On Good Friday in 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." Instead, they played piano music. (They were probably all gathered around the water cooler). In England, in pubs or bars, you can have drinks but you are not allowed to get drunk and in Scotland you are on the wrong side of the law if you are drunk and in possession of a cow. (So, perhaps safer to drink water, but watch out for that...

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