hogmanay

The idea that the NSA cares you’re reading the article for Hogmanay is a bit of a stretch.

A fun place to spend Hogmanay (if things are open by then)!

I’d never heard of Hogmanay before - but I can’t help but feel it must have fed into his narrative mythology.

> The idea that the NSA cares you’re reading the article for Hogmanay is a bit of a stretch.

I doubt it, Edinburgh Hogmanay is extremely commercialised now by events companies.

Having had some personal experience in hugely dense crowds (like the Edinburgh Hogmanay Street Party[1]) it does indeed feel exactly like being carried along in a shoulders-deep irresistible flow of people.

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.

> Black compared the left thumb in the picture with the Hogmanay image and found matching details, including an unusually shaped lunule, the white area at the base of the nail.

So the Police choose what laws they enforce according to their own agenda, and with PartyGate back over Xmas, the Scottish Police decided to arrest/prosecute someone who tweeted Nicola Sturgeon's residence address as a Scottish Hogmanay party was arrested under the malicious communications act because Nicola Sturgeon's residential address declared for political reasons is actually a relative's of her's.

> A key photo - later known as "the Hogmanay image" - showed one of the two ringleaders, Neil Strachan, 41, attempting to rape an 18-month-old boy whom he was babysitting on New Year's Eve....

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.

Hogmanay (New Year's Eve) falls just after the day with the latest sunrise.

It's the day after the day you spend recovering from Hogmanay...

Happy Hogmanay, if that's a correct use of the term.