Phrase/word for remote controls

[duffers]

I've heard loads of variations on what people call their remote controls, what does everyone call theirs?

[RATTER15]

I just call them: The buttons

[almcd007]

I call them all "Mine" !!!

[curiosity]

Pass me "the Thing" usually works.

[archiestaffy]

I call it the modge....got it off my friends dad and it just stuck!

[CLOWN TICKLE]

box or thing

[spudqueen]

Hacker Clacker! (Or hacker for short). When my son was younger he got a wrong mark at school for labelling a remote control on a picture as a hacker clacker - I don't think the teacher could believe it when we told him that that's what they are called in our house!

[gasman]

In our household we call it a DINGER

[gasman]

My mother calls hers a DOOFER

[smudge]

I call it "That bl**dy thing" - especially when it's slipped between the cushions on the sofa & the sound on the TV suddenly goes really loud, just as my husband's dozed off in the armchair!

[crete]

we call ours Harvey.

[moppettshow]

'Dibber' seems to have stuck. My dad calls it the 'hand-held'.

[Wolf Rat]

WoW didn't know there was so much variation!
Always been 'the box' to me, mate calls his the 'Blonker' tho!!??!?!

[Ollie_P]

The Commander

[orlieborlie]

My 91 year old Daddy used to call it "the steering wheel"

[JanineG]

Gasman - I do the same as your mother - the Doofer! That's when I've got it - when the other half has it, its called His and hidden from me!

[BillyBB]

M-I-L calls it 'Plooker' much to the annoyance of her offspring. A mate refers to his as 'Frank', as in Mr Zappa. In our house it's just the remote. Do we lack imagination?

[welshwil]

the shemaio, in my place

[betty-nugs]

firtler

[duffers]

thanks for all your variations guys. we call it the gadget!

[janetsflower]

Its the zapper