A good ten minutes!

petes

Anyone else ever use this term> I was talking to someone on the phone yesterday and I said I'd meet them but it would be a good ten minutes knowing that I would be at least fifteen.

Why couldn't I just say that?

mikom

Insurgent wrote: »

Why couldn't I just say that?

Because you were touching yourself.

petes

mikom wrote: »

Because you were touching yourself.

That's irrelevant. I'm always touching myself.

bluto63

It's so people will be waiting for you in 10 minutes time, you knowing they'll be there for you when you arrive, but by adding 'good' you've given yourself a way to worm out of being scolded for arriving later than you planned.

CliffHuxtabel

bluto63 wrote: »

It's so people will be waiting for you in 10 minutes time, you knowing they'll be there for you when you arrive, but by adding 'good' you've given yourself a way to worm out of being scolded for arriving later than you planned.

thats a good explanation

TheZohanS

A good ten minutes generally means that everything going exceptionally well, no delays in traffic etc., you'll be there in ten minutes.

Pighead

Strange one alright. It's a bit like the After Hours teenage horndogs who when presented with a picture of a beautiful lady will say something like:

"Phwoaaaarrrr, If me and her were in the same room she'd get a good seeing too"
when in reality they mean:
"If me and her were in the same room, I would probably wet my X-Men underpants and start crying like a little girl"

bluto63

bluto63 wrote: »

It's so people will be waiting for you in 10 minutes time, you knowing they'll be there for you when you arrive, but by adding 'good' you've given yourself a way to worm out of being scolded for arriving later than you planned.

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Ironic since the internet is quote antisocial.

wudangclan

Pighead wrote: »

Strange one alright. It's a bit like the After Hours teenage horndogs who when presented with a picture of a beautiful lady will say something like:

"Phwoaaaarrrr, If me and her were in the same room she'd get a good seeing too"
when in reality they mean:
"If me and her were in the same room, I would probably wet my X-Men underpants and start crying like a little girl"

That's a good post,Pighead.

prinz

A 'good ten minutes' means less than 10, but possibly up to 10. If you mean 15 say 15.

FruitLover

Deleted User wrote: »

Ironic since the internet is quote antisocial.

That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. What are you, some kind of stupid?

TheZohanS

FruitLover wrote: »

That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. What are you, some kind of stupid?

Don't, just don't.

seamus

It basically means, "Don't expect anything before ten minutes".

When I tell someone that something will take "a good hour", that means I don't want to them to come back to me in 30 minutes asking how it's going.

electrogrimey

In fairness, a lot of the time I tell anyone who's asking where I am that I'm in fact three or four streets ahead of where I am.

It makes me feel like a superhero.

wudangclan

The Irish mind,due to Hiberno-english semantics seems to exist in the problabistic world of quantum mechanics.
A good ten minutes...
I got me first bike and me only six...
It'll be ready next week sometime...
'The weather's bad for this time of year'....'Sure,it's not that time of year at all'.
The 'Four Liars' of Cork city etc. etc.
The writings of Joyce and Yeats especially illustrate this point.
And it probably goes someway to explaining how two of the heavyweights of quantum physics are Irishmen,Hamilton and Bell and another two ,Dirac and Schrodinger, lived and did their best work here.

orourkeda

Pighead wrote: »

Strange one alright. It's a bit like the After Hours teenage horndogs who when presented with a picture of a beautiful lady will say something like:

"Phwoaaaarrrr, If me and her were in the same room she'd get a good seeing too"
when in reality they mean:
"If me and her were in the same room, I would probably wet my X-Men underpants and start crying like a little girl"

Isnt the whole idea to wet their pants in a non pant wetting kind of way.

electrogrimey

wudangclan wrote: »

And it probably goes someway to explaining how two of the heavyweights of quatum physics are Irishmen,Hamilton and Bell and another two ,Dirac and Schrodinger, lived and did their best work here.

Don't forget Cockcroft and Walton, they the big dawgs.

wudangclan

electrogrimey wrote: »

Don't forget Cockcroft and Walton, they the big dawgs.

Nobel prize winners,no less.
Very remiss of me.

KarmaGarda

A good 10 minutes is exactly what donna off neighbours will get if saturday night goes well

Sangre

TheZohan wrote: »

Don't, just don't.

Bold? He must mean business.

Porkpie

10 minutes means 15 in Irish time. Just like when we say 'it's only a 5 minute walk away' - in reality it's at least 10.

pickarooney

wudangclan wrote: »

The Irish mind,due to Hiberno-english semantics seems to exist in the problabistic world of quantum mechanics.
A good ten minutes...

The French have the exact same expression (only in French, natch) with the same meaning, so nads to that. The Dutch have 'fat' hours for tasks in the 60-70 minute range.

brummytom

TheZohan wrote: »

A good ten minutes generally means that everything going exceptionally well, no delays in traffic etc., you'll be there in ten minutes.

Strange, I've always used it to mean:

seamus wrote: »

It basically means, "Don't expect anything before ten minutes".

When I tell someone that something will take "a good hour", that means I don't want to them to come back to me in 30 minutes asking how it's going.

Same.

Say, If I get a call asking how long I'd be; if I said "i'll be a good 10 minutes yet", I mean I'd be there in no less than 10 minutes

Capt'n Midnight

don't forget -ish

"I'll be there at five-ish"