Question in a pub quiz

[BritBratGrot]

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.

Work and Social media must be up there?

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

That's not a fair pub quiz question

Nosey and judgmental people.

There are plenty of things that potentially could be on the list - like Love Island or TikTok influencers - but you're perfectly able to ignore them if they don't interest you.

It'll be smut of some kind or other

You wouldn't miss any of those?

Work

scary news about wars and human disasters

Gosh I think I’d miss most things, even the irritating ones are part of the life I know and love

What would I not miss?

News about what Trump has done lately

Buying and cooking food every night

Facebook

Stupid people who can't understand a simple question

Traffic jams

If you say so

Agree with this. Plus laundry/housework in general. Traffic maybe.

For me it's meal planning for a family who all like different foods!

Oh I’m so dumb!!!

i thought it meant Miss. duh!

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.

I'm going to guess that the answers were things like this and the AIBU is around these being things people WOULD miss. That's not what the original question asked for.

I'll give it a bit longer but answers were things people would miss, my AIBU isn't around people getting the question the wrong way round

Eh, did YOU just get that the wrong way around?!!

Would miss or NOT miss?

I’m confused now

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

For me personally: work, housework, TV, people turning up unannounced on my doorstep, general busyness that comes from running the kids around constantly (I LOVED being forced to stop this during COVID)

Ok so the task is to imagine what other people have said they wouldn’t miss?

In that case I guess:
work
social media/news
household chores
having to shave
needing money

Work
Housework
Bills
Traffic
Partner (from people being "funny")

Not really a pub quiz. More an attempt at pub Family Fortunes. I wouldn't miss that

TRAs
Turkish delight
Twatty dog owners
The street I live on
Dog shit

The question was what would you NOT miss

Did you have to download an App or could you play on a piece if paper? All the quizzes I've ben to recently have required Apps...

Top of the list must be stupid pub quiz questions.