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“Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979”

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Scarfolk 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...

[2] https://vimeo.com/62218296

I've lost count of the number of times I've watched through that first series. So awesome.

Some 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-politic...

[2] http://scarfolk.blogspot.it/2013/05/the-dont-campaign-and-ka...

[3] http://scarfolk.blogspot.it/2015/08/thought-policy-leaflet-1...

The pop culture blog Dangerous Minds did a piece about this a while ago: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/welcome_to_scarfolk_the_m....

He he. This is sort of satire is so wonderfully British...

Like all good satire it's borne out of real life. The resentment for an authority that regards common people with contempt seers through this.

Please remember that 1 in 4 people make up nearly a third of the population. For more information please reread

If that wasn't your own thought you'll need to hand it in to the Council.

This is satire. Scarfolk is a fictional town.

Dunno. I'm pretty sure I drove through it once. Pub was awful.

It'll have been a local pub, for local people.

I 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

Framley 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

Fun factoid: Growing up, I always thought The Ruttles were from Framley. Imagine my embarrassment...

Some of it is pretty spot on. the Pelican science books especially are great.

This reads like a British version of Welcome to Night Vale.

Exactly what I was thinking :)

Seems somewhat in the same vein as The Prisoner.

Anyone 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

Very nice graphic design, though!

Hilarious

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