Having lots of friends at Aston University, at the time .It took me a while to work out this was a parody...
Student Grant – an upper middle-class student at Fulchester (or sometimes Spunkbridge) University, who is determined to be fashionably "right on" and a left-wing radical, though when things go wrong, it's always his "bourgeois" rich parents that bail him out. Grant does little or no work for his degree. One strip had him visiting his department (he had to be directed by a friend) to see his personal tutor, who pointed out that he had not handed in a single essay in three years. The terms seem ridiculously short (4 weeks in one case, the Christmas vacation lasting from mid-November to late March). When UK students received a maintenance grant and free tuition Student Grant appeared in most issues. In late 2010/early 2011, Grant reappeared again following the student riots against tuition fees, ending up in a "taxi" that turns out to be a limousine carryingPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall. He has a number of friends just like him, eager to express their individuality by wearing the same clothes, fashions, invariably ridiculous, like huge hats, bright yellow dungarees and T-shirts with slogans on them like Thunderbirds Are Go! and, in the late 1990s especially, Teletubbies Say 'Eh Oh'!. They are opinionated and talk loudly and ignorantly about various subjects, tagging "...actually!" at the end of their sentences, "proving" their intelligence by listing the grades they got in their A-levels. Several of Grant's collegiate friends have bizarre speech impediments, dental deformities or both.
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 16:16, Reply)
I went to aston
Mid-late 90s.
One of the guys on my course was a bloke called Alan, who had a conviction for arson.
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LP, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 19:18,
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There's something about the deadpan description of utterly implausible characters
That has me in tears. Roger Irrelevant is still my fave.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 17:35,
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Yes, like this gem:
Christ on a Bike – a strip which depicts Jesus's life riding a magical bicycle. Pontius Pilate has him crucified due to jealousy since Pilate only has a girl's bike.
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 19:43, Reply)
Shitty Dick -
a man with a difficult medical condition, wherein he expels impossibly large turds whenever he interacts with a vicar. The humour of the strip usually revolves around him explaining away the turds, often disguising them as something else (a snowman, a large easter egg, etc.)
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 17:43, Reply)