Talk:Black Friday (partying)

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Black Friday, or Mad Friday, or Black Eye Friday
To minimise the damage that could be caused by an edit-war, we should discuss which should be the primary phrase used to describe this event, and then if an agreement is reached, change the title of the page too. In my opinion Black Friday is preferred and most common used by national broadcasters, but its potential confusion with the shopping event is the primary worry. Any ideas? BananaBork (talk) 15:04, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Personally I've only ever heard it referred to as Mad Friday exclusively, but I'd be cautious about asserting anything too strongly since this is the kind of thing I suspect is strongly regional in nature - I'm in NW England as a data point. More opinions are needed here - the usual resort to Google hit counts won't reveal anything helpful here since the terms are too ambiguous. 3142 (talk) 12:03, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Dates not set in stone
This article proceeds from a false starting point: Mad Friday is the day when the office parties are out in force, this is not determined by a simple algorithm. Usually it is the Friday before Christmas but if that date is too close to Christmas it tends to move to the Friday before that simply because too many people have the day off (or are already on Christmas holidays) on the later date. That is the case this year: Mad Friday was yesterday, not next week. I can confirm this from my own experience - the city centre was chaos last night - and from media reports: 3142 (talk) 12:43, 17 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I suspect that you are right. You should reword the article to be more accurate - though I am sure the true dates can still be calculated by a simple algorithm :D BananaBork (talk) 21:30, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

I have amended the definition to say "the Friday before Christmas Eve", but it seems plausible that 23 December is seen as too near Christmas to have the work night out by some people. The assertion that "Mad Friday was ... not next week" is (not just semantically) nonsensical: The writer did not even wait until 23 December to check this. Perhaps 23rd was madder than 16th - how can anyone be sure? Perhpsa it varied from place to place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.46.163.160 (talk) 12:06, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

History
The article claims that name Mad Friday is something that began to be used in about 2013. As someone who's worked in the licensed trade in Yorkshire for over a decade now, that's the term that's always been used to describe it for at least as long as I've been around. -  Chrism  would like to hear from you 19:12, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Misleading article?
The implication of the article is that 'Black Friday/Black-Eye Friday/Mad Friday' are phrases that are generally understood throughout the UK. But in fact it seems to be very much a regional thing, with the majority of the population (who live in the south of England) not using them/being aware of them - see here, for example. If that's accurate, the article should be updated (with refs) to make this clear. -- Hux (talk) 22:58, 2 December 2020 (UTC)