Editing Thursday (section)

===Conventional weekly events===
In Australia, most cinema movies premieres are held on Thursdays. Also, most Australians are paid on a Thursday, either weekly or fortnightly. Shopping malls see this as an opportunity to open longer than usual, generally until 9 pm, as most pay cheques are cleared by Thursday morning.

In Norway, Thursday has also traditionally been the day when most shops and malls are open later than on the other weekdays, although the majority of shopping malls now are open until 8 pm or 9 pm every weekday.

In the USSR of the 1970s and 1980s Thursday was the "Fish Day" ({{langx|ru|[[:ru:Рыбный день|Рыбный день]]}}, ''Rybny den''), when the nation's [[foodservice]] establishments were supposed to serve fish (rather than meat) dishes.<ref>{{citation
|first1=Irina |last1=Petrosian|first2= David |last2=Underwood|year=2006
|isbn=1-4116-9865-7|title=Armenian Food: Fact, Fiction & Folklore|series=Armenian Research Center collection
|edition=2|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=0oXYX9Qzx9oC&pg=PA115
|page=115}}</ref>

For college and university students, Thursday is sometimes referred to as the new Friday. There are often fewer or sometimes no classes on Fridays and more opportunities to hold parties on Thursday night and sleep in on Friday. As a consequence, some call Thursday "thirstday" or "thirsty Thursday".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/education/edlife/hafner.html?_r=1 | work=The New York Times | title=How Thursday Became the New Friday | first=Katie | last=Hafner | date=6 November 2005 | access-date=28 March 2010}}</ref>