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What do you call the thing you use to change TV channels?

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ClashCityRocker · 18/04/2019 15:23

I've just watched Tenable and the thing I thought it was called didn't make the top ten of names.

I'm honestly, genuinely shocked. I thought it was really common and would be the most obvious answer.

(Pinger)

OP posts:
PurpleFlower1983 · 18/04/2019 17:47

Remote or doofer Grin

Dodie66 · 18/04/2019 17:48

Dunger.

Inadvertentlybrilliant · 18/04/2019 17:50

Remote control.

LittleGreenLights · 18/04/2019 17:50

Clicker

vampirethriller · 18/04/2019 17:54

Remote.

funnelfanjo · 18/04/2019 17:55

Hoofer-doofer. Thank Noel Edmonds and Telly addicts (tv quiz programme from the 80s).

AnnoyedByAlfieBear · 18/04/2019 17:56

Clicker or remote here. The in-laws call it a hoofer-doofer. Confused

Stravapalava · 18/04/2019 17:56

Controls ('trols for short)

disneydatknee · 18/04/2019 17:57

Dooby doober

ItsPeanutButterJelly · 18/04/2019 17:58

Zapper!

MrsElizabethShelby · 18/04/2019 18:01

Remote, telemabob, clickermajig

Grumblepants · 18/04/2019 18:01

Remote
Buttons
Trollymote
Control
We like to spice it up in this house!

TeeJay1970 · 18/04/2019 18:04

Lots of these sound like sex toys.

funnelfanjo · 18/04/2019 18:09

Just to clarify, I am not AnnoyedByAlfieBear MIL. Grin

jcq17 · 18/04/2019 18:09

Clicker!

Dillyson · 18/04/2019 18:10

It's the jobby in our house.

EnglishRose13 · 18/04/2019 18:11

Clicker.

Lew1993 · 18/04/2019 18:12

Buttons!

Mumsymumphy · 18/04/2019 18:15

Doofa

Exexexcel · 18/04/2019 18:18

Moat troll!

FloofyDoof · 18/04/2019 18:19

The buttons or the remote.

Amongstthetallgrass · 18/04/2019 18:20

Oh my god what’s wrong with you people - it’s clearly called ‘the hand set’

Not one person .... jeeze..

BarbarAnna · 18/04/2019 18:22

Small dick or large dick depending on which one I need!

The kids call it the ‘merote’ but that’s just them being a bit dim!

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 18/04/2019 18:22

Ours is the tit.

Came from an old housemate - his grandma used to use the word tit to mean any random thing. So the remote became the tit and 30 years on that's what it still is in our house.

NotTheMrMenAgain · 18/04/2019 18:24

Blipper - never heard of the doofer!

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