What do you call your TV Remote?

girloperfection · 23-01-2009 05:43PM

When i was younger my da used to call it the "yokey bus"!!

Hande hoche! · 23-01-2009 05:45PM

Clacker.Don't really know why.

yoyo · 23-01-2009 05:47PM

Flicky, suprised no one else in the thread calls it this, :pac:

Nick

Naos · 23-01-2009 05:50PM

gearoid_healy wrote: »

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

Incorrect there, clearly you are not a fan of the FUNNIEST series ever.

Numina · 23-01-2009 05:55PM

My family calls it the buzzer, I call it the remote.

kerash · 23-01-2009 06:03PM

My little sister used to make up her own words for everyday things when she learned to talk.
She called the remote control - the dotendote (dote en dote) she also referred to her mother as bitch.

'Gimme the dotendote and my pesketti'
'It's remote and spaghetti'
'Bitch'

So cute:pac:

Táck · 23-01-2009 06:07PM

remote
the remote
changer
the changer

my aunties family call it the doofer
my mates family call it the buttons

DylanS09 · 23-01-2009 06:07PM

My grandfather calls it "the switcher"haha!!

xOxSinéadxOx · 23-01-2009 07:22PM

Some people I know call it the doda

Trinity · 23-01-2009 07:23PM

the buttons. Wheres the buttons.

Biggins · 23-01-2009 08:07PM

Just call it "Lost" and "found".

wandatowell · 23-01-2009 08:09PM

THE MEGATRON

TPD · 23-01-2009 08:12PM

Did anyone actually build a megatron? Impractical when the batteries need changing.

eVeNtInE · 23-01-2009 08:12PM

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NewApproach · 23-01-2009 08:19PM

Usually the yoke, remote or thingy

gags89 · 23-01-2009 09:01PM

i call it a mish mash of everything trying to keep everyone happy. the moke control, dno why js like thas all.

aint nobody do it like me.

Kavkid · 23-01-2009 09:10PM

The thing for the tele.

"Here ma, where's the thing for the tele?"

Xiney · 23-01-2009 09:19PM

Apparently, when my cousin Brucie was little, he went through a phase of making up a word that started with B for everything.

I think I was at least 9 when I found out that it was a remote control and not a Barmuder, because that's all we ever called it.

cute_cow · 23-01-2009 09:26PM

deleriumtremens wrote: »

The zapper

+1, its always been the zapper.....:D

Thrill · 23-01-2009 09:38PM

Mostly call it "the remote" but every now and again it gets called the "whatchamacallit"

Lazare · 23-01-2009 09:39PM

Ellie Magnificent Cocoon wrote: »

It's called the cooter in our house for some reason. Gets us some funny looks from Americans.

Really? What a coincidence, ours is called the 'gubinge', it gets us some strange looks whenever there's aborigines at our house.

PaulByrne'sBald · 23-01-2009 09:43PM

the jizzler

Thrill · 23-01-2009 09:51PM

Ellie Magnificent Cocoon wrote: »

It's called the cooter in our house for some reason. Gets us some funny looks from Americans.

:D:D

It's slang for vagina......

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cooter

I'd love to have seen the looks on your american friends faces.

EDIT: Wait a minute, you were kidding, right?

rainbow kirby · 23-01-2009 09:59PM

It's just called the remote in my house, but a friend calls it "the squeezy", and it annoys the crap out of me.

Julesie · 23-01-2009 10:07PM

The Changer

I live in the UK now and people just look at me funny when I say it. Although saying the word press as in "Kitchen Press" gets much the same response.

abi2007 · 23-01-2009 10:08PM

the remote or the sky remote

Ann22 · 23-01-2009 10:52PM

Julesie wrote: »

The Changer

I live in the UK now and people just look at me funny when I say it. Although saying the word press as in "Kitchen Press" gets much the same response.

I call presses 'presses' too:o. I understand, not many people do 'cos it's like, a silly name really for a press:D. Ps I call them 'the buttons', like 'Where are the feckin' buttons, no not the dvd buttons, not the video buttons-the telly buttons, no! They're the kitchen telly ones ffs!!!

ladyella · 23-01-2009 10:57PM

Kettle316 wrote: »

I dont know why but everyone in my family always calls it "the doofer"!!:D

Us too!! kinda strange that. I also have absolutely no idea why

Eire-Dearg · 23-01-2009 11:05PM

The control.

zzxx · 23-01-2009 11:09PM

My entire family call it the 'geuck'. My grandmother started that one.

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