People of whom this is said are almost always intolerant self-regarding aunts, aren’t they.
Why are they so lionised in the law?
Given that (1) life is full of fools and (2) the only way to beat them is by attrition (because they’re in amenable to reasoned argument) is it not apparent that gladful fool-suffering is a key life skill and is, in the case of many people, the main explanatory factor in their success?
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Why would anyone gladly suffer a fool?
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This along with the "I'm just a plain speaking northerner" trope. No you are just rude to people and try and dress it up as a virtue.
I have to deal with muppets all the time. I am good at my job partly down to being diplomatic in how I deal with them.
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Plain-speaking northerners are gr8. They cut through the bullsh*t in meetings, when someone is waffling about "creating a new matrix for strategic pipelines".
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Easy for u to say, m88, but as you’d know if you were a top table player, strategic pipelines *need* new matrices. It’s not optional.
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Oh and Stix: in order to win the day in the end. Victory of the fools is all the sweeter, and all the more comprehensive, for being long time coming and hard won.
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If they are fools then they are, unless riled, unlikely to be relevant to the task in hand. If you treat them with disrespect then they get difficult and, being fools, they just jam up the works without offering any positives. So far better to tolerate not disparage. Suffer them gladly. Make them feel valued then spin them away into orbit, happily indulged and declawed.
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Unless they are the client or the solicitor on the other side.
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then let them be as foolish as they can. If a client, then you can give your advice and if it goes badly because they wanted a different course, it's them not you. That's a nice feeling. And you always bill a load when these idiots hire a lawyer then tell them what they want them to do and don't heed advice. That's also satisfactory. If it's the other side then when they start behaving like fools then you need to let the line out and let the fish run. Judges get a huge amount of intel before trial from the behavior of the parties.
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Yeah but when its a transactional matter a fool on the other side only hinders. Increased costs for my client due to a twot acting for someone else are not easily explained away.
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So much what Kimmy says. A fool on the other side in a transaction is a nightmare - time wasting, unnecessarily argumentative, obstructive, crappy drafting that needs to be redone. The list goes on.
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I read an obituary of some physics academic that said "he didn't believe in the easy accessibility of his subject" which i think is next level non-fool sufferance. auntstyle auntishness.
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