To wonder what you call " Black eye Friday"?

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Posting here for traffic.

Inspired by another thread.

Many there wondering what " black eye Friday " is.

Here in the North East of England, it's the last working Friday before Christmas, everyone out on the pop including the once a year amatuer drinkers and the first timers cluttering the bar ordering their port and lemon.

Black eye Friday because so many people get in a right state and end up in a scuffle and getting a black eye.

Last year was very quiet. Only saw 2 fights.

Im from North Yorkshire and have heard it called Builders Friday and Black Eye Friday. DH is a Londoner and has never heard of it.

Mad Friday in NW. We have our work's xmas do in town then 😲

Mad Friday - Scotland

😂😎🌻

Mad Friday here (Merseyside)

West Yorkshire - Builders Friday

Never heard an expression for the last Friday before Christmas because nearly everyone works until Christmas Eve here. Also work parties are any time from mid November until well into January depending on when you get a booking. Never heard of people going out and getting drunk the Friday before Christmas particularly despite living in 4 different cities (none in the north though)

Black Eye Friday. Couldn't pay me to go out on that night, no thank you.

Never heard a special phrase for it. Kent.

It’s the combination of male blue-collar and white-collar workers. Usually, the chirpy white-collar workers ended up being clobbered by the blue-collar workers.
Hasn't Mad Friday died a death now?

South East. I'd only ever call it the last Friday before christmas to be honest, no special name.

I'm from the North east of Scotland, those that are over 40 call it the piece bagger (traditionally people left from work and went straight to the pub so still have their piece bag (lunch box) ), those under 40 call it Mad Friday.

It always had bad connotations for me. I'm from Northumberland, and in my 60's now, and it was a 'thing' when I was a child.
My granny used to hate Black eye Friday, so called because the pitmen would go out drinking, booze away their Christmas pay packet then come home and belt the complaining wife.
My grandad was lovely and never lifted a finger to my granny, but she was well used to comforting miner's waves trying to put food on the table over the festive period.

Lovely to see that it's now just a time of madness 😁

Never heard the term and lived in the UK 20yrs- in the South though.

Mad Friday here in the NW, I'd never heard of Mad Eye either until that thread 😊

Mad Friday in Yorkshire, I had never heard the term black eye Friday until the other post.

NE Scotland - "mad Friday" here.

West Yorkshire, builders Friday, all the building firms close for Xmas on the Friday and traditionally most go straight to a pub. Seems to be less of a thing since covid

Mad Friday here - I am in Scotland.

Never, ever heard of Black Eye Friday ( until the post the other day)

Always called it Black Friday in A&E/emergency services in south and west Wales - it was a reference to the fact that there’s lots of office parties on the last working Friday before Christmas so the night shift would be busy. We also had a “Black Friday night out” some years for people that weren’t on shift.

In recent years the term Black Friday has been used for a shopping thing that came over from the US hence the confusion.

Yes we always called it Black Friday when I was young in South Wales. A wild night out before more family orientated Christmas celebrations.

I'm midlands and never heard of it called anything. I'm east though, maybe you're west?

Builders Friday in West Midlands, Murder Friday in Glasgow and Mad Friday where I am (North West). Black-eye Friday used to make me laugh when I was younger.
Do people still go out and party wildly? I’m old and out of touch, so have no idea now 🤷‍♀️

I'm from SE England but have lived in Cumbria for 10 years and have never heard of it!

Depends on what part of Cumbria. In the (ex) industrial West, it's definitely a thing. Borrowdale...probably not.