Ok, we’ve lost, didn’t sign a CB (yet) and our font is under close scrutiny so I feel it’s time for an inane thread.
Inspired by a discussion on 5 Live this morning, what terms or names does your family use to refer to the TV remote? *
Ok, we’ve lost, didn’t sign a CB (yet) and our font is under close scrutiny so I feel it’s time for an inane thread.
Inspired by a discussion on 5 Live this morning, what terms or names does your family use to refer to the TV remote? *
The Plipper.
FFS
No new centre back … beaten by Swansea … Tinkerman fuckin’ with my forum …
and now I find out my tv remote is supposed to have a name !!
…my self esteem is at an all time low
The buttons
not very original but seems to have stuck around for many years
Clicker
Sky remote
TV Remote
or as they are fondly know.
Where is…
… the fucking Sky remote or just replace sky with TV, Apple, Amazon or DVD, and it all the same.
Remote!
The Dildo
'mote
kids called it / them that when they were little and it stuck.
I don’t know about you lot, but this thread is not making me feel better about the lack of centre back! If anything it is just a reminder of our failure on 31st January 2017.
I call mine The Buttonmaster Gatekeeper to the Open Sewer, as I am channelling Mary Whitehouse and I’m slightly demented.
“fucking thing” as in “where has that fucking thing got to?”
“Thing”…as in “why doesn’t this fuckin’ thing work like it’s supposed to”
And I always leave at least one old one around as well, just to confuse myself.
The scenario normally plays out like this
Wheres the remote
who nicked the fucking batteries
have we got any spares
Ding ding (ring for the house maid)
Heres some money go and get some AA and AAA batteries.
Here are your batteries sir
Why the fuck did you by C cells and PP3
because that is all they had.
‘Mine’ or ‘yours’
The goat. Because of Muppets From Space.
why do remote controls in hotels never work properly? Is there some technical reason? It’s pissing me off.
because you keep hitting the paws button.
“Claude Puel”, because I like to pretend I’m Les Reed and I can use it to do whatever I want. Do you see? DO YOU SEE?
The buttons get stuck.
It’s a well-known fact that the average hotel remote contains 673 different types of ‘DNA’.
If you know what I mean.