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u/CorrectChocolateRain 2d ago
calling a remote a clicker makes you sound older than him lolll
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u/Boomdiddy 2d ago
My grandfather called his remote “The Adjudicator”.
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u/JaozinhoGGPlays Up past my bedtime 2d ago
goddamn are you changing the channel or one-shotting Melania wtf
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u/JetEngineAssblaze 2d ago
Or from Long Island, NY. I used to call it that because of my grandparents as did a bunch of my friends until I got bullied out of it in college haha
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u/stranded_egg 1d ago
Boston area checking in, it's a highly used term around here, too.
Well, "clickah" is.
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u/_KeanuLeaves 2d ago
It's interesting to me how smaller towns tend to retain older vocabulary for longer. Just something I've tended to notice.
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u/grendel303 2d ago
Old remotes used sound instead of light, hence the term clicker. A button would make a sound and the tv would interpret that sound as a command.
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u/BleednHeartCapitlist 2d ago
What would they really do to any of us? Trying this next chance I get my mums always at a doctors office
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u/fecal-butter 1d ago
Eat the bill and cut the power from the tv probabky. No direct repercussions but from a certain point of view stripping the waiting room from a source of entertainment for the future. Whether whatever that was originally on usually was entertaining or not is another question
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u/Lefty_22 2d ago
They’re so busy that someone has to wait 2 hours to be seen? They can afford a $5 movie. I have zero sympathy for healthcare companies. They are doing ridiculously well across the board.
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u/Small-Palpitation310 1d ago
nobody said they had to wait two hours. that’s part of what makes this funny.
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u/fondue4kill 2d ago
I seriously doubt a waiting room would allow people to buy whatever they want on tv.
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u/RobbinsFilms 2d ago
I’m sure no one “allowed” it, but if there’s a credit card associated with whatever account is logged in on the app, you just press rent. They won’t know until they get the bill.
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u/AdVegetable7181 2d ago
Yeah, it's a big oversight on their part if they don't have stuff like that deactivated or inaccessible. It doesn't take much effort. My eye doctor as a teen had a locked bar over the TV settings.
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u/colin8651 2d ago
Don’t understand. Did he charge it to the businesses cable account, or authorize the charge for the movie on his account
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u/Kip_Schtum 2d ago
If you’re there long enough to watch a movie, they can eat the cost.