According to a new survey Brits have more that 50 names for their remote controls: everything from zapper to switcher, flapper to troll.
Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show listeners shared their nicknames today. Wow, we are an imaginative bunch:
- Ian, our remote control is called 'FRANK'. Frank Zapper!! I’m showing my age now! Jim
- Mines called the wife, but she controls more than the tv !!! Shane. In carrigtwohill, co cork
- The bippers:D mary wex
- Shackle troller or digereedoo!!!
- Ours is called the power
- We call it The Buttons Jim from Kilcullen
- Pass us over the jerry there Ian will ya Davy in cork
- We call it the gun in my house. Niall
- Morning Ian. My daughter leyla called it the ‘tro-camole’ from when she first talked, and she’s a huge tv fan!!!So much so that the rest of the family did too and do so to this day and Leyla’s 14 now
- Manual channel configurator - Gary, limerick
- The doodle dasher'
- The gear stick, Kevin in galway
- Ours is called That contraption with the 3 rolls of Sellotape and 7 rolls of multi coloured insulation tape wrapped around it!!
- ‘Remote on troll’ my son as a baby couldn’t pronounce it properly so we all call it that now Anne from Achill'
- Stephen H - the wand of laziness
- Alison cullen - my Dad used to call the remote the "ticky whacker" Back in the 80's
- Keith W - we call it Brenda.... As in Brenda Flicker / Fricker
- In our house it’s known as "the fat lad". As in the fat controller from thomas the tank engine. Conor
- El_Poderoso - Doesn't everyone call it The Presser? #remote
Gary had a very sensible observation: Ian it's called a remote because that's the chances of finding it when you want to change channels. How true.
What do you call yours?
