Why do people...?

[JamesRouale]

Have you ever noticed when people are presenting there works they always say "A 10 minute job" or "I didn't really spend time on it."

Why do people use this as a kind of.. excuse?

Is it a lack of confidence...?

Discuss...

[Jamie!]

so it don't make them look bad obv.

[Energizer]

So that if people say it's crap then they've got an excuse.

[JamesRouale]

So what you're saying is that people that can't take criticism use it as an excuse?

[Meticulous]

They can take criticism. But they're not gonna sit back and take it if they don't deserve it.
But some people actually say it, When they're lying. That, annoys me.
It's just like. If you do something that's really quite bad then it obv. didn't take that long. So you're gonna tell them. Otherwise you'll get bad comments cause they assume it took a while.

[Jamie!]

yeah.. it's just an excuse so it doesn't make them look crap at what they're doing. or they could be telling the truth i suppose.

[JamesRouale]

Well if it looks.. not so great and they know it, why don't they try to improve it instead of using an excuse?

[Jamie!]

like i already said.. so it doesn't make them look bad/dent their reputation.

[JamesRouale]

Yeah.. but why not try and improve it so that they don't need to use an excuse?

[FlyingJesus]

Well sometimes it might really only take 10 minutes