Whats The TV Remote Called In your House?

[Mrs Miggins]

3 votes now for doofer
And I thought we were just so witty and unique

 

[ChrisFilter]

Doojymaflip.. I've heard it at places other than mine and my parents house n' all.. also call it the remote.

 

[oddworld]

Doofer

 

[badly drawn cat]

3 votes now for doofer
And I thought we were just so witty and unique

Make that 4 not witty & unique households with doofers as remote controls

 

[May Kasahara]

My boyfriend's family call it the dibbler...I have heard my dad refer to his multitude of remotes as 'guns'

Mostly I just call it the thing. "Where's the thing?"

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

doofer

dubris

weejie

yoke

zapper

 

[DrRingDing]

'the widget'

 

[Pieface]

doofer

 

[bigbry]

I hate to be boring but we call ours the remote. However I keep wondering why the on-off button is in so many different positions on remotes. With Sky systems, TV's, DVD's, stereos etc we've got ten remotes and there's no consistency about where buttons are , especially the on/off button - I watched about ten mins. TV in bed last night then reached for the remote to switch it off and brought up teletext cos the top right button (on /off on downstairs TV) is teletext button on upstairs TV.

Minor niggle I know but life would be simpler if there was a 'standard' for remotes

 

[pootle]

I call it the "hoofer doofer" rather than just "doofer"

 

[boohoo]

clicky click

ot just do a changing the channel hand gesture.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

ours is called "the badger"

 

[vipper]

Ronald the Remote.

As in "where's the Ronald?"

Fuck knows why?

 

[D'wards]

The Trols round here

 

[MooChild]

"Hoofer doofer" or "the buttons" here

Doofer seems quite a popular one

 

[ricbake]

We seem to have at least 12 sets of THE BUTTONS - tellys, video, DVD, digi-boxes, music centres, computer, playstation and camera. Too much.

"Where are the buttons?" - "in the basket by the fruit bowl OR where you left them!"

 

[mhendo]

Despite our atheism (because of it?) our remote control is affectionately known as "god".

"Where's god?"

"Have you seen god anywhere?"

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Our TV remote control is refered to as the plonker in our house.



Whats it called in yours?

'the remote'

 

[lynne8]

ours too. or where are those bloody buttons

I know!! I just can't change the channel or turn on the tv without the remote now, if I can't find it I just go and use the little one in the bedroom, I guess my big tv will last longer since I don't turn it on anymore if I can't find "the remote"!

 

[snadge]

where is that "piece of shite" now?

or " cuntin' thing" when I'm in a better mood

 

[butterfly child]

"tuss" or "tussum"

A shortened version of "tusslo dubro" - don't ask, I don't really know why.

 

[Macaroni Pony]

Mine is called the "plinker plonker" in honour of Mark Lawrenson (y'know, the camp BBC football "pundit"?), who once said something along the lines of "People will be reaching for their plinker plonkers to turn over in a minute" on MOTD once......much to guffaws and sniggering of Hanson et all....

 

[subversplat]

"The Buttons"

Pretty unimaginative really

 

[Gavin Bl]

the bleeper

 

[reubeness]

I-troller

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It's the "magic box" in my dad's house.

 

[prunus]

'The Black One' for the, er, black remote control and 'The Silver One' for, well I don't need to spell it out.

The black one is always going missing, which is a bummer as while the silver one does all the channelly stuff (it's the digital one), without the black one you can't turn the flippin telly on!!!!

 

[roxyfoxy]

I always call it the Doobie Doo ? dont no where that came from but its alays been known as that in my house.

 

[pennimania]

'Slob Squad'

 

[mysterygirl]

'The button box'. Until my mate comes round when it magically turns into 'the dit-dot'