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What do you call the TV remote in your house?

217 replies

TooFirty · 14/08/2024 19:32

Just some light lols while I'm moping in bed getting over a bug..

Some people have hilarious names for the telly remote

In our house it was the Zapper or the Button Presser

My nan called it the Wobbler

In my friends house it was the Bipper

OP posts:
chattyness · 14/08/2024 21:01

The diddler or the zapper

mitogoshi · 14/08/2024 21:02

@RenoDakota

Same here except we nicked the batteries out of the TV remote so have issues if it's been on for 4 hours, tv goes into standby and the Sky remote can't stop it!

piperatthegates · 14/08/2024 21:02

Telly machine in our house

Qwertying · 14/08/2024 21:03

The control

Phineyj · 14/08/2024 21:04

The "emote".

DD misheard when she was little. She is, and does like, highly emotional stuff though!

SantaToSSD · 14/08/2024 21:05

Wow I thought my name was common but no-one has said it yet. I call it a blipper. I see other Mners have said bipper and blibber but am I really the only one to call it a blipper?!

Objectrelations · 14/08/2024 21:05

The button machine

Catlover1705 · 14/08/2024 21:06

Clicker but don't know why.

ramsayboltonshounds · 14/08/2024 21:09

The Doobery Furkin.

CalamityClam · 14/08/2024 21:11

Wagger!

Apolloneuro · 14/08/2024 21:12

Bopper

mrssunshinexxx · 14/08/2024 21:14

The 'mote'

Dragonfruity · 14/08/2024 21:16

The box.
Yes I know that's what some people call the actual TV but that's what my mum and grandparents always called the remote!

Mahoosivesalad · 14/08/2024 21:17

My Dad used to call it a digeridoo and it got shortened to Doo Doo courtesy of my young son who couldn't say it.

YesThisIsMe · 14/08/2024 21:19

My parents always used to call it the Medieval Source of Power, having read a somewhat pretentious article in the early days of them becoming prevalent about patriarchal tendencies in who had control of the remote within households.

WingSlutz · 14/08/2024 21:19

The zapper
The mote

JudgeJenny · 14/08/2024 21:20

The numbers.

IsThePopeCatholic · 14/08/2024 21:20

The gizmo.

BunfightBetty · 14/08/2024 21:24

The twatter.

CapitanSandy · 14/08/2024 21:25

The conks (controls)

Oldfatandfrumpy · 14/08/2024 21:25

The box

perfectstorm · 14/08/2024 21:29

I regret to admit that it's "the beep beep". One of the kids called it that, and it stuck.

undercoverhero74 · 14/08/2024 21:30

It's "the buttons" in our house but growing up my parents used to call it a "Doot doot". No idea why 😂😂

jcr89 · 14/08/2024 21:32

It's the 'changer' in our house.

Jayinthetub · 14/08/2024 21:33

Dibber in our house (assumed most people called it that!) but thinking of changing it up now after this thread! I like the DooferSmile

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