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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:
KingscoteStaff · 14/08/2024 22:13

Blipper

MsInterpret · 14/08/2024 22:16

The Volumiser

As well as many of the others on this thread!

Fluffinghell · 14/08/2024 22:25

Changer

Tootyfilou · 14/08/2024 22:26

The Switcher.

Bracknellite · 14/08/2024 22:28

Frank
(Frank Zappa)

MrsALambert · 14/08/2024 22:34

Dingus

hot2trotter · 14/08/2024 22:35

Ours is just "the remote" but my dearly departed grandad used to call it a "didgeridoo"

emmetgirl · 14/08/2024 22:35

Blipper.

Notthegoldenhourthebluehour · 14/08/2024 22:36

So happy to see others call it The clicker as we have done since I was a kid, never heard any other family say it, only the remote

DinnaeFashYersel · 14/08/2024 22:38

The remote

We seem to be rather dull in comparison

speedymum1968 · 14/08/2024 22:39

The plonker

Littleoldme12 · 14/08/2024 22:54

The mote (remote)

ProgressivePilgrim · 15/08/2024 05:51

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

Dibber here too. Couldn't call it anything else. It's obviously a dibber - it dibs! 🤣

I absolutely love this thread. Thank you OP. I think we all needed an uplift...

Sheeparelooseagain · 15/08/2024 06:34

Fatty ( the fat controller). The dvd remote is called Thiny because it is thinner.

squashyhat · 15/08/2024 08:19

BiggieLittle · 14/08/2024 20:05

@squashyhat are you Scottish by any chance? If not you do know what Jobby can mean in Scottish slang? 😂 just wondering if it was deliberate or accidental lol

I've just Googled it Grin

Meem321 · 15/08/2024 08:40

My parents called it the Kajal stick. No idea why!

steadywinner · 15/08/2024 13:26

We call it the remote now but when the kids were little it was the "mowcon"...short for Mowcon trowl

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