715	Originally Posted by LondonJohn Eh????? That's like saying: when I ask you what sort of chair you have, you say "a blue chair", and you declaring that the "blue" in "blue chair" is suddenly a noun. You're simply wrong. If one makes a distinction between different categorisations of crime, and one chooses to label one "serious crime" and the other "minor crime" (capitalisations or not), this doesn't somehow magically change the words "serious" and "minor" into nouns. They're still the same adjectives they always were. My post referred to SIO Smith's area of speciality. So, to aid comprehension, think of the Traffic Police. We have the Road Traffic Act. So far, so good? Under the auspices of the Road Traffic Act we have minor traffic offences and more serious ones. Does that make sense? Likewise, under the Serious Crime Act we have - out of a whole range of crimes that fall under this umbrella - minor serious crimes (such as wounding with intent) and then we have the more grave ones, such as international drug smuggling, of which SIO Smith has been the successful participant in cracking down on in Blackpool. Are you still following? To make the comparison clear, the fact of a minor traffic offence does not in any way equate to a minor serious crime. However, in the grand scheme of things an offence under the Road Traffic Act being dealt with by Traffic Police will rarely equate in terms of court sentencing and gravity to an offence under the Serious Crime Act. The term 'minor' refers only to the category under which it comes. Your claim that there cannot be such a thing as a minor serious crime is thus dismissed.
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22nd April 2023, 01:30 AM	#2203
Vixen Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 32,715	Originally Posted by Georg Well, I did not ask what you would see as such, I asked for citations to find out if anyone else besides you uses those expressions. Seems like no one does (not too big a surprise). Are you really wondering why you are not taken seriously to even a minor degree? Here is a good place for you to come up to speed. https://www.scribbr.com/nouns-and-pr...0other%20media.
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22nd April 2023, 02:56 AM	#2205
Mojo Mostly harmless Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Nor Flanden Posts: 37,090	Originally Posted by Vixen 'Minor' doesn't cancel out the proper noun 'serious' within the context of something labelled 'Serious Crime'. Thus, it is possible to have a bad Good Friday, a low High Court, a short Life Sentence, a slow Quick Step, etc., etc. (I know the 'Good' here doesn't actually mean 'good'.) Originally Posted by Alderbank 'serious' is not a proper noun. A proper noun is the name for a specific place, person or thing. They are easy to recognise in English because proper nouns are always capitalised to distinguish them from common nouns. It's not even a noun. It's an adjective. Originally Posted by Vixen Wrong. Quote: A proper noun is a noun that serves as the name for a specific place, person, or thing. To distinguish them from common nouns, proper nouns are always capitalized in English. Proper nouns include personal names, place names, names of companies and organizations, and the titles of books, films, songs, and other media. https://www.scribbr.com/nouns-and-pr...0other%20media. "Serious Crime Agency" is a proper noun; "serious crime" is a compound noun; "serious" is an adjective. "Serious" on its own is only a proper noun if you're talking about the Luther Allison album, or something like that. Quote: In the context of my post re SIO Rebecca Smith I very clearly referred to Serious and Organised Crime - note the capitalisation. I assume you are familiar with organisations having a 'Human Resources' department or a 'Logistics' department. = Proper Noun. The Lancashire Police have one under the auspices of Serious Crime. Can you supply any information about this entity called "Serious Crime" that you say supports a department of Lancashire Police?
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22nd April 2023, 07:23 AM	#2206
Vixen Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 32,715	Originally Posted by Mojo "Serious Crime Agency" is a proper noun; "serious crime" is a compound noun; "serious" is an adjective. "Serious" on its own is only a proper noun if you're talking about the Luther Allison album, or something like that. Can you supply any information about this entity called "Serious Crime" that you say supports a department of Lancashire Police? I refer you to my original post in this matter.
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22nd April 2023, 02:27 AM	#2204
Lothian should be banned Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Earth, specifically the crusty bit on the outside Posts: 18,613	Originally Posted by Vixen Don't diss the cat. I can assure you, it is not the cat that is considered the idiot.

