it was the greatest location ever

[nicoladimaria]

http://maps.google.it/maps?ll=50.937369 ... &t=h&hl=it

[Jemo]

looks much easier like this than it was navigating around lol ..

who else was lost ?!

[Dominick Destruction]

HAHAHA! I think EVERYONE got lost at some point over the weekend trying to locate their way back to their chalets
Next year I'm taking a compass with me so I can at least know the general direction I need to go in!
I'll hold up my hands & admit that I got lost pretty much every time I tried to find my way back on fri & sat..it was only come sunday & monday that I'd worked it out & no longer got (as) lost

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[tartanhandbag]

agreed. i think i clocked on to where our own chalet was pretty fast, but it was when i was trying to find anything else that was the problem. i remember bumping into my mates and other people generally who had been looking for their chalet for literally hours. i remember being hopelessly lost and stumbling across a section of chalet's that didn't even have numbers on. it was then that i knew i was TRULY lost so i think the idea of a compass is a genius.

[Dominick Destruction]

I vote we all get issued with a novelty 'Bang Face Compass' next year when we pick up the chalet keys!
Yeah I came accross so many poor lost souls as well who had been lost for ages! I think the longest I got lost for was about 30 mins or so...felt like an eternity though -_-
This place with the no Chalet numbers was where the staff lived I think...I ended up stumbling into that block as well & being royally confussed

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[Sperge]

It may have been the best party ever... but that Pontin's camp sure as hell looks grim from the air.

[ThE99THReDBallooN]

it does have that eerie consentration camp feel dosent it......

[bongobil1]

u vill rave or die

[Beatmonkey]

Whats german for raveing???

"Raveing Macht Frei"

[Sperge]

Whats german for raveing???

"Raveing Macht Frei"

Well, the English for "raveing" is raving.

And, according to the highly reliable (cough) Babelfish translator, the German for raving is... "raving". So yes, Pontins should have 'Raving Macht Frei' over the camp gates, and maybe on the watchtowers too.

And if you get caught by security with ravehorns or something naughtier at night, the security can say "For you, Tommy, ze rave iss over!"

[ferg]

they do look like bunkers from the air..

i wonder if the glowsticks were visible from the air post-rave?

[baldmosher]

Whats german for raveing???

"Raveing Macht Frei"

Well, the English for "raveing" is raving.

And, according to the highly reliable (cough) Babelfish translator, the German for raving is... "raving". So yes, Pontins should have 'Raving Macht Frei' over the camp gates, and maybe on the watchtowers too.

And if you get caught by security with ravehorns or something naughtier at night, the security can say "For you, Tommy, ze rave iss over!"

Babelfish just spunks back whatever you throw at it if it doesn't know what the translated word should be.

To sound correct in German it would have to be spelled Räwing.

http://cms.ifa.de/en/foerderprogramme/rave-foundation/

[WaveyRaveyDavey]

You could almost imagine scenes from 'The Great Escape'...

Gymnasts near the perimeter fence, vaulting horses as tunnels were dug, geezers milling about whistling and dropping soil down trouser legs (eh?)

Yes.

They would do anything to get in.

But only we know of the hardships endured by the brave souls interred in the notorious Pontiz..

[Sperge]

Whats german for raveing???

"Raveing Macht Frei"

Well, the English for "raveing" is raving.

And, according to the highly reliable (cough) Babelfish translator, the German for raving is... "raving". So yes, Pontins should have 'Raving Macht Frei' over the camp gates, and maybe on the watchtowers too.

And if you get caught by security with ravehorns or something naughtier at night, the security can say "For you, Tommy, ze rave iss over!"

Babelfish just spunks back whatever you throw at it if it doesn't know what the translated word should be.

To sound correct in German it would have to be spelled Räwing.

http://cms.ifa.de/en/foerderprogramme/rave-foundation/

I'm well aware of the limitations of Babelfish, hence the sarcasm in my words "according to the highly reliable (cough) Babelfish translator".

