More:
I, too, can get to p. 2 but see no posts in flat, but saw them all ( I guess!) in threaded, and tsuwm, I found that at last there is one thing we stand united on: hatred of threaded mode.
P. 1 will not let me go back, but p. 2 WILL let me go forward, to the first 11 posts of "What's the Word?", and back to Hair Do (one page) and probably beyond.
My BROWSER'S back arrow is inoperative (when I first get to the parallel u.). But if I hit Q & A, it takes me to---
the REAL Q & A! BU-u-ut--if I click back from there, I can then return to the parallel universe thread.

I sent myself a private message from each of the two worlds,
and both showed up in both.