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nicht nur Ballermann und Komasaufen

English translation: beach-front binge-drinking

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German term or phrase:Ballermann und Komasaufen
English translation:beach-front binge-drinking
Entered by: Stephanie Wloch

20:24 May 21, 2006
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Umgangssprachlich
German term or phrase: nicht nur Ballermann und Komasaufen
Es geht um der Deutschen liebste Insel: Mallorca. Ballermann ist ja Synonym geworden für alkoholbetonte Ferien von Jugendlichen, Kegelvereinen oder Leuten, die gerne mal auf den Putz hauen wollen.
Ballermann ist übrigens eine Verballhornung des Balneario 6 in Arenal. Balneario = Badeanstalt ;-)

Was wäre denn das Äquivalent der englischsprachigen Touristen? Ich meine, dass es in Palmanova/Magaluf auch ein bestimmtes Publikum (von der anderen Insel) gibt, dass auch solche Rituale wie Komasaufen kennt.

Der Text ist übrigens für mein Profil (Personalbereich) hier bestimmt.

LG Steffi
Stephanie Wloch
Germany
Local time: 13:31
beach-front binge-drinking // drink/booze-fuelled debauchery/mayhem/parties/excess
Explanation:
Sorry to add a second answer, but I've been trying in vain for half an hour to add the above to my first suggestion. And in the meantime, of course, Ingeborg's also suggested binge-drinking 8-/

- boozing and schmoozing
(which, shockingly, gets several hundered Googles)
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Francis Lee (X)
Local time: 13:31
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Vielen, vielen Dank! Du hast dir sehr viel Mühe gemacht. Auch deine Infos sind sehr interessant. Schönen Tag noch!
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2senseless partying and boozing
vic voskuil
3 +2more than just "drink 'til you drop"
Francis Lee (X)
4 +1lager louts
Craig Meulen
3 +1beach-front binge-drinking // drink/booze-fuelled debauchery/mayhem/parties/excess
Francis Lee (X)
4Not just the kiss-me-quick brigade and getting pissed every night
Lancashireman
3partying at all cost (ballermann) and binge drinking
Ingeborg Gowans (X)
3Yes, Virginia... there's more to life than surfin' and barfin'
Johanna Timm, PhD
3 -1.. not only Magaloofing and boozing
franglish


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Nicht nur Ballermann und Komasaufen.
partying at all cost (ballermann) and binge drinking


Explanation:
not sure about "Ballermann' but the binge drinking is referring to senseless drinking, as Olaf pointed out often associated with Spring break in the Us or at some instances "prom night" which wouldn't mean much to German speaking people I suppose.

Ingeborg Gowans (X)
Canada
Local time: 08:31
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Nicht nur Ballermann und Komasaufen.
senseless partying and boozing


Explanation:
or partying and boozing until senseless/legless/comatose

...i don´t know of any proper equivalent to ballermann, or maybe simply:

'not just beach clubs and boozing'


vic voskuil
Netherlands
Local time: 13:31
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Native speaker of: Dutch

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Francis Lee (X): oops - didnae see this!
8 hrs
agree  Rachel Ward
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Nicht nur Ballermann und Komasaufen.
Yes, Virginia... there's more to life than surfin' and barfin'


Explanation:
"Yes, Virginia, there is..." ist eine oft abgewandelte Anspielung auf den berühmten Artikel der NY Sun
Yes, Virginia, there is a santa Claus (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_ Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus )

Mit 'Surfing' kommt vielleicht die 'beach culture' rüber (aber surft man in Mallorca überhaupt?? und 'barfin' ...naja...

Da es um die unbekannteren und poetischeren Seiten der Insel geht, koenntest du auch statt 'life' "the island" order "Mallorca" schreiben.

bis bald in berlin!