However, I'm also aware that the umlauted form of A is pronounced "ee" as in tree. So it would not sound correct at all if it was spelled "Räwing". I'm not quite sure how a website about the Alexander Rave Foundation is supposed to back up your non-point either. How do you manage to be so consistently wrong while trying to sound authoritative, Tom?

[lahmjpowder]

I went missing on Sunday night. The last thing i remember is leaving our friends chalet and then having to navigate my way round that maze of chalets at god knows what time. Then next thing I knew i woke up on the floor of my chalet with loads of missed calls on my phone and my friend saying that she nearly sent out a search party for me because I'd not been seen for hours.


And your right. It does look like a concentration camp from above.

[leah]

However, I'm also aware that the umlauted form of A is pronounced "ee" as in tree. So it would not sound correct at all if it was spelled "Räwing". I'm not quite sure how a website about the Alexander Rave Foundation is supposed to back up your non-point either. How do you manage to be so consistently wrong while trying to sound authoritative, Tom?

handbags at the ready...

[leah]

i think it looks more communist than nazi.

i can't think of a communist slogan to beat 'raving macht frei' tho'

[Sperge]

i can't think of a communist slogan to beat 'raving macht frei' tho'

"You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs" - attributed (probably wrongly) to Stalin

[baldmosher]

However, I'm also aware that the umlauted form of A is pronounced "ee" as in tree.

Not in German it isn't. Not sure which language you're referring to but the equivalent English spelling for the German word without an Umlaut would be spelled and pronounced "ae"

I refer you to cheese as a Käse example

I'm not quite sure how a website about the Alexander Rave Foundation is supposed to back up your non-point either.

It doesn't, it's just a link I found. I thought it was quite funny

[maternal buzzin]

I have an umlaut in my surname. Either way, no one ever pronounces it or spells it correctly, even when it is spelt out to them very very slowly

[Sperge]

However, I'm also aware that the umlauted form of A is pronounced "ee" as in tree.

Not in German it isn't. Not sure which language you're referring to but the equivalent English spelling for the German word without an Umlaut would be spelled and pronounced "ae"

Germans don't pronounce "ae" to rhyme with "rave". The English pronunciation of "ae" is usually "ee" anyway, e.g. encyclopaedia, paedophile... Not sure where the source that gave the German "ae" as rhyming with tree came from now, other sources give it as "e" as in "bet".

Take for example the pronunciation of ständig - http://www.clip2go.com/deutsch-englisch ... g_6229.htm (click the little speaker icon), better still go to http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abini ... welae.html

I see what you're getting at in that some words with ä are pronounced a little more like "hey" - but that's still not the same as the pronunciation of rave, except to a very untrained ear.

[baldmosher]

Some of them are pronounced like the "e" in "end", so I guess the subsequent "e" (in rave) mutates the vowel further.

Räw would be pronounced "rev" and räwing would be pronounced "rey-ving".

I see what you're getting at in that some words with ä are pronounced a little more like "hey" - but that's still not the same as the pronunciation of rave, except to a very untrained ear.

??

The pronunciation of the a in "rave" is PRECISELY the same as the "ey" in hey! How on Earth do you pronounce "rave" in Yorkshire?? Oh actually sorry, it's "rairve" or "reurve" up there isn't it! Yer weirdors. Geeyor. No wonder yer cnfuzd.

[maternal buzzin]

My name can be written Präg or Praeg - as to the pronunciation.......

[Sperge]

The pronunciation of the a in "rave" is PRECISELY the same as the "ey" in hey! How on Earth do you pronounce "rave" in Yorkshire?? Oh actually sorry, it's "rairve" or "reurve" up there isn't it! Yer weirdors. Geeyor. No wonder yer cnfuzd.

I'm not from Yorkshire, you div, I'm from Blackburn. And if you think those WAVs sound like the English "ay", you're being very gä.

[pd2h]

Ve must vatch out vor zee Germans (am a little lost in this thread) they have vays of making you talk!!!