In the United States, Community Colleges are often referred to as
Roach Motels. They are so called because people who begin attending Community Colleges rarely finsh. Rather, the tendency is for the students to just keep on taking one random course after another for 8-12 years without ever attaining a degree or advancing to a full college. Hence the students never really leave. That is to say, they
check in, but they don't check out,
as per the old TV ad.
What the English call Townies are the head
Roaches of our Roach Motels.
-Man, is Bill still going to Virginia Western?
--Dude, he's been at that Roach Motel since the Eighties. He's banged a lot of
thirty-five year old
single mother gash but still no degree.
-Oh well, at least they have ash
trays there.
--Werd.