They can't just say "I'm a lawyer/biologist/accountant" - they have to say "I'm a lawyer/biologist/accountant (Russell Group University degree)
Which is shorthand for 'I failed the interview at Oxford/Cambridge, but I'm still really, really clever, yeah?' Russell Group is a self selecting clique of research-based universities which means nothing if you studied there as an undergraduate.
My pet hate was a phase about two years ago when some of the more dull-witted posters on here would respond to any criticism by parroting 'did you mean to be so rude?' Which isn't quite the witty rejoinder they imagined it to be as it invites the answer 'yes, I did.'