22nd April 2023, 07:25 AM	#2207
zooterkin Nitpicking dilettante Administrator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Berkshire, mostly Posts: 55,835	Originally Posted by Vixen I refer you to my original post in this matter. This one? Originally Posted by Vixen It's what I heard, although I don't know how true it is. Might have been in an intelligence gathering role. For a standard missing person investigation it seems unusual to me as a layperson that the SIO brought in is generally associated with Serious Organised and associated Crime; drug smuggling and what have you. It could just be that the family were seen as 'high profile', hence the top brains assigned to it.
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22nd April 2023, 07:45 AM	#2208
Thermal Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: In the Troll Ignoring Section Posts: 22,683	Ok I don't mean to backpedal the discussion but the cats were not just psychic, but they are proven to have the abilities of a medium to channel human ghosts, even though they are small animals?? Would that make them small medium highly clairvoyants?
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22nd April 2023, 07:48 AM	#2209
Mojo Mostly harmless Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Nor Flanden Posts: 37,090	Originally Posted by zooterkin This one? That doesn't fit, because it's a department of Lancashire Police. Vixen was talking about a department of Lancashire Police being under the patronage of something called "Organised Crime".
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22nd April 2023, 07:50 AM	#2210
Vixen Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 32,715	Originally Posted by zooterkin This one? No. We were discussing the term 'minor serious crime' in direct respect of SIO Smith, then heading the Lancashire Police Serious and Organised Crime. That one.
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23rd April 2023, 06:47 AM	#2211
The Man Unbanned zombie poster Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY Posts: 17,571	Originally Posted by Vixen Don't diss the cat. Hey, it dissed me first by giving me a Kitté raspberry!! R.I.P Kitté 2006-2023
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23rd April 2023, 07:37 AM	#2212
Georg Graduate Poster Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bavaria, Germany Posts: 1,475	Originally Posted by Vixen Here is a good place for you to come up to speed. https://www.scribbr.com/nouns-and-pr...0other%20media. BS. I asked you for citations where someone besides you uses the expressions low High Court, or a short Life Sentence. Your link does not contain any, and the link you provided before doesn't either. It's not me who has to come up to speed. You pulled those expressions out of where the sun don't shine and are simply not able to admit it.
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23rd April 2023, 09:30 AM	#2213
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 109,678	Anyone got a link to how many of the 3,269.23 people who went missing in the previous week Rothwell has found this week?
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23rd April 2023, 11:01 AM	#2214
P.J. Denyer Philosopher Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 9,148	Originally Posted by Darat Anyone got a link to how many of the 3,269.23 people who went missing in the previous week Rothwell has found this week? The 0.23 must have been messy!
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23rd April 2023, 07:01 PM	#2215
Reformed Offlian Graduate Poster Join Date: Apr 2020 Location: USA Posts: 1,112	Originally Posted by Georg Are you really wondering why you are not taken seriously to even a minor degree? Not even to a substantial minor degree?

23rd April 2023, 10:54 PM	#2216
Georg Graduate Poster Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bavaria, Germany Posts: 1,475	Not sure. Let's have a major little discussion about it.
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24th April 2023, 04:32 AM	#2217
GlennB Loggerheaded, earth-vexing fustilarian Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Wales Posts: 29,740	It's a big deal, but only a little one.

24th April 2023, 06:24 PM	#2218
LondonJohn Penultimate Amazing Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 20,480	Originally Posted by GlennB It's a big deal, but only a little one. Yes, this. Shout it quietly from the rooftops.

25th April 2023, 03:03 AM	#2219
CompusMentus Waiting for the Worms Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Swansea UK Posts: 1,782	Rothwell is a busy boy on Thursday night (27th April) He is traipsing all the way to West London to star as guest medium at Fulham Spiritualist Church at 19:30 (GMT) You can pop in on the Zoom meeting for this event. Meeting ID: 689 400 7125 Password: FULHAM Compus
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25th April 2023, 04:47 AM	#2220
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 109,678	Originally Posted by CompusMentus Rothwell is a busy boy on Thursday night (27th April) He is traipsing all the way to West London to star as guest medium at Fulham Spiritualist Church at 19:30 (GMT) You can pop in on the Zoom meeting for this event. Meeting ID: 689 400 7125 Password: FULHAM Compus Perhaps he'll start with a list and location of all the missing people that he found last week? And yes I know I am being unfair, I know he doesn't claim to be able to find all missing people - but even just the dead ones his "gift" works on would be a comfort to many....
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25th April 2023, 11:03 AM	#2221
CompusMentus Waiting for the Worms Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Swansea UK Posts: 1,782	Originally Posted by Darat Perhaps he'll start with a list and location of all the missing people that he found last week? Yes and when I wake in the morning the Pope will be a Protestant Compus
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