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Hogmanay
- cf100clunk 4y agoAlternative link: https://wikiless.org/wiki/Hogmanay?lang=en https://wikiless.org/wiki/Hogmanay?lang=en
- j16sdiz 4y agobut why?
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoLooks like it gets rid of the "ask for money" screen.
- verdenti 4y ago[dead]
- cf100clunk 4y agoSome reasons for using WikiLess are suggested here. Chief among them is state-level censorship: https://github.com/Nangjing/wikiless/blob/main/README.md https://github.com/Nangjing/wikiless/blob/main/README.md
- astrange 4y agoThe idea that the NSA cares you’re reading the article for Hogmanay is a bit of a stretch. (Also, this isn’t an effective defense against them because they would sniff network traffic, not “infiltrate the destination server” which is detectable and anyway is a CDN. I think a caching proxy shared with other people would be more effective.)
- cf100clunk 4y ago> The idea that the NSA cares you’re reading the article for Hogmanay is a bit of a stretch. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=I+Have+Nothing+To+Hide https://hn.algolia.com/?q=I+Have+Nothing+To+Hide > I think a caching proxy shared with other people would be more effective Thank you, that's food for thought. Happy Hogmanay, if that's a correct use of the term.
- chatmasta 4y agoHey, I know this holiday! It was one of the questions on the Life in the UK test. Finally I feel a little bit more British than the average HNer. Another fun fact, which is in the linked Wikipedia article but also inescapably in my head: Hogmanay traditions include singing the folk song "Auld Lang Syne" by the Scottish poet Robert Burns aka "The Bard" who wrote poems in the Scots language. Thanks to Anki I've retained this information and now I like to tell people trivial facts about British life every chance I get.
- WaxProlix 4y agoIn general, the Scots would not appreciate being called British, or lumped in with the British. So if you find yourself making use of this retained information in mixed company (ie, with a Scotsman) be sure to remember that Scottish != British.
- wombatpm 4y agoThis reads like a No True Scotsman argument
- kazinator 4y agoScotland is part of Great Britain. The "British" adjective basically denotes anything under Britain. The Scottish language isn't in the Brittonic family. It is Anglic. However, English is also Anglic and not Brittonic, yet the English don't mind calling themselves British. Go figure.
- flir 4y agoSo which people(s) do you think are British, then?
- dboreham 4y agoNot sure how true a scotsman you are but I never heard that. It's fine to be called British, because (at least for now) that's accurate. What annoys scots is to be called English. Perhaps you're thinking of the issue with sports reporting? (Where a Scottish athlete who wins is called British by the English press but when they lose they're Scottish?)
- splatzone 4y agoIt's funny seeing Hogmanay on HN. It's such a basic fact of life in Scotland, it's like seeing the wikipedia article for Christmas on the front page
- LeoPanthera 4y agoJoking aside, the history of Christmas is genuinely quite fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#History
- dingaling 4y agoParticularly in Scotland, where celebrating Christmas was technically illegal until 1958
- smcl 4y agoIt was made a bank holiday in Scotland in 1871. So I imagine if it was "technically illegal" it would've been some antiquated law along the lines of those "you can kill a welshman within the city limits on a Sunday" ones that would not have been enforced for centuries.
- connorlu 4y agoIf anyone from HN is visiting Edinburgh for Hogmanay, a great view of the fireworks can be had from the top of Calton Hill in the centre of the city. The best way to get up is the set of steps next to Howies on Regent Road.
- iMark 4y agoThe view from Inverness Park is also pretty great.
- smarri 4y agoInverleith Park? Great view
- flumpcakes 4y agoHasn't that been blocked off for the last 5 years? Can't have any freeloaders getting a good view of the fireworks. Along with putting up boards along Prince's street and now completely blocking off the entire city center with barricades unless you pay to get in, this period seems quite anti-citizen.
- connorlu 4y agoMaybe! I haven't been into town for Hogmanay for about that long :) Another good spot used to be the Vennel steps beside Heriot's, but it has become a popular Instagram/TikTok spot recently so might be busy.
- lotophage 4y agoThe first time I heard about this a friend told me that they had been to an Edinburgh celebration and everyone was blind drunk. People would line up shot glasses of Scotch on the curb and you could buy them off them by the foot. This was about 25 years ago, I'm not sure if this still holds true.
- _Wintermute 4y agoI doubt it, Edinburgh Hogmanay is extremely commercialised now by events companies.
- salgernon 4y agoTerry Pratchett’s Discworld has a christmas santa analogue called the “Hogfather” - essentially the anthropomorphic personification of the winter solstice. I’d never heard of Hogmanay before - but I can’t help but feel it must have fed into his narrative mythology. Some day I hope we as a species can come together in unity to declare the solstice celebrations on their actual solar day instead of smeared messily around those dates, based on arbitrary religions. Metric holidays.
- olivermarks 4y agoGiven how seminal to life on our planet the winter solstice is, I'm surprised the moment and subsequent three days is not more celebrated. https://www.britannica.com/science/winter-solstice https://www.britannica.com/science/winter-solstice In dark northern places like Scotland (Hogmanay) Scandinavia (Santa Lucia) this turning point is a profound and important part of life. Christmas etc was overlaid on this ancient awareness. The Roman calendar 'new years eve' has always felt fake and depressing to me (Let's celebrate the start of a new tax year!) but I always feel something emotional at the solstice moment when the planet stops its tilt and a literal new cycle begins.