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January 16, 2006 at U2389166. Maybe they have two different accounts?

That is most queer. Perhaps another bug in the code?

A8124130 - Hogmanay - the Scottish New Year

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It's not a bug - it's affected by subscriptions to busy forums - the site only checks back a few pages to see when you last posted to show a date on the personal space, so if your space is full of, say, PR threads, then your last posting will be pushed quite far back, then retrieved when someone posts again to a conversation you've posted to, bring that back to the front of your list.

Does that make sense?

It's possible get a 'no recent postings' very quickly by subscribing to Ask h2g2 and PR.

...and that changes it from a bug to a feature-with-workaround

oh I hope this isn't going to the FM...

one thing which confused me is in the History & Origins part (last sentence of the 2nd para)

"The celebrations were forced to go underground during the Interregnum under Oliver Cromwell, who banned Christmas in 1651, but it re-emerged in the late 17th Century."

Up to then we're talking mostly about New Year, with a bit of Christmas for timing and context, but it's made clear that Hogmanay is unrelated to Christmas. Then we get ol Warty Nose banning Christmas. What has this to do with Hogmanay? Or were all knees-ups banned then? (which I can quite believe)

apart from that, and the wee imbalance between the parts about Edinburgh and Glasgow, I think this is super.

I think the implication is that because there was no Christmas, all the feelings of festivity were focussed around New Year rather than a mix between the two

Yes, but what I understood from that was that since Christmas had been banned - even though Hogmanay was separate - that was banned too.

It doesn't quite fit with the previous assertion that Hogmanay is quite separate from Christmas.

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