Are you ****ing serious? This is an actual thing?

This may not bother most of you and heck, I don't even know if you guys are aware of this, but the new generation of university students who've just gotten out of high school use the term "rents"....guess what that means, just fucking guess! PARENTS! WHY WOULD YOU TAKE AWAY TWO LETTERS FROM A WORD TO MAKE A STUPID SOUNDING WORD THAT YOU THEN USE SERIOUSLY AND SINCERELY IN A CONVERSATION? Not to mention that it sounds like you're trying to say that you have multiple rents, like the type you pay. 

Doesn't really seem like something to get angry about. People have been saying dumb things for years.

Slang tends to be fucking stupid. I learned this lesson a long time ago.

That is pretty fucking dumb.

i h8 shrthnd

Dude, how old are you? Welcome to language.

You are so jelly of our slang

I am part of that generation, and I have never heard this before.

@PeasantAbuse said:

I am part of that generation, and I have never heard this before.

Same. I've only heard this in weird shit movies about the 90s/early 00s, and those are usually written by older people so...

@PeasantAbuse said:

I am part of that generation, and I have never heard this before.

Yeah what the fuck is rents?

I'm actually lost. What are the parents doing?

This isn't really a new thing. I've heard people call their parents that for a while.

Why so Siri?

it can flow better in conversation

consider the following two sentences:

"I have to go shopping with the 'rents"

"I have to go shopping with my parents"

it's both less effort to say and it flows better, so...

@Animasta said:

it can flow better in conversation

consider the following two sentences:

"I have to go shopping with the 'rents"

"I have to go shopping with my parents"

it's both less effort to say and it flows better, so...

No to both. If it takes 'effort' to say parents over rents, stop talking before you kill yourself.

u r so jelly of our hip yung lingo

that is pretty stupid. 
 
i call my parents by their first names. i thought that was pretty stupid when i do it.

U siri?

Sounds like something Ferris Bueller would say.

@H2Oyea said:

@Doctorchimp: They're being distastefully called rents.

It's just parents with the pa taken off...it's a slang term that hardly needs this kind of vitriol direct at it. Note I'm not from that generation, I'm 28, last slang we had was "parental units". Of course I once had a similar hate-filled post sent my way for using that term in a joking way. Seems people get way too upset about little quirks of language.

@H2Oyea said:

@Vextroid said:

U siri?

Go back to West Philadelphia, you trash.

Did you spend most of your days on the playground? Chillin' out, maxin?

@H2Oyea said:

@Vextroid said:

U siri?

Go back to West Philadelphia, you trash.

Did you spend most of your days on the playground? Chillin' out, maxin?

Bro is short for brother.

Sis is short for sister.

Ma is short for matriarch/mama/mother.

Pa is short for patriarch/papa/father.

So obviously they can't use "pa" to refer to parents since that's already taken.

Cooee cobber, that slang is bloody blooming funny buggers to me, or I'm a bird's eye with dead horse.

Struth.

You are so jelly of our slang

This is news to you? People were saying this when I was in highschool.

@Three0neFive said:

@SirPsychoSexy said:

You are so jelly of our slang

I'm not usually one to get mad at colloquialisms and slang, but fuck. Every time someone says "jelly" in conversation I die a little. I bet they think that shit is from fucking "le reddit lmao xD", too. Fuck it all.

So, i guess talking about sandwiches is out of the question?

@EveretteScott said:

@Animasta said:

it can flow better in conversation

consider the following two sentences:

"I have to go shopping with the 'rents"

"I have to go shopping with my parents"

it's both less effort to say and it flows better, so...

No to both. If it takes 'effort' to say parents over rents, stop talking before you kill yourself.

when the hell did it get ok to call parents rents? Is 21 really at the age of being to old to understand this crap?

Wait. Isn't this old slang? Like 90's old? Not that the 90s is that old just that, well I'm pretty sure it's not current. If it is, I am so uncool :(

...uh "rents" has been around for a very long time. Some people use it, some don't. I personally think it sounds dumb so I don't use it. Also: welcome to the world.

"Rents," bah, your slang's all wet.

That is pretty fucking dumb.

I use the word 'rents... another one is 'parental units'. We are just so goddam hip.

Oh no! Young people coming up with stupid slang! Are you ****ing serious? Is this a new thing?

'rents has been slang for parents since at least the early 2000s.

I call pizza "za" sometimes.

Come at me.

It sounds like a piece of made-up slang you would see in Hi and Lois or something.

This it what it took to piss you off? really? That's so sad and pathetic, even more sad than people actually saying 'rents

"Rents?" That is so doubleplusungood.

Totes hip, bro. I gotta go grab some sick froyo with my buds.

I think it's more of a southern thing than a university thing...

@punkxblaze said:

Totes hip, bro. I gotta go grab some sick froyo with my buds.

Ok, someone needs to give me a fucking book that translate Voodoo to English (Or Danish og Japanese, I don't care) because I feel like I'm missing out when people start speaking in tongues

@ZeForgotten said:

@punkxblaze said:

Totes hip, bro. I gotta go grab some sick froyo with my buds.

Ok, someone needs to give me a fucking book that translate Voodoo to English (Or Danish og Japanese, I don't care) because I feel like I'm missing out when people start speaking in tongues

Allow me, old chap. Ahem.

That is entirely neat and with the times, brother, but I have to go acquire some frozen yogurt with my chums!

@punkxblaze said:

@ZeForgotten said:

@punkxblaze said:

Totes hip, bro. I gotta go grab some sick froyo with my buds.

Ok, someone needs to give me a fucking book that translate Voodoo to English (Or Danish og Japanese, I don't care) because I feel like I'm missing out when people start speaking in tongues

Allow me, old chap. Ahem.

That is entirely neat and with the times, brother, but I have to go acquire some frozen yogurt with my chums!

Fantastic, thanks. People talking like that seem super cool. Frozen yogurt, that's so "gangsta".. I think.

Now what happened to the Danish and Japanese version? :P

Sup Bro?

@MiniPato said:

Bro is short for brother.

Sis is short for sister.

Ma is short for matriarch/mama/mother.

Pa is short for patriarch/papa/father.

So obviously they can't use "pa" to refer to parents since that's already taken.

Pretty sure 'Folks" was been the short hand for Parents for a long ass time.

im going to start using that now

@Korwin said:

@MiniPato said:

Bro is short for brother.

Sis is short for sister.

Ma is short for matriarch/mama/mother.

Pa is short for patriarch/papa/father.

So obviously they can't use "pa" to refer to parents since that's already taken.

Pretty sure 'Folks" was been the short hand for Parents for a long ass time.

I was trying to be a smartass. But I will argue that "folks" doesn't have to be the only term.

Sounds like somthin' from a rap song.