Quite possibly the darkest decade of humanity. The onset of WWII really brought out the sheer brutality of human nature. Millions of unspeakable violent atrocities were committed by men who weren't even "evil".
The 1940s also marks the onset of the baby boomers, who were raised with traditional and conservative beliefs/principles.
Friend: Name which decade of the last century you'd least want to live in?
Me: The 1940s
A variant that blends Frutiger Aero’s glossy futurism with the restrained, industrial aesthetics of the 1940s. 1940s Aero emphasizes functionality, clean lines, and a sense of progress forged in wartime and postwar reconstruction. Glassmorphism takes the form of polished metal, Bakelite, and early plastics, while nature motifs are often military‑styled—maps, topographical lines, and idealized patriotic landscapes. The aesthetic appears in designs that imagine technology as a tool for rebuilding, with a sober optimism that contrasts with later decades’ exuberance.
Example: “The dashboard had matte metal dials, a softly glowing screen, and a map of the coastline—1940s Aero, the future built on wartime engineering.”
A door wall is a sliding-glass door or patio door. The term is yet another example of banal Michigan vernacular, where in the residents latch on to company names, trademark names, marketing terms and product names from local companies. The terms become embedded in the local vocabulary and eventually become accepted as actual valid words and phrases. In this case the term comes from Wallside Windows in Taylor, MI (a large window manufacturer), where 'door wall' is their created word for sliding-glass door.
"Bob! John's gonna bring over them doorwalls from Wallsides on Tuesdee afternoon 'round two-thirty. Get 'er done!"
The measure of an emotional and over zealous consumer in an upwardly charging market, also known as a bull market. It's characterized by rising asset prices, increased investor confidence, and favorable growth in the markets, bro.
The frothability was evident as over-zealous consumers eagerly engaged in bidding wars, drivingproperty prices to unsustainable levels reminiscent of previous speculative bubbles.
A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
"That guy's a souldigger. He'll expect you to work full time, but you'll be doing all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and childcare while he plays video games or watches TV."
A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.