As a swede I agree. It is not up to interpretation. It is 300 seconds. That’s it.
One minute means whatever. PIGS superiority💪
Hans is right.
In fact, the best tactic is to say that you expect to be 10min late, and arrive 6min late.
But this is also why PIGS (and French) economies are run as open air museums with beachclubs in it, as you shouldn’t expect PIGS (or French) to set up anything successfully that requires some level of organisation or efficiency. A lot of companies make that mistake, it’s just impossible.
It’s 5 minutes-ish
“Five minutes” doesn’t have to be exactly five minutes. It can be 4 minutes and 45 seconds or 5 minutes and 15 seconds. But that’s pushing it!
Hans is absolutely right, 5 minutes is fucking 5 minutes, not 6, 7 or 15, something my wife just can’t grasp.
Fully agree with Hans, be precise as possible and stick to that.
I’m actually quite pissed by this, too. Recently, I’ve started dumping friends and dates because of that. If we decide to meet at a time and place, you’re late, you tell me that you’ll be there in 5 minutes and after 15 minutes you still haven’t shown up… I’m leaving.
Last week, I met with a girl from Tinder. She showed up 30 minutes late, only to see me already leaving. When she asked why I was leaving, my answer was plain and simple “If I can’t trust you to respect my time, I can’t hope for you to respect me as a human being.”
Long story short, I’m as chill and stress free as I’ve ever been.
I’ve long planned my run to the EU parliament, my sole platform being ‘the last minute of a washing machine can only last 60 seconds’.
Even more controversial: arriving on time means you arrive early. A second late is too late.
If dinner is at 20:00, you’d better be there at 19:30. At 20:00 precisely you start eating.
I suspect it’s because people are more willing to wait 5 minutes than 15.
For me it matters little. I’ll just send a tikkie to compensate for wasted time.
More rare, but the opposite happens as well.
If I tell you I need 5 minutes, I am likely not done/ready 60 sec later.
You guys even inform when you’re 5 minutes late??
Higher latitude = higher autism
Silly Hans thinking they can actually foresee the future.
“Give me 5 minutes” is at best an approximation, not everybody treats their reality as a strictly planned (false) forecast on everything. Well I do, but that’s why I know first hand that the Hans is wrong on this one.
I would allow for rounding, so anywhere between 3 and 7 minutes is allowed. But 8 is 10.
As a Jan, I agree. As an autistic Jan, I’d like this to be written in stone and punishable by death. As an autistic ADHD Jan, I’d probably be punished by death.
i personally say 5 minutes when i know i would be 2-3 mins late max. theyd still think im early by then 🤣
If you can’t even keep your promises on how late you will be, how is your partner expected to trust you when you tell them you don’t cheat in relationships? **tips head**
Hans is right on this one, Germanic brothers unite.
i say “in 2 minutes” and actually mean in half an hour
Similarly, “How are you?” is a valid question that merits an appropriate response and not a greeting.
I say “Im coming”, without specyfing the time. Ill be there eventually
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As a swede I agree. It is not up to interpretation. It is 300 seconds. That’s it.
One minute means whatever. PIGS superiority💪
Hans is right.
In fact, the best tactic is to say that you expect to be 10min late, and arrive 6min late.
But this is also why PIGS (and French) economies are run as open air museums with beachclubs in it, as you shouldn’t expect PIGS (or French) to set up anything successfully that requires some level of organisation or efficiency. A lot of companies make that mistake, it’s just impossible.
It’s 5 minutes-ish
“Five minutes” doesn’t have to be exactly five minutes. It can be 4 minutes and 45 seconds or 5 minutes and 15 seconds. But that’s pushing it!
Hans is absolutely right, 5 minutes is fucking 5 minutes, not 6, 7 or 15, something my wife just can’t grasp.
Fully agree with Hans, be precise as possible and stick to that.
I’m actually quite pissed by this, too. Recently, I’ve started dumping friends and dates because of that. If we decide to meet at a time and place, you’re late, you tell me that you’ll be there in 5 minutes and after 15 minutes you still haven’t shown up… I’m leaving.
Last week, I met with a girl from Tinder. She showed up 30 minutes late, only to see me already leaving. When she asked why I was leaving, my answer was plain and simple “If I can’t trust you to respect my time, I can’t hope for you to respect me as a human being.”
Long story short, I’m as chill and stress free as I’ve ever been.
I’ve long planned my run to the EU parliament, my sole platform being ‘the last minute of a washing machine can only last 60 seconds’.
Even more controversial: arriving on time means you arrive early. A second late is too late.
If dinner is at 20:00, you’d better be there at 19:30. At 20:00 precisely you start eating.
I suspect it’s because people are more willing to wait 5 minutes than 15.
For me it matters little. I’ll just send a tikkie to compensate for wasted time.
More rare, but the opposite happens as well.
If I tell you I need 5 minutes, I am likely not done/ready 60 sec later.
You guys even inform when you’re 5 minutes late??
Higher latitude = higher autism
Silly Hans thinking they can actually foresee the future.
“Give me 5 minutes” is at best an approximation, not everybody treats their reality as a strictly planned (false) forecast on everything. Well I do, but that’s why I know first hand that the Hans is wrong on this one.
I would allow for rounding, so anywhere between 3 and 7 minutes is allowed. But 8 is 10.
As a Jan, I agree. As an autistic Jan, I’d like this to be written in stone and punishable by death. As an autistic ADHD Jan, I’d probably be punished by death.
Hans learning that [polychronic cultures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronemics) exist.
i personally say 5 minutes when i know i would be 2-3 mins late max. theyd still think im early by then 🤣
If you can’t even keep your promises on how late you will be, how is your partner expected to trust you when you tell them you don’t cheat in relationships? **tips head**
Hans is right on this one, Germanic brothers unite.
i say “in 2 minutes” and actually mean in half an hour
Similarly, “How are you?” is a valid question that merits an appropriate response and not a greeting.
I say “Im coming”, without specyfing the time. Ill be there eventually
Me reading the whole thread like
https://preview.redd.it/4vrvhkwxtj5g1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6198e7f6d871cc0607345265717621e37729fff
What?
I thought: I am on my way, I am there in 5 minutes means I’ll have two more beers and a cigarette and then I have a 1.5h journey ahead to home.
I see why Hans is confused. There are exactly 300 seconds in that statement but it’s not seconds from the International Standard of Units.
It’s actually derived from the “Give me two seconds” unit of measurement.
It’s easy to confuse the two so I understand why Hans and the rest of our Nordic friends keep making that mistake.
https://preview.redd.it/u85wugdnzj5g1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c1edec3fc6f39f5f626d1a4de92600d375a66f7
Spain if 5min was 5min
But if I say I’ll be there in 15 minutes, it will take me 45 minutes to an hour to arrive. Explain that Hans.
In espain, 5 minutes is 2700 seconds
Usually when I say I’ll take 5 mimutes but it takes a bit longer, it’s because I take longer than I expected
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