"Associate" in this case meaning their friends, girlfriend/boyfriend, even the people who they choose to spend a minimal amount of social time with. What about the people who are friends with their associates? Now this seems a lot to ask, right? Maybe it is but I've realised that I'm lucky enough to know someone who has a flawless circle of associates and unsurprisingly he's my closest friend.

His friends, his girlfriend, her friends, her sister, her sister's boyfriend, his friend's friends. Now obviously it would be unfair to judge people on their siblings so maybe that area can be forgotten about but it's still pretty cool.

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A friend from school who I don't see anymore (through choice, he still tries to contact me) started hanging out with a bunch of dickheads, it's not a coincedence that I started going off the guy.

Are you lucky enough to know anybody like this? Do you think it's safe to (partly) judge someone by their friends or not?

*possibly a thinly veiled "I have the most amazing friend in the world post"*