r/madlads • u/Previous-Ad-9322 • 3d ago

Mad 'ol Lad

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u/CorrectChocolateRain 3d ago

calling a remote a clicker makes you sound older than him lolll

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u/Boomdiddy 3d 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 3d 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/523bucketsofducks 3d ago

Graib da clickah for me

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u/JetEngineAssblaze 3d ago

You get it

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u/523bucketsofducks 3d ago

I have some cousins in Montauk lol

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u/Care_Hairy 3d ago

as a native of strong island i can say i hear clicker too

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u/stranded_egg 2d ago

Boston area checking in, it's a highly used term around here, too.

Well, "clickah" is.

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u/Vaxtin 3d ago

Haven’t heard it outside of my grandparents house in 2005

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u/Asauna 1d ago

I feel so culturally called out I had no idea

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u/_KeanuLeaves 3d 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/00cjstephens 2d ago

People don't change much when they hardly go anywhere or see anyone new

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u/grendel303 3d 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/RoboPup 2d ago

That's pretty cool. I would've assumed it's because the buttons make a clicking sound.

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u/PoopieButt317 18h ago

I am 72. How long ago was this EVER a real thing? No. Not sound activated. Such gullible up voters.

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u/JoeyJoeJoeSenior 18h ago

Google it - it was real.  My grandparents still had one in the 90's.

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u/TartMore9420 2d ago

We used to call it the doofer.

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u/stretcharach 1d ago

I call it a flicker bicker