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[RichardCranium]

I have them voice activated ones. I only need to say "This is crap!" or "Isn't there something better on?" and often it'll flick through a few channels before alighting on something better.

Although it isn't brilliantly reliable and so I'm sometimes forced to wander through to another room and watch whatever is on in there.

Is it one of those dodgy Missus-brand remotes?

I can't get mine to work properly at all.

[ctdctd]

I've lost the BBC red button again. And a sock.

Anyone?

The Red button is in the sock which you have washed so it has shrunk.
Look for a Red dot and a bit of fluff.

HTH

[Zippy]

I've lost the BBC red button again. And a sock.

Anyone?

[TimberWolf]

I've had had Biros fall off a desk (launch actually) only to be inexplicably unfindable, at least not for Moons. This can defy rational explanation sometimes, as there are only so many places Biros could possibly hide. But after explorering them all for the nth time to the mth degree, they just have to be given up as forever lost and unexplained. They can spontaneously reappear equally as miraculously though, so whatever law lies behind this penomenon, it is a conservative one.

[threaded]

I have them voice activated ones. I only need to say "This is crap!" or "Isn't there something better on?" and often it'll flick through a few channels before alighting on something better.

Although it isn't brilliantly reliable and so I'm sometimes forced to wander through to another room and watch whatever is on in there.

[HairyArsedBloke]

This is like me with the keys to whatever place I am living in at the time. I have to have a place for them and they have to live there. So many times I’ve come in and thrown my keys down, but then had to spend hours looking for them when I want to go out. Once I lost them and found them underneth the television stand; they had fallen off the top and bounced off the cables and under the whole thing.

It is even more important for me to do this as I get older and the memory fails.

[suityou01]

The time before last when we moved, we couldn't find the remote for the kitchen radio.

We hoped it might turn up after this move.

But it hasn't.

Have you got it?

<rummages-down-back-of-sofa />

found a quid

and some bombay mix

<munches />

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

<belchy-belch/>

what was the question again?

[RichardCranium]

Has anyone seen the DVD remote? It was here a minute ago

The time before last when we moved, we couldn't find the remote for the kitchen radio.

We hoped it might turn up after this move.

But it hasn't.

Have you got it?

[scooterscot]

No, I have 47.

One for the telly. One for the Virgin media box. One for the Hifi. One for the baby's cot mobile. One for the electric fire .......

And I used to have one for the DVD player, so that's actually 46 now.

I have an iPhone - One control for everything .....

Get a Mac

[scooterscot]

It's where you last put it.

HTH

Think like a dyslexic (it took me a few attempts to spell that one correctly, now I'm worried) according to a new scientist article I read some time ago they are the folks who will find a misplaced items long before the rest of us.

The reason being is the difference in thinking. Where is the remote?

a) Where was I when I last had it?

or Mr dyslexic

b) Where would I normally be when I'm using it?



I've tried it - it really works...

[TimberWolf]

Get a Logitech Harmony.

HTH

It weighs 1 kg (and costs £105 )

[sasguru]

Get a Logitech Harmony.

HTH

Prefrontal Lobotomy.
Preferably one which prevents you typing crap on here.

[DiscoStu]

No, I have 47.

One for the telly. One for the Virgin media box. One for the Hifi. One for the baby's cot mobile. One for the electric fire .......

And I used to have one for the DVD player, so that's actually 46 now.

Get a Logitech Harmony.

HTH

[Pogle]

There must be a market for remotes with a voice activated sonic locator, and illuminated buttons.

On visiting Mr P's cousins in Co Wicklow we noticed that in front of the TV was a small table with the tv remote gaffer tapped on to it!
They always knew where it was

[TimberWolf]

There must be a market for remotes with a voice activated sonic locator, and illuminated buttons.