Does anyone else wish they had conjured up a different image for xyz kanji?

Like, you tried to go back and undo the first image that popped into your head, but it was too late? And now it's etched in your brain like some timeless, demented memento from your twisted imagination; like a morbidly obese person, buck naked on a toilet using a compass to find their butt so they could wipe it...

I know I can't be the only one.

*still haunted by Heisig's story for "mellow"*

If you do RTK3, best to skip 屁2218. There are some *comparatively* rude images but none have been *flagged* as "report!"

Ok this image is from Heisig himself but it's one i wish i didn't have - utensil 器 121.

I've got nothing against other cultures eating dogs. Each to their own, but it's not my thing and the thought of that big fluffy St Bernard about to be devoured is one i wish i didn't have.

The other one is un- 非 1632. I'm not sure who initially used "goatse" as the keyword but as soon as I read it I was stuck with it . The next 6 stories i have using this as a primitive (bar one) i will take to my deathbed. Best (or worst) part is these are my easiest stories to recall - guaranteed 100% everytime.

To make matters worse after I'd dealt with the goatse kanji the next one to come up was marquis 侯(1639). Of course all i could think of was Marquis de Sade and Story of O. And yes i know i'm going to hell

AND A WARNING:
If you don't know who or what goatse is and are even offended at say something like topless sunbathing then make no effort to find out. It will scar you for life.

I have always thought of eating pork as more bizarre than eating dog. A pig shares 98% of our DNA and so it is almost the same as eating human flesh. Pigs are used as substitutes for human dissection in some medical training due to the fact our internal anatomy is so similar. I was forced to go deer hunting as a child as a kind of rite of passage and refused to shoot "Bambi". So I decided if my conscience would not allow me to kill an animal, it would be hypocritical to eat what others killed and became vegetarian.

I see 非 as centipede as it is the only harmful land creature in Hawaii. I refuse to kill them as well and locals get very angry at me. I just catch them and take them out into the forest for release

^I also can't stand people killing insects, even mosquitoes.

My stories are ussually quite sick and violent

I sort of cycle through the categories as I consider a Kanji and how to capture it's essence in a story

1, Sexually explicit material
2, gratuitous violence
3, Impossible absurd surrealism
4,something that actually makes sense

One that I wish I could forget is somebody "abusing" someone by "shoving both their hands" into a "shredder".

But I generally keep my explicit stories to myself, That doesn't stop the report Nazis hitting me sometimes though.

I keep a large plastic container with a lid in my room and attempt to catch mosquitoes in mid-air. Then take them outside to fly away harmlessly
If I am outside and notice one is biting me, it is too late. If I kill it, I will get revenge but the damage is done. It will still itch and swell. I just wave my arm to scare it off.

Man... I have one for this.

擦 (grate) : Guess what I did last night! I grated all my fingers to knobs!

Yeah, and the horrible mental image of someone showing me those fingers comes to mind too. Ugh.

bodhisamaya Wrote:I have always thought of eating pork as more bizarre than eating dog. A pig shares 98% of our DNA and so it is almost the same as eating human flesh. Pigs are used as substitutes for human dissection in some medical training due to the fact our internal anatomy is so similar.

It is rather hypocritical to eat one form of meat and decry the consumption of another kind in a different culture.

However, most of those who oppose dog eating are more concerned by the barbaric, cruel conditions in which the dogs are kept and killed. Limbs broken to ensure they can't escape. Skinned alive. And so on.

Kind of regret looking at some of the stories that use 'friend' as a primitive. No matter how hard I try to think only of the 'hanging off a cliff, someone's friend's fingers slowly slipping out of their grip' scenario...>_<
I wasn't keen on the one for 'utensil', either (if anyone's seen any episodes of the anime Excel Saga (which I don't particularly recommend if you value your sanity) I ended up using this dog (who the main character claims is 'emergency rations'):

as my Saint Bernard primitive because of that Kanji).
The one for 'sort of thing' was worse, though, since I have a Chihuahua. I use the story about encountering all sorts of things on a moonlit night, including hell hounds, instead.

*Waves to fellow vegetarian*
Wow, those are some pretty spectacular centipedes you get in Hawaii. I wouldn't dream of hurting them, either. If I came across a giant spider, on the other hand........I'd run away in terror.

Goatse for me.

Random followup to Bodhisamaya's comment about pork:
"Similarities between mouse and human genes range from about 70% to 90%, with an average of 85% similarity but a lot of variation from gene to gene"
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Hu...tml#stubbs

Don't know what the estimates are for humans and centipedes... or for humans and bananas, although plants tend to have much bigger genomes than animals. Pine trees, for example, can have 10 to 100 times the size of the human genome.

Now I just need to figure out how to attach this factoid to a kanji story...

Machine_Gun_Cat Wrote:^I also can't stand people killing insects, even mosquitoes.

I kill 'em if they are in my house. They are hunting me, and they are becoming even worse vectors for nasty and fatal diseases than ever, because global warming apparently is increasing the habitat of problematic species. A mosquito bite is not a blood donation I make voluntarily.

Now if they would just wise up, and establish little mosquito clinics so that they would be free of things like plasmodium falciparum, I'd let 'em get on with their life cycle. But until then, I do intend to get on with mine.

I see little difference, actually, between a mosquito in my house and a tiger in my house (we'd all presumably shoot the tiger if we didn't have another means of dealing with it -- like a handy tranquillizer gun or quick responding authorities). Sure, one is definitely a more immediate threat, perhaps a more certain threat, but the other one is clearly a type of Russian roulette.

I swat the buggers.

Ampharos64 Wrote:*Waves to fellow vegetarian*
Wow, those are some pretty spectacular centipedes you get in Hawaii. I wouldn't dream of hurting them, either. If I came across a giant spider, on the other hand........I'd run away in terror.

If you had ever got bitten by a centipede here in Hawaii you might run away in terror as well. I was bitten between the toes while sleeping once. It was the sharpest pain I ever felt. My foot was swollen for days. I have had several crawl on me while camping but if you remain calm they eventually crawl off if not provoked. When you try to kill them or swat them off is when they bite. We have huge cane spiders but they are harmless.