Johanna Timm, PhD
Canada
Local time: 04:31
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Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 69
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Nicht nur Ballermann und Komasaufen.
.. not only Magaloofing and boozing


Explanation:
So this part of the island hasn't changed since I was there in the sixties...

franglish
Switzerland
Local time: 13:31
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  sylvie malich (X): "Magaloofing"... excuse me? Star Wars?
44 mins
  -> Magaluf is one of the Brits' turf with their pubs, nightclubs, strech of beach and generally the scene of their excesses. So a simple wordplay, Silvie!
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Nicht nur Ballermann und Komasaufen.
more than just "drink 'til you drop"


Explanation:
or, to quote the legendary Macc Lads from the north of England
- beer and sex and chips 'n' gravy
("chips" im Sinne von Pommes, versteht sich)

- senseless/excessive drinking and all-night partying/raves
- cocktails by the pint

Francis Lee (X)
Local time: 13:31
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 80

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Craig Meulen: ey'up! Aanother Macc Lads fan! Fancy that.
1 hr
  -> Ta - the system's refusing to let me add a note, so I'll use this space. So for the 8th time I'll try to add this: - drink/booze-fuelled debauchery/mayhem/parties/excess or - beach-front binge-drinking
agree  Stephen Sadie: nice, but not "fuelled" surely, frank!!
2 hrs
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Nicht nur Ballermann und Komasaufen.
lager louts


Explanation:
more than just raves and lager louts

The people who "drink until they drop" (komasaufen) are often called lager louts

Craig Meulen
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:31
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  Stephen Sadie: I like this, too
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Nicht nur Ballermann und Komasaufen.
beach-front binge-drinking // drink/booze-fuelled debauchery/mayhem/parties/excess


Explanation:
Sorry to add a second answer, but I've been trying in vain for half an hour to add the above to my first suggestion. And in the meantime, of course, Ingeborg's also suggested binge-drinking 8-/

- boozing and schmoozing
(which, shockingly, gets several hundered Googles)

Francis Lee (X)
Local time: 13:31
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 80
Grading comment
Vielen, vielen Dank! Du hast dir sehr viel Mühe gemacht. Auch deine Infos sind sehr interessant. Schönen Tag noch!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  vic voskuil: i do like the beach-front binge-drinking too!
1 hr
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Nicht nur Ballermann und Komasaufen
Not just the kiss-me-quick brigade and getting pissed every night


Explanation:
‘Kiss-me-quick’ is a reference to the temporary loosening of morals that often accompanies cheap booze.

http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/static/880/mi/588/p1550588.ht...
http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Travel/Tours/England/Blackpool....

Lovely resort, very Spanish - so no Brits getting pissed every night, its more tapas and red wine and chatting into the early hours - so if you're after mad night life give it a miss.
http://www.ifyouski.com/resorts/view/?objectid=132004&templa...
In Amstydam now, full of stoned, under-educated English and Canadian and Oz 20-somethings, and people with piercings and fancy sweaters. Everyone getting pissed every night, and stoned.
http://jeffwerner.ca/travel/index.html
If you like getting pissed every night, this is also the place to be (although for the likes of me who does not, the ensuing noise is rather disruptive).
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/universities/de-montfort-university-...
If you're looking for a place without the usual louts getting pissed every night then this place is great.
http://www.bugaustralia.com/reviews/Tasmania/Huon_Valley/aut...

Accommodation, things to do, where to eat. Avoid the kiss-me-quick brigade!
http://www.topoftheshops.co.uk/
The French love of beach holidays is celebrated in hotels and resorts that avoid the kiss-me-quick brigade.
http://travel.guardian.co.uk/countries/story/0,7451,1396477,...
I was in Puerto de la Cruz on Sunday and it was foggy and raining but at home it was 80. If you don't want the kiss me quick brigade on your hols you need to carefully select your apartment
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g187479-i153-k293948-Xm...

There is nothing ‘senseless’ about partying and the Mediterranean waves are not conducive to ‘surfin’.

This reminds me of a question I asked some time back in the EN>DE pair
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/1041705




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Note added at 23 hrs (2006-05-22 20:13:31 GMT)
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Perhaps the closest equivalent to 'Koma-' in BE would be 'getting paralytic' (not 'comatose').
The island in question ('bucket-and-spade mentality') was indeed Mallorca/Majorca.
The conjunction 'and' after 'brigade' is possibly redundant.

Lancashireman
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Local time: 12:31
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