Thread: Black Eye Friday

We have that here in Wales Kev, especially in the South Wales valleys we just call it black Friday, I'm now 54 I no longer take part in black Friday, but in my younger days It was one of my very favourite days out, while my brother Celts were pasting seven shades of shit out of each other I could usually be caught cavorting with some rather attractive and delicious looking female, yes I know as I've always said yes Sir I'm a lover not a fighter.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

We have that here in Wales Kev, especially in the South Wales valleys we just call it black Friday, I'm now 54 I no longer take part in black Friday, but in my younger days It was one of my very favourite days out, while my brother Celts were pasting seven shades of shit out of each other I could usually be caught cavorting with some rather attractive and delicious looking female, yes I know as I've always said yes Sir I'm a lover not a fighter.

Some of the pubs here have tried to commercialise it in recent years and rebranded it a Black Friday but we still use the real name.
In the pub I go to you'd be hard pressed to find a woman on BFE, maybe later that night.

Black Eyed Friday passed with no real incident or damage on my part.
Spent the day in the pub, drank some pretty awful beer and staggered home with a Chinese takeaway that appeased the wife.
Good times

Glad you made it back in one piece, why did you choose the awful beer and not something decent?

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Glad you made it back in one piece, why did you choose the awful beer and not something decent?

To be honest the only beer they had that wasn't a fizzy sugar water they called lager was Guinness. And I wasn't in the mood for Guinness but something a bit lighter. In the end I drank vodka.
For a nation that loves our beer the quality of stuff we sell in most pubs is atrocious.

Originally Posted by Bigirishkev

Traditionally men finish work early on that day and head straight to the pub. The night can often end with a good old fashioned bar room brawl, hence the black eye.
Does this exist outside Ireland?

Guess every friday is a sort of a black friday here, more or less. At least there's no difference between this friday and any other fridays of the year.
Some pubs in the city have pretty wide selection of beers available but in the only pub in my home village they have only few local lagers.

Not any more these days but back then say 20 years ago men at the local shipyards went on strike almost every friday for whatever reasons to get to the pub early. Those days are long gone now. Folks at the local navy & army bases started drinking at job early on the friday mornings and then we had drunken soldiers around the city. Navy and army folks having fights with each other. Fridays were busy days for coast guard mp's. Those days are almost gone as well. Still happens every now and then.

Originally Posted by Sailor

Guess every friday is a sort of a black friday here, more or less. At least there's no difference between this friday and any other fridays of the year.
Some pubs in the city have pretty wide selection of beers available but in the only pub in my home village they have only few local lagers.

Not any more these days but back then say 20 years ago men at the local shipyards went on strike almost every friday for whatever reasons to get to the pub early. Those days are long gone now. Folks at the local navy & army bases started drinking at job early on the friday mornings and then we had drunken soldiers around the city. Navy and army folks having fights with each other. Fridays were busy days for coast guard mp's. Those days are almost gone as well. Still happens every now and then.

I think the main difference between black eye Friday and a normal Friday here is that people who rarely drink also spend the day in the pub. To be honest they are where most of the black eyes happen.
I see you're in Finland, I was always under the impression that alcohol was so expensive there that no one could afford to get drunk!

Originally Posted by Bigirishkev

I think the main difference between black eye Friday and a normal Friday here is that people who rarely drink also spend the day in the pub. To be honest they are where most of the black eyes happen.
I see you're in Finland, I was always under the impression that alcohol was so expensive there that no one could afford to get drunk!

What it comes to drinking, only special day here is maybe midsummer eve. For some reasons it's much more significant than xmas. And what's best: it's impossible to commercialize. Of course the xmas is pretty big thing these days as well.

Alcohol used to be expensive but not so much any more. The taxes have gone down and average earnings have gone up. And the politics have huge pressures to lower the taxes even more. I'm not sure if it's good or bad.
Fridays are quite jungles out there, i mean the positive way. Haven't been out in the city life for some time now but happens few times a year with my work mates. Too many temptations for a weak mind i guess I rather visit the local with wifey and/or neighbours to get few beers and watch the soccer from a big screen.

I work at the navy and when not in the sea i work as an watch guard nco at the base. 24 hrs work 72 off. I have more than enough experiences on wrestling with the matrosen coast guard mp's or cops bring back to the base from the wild friday night in the city

Originally Posted by Bigirishkev

To be honest the only beer they had that wasn't a fizzy sugar water they called lager was Guinness. And I wasn't in the mood for Guinness but something a bit lighter. In the end I drank vodka.
For a nation that loves our beer the quality of stuff we sell in most pubs is atrocious.

What is interesting that there's big differences between Guinness quality. While i was in London with wifey, Guiness tasted very different than what i've used to almost everywhere else. Almost needed spoon the get it from the glass at the pubs we used to go there.

Originally Posted by Sailor

What is interesting that there's big differences between Guinness quality. While i was in London with wifey, Guiness tasted very different than what i've used to almost everywhere else. Almost needed spoon the get it from the glass at the pubs we used to go there.

We always say that Guinness doesn't travel well and the further from Dublin the worse it gets.
But to be honest it's more about how much it's drunk in a particular pub. Guinness doesn't like to sit in the pipes. If you are in a pub were the Guinness is flowing near constantly like it does in many Dublin pubs, then you get a much smother pint.

And if any batman ever draws a shamrock in you pint you are legally allowed to slap him!