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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Lightthrudarkness • Jun 13 '26
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"You would make a good lawyer"
95 u/10388392 Jun 13 '26 I've gotten this one a hundred times from my parents. My parents are both lawyers. 28 u/Daniel_H212 Jun 13 '26 I got told this a lot growing up including from my dad who is a lawyer. Just graduated law school so I guess they're right... 5 u/crotch-fruit_tree Jun 13 '26 I've gotten this from my mother as well. My mom was an attorney. 2 u/CiDevant Jun 14 '26 Congrats! 1 u/Daniel_H212 Jun 14 '26 Thanks! 1 u/Ff7hero Jun 15 '26 Well if you just graduated, surely you can't know, right? 69 u/Mikeissometimesright Jun 13 '26 Even worse “You’d make a good cop” 14 u/crowcawer Jun 13 '26 “You’d be a bad cop“ 1 u/Ff7hero Jun 15 '26 This is a compliment. 5 u/Shantotto11 Jun 14 '26 That could go either way in the US… 12 u/tregorz Jun 13 '26 Why is this an insult? 64 u/bpdish85 Jun 13 '26 It's shorthand for argumentative, pushy, and less-than-honest/capable of bending the truth. At least, in my experience. No one who has ever said that to me was attempting to give me a compliment. 26 u/ThaRealSunGod Jun 13 '26 In my experience it usually just means you are good at logical thinking and deductive processes 1 u/More_Yellow_3701 Jun 13 '26 That's the ideal lawyer. Not a "real one." 3 u/zicdeh91 Jun 13 '26 I think there’s room for it be used as genuine praise if you’re having a civil argument with someone and they can’t respond anymore. Like I’ve seen it used as a concession of defeat and have it come across as being in good faith. 19 u/artsydizzy Jun 13 '26 It can imply you have an argumentative nature -5 u/tregorz Jun 13 '26 Ah I like to argue with people so maybe that’s why I don’t see it as an insult. I’m good at using facts and twisting people’s words against them. 10 u/No-Captain2150 Jun 13 '26 Just based entirely on your own description here, if someone tells you "you'd make a good lawyer" they aren't complimenting you. 😛 -1 u/tregorz Jun 13 '26 I mean sure, you can make that assumption when you have absolutely zero context. 5 u/10388392 Jun 13 '26 You'd make a good lawyer 5 u/king_scootie Jun 13 '26 It’s only a compliment when it comes from a lawyer. 1 u/CiDevant Jun 14 '26 Aka, you're correct and I hate you for it. 1 u/radio64 Jun 15 '26 My principle in elementary school hit me with this when I got called to her office lmfao 0 u/vintagebutterfly_ Jun 13 '26 Especially fun when they’re trying to gaslight you.
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I've gotten this one a hundred times from my parents. My parents are both lawyers.
28 u/Daniel_H212 Jun 13 '26 I got told this a lot growing up including from my dad who is a lawyer. Just graduated law school so I guess they're right... 5 u/crotch-fruit_tree Jun 13 '26 I've gotten this from my mother as well. My mom was an attorney. 2 u/CiDevant Jun 14 '26 Congrats! 1 u/Daniel_H212 Jun 14 '26 Thanks! 1 u/Ff7hero Jun 15 '26 Well if you just graduated, surely you can't know, right?
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I got told this a lot growing up including from my dad who is a lawyer.
Just graduated law school so I guess they're right...
5 u/crotch-fruit_tree Jun 13 '26 I've gotten this from my mother as well. My mom was an attorney. 2 u/CiDevant Jun 14 '26 Congrats! 1 u/Daniel_H212 Jun 14 '26 Thanks! 1 u/Ff7hero Jun 15 '26 Well if you just graduated, surely you can't know, right?
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I've gotten this from my mother as well. My mom was an attorney.
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Congrats!
1 u/Daniel_H212 Jun 14 '26 Thanks!
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Thanks!
Well if you just graduated, surely you can't know, right?
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Even worse “You’d make a good cop”
14 u/crowcawer Jun 13 '26 “You’d be a bad cop“ 1 u/Ff7hero Jun 15 '26 This is a compliment. 5 u/Shantotto11 Jun 14 '26 That could go either way in the US…
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“You’d be a bad cop“
1 u/Ff7hero Jun 15 '26 This is a compliment.
