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Question in a pub quiz

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BritBratGrot · 08/08/2025 06:54

Pub quiz recently, question was "We asked 100 people what would you NOT miss if you were stranded on a desert island alone - what were the 5 top answers? "

I will come back and share the answers as that's what the AIBU hinges on, but wanted to garner opinion on MN first.

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Unexpectedlysinglemum · 06/09/2025 10:17

surely you’d still have to do housework keeping your little shelter area tidy and laundry in the sea water

Unexpectedlysinglemum · 06/09/2025 10:16

Work, emails, commuting, traffic, taxes

Ramona75 · 06/09/2025 09:50

I would not miss social media :-) I would miss a good quiz with friends though. Hopefully my phone signal would still be strong so I could download them. QuizTimeUK on Etsy have loads of quizzes, better than some pub quizzes i've been too!

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BritBratGrot · 08/08/2025 16:58

Came back to this and really enjoying the discussion. Love the post about people assuming the desert island would have a nearby tesco express, I think I totally fell for that myself!

Also concluding most people / women (I'm happy to make that assumption since this is on MN) don't despise housework as much as me 🤷 which might explain why many people I visit have a more immaculate house than me.

I love cooking, gardening, knitting - just not cleaning.

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slightlydistrac · 08/08/2025 15:05

The News
Other people's dogs
Laundry - actually housework in general
Work
Having to be polite to people I can't stand

RedPony1 · 08/08/2025 15:01

BritBratGrot · 08/08/2025 07:57

So the answers were:
Work
Bills
Traffic
People
Emails

Not anything relating to housework. I was staggered as that would bs my number 1, and depending how granular it might be my numbers 1, 2, 3.

So AIBU to be astounded that none of the top 5 answers were housework related?

Either most people dislike housework less than me or the question was asked to a population with proportionally few female adults.

I find housework easy to fit in to my life and very low stress so i guess it wouldn't be in my top 5 either!

LillyPJ · 08/08/2025 14:22

AtomicBlondeRose · 08/08/2025 09:39

I don’t do loads of housework and I’d assume the life on a desert island would be way more labour-intensive so it’s definitely not something I’d say! I’d think lugging firewood, fetching water, gutting fish and building a shelter would have me thinking longingly about sinks full of warm washing-up water and machine-washed clothes hanging on the line!

One older woman I worked with remembered the days of washing up without washing up liquid or rubber gloves. Apparently it was a greasy, laborious, hand-destroying task. Nowadays we find it a chore loading and unloading a dishwasher!

LillyPJ · 08/08/2025 14:18

niadainud · 08/08/2025 12:01

EXACTLY!

Anyway...

  1. People who play music in public;
  2. Body maintenance which is aesthetic rather than for health and fitness reasons;
  3. FOMO (which is sort of ironic, I guess);
  4. Other people's smells;
  5. Other people's noises (see also 1, above).
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Other people's noise would probably be top of my list. It spoils summer (noise in gardens), journeys on public transport (mobile phone calls), the library and pubs (people playing music or videos on phones), the cinema (chat, rustling sweet wrappers, phones going off)... I love my noise cancelling earphones!

DrPrunesqualer · 08/08/2025 12:10

Noice
Pollution
criminals
Our Government
Crowds

FreezeDriedStrawberries · 08/08/2025 12:08

People 😁
Traffic jams

Recycledblonde · 08/08/2025 12:06

I quite enjoy housework but I didn’t when the children lived at home so perhaps it’s demographic related.

niadainud · 08/08/2025 12:02

mamabearlove · 08/08/2025 11:44

All admin shit
Usernames
Passwords
Security questions/ codes
Shallow human beings

Oh yes, passwords. Sodding passwords. That definitely goes into the top 5.

niadainud · 08/08/2025 12:01

LillyPJ · 08/08/2025 11:53

And the NOT was in capital letters!

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EXACTLY!

Anyway...

  1. People who play music in public;
  2. Body maintenance which is aesthetic rather than for health and fitness reasons;
  3. FOMO (which is sort of ironic, I guess);
  4. Other people's smells;
  5. Other people's noises (see also 1, above).
purplecorkheart · 08/08/2025 12:00

Clutter

LillyPJ · 08/08/2025 11:53

niadainud · 08/08/2025 11:32

People who can't read an OP properly.

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And the NOT was in capital letters!

DappledThings · 08/08/2025 11:45

She just correcting herself. OP to mean "my original post" rather than original poster because

TroysMammy · 08/08/2025 11:45

Pub quizzes with stupid questions would be my number 1.

mamabearlove · 08/08/2025 11:44

All admin shit
Usernames
Passwords
Security questions/ codes
Shallow human beings

Bpickle1 · 08/08/2025 11:43

BritBratGrot · 08/08/2025 07:18

Oops!

OP is correct, it's stuff you wouldn't miss, ie stuff in your life which you don't like and would love to see gone

It looks like OP is using sock puppets?

bumbaloo · 08/08/2025 11:41

Peclet · 08/08/2025 07:07

Oh I’m so dumb!!!

i thought it meant Miss. duh!

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I suspect your answer is the sort of answer the OP is going to say is the point of this post

Bananachimp · 08/08/2025 11:41

SprayWhiteDung · 08/08/2025 07:08

I agree. It's a lazy popular kind of pub quiz question, in syndicated quizzes that landlords have bought in (or found on the internet), but it's not really knowledge or facts, of the kind that a quiz should be testing.

They do this on TV quizzes sometimes. I mean, it's obviously fair enough on Family Fortunes and Pointless, where it's the whole idea of the game; but often on shows like Tenable as well.

They had one question asking for the public's 10 favourite actors (of the 12) who had played Dr Who and the contestant happened to guess at the two that ranked 11th and 12th most popular. I mean, how could they possibly have known? How on earth is that a fair quiz question?

An actually fair, proper knowledge-based question would have been the first/last 10 to play Dr Who or the 10 with a 't' in their names or similar.

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It's a pub quiz, lighten up!

bumbaloo · 08/08/2025 11:40

Peclet · 08/08/2025 06:57

Family
Your own bed
flushing loo
friends
pets(my dog!)

Can you try reading the question again

niadainud · 08/08/2025 11:32

Peclet · 08/08/2025 06:57

Family
Your own bed
flushing loo
friends
pets(my dog!)

People who can't read an OP properly.

autienotnaughty · 08/08/2025 11:31

BritBratGrot · 08/08/2025 07:57

So the answers were:
Work
Bills
Traffic
People
Emails

Not anything relating to housework. I was staggered as that would bs my number 1, and depending how granular it might be my numbers 1, 2, 3.

So AIBU to be astounded that none of the top 5 answers were housework related?

Either most people dislike housework less than me or the question was asked to a population with proportionally few female adults.

I wasn’t far off. Didn’t even think of housework!

autienotnaughty · 08/08/2025 11:29

Mother in law
work
Bills /taxes
misogyny
trafic