Happy Arthur Day, everyone! Today is a day in Ireland celebrating Arthur Guinness. Funny thing is this "holiday" was only started 5 years ago by Guinness as an advertising gimmick. At 17:59 (5:59pm) everyone raises their glasses to toast to Arthur to commemorate the year he started his brewery. The day is controversial in Ireland as a lot of doctors site the creation of the holiday as the cause of a large increase in ambulance call outs due to alcohol. Doctors also point to advertising gimmicks like this as part of the increase in the last decade of liver disease. I got all these great stats listening to lunchtime talk radio at community service today. So of course later I had to see what all the fuss was about. I'm a sucker, I bought a cheap pint and toasted to good ol' Arthur. As to whether or not Arthur day is a good thing to have around as "tradition", the jury's still out.
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