Alternative Names for Everyday objects

[Big Jeff]

Camera - Bracket Snapper

Do you have any that don’t involve cockernee rhyming slang?

 

[thefatghost]

All mine are shite rhymes. Call the TV remote ‘Raoul’ (Raoul Moat - remote), I go for a danny (bath, Danny Batth), lie in bed on my ‘attica’ (side, ciattica…). I’m like a modern day Hemmingway

 

[gasman]

My dad used to call the telly remote ‘the pressy button’

 

[roker beach]

My dad used to call the telly remote ‘the pressy button’

That’s not bad, mine calls everything the “doo-dah”.

 

[Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan]

My dad used to call the telly remote ‘the pressy button’

The hoofer-doofer.

 

[League Wan]

My dad used to call the telly remote ‘the pressy button’

Our lass and co call them 'the buttons', winds me right up for some reason and when they ask for 'the buttons' I ignore them

 

[wisemensaysteve]

Remote is the Zapper
We have used Zapper for so long that I forgot it's actually a remote control.

 

[Dave Herbal]

My dad used to call the telly remote ‘the pressy button’

We call it the presser.

 

[Becs]

My Dad called nail clippers "snip snips" and me and my bairns still call them that!

 

[ErichZann]

Remote has been the presser since the 80s in our family

 

[Dennis]

Remote is clicker man

 

[The Archer]

Our lass (no) calls the remote the bip bop

She also calls rashers of bacon rations and cling film clean film which are wrong but do sort of make sense.

 

[BMX Bandit]

Doof

 

[jarramackem]

My son called our dining room the diamond room when he was little. It’s been called that ever since

 

[Kent_Mackem]

All mine are shite rhymes. Call the TV remote ‘Raoul’ (Raoul Moat - remote), I go for a danny (bath, Danny Batth), lie in bed on my ‘attica’ (side, ciattica…). I’m like a modern day Hemmingway

Me too, it's all rhyming slang

Raoul Moat for coat
Going to have a Chas and Dave then iron my John Hurt
Can you close the Richard Burtons
etc

Our lass and co call them 'the buttons', winds me right up for some reason and when they ask for 'the buttons' I ignore them

I use 'buttons' too.
(Mind, probably more likely to be the Lamb and Muttons.)

 

[Iballistic George]

That’s not bad, mine calls everything the “doo-dah”.

Mrs calls everything a doo doo. Does my heed right in

 

[Kevj]

My dad used to call the telly remote ‘the pressy button’

Mine called it the flicker.

My son called our dining room the diamond room when he was little. It’s been called that ever since

My son used to say Fee-Arie for Ferrari and that’s stuck!

 

[Pnematic1]

I m not sure why but I say “ dickie birds “ when referring to , well , birds. I honestly can’t help it .

Still it gives folk a laugh and I m not changing now ( even if I could).

 

[germanyjim]

Our spare room was called the mystery guest room by my grandson when he was a toddler and it has stuck.

 

[BarrySheensAutograph]

Pass then ' plonker' for remote, nee idea why