Pet Peeves

[Thorn]

Just stay away from the outback. 20 years of the missus watching Home and Away ,I know you'll end up at the bottom of a cliff or a mine shaft needing flamin' Alf to rescue you.

[Eoin McLove]

In Australia, the outback is everywhere 

[Thorn]

Fair enough , though to continue the stereotype I hope you go down to the beach for lots of emotional chats with your loved ones.

[astfgyl]

The Japanese of course have a word for this, as I've just found out:

Japanese 秋思 (shuushi)
Literally "autumn thoughts." It specifically means the lonely, melancholy feeling that arises in autumn (or as autumn approaches).

They also supposedly had vending machines for used knickers, fair play to them

And according to Twitter, the Germans have the word Sommerwehmut for it.

Some of you here probably speak a bit of German maybe could confirm.

I wonder if there's an Irish term for it? So I asked the AI and got this:

No exact single-word equivalent like the German Sommerwehmut appears to exist in Irish (Gaeilge), but the language has strong, related terms for the same kind of wistful longing or melancholy that fit the feeling of summer fading.The closest and most useful is cumha (pronounced roughly "KOO-uh" or "KOO-wa"). It means loneliness, homesickness, parting sorrow, nostalgia, or a deep sense of longing for something (or someone) that is gone or distant. The related adjective is cumhach ("lonesome, homesick, wistful, nostalgic"). You could naturally say something like cumha an tsamhraidh or cumha i ndiaidh an tsamhraidh ("the longing/nostalgia of/after the summer") to capture the bittersweet end-of-summer feeling.

omniglot.com

Other related words include:Síreacht — wistfulness or longing (often with a plaintive quality).
Brón — sorrow or grief (more general sadness).
Terms for melancholy such as lionn dubh ("black mood") or meon dubhach ("gloomy disposition").

I didn't know either of those words in Irish so I suppose that was worth doing anyway

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Hard to beat the thought of a pair of knickers mid-Fall.

[Thorn]

Great post. There is melancholy to the Autumn season which is palpable and suits my dispostion.  Also have heard about those vending machines and they are not available locally but I love the surmise of the human condition.

Must get on to Spar about this.

Pint of milk and a pair of your finest used knickers please.Very Withnail.

[Eoin McLove]

Fair enough , though to continue the stereotype I hope you go down to the beach for lots of emotional chats with your loved ones.

While dodging sharks.

[astfgyl]

I wonder if they have a word for when one is longing for a used knickers?

Like you'd have hunger and thirst before you'd invent the snack and drink vending machines so they might have something.

So asked again and got:

The main Japanese term closely associated with that specific fetish (the sexual interest in used schoolgirl-style underwear, uniforms, bloomers, etc.) is burusera (ブルセラ).
It is a portmanteau of burumā (ブルマー, "bloomers"/gym shorts) and sērā-fuku (セーラー服, the classic sailor-style school uniform). The word refers both to the items themselves and to the fetishistic attraction to them (and related used clothing). Shops that once specialized in selling such goods were called burusera shops.d62806
Wikipedia
Related broader terms
下着フェチ (shitagi fechi) — underwear fetish in general.
フェティシズム (fetishizumu) or simply フェチ (fechi) — the general loanword for fetishism.
性癖 (seiheki) — a common everyday word for a sexual preference, kink, or particular sexual "habit/need."
The desire for used/worn items (especially those retaining scent or signs of wear) is often discussed under these fetish categories, sometimes overlapping with interests in body odor or "soiled" garments. There isn't a single highly specialized everyday word that isolates only the craving fulfilled by a used-panty vending machine beyond the burusera umbrella, which is the culturally specific term that arose for exactly this niche in the 1990s.

Well I think that's enough of that.

Ennui is another good word actually.

[Eoin McLove]

I'm mildly curious (but not enough to google) about where the so called used garments come from. Is there a factory where an automated machine inserts one pube, a little spray of eau-de-queef, and has a brown lipstick that adds the skid mark effect, or is it middle aged men, on the dole, who wear them for a day while playing Playstation and drinking cans of Guinness.