Question in a pub quiz

Right. Sounds like you were out with some misogynistic twats. Only worth an eyeroll mind 🙄

😂😂😂 I somehow flipped the question even though I had already answered about things I wouldn't miss. I'm going to make another coffee...

Maybe they only asked people who like their friends and family!

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!

Yes this could explain it.

I'm surprised friends or family weren't in the top five but maybe they come under "people".

Wouldn’t miss housework as I don’t do much of it.

Alternatively people listed things like washing up, hoovering etc instead of just "housework".

Maybe housework was number 6. Plenty of people on this thread didn't mention it so it's not all that surprising it's not on the list. If you saw all the answers given and housework didn't feature at all I'd be shocked.

I think after 100 days in the same seawater washed outfit, you'd feel a bit nostalgic for the laundry even.

Housework is a doddle if you have the time for it. Mind you on a desert island, you are going to spend most of your time fishing so it's a bit of a moot point.

Housework would never occur to me, but it’s just my cat & me in a one-bedroom flat so housework is minimal, and cooking is completely on my own terms.

I’m not sure what my top 5 would be though.

My housework is more of the blitz then wallow till next blitz variety rather than constant drudge so less likely to occur to me as something to not miss.

I wouldn't miss my phone. It would be so liberating.

Or the female adults aren’t that concerned about housework. In my case, if the cleaner doesn’t do it, it doesn’t get done, other than fairly cursory wipedowns.

No flushing toilets or toilet paper either, so you'd have to make 'other arrangements' to fulfil and dispose of such basic needs - let that sink in for a moment...!

One of the men in the team wondered if they'd grouped work and housework together since men do one and women the other, which made me roll my eyes hard.

But some of what you've written - in fact a main thrust of your argument for the thread - is also based on sexist assumptions!

For all you know, they could have asked 100 professional women (and no men at all) who all have cleaners, cooks and a suite of other people to do all of the stereotypically 'female jobs' for them - whilst they go out to work full-time in stressful jobs and then unwind in the evenings and weekends by watching or playing sport!

You wouldn't miss any of them?

Exactly. Maintaining your living space is going to remain a chore whenever you're living an independent life.

Are you trying to turn this into a pub quiz having some kind of sexist bias? You'd still have housework to do wherever you lived so why would it be in the list?

Yes, I was thinking that too!

Getting, preparing and cooking food and provisions would also be an intense ongoing task that would consume a load of your time and thinking.

A lot of people have the vague assumption that a remote desert island will also have a Tesco Express nearby; just like all the people who dream of living rurally, in the middle or nowhere, but also with their own private motorway within a quarter of a mile!

You never know who the '100 people we asked' are, though. They could have been careful to ensure a diverse range of people or they could just have gone to a busy place with a mainly narrow demographic.

On Pointless, they've asked about UK cities a few times and then cities in NI have been pointless (not just low-scoring, but actually pointless) - suggesting that they haven't actually asked anybody from NI.

They also have numerous questions which would be very common knowledge to almost everybody of a certain age, but which score suspiciously low - suggesting that they may sometimes ask an almost-exclusively younger demographic.

Apparently, on Family Fortunes, they just used to ask the previous week's live audience - which must have made their brand of questioning something of an incestuous ouroboros of knowledge

Why is it not on a mans horizon?

DH does most of our housework or at least 50%. We both work full-time.

Do you work?

Maybe you spend more time on most on housework?

Depends on the demographic of who was asked. In a shopping centre at midday you might get mums and retired people who would agree with you.

I work full time. I don't have a lot of time for housework and in my week it's low down on my list.

Except for traffic (I mostly WFH) I agree with the list.

You'd still have to do house, or more like beach, work. You'd need to keep your close environment tidy, sweep to minimise creepy crawlies around your sleeping part. You'll still need to clean the utensils you've made of wood. Keeping the fire going...

So really, likely even more house work!

See if I wasn't working (I actually like my job but I get the not being tied to anything), didn't have to pay bills, deal with emails or people I didn't want to, and I never got stuck in any traffic, I wouldn't mind doing a bit of housework. I generally don't like it but because life is busy so it feels like it comes at the expense of free time, but if I had loads of free time and no bills to pay I wouldn't mind it.