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

"Oh, you know, keepin' it hood..."

- Jeff Gerstmann, 2011

I approve of this. Anything that makes people younger than me seem like idiots increased my chances on the job market.

It's the future, spaceman.

I'm part of that Generation and I have never heard that. Heard some stupid shit mind you. But not that

Be above it, if I would be bothered by the 'foreigners' (born and raised here, but still refusing to learn the language) use of my language here I would have been executed long ago.
 
Goddamn them.

get off my lawn damn kids

@H2Oyea: Man you're behind the times sir, we used to call our parents that in high school here in the uk about 10 years ago.

I say it ironically sometimes...

But in the Uk...

I haven't heard the term "rents" in like 10 years, and even then I think it was only in shitty teen movies/tv shows/etc, not real life. So odds are the term was invented by a 40 year old guessing how young people talk in the first place haha

@H2Oyea: You're a little slow on the uptake, duder. I was watching Glass House (2001), last night, and mini Helen Hunt referred to her parents as "rents". People like to abbreviate shit and that is a pretty obvious one. I dont know that it's ever been a "thing". It's just one of those stupid ways kids refer to their parents, along the same lines as "parental units", which I hope doesn't send you off into another tirade.

This just in - young people are dumb. Before any young people jump up and proclaim how not dumb they are, don't.

What? That's dumb. You know what though? All slang is dumb. But I ain't down with calling parents "rents." That ain't rad. Or cool. It sucks.

Yeah....never heard that before. I can see your point though, it is pretty distasteful to refer to your parents as nothing more than "rent." Society....You disappoint me AGAIN!

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...

Sounds bad

@McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

"Rents?" That is so doubleplusungood.

Orwell would be proud.

Sounds like you're getting old.

Stop being angry.

u mad, bro?

uhhh....people were saying that when I was in high school.....its not a new thing.

They use the word rents instead of parents.

Not really heard anyone use that term before.

There are plenty of things in this world to get angry about. Don't think this is one of them.

where i'm from stupid internet people use the letter K instead of C.

Odd. I'm apart of the new generation of university students and I've never heard anyone say rents. I hear jelly 20+ times a day though.

you jelly?

These kids today with their funny slang words!

You're honestly that worked up over it?

The solution is to simply act confused when hearing the word. Then ask for clarification of what they mean by it. Sure, you'll look stupid to them, but you win your little linguistic fight by making it not work.

I am a college freshman and do not use the term rents. You're welcome.

@TehFlan said:

I am a college freshman and do not use the term rents. You're welcome.

Same.

@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!

I didn't get it at first.

Thought you were talking about rents, as in owing money for multiple rents.

Making that slang for parent is both moronic and confusing.

I despise slang.

@Swoxx said:

u mad, bro?

Racial intimidation!!

I used to hate young people, then I realised I am one. Then I read this article, and I realised that being a crotchety old person is just as dumb.

All you people getting mad at this need to realise that getting mad at a stupid phrase is even dumber than the phrase itself.

Really? Maybe it's due to the fact that I live in Brooklyn, but I've never heard someone say "rents" when referring to their parents. In any case, it's not really worth freaking out over. This is one of those slang terms that won't be used frequently (or so I hope).

• I'm at university and know no one that uses this term
• The word 'rents' has been around for years
• Why are you flipping out over a word?

that took me a little while to figure out.  and that is stupid.

Al Gore is Super Serial about the existence of Manbearpig 

This is not even close to new. That's been around for like 10+ years

Rents has been said for years, where have you been?

Slang, man. It's given us some great words. Unfortunately now every white boy around thinks his mom's sedan is a "whip" and his parent's house is his "crib". Can't live with it, can't live without it.

I don't say that, cause I think it sounds weird and could lead to some confusion, but I hear people say it every now and then. I don't have a problem with it. It's slang. Most of it is pretty dumb.

Personally, I'm more pissed off at "would you fuck _________" conversations than slang.

Hey guys, let's go get some STK.

OP, come back here so that we can all point and laugh at you in unison.

I swear people have been saying rents for years! i remember saying it when i was 16... maybe that was an english thing :S

I don't know what is worse people saying it or you complaining about it.

@punkxblaze said:

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

Is that froyo bogo? Because that would be totes phat for reals.

@wemibelec90 said:

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