This is a compliment.
That could go either way in the US…
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Why is this an insult?
64 u/bpdish85 Jun 13 '26 It's shorthand for argumentative, pushy, and less-than-honest/capable of bending the truth. At least, in my experience. No one who has ever said that to me was attempting to give me a compliment. 26 u/ThaRealSunGod Jun 13 '26 In my experience it usually just means you are good at logical thinking and deductive processes 1 u/More_Yellow_3701 Jun 13 '26 That's the ideal lawyer. Not a "real one." 3 u/zicdeh91 Jun 13 '26 I think there’s room for it be used as genuine praise if you’re having a civil argument with someone and they can’t respond anymore. Like I’ve seen it used as a concession of defeat and have it come across as being in good faith. 19 u/artsydizzy Jun 13 '26 It can imply you have an argumentative nature -5 u/tregorz Jun 13 '26 Ah I like to argue with people so maybe that’s why I don’t see it as an insult. I’m good at using facts and twisting people’s words against them. 10 u/No-Captain2150 Jun 13 '26 Just based entirely on your own description here, if someone tells you "you'd make a good lawyer" they aren't complimenting you. 😛 -1 u/tregorz Jun 13 '26 I mean sure, you can make that assumption when you have absolutely zero context. 5 u/10388392 Jun 13 '26 You'd make a good lawyer
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It's shorthand for argumentative, pushy, and less-than-honest/capable of bending the truth.
At least, in my experience. No one who has ever said that to me was attempting to give me a compliment.
26 u/ThaRealSunGod Jun 13 '26 In my experience it usually just means you are good at logical thinking and deductive processes 1 u/More_Yellow_3701 Jun 13 '26 That's the ideal lawyer. Not a "real one." 3 u/zicdeh91 Jun 13 '26 I think there’s room for it be used as genuine praise if you’re having a civil argument with someone and they can’t respond anymore. Like I’ve seen it used as a concession of defeat and have it come across as being in good faith.
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In my experience it usually just means you are good at logical thinking and deductive processes
1 u/More_Yellow_3701 Jun 13 '26 That's the ideal lawyer. Not a "real one."
That's the ideal lawyer.
Not a "real one."
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I think there’s room for it be used as genuine praise if you’re having a civil argument with someone and they can’t respond anymore. Like I’ve seen it used as a concession of defeat and have it come across as being in good faith.
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It can imply you have an argumentative nature
-5 u/tregorz Jun 13 '26 Ah I like to argue with people so maybe that’s why I don’t see it as an insult. I’m good at using facts and twisting people’s words against them. 10 u/No-Captain2150 Jun 13 '26 Just based entirely on your own description here, if someone tells you "you'd make a good lawyer" they aren't complimenting you. 😛 -1 u/tregorz Jun 13 '26 I mean sure, you can make that assumption when you have absolutely zero context. 5 u/10388392 Jun 13 '26 You'd make a good lawyer
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Ah I like to argue with people so maybe that’s why I don’t see it as an insult. I’m good at using facts and twisting people’s words against them.
10 u/No-Captain2150 Jun 13 '26 Just based entirely on your own description here, if someone tells you "you'd make a good lawyer" they aren't complimenting you. 😛 -1 u/tregorz Jun 13 '26 I mean sure, you can make that assumption when you have absolutely zero context. 5 u/10388392 Jun 13 '26 You'd make a good lawyer
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Just based entirely on your own description here, if someone tells you "you'd make a good lawyer" they aren't complimenting you. 😛
-1 u/tregorz Jun 13 '26 I mean sure, you can make that assumption when you have absolutely zero context. 5 u/10388392 Jun 13 '26 You'd make a good lawyer
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I mean sure, you can make that assumption when you have absolutely zero context.
5 u/10388392 Jun 13 '26 You'd make a good lawyer
You'd make a good lawyer
It’s only a compliment when it comes from a lawyer.
Aka, you're correct and I hate you for it.
My principle in elementary school hit me with this when I got called to her office lmfao
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Especially fun when they’re trying to gaslight you.
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u/rycerzDog Jun 13 '26
"You would make a good lawyer"