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Its Mad Friday!

For those of you who don’t know, perhaps because the tradition, much like Mischief Night, hasn’t managed to spread its wings far from the Grim North where it began, I’ll explain a little about Mad Friday.

Mad Friday is the Friday before Christmas. It is the day that all of the local tradesmen traditionally finish for their Christmas holidays at lunch time.

Hence, much of Mad Friday’s madness (Mad, in this instance, means mad in the lunatic sense, not the American angry sense) is alcohol related.

Yes, that’s right, the fine fellows who work their fingers to the bone all year round have the afternoon off on Mad Friday, and can think of no better way to spend it than tearing around from pub-to-pub consuming as much as possible.

Most of the Mad Friday name-tag comes from this suicidal race to consume alcohol, though there has to be a little left over for the fighting. For fighting is surely a feature of such an amassed number of drunkards the world over.

Mad Friday is legendary in this part of the world. So legendary, in fact, that the tradition hasn’t managed to get out – everyone is having too much madness and hilarity ever to bother to leave and take the Mad Friday spirit elsewhere.

That, or they just tripped over a bollard on the way.