What do you call this?

Alex_Alumni
Alex_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,538 Championing
I was reading recently about how people living together sometimes develop their own 'language' at home, by using different names for things, or certain phrases no one else can make sense of!

It got me thinking, what do you call one of these: 


[Image shows a TV remote control]

My family and I call it a hoofer doofer :smiley:
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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    The "telly stick" :D 
  • Alex_Alumni
    Alex_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,538 Championing
    I've not heard of 'telly stick' before @66Mustang but it makes a lot more sense than mine! I've had some very funny looks when I've asked friends to pass the hoofer doofer over :D 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    Ha ha :D 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,291 Championing
    I'm boring and it's the remote lol
  • rustledjimm
    rustledjimm Online Community Member Posts: 91 Empowering
    For a long time my family called it a "commytrollus" after either me or one of my siblings said that, being unable to properly say "remote control"
  • Alex_Alumni
    Alex_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,538 Championing
    edited June 2023
    The correct name for something is not always boring @Sandy_123 :D 

    And that's excellent @rustledjimm, it's harder to say commytrollus for me! This might be slightly unrelated, but after my sister called gloves "glubs" that has stuck too!

    As a cat person, I must ask- how are your cats today @EffinMuppet, clearly not TV fans? 
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 62,392 Championing
    For me it's a remote control. I was with my grandson one day quite a few months ago and he asked where the "telly box" was. I said, what's a telly box, he said it's a remote. :D He's only 3 but so funny sometimes.
  • Alex_Alumni
    Alex_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,538 Championing
    Children can be very funny and very insightful indeed Poppy!

    I'm alright thank you @EffinMuppet, not surprised about the cats, I bet they are enjoying the sunshine today :) 
  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,689 Championing
       According to my Irish son in law it's a yoke...🥴
  • Alex_Alumni
    Alex_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,538 Championing
    Wow, that's a new one to me @vikingqueen, 'yoke' like egg yolk, or yoc-key, I wonder?
  • rustledjimm
    rustledjimm Online Community Member Posts: 91 Empowering
    edited June 2023
    From my experiences with my close Irish family 'yoke' essentially translates to 'thingy/thing'.

    Pronounced yoke like in the egg.
  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,689 Championing
    edited June 2023
      Spot on @rustledjimm everything is a yoke and the daft thing is we all know what it is when he says pass that there yolk 🤨
  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    Used to be called the hand grenade, as we used to chuck it at one another.
  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 730 Pioneering
    For my family it was the doojamaflip. Now it's only me, it's the remote, but I always know where it is. ;)
  • Steve_in_The_City
    Steve_in_The_City Scope Member Posts: 746 Trailblazing
    I call it The Thing.
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 3,457 Championing
    Just a remote for me too.  I'm not a fun person!  :D

    A relative refers to it as 'the buttons', which is a bit too vague for me.  Chocolate?  Shirt?  TV?  :#
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    It's a remote to me, but pass me the thingy has also been said  :D
  • rustledjimm
    rustledjimm Online Community Member Posts: 91 Empowering
    My family would also use a variation of 'the thing', we sometimes said "Thingymabob"
  • and15
    and15 Online Community Member Posts: 73 Contributor
    I call it a remote but my partner calls it the dibber (I think secretly she's a frustrated bingo player ha ha)
  • rebel11
    rebel11 Online Community Member Posts: 1,669 Pioneering
    Anyone seen my TV remote?, I lost it on one of the threads. :)