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What do you call your TV Remote?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 120_Minutes
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    Ziggy, because when the batteries start to die I have to smack it like Al did on quantum leap.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 stovelid
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    Wife.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 Vain
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    I call mine yore ma, because it likes to get its buttons pressed like yore ma.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,373 Executive Steve
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    madmik wrote: »
    my girlfriend calls it "the flicker" and i hate her for it

    it sounds gay "wheres the flicker"



    Is she dutch? because "flikker" actually is a dutch derogatory term for a homosexual!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 Stercus Accidit
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    whiskeyman wrote: »
    We call ours Maddie.

    Can never seem to find it...

    We call ours the Maddie.

    We nicked it from some couples apartment and havn't given it back...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 IvySlayer
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    I call it....'Touch that and I'll feckin' slap ya!'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,717 Nehaxak
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    The "switcher" or "switcharounder".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 Vain
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    IvySlayer wrote: »
    I call it....'Touch that and I'll feckin' box the head off ya!'
    Fixed it for. A slap sounds gay:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 Femelade
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    My boyfriend and I constantly disagree on this, I call it the "controls" (or sometimes the remote or sometimes the remote controls)he calls it the "zapper"..
    To me, the Zapper is the thing i have at work for opening the door of the "Lock up" (Garage)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,818 Gauge
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    My dad called it a didjeri-doo. Used to get angry with my friends when I was younger if they tried to tell me that no one else called it that.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 sam34
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    mine is simply "the remote" but my sister calls hers "the telly stick"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 Abi
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    I call it his "other penis".

    Never far from his grip, that is. Tends to get upset if it isnt, and calls a household search for it if it does. I usually find it of course.

    "See, it never left the room darling. Your árse just swallowed it up"

    Earns me a chase around the house ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 Clare Bear
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    Yoke or thingy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 James Forde
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    It's referred to as the "hickey" at home.


    Sounds seriously disturbing when me ma say's "pass us the hickey would ya!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 Edgedinblue
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    usually jst call it the remote or the majiggy. altho i'll agree with clarebear, yoke and thingy have come to use in my house when i cant think of remote.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,464 Collie D
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    "F*cking thing"

    In context:

    "Give me the f*cking thing now. I am watching the football and not those poxy soaps again"

    Usually followed up with

    "Yes, I would like to eat some dinner tonight so you watch your Coronation Street"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 weeder
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    we all call it the remote but my ma always refers to it as "the controls" it annoys me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 423 madmik
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    Is she dutch? because "flikker" actually is a dutch derogatory term for a homosexual!

    no shes polish

    she worked as an au pair in ireland and the house she worked in (irish family) called it the flicker


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,740 Naos
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    The Megatron.

    Much love for whoever gets the reference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,007 WithCheesePlease
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    I remember our first remote at home was attached to the VCR with a cable. True story. An old Fergusson top loading VCR. Happy days.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 Soby
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    We call it "The buttons"....cause you know....it has eh..buttons on it:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,007 WithCheesePlease
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    Naos wrote: »
    The Megatron.

    Much love for whoever gets the reference.

    I dunno - transformers... Changes one one channel into another or something?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 Leprachaun
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    We call the 'binker'. :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 122 Tarzan_man
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    "The flinger"

    have no idea why


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,267 ejmaztec
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    Fucking gadget as in "Where's the fucking gadget?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 TPD
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    Just 'the remote' here. I'd love to ween my family into calling it 'the heroin' or something.

    Guests around, dad shuffles a bit:
    "Feck sake, wheres the heroin?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,267 ejmaztec
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    TPD wrote: »
    Just 'the remote' here. I'd love to ween my family into calling it 'the heroin' or something.

    Guests around, dad shuffles a bit:
    "Feck sake, wheres the heroin?"

    Sometimes it's easier to find heroin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13 Mrs Cole


    Since we were kids its always been called "The Bamper"....dunno why, dunno where it came from, but now my kids and husband call it that. Strange!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 woodyg
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    i call it the same thing my Da calls me when there's work to be done.....



    "Where's that little bastard gone now?"


    :D


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 John Mason
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    zapper

    zapper - roo

    or channel changer thingy


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