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“Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979”
- dang 11y agoThe pop culture blog Dangerous Minds did a piece about this a while ago: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/welcome_to_scarfolk_the_most_twisted_english_village_of_the_1970s http://dangerousminds.net/comments/welcome_to_scarfolk_the_m....
- metakermit 11y agoHe he. This is sort of satire is so wonderfully British...
- branchless 11y agoLike all good satire it's borne out of real life. The resentment for an authority that regards common people with contempt seers through this.
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- kintamanimatt 11y agoThis is satire. Scarfolk is a fictional town.
- russellallen 11y agoDunno. I'm pretty sure I drove through it once. Pub was awful.
- arethuza 11y agoIt'll have been a local pub, for local people.
- twic 11y agoI remember my mother used to take me on summer holidays to Scarfolk when i'd been bad. It was quite a long drive up from Framley: http://www.framleyexaminer.com/pages/prop001 http://www.framleyexaminer.com/pages/prop001
- ljf 11y agoFramley Examiner is amazing, I remember properly laughing out loud in the office when I first read the tech section of their site www.framleyexaminer.com/museum/technology.html
- WaxProlix 11y agoFun factoid: Growing up, I always thought The Ruttles were from Framley. Imagine my embarrassment...
- DanBC 11y agoSome of it is pretty spot on. the Pelican science books especially are great.
- paddyoloughlin 11y agoSome of my favourites: Watch out! There's a politician about [1] Whatever you do: DON'T [2] Thought policy [3] [1] http://scarfolk.blogspot.it/2015/05/watch-out-theres-politician-about.html http://scarfolk.blogspot.it/2015/05/watch-out-theres-politic... [2] http://scarfolk.blogspot.it/2013/05/the-dont-campaign-and-kak-1973.html http://scarfolk.blogspot.it/2013/05/the-dont-campaign-and-ka... [3] http://scarfolk.blogspot.it/2015/08/thought-policy-leaflet-1976.html http://scarfolk.blogspot.it/2015/08/thought-policy-leaflet-1...
- GauntletWizard 11y agoThis reads like a British version of Welcome to Night Vale.
- clentaminator 11y agoExactly what I was thinking :)
- codeulike 11y agoPlease remember that 1 in 4 people make up nearly a third of the population. For more information please reread
- arethuza 11y agoIf that wasn't your own thought you'll need to hand it in to the Council.
- huac 11y agoVery nice graphic design, though!
- hckr1292 11y agoHilarious
- mattkevan 11y agoScarfolk is amazing - the design is so well done. The 'Discovering Scarfolk' book is a thing of wonder [1]. Can I also recommend the first series of 'Look Around You' [2], for more 70s British strangeness. Thanks ants. Thants. [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discovering-Scarfolk-Richard-Littler/dp/0091958482 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discovering-Scarfolk-Richard-Littler... [2] https://vimeo.com/62218296 https://vimeo.com/62218296
- ionised 11y agoI've lost count of the number of times I've watched through that first series. So awesome.
- jimmcslim 11y agoSeems somewhat in the same vein as The Prisoner.
- neotek 11y agoAnyone who enjoys this should absolutely watch This Is Jinsy[1], a British TV show based on essentially the same lines. It's surreal, whimsical, lo-fi, and utterly hilarious. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_is_Jinsy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_is_Jinsy