Is this Gay Bomb for real?

[Liszt]

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.html

Aparently, the military developed a Gay Bomb - it turns soldiers gay, so they stop fighting.

This sort of story is normally released on April 1. It is off the scale. What happened to the technology? Did they use it in San Francciso instead? Was this really kept secret for more than 10 years?

It´s like the stories about weather machines. It sounds mad, but I actually know someone who worked on the a weather machine (it didn´t work very well, apparently)

Make love not war!

[David Wong]

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.html

Aparently, the military developed a Gay Bomb - it turns soldiers gay, so they stop fighting.



Did you read the article you linked?

Because it doesn't say that. Seriously, within like one inch of the top of the article it says somebody floated the idea, and it was quickly dismissed.

I'm guessing the person who suggested it was crazy.

[Liszt]

Did you read the article you linked?

Because it doesn't say that. Seriously, within like one inch of the top of the article it says somebody floated the idea, and it was quickly dismissed.

I'm guessing the person who suggested it was crazy.

Chill out David, I just thought it was funny. Remember, this was at the time when many people were obsessed with gay people in the military.

[Hourglassmemory]

Awkwardly enough the military also wants to kill gay people using chemtrails.
Perhaps they want to kill their own military units.
How distorted can you get with these people?

[ConspiRaider]

Chill out David, I just thought it was funny. Remember, this was at the time when many people were obsessed with gay people in the military.
Probably why they dropped the idea. With so many folks already being obsessed with gay people in the military, who needs a bomb? Especially when they look so cute in those tight-fitting uniforms? :)

[Liszt]

Awkwardly enough the military also wants to kill gay people using chemtrails.
Perhaps they want to kill their own military units.
How distorted can you get with these people?

I think the point of the Gay Bomb was to drop it on the enemy, rather than their own troops!

It does bring a new meaning to the term "freindly fire" I suppose

[Slayhamlet]

Awkwardly enough the military also wants to kill gay people using chemtrails.
Perhaps they want to kill their own military units.
How distorted can you get with these people?

Drop the gay bomb on the hostiles, then spray 'em down with the queer-killing chemtrails, duh! It's so much more efficient than using real bombs and ordnance.

[Undesired Walrus]

What if the enemy are already homosexuals?

After all, Bin Laden is an 'Arse'nal fan!
He likes to 'stick it to the man'!
He likes to be 'hooked up' to a bed everyday (to recieve dialysis)!
He has many wives and many children... and er....um...

[negativ]

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.html

Aparently, the military developed a Gay Bomb - it turns soldiers gay, so they stop fighting.

Hmm.. Maxwell Smart meets John Waters. It would make an entertaining movie, although Waters himself has sort of already done it with A Dirty Shame (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dirty_Shame).

[gumboot]

