[HN Gopher] Map of Pontypandy in Fireman Sam
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Map of Pontypandy in Fireman Sam
Author : kqr
Score : 76 points
Date : 2024-07-04 20:06 UTC (1 days ago)
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| cyberpunk wrote:
| It's weird, in the map it looks like the wholefish cafe is NOT
| currently on fire..
|
| I think the real life Pontypandy would have to contain rather a
| large amount of insurance investigators ;)
| ta1243 wrote:
| I dread to think what the council tax is to fund all that
| emergency equipment for a town of about 12 adults, most of whom
| work for the emergency services
| jnsie wrote:
| Imagine paying taxes knowing that it was that one kid (
| _cough_ norman _cough_ ) causing all of the catastrophes
| Freak_NL wrote:
| It would make for a brilliant plot for a whodunnit. Who
| murdered Norman? Everyone claims to have loved him, yet
| they all stand to benefit from his demise (i.e., not
| getting your shit on fire every other episode).
|
| (It turns out to have been a hit-job paid for by the
| largest Welsh insurance company.)
| rhplus wrote:
| They could go the Paw Patrol route and outsource all the
| emergency services to an independently wealthy teenage boy -
| who has seemingly unlimited technological and engineering
| prowess - leaving the incompetent local government employees
| to squabble among themselves.
| kspacewalk2 wrote:
| There is a hidden dark side to the way Adventure Bay is
| governed. I suspect Chickaletta is the eminence grise, and
| rules with an iron wing.
| Pixelbrick wrote:
| You've clearly given as much effort to thinking about this
| as I've wasted worrying about political economy on the Isle
| of Sodor.
| hnlmorg wrote:
| I remember telling my kids how much better TV was when I
| was young. So to prove my point a player them a random
| episode of the Ringo Star series if Thomas the Tank.
| After about 10 minutes my kids were horrified because the
| Fat Controller was burying Gordon alive (!!) because
| Gordon didn't want rain on his new paintwork.
|
| After that I realised maybe kids shouldn't be exposed to
| the weird shit people thought was ok in the 80s.
| paulhart wrote:
| That story is an original from Rev. W. Audry (my
| grandmother bought a lot of those books for me as a
| child, I specifically remember that story and Gordon
| being imprisoned until he accepted his lot in "life").
|
| It wasn't just okay in the 80s / early 90s, it comes from
| waaaay before then.
| throwup238 wrote:
| I think you mean Henry (the episode is The Sad Story of
| Henry). Gordon is the "oh the indignity" guy.
| paragraft wrote:
| I still haven't settled the nature of free will and
| determinism, aka who's actually controlling the trains,
| them or their drivers?
| riffraff wrote:
| Worked for Gotham City!
| philshem wrote:
| > I argue that the series suggests to audiences that we can
| and should rely on corporations and technological
| advancements to combat crime and conserve, with
| responsibilized individuals assisting in this endeavor.
| Ultimately, PAW Patrol echoes core tenets of neoliberalism
| and encourages complicity in a global capitalist system
| that (re)produces inequalities and causes environmental
| harms.
|
| https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17416590209037
| 0...
| sitkack wrote:
| It was created by Brit. Not hard to see how Thatcher and
| Reagan would be fans.
| aspenmayer wrote:
| Related:
|
| PAW Patrol's Dark Secret, Explained - Skip Intro
|
| > PAW Patrol is a TV show for kids. It's very popular, so
| we might as well ask: "What vision of policing does it
| suggest?" PAW Patrol is also a very bad TV show.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhUpu9MfZ0
| unfunco wrote:
| A nice little tidbit, I live in Newtown, often mentioned in
| Fireman Sam as being the town next to Pontypandy.
|
| https://firemansam.fandom.com/wiki/Newtown
| adolph wrote:
| Should probably start with a better developed fictional world,
| like the Isle of Sodor. Everything from the series opening of
| Henry being ship up in a tunnel to the later dockside and
| mountain railroads are all there. I'm not as certain about the
| later TV shows, but the book's geography is reasonably legible
| between story and map.
|
| https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Tank-Engine-Collection-Anniver...
| flpm wrote:
| I think a great intro to RPG for young kids (5-6 year-olds) is
| Little Wizards. It's originally French, but I have a version in
| English. It combines enough choice and customization to make it
| interesting, but without being too complex. It's a world where
| magic exists, but only kids can use it, so that was a plus for
| the kids :)
|
| https://www.dicemonkey.net/2020/03/13/rpg-review-little-wiza...
| mavhc wrote:
| Usually the fans of fiction care way more about continuity and
| canon than the writers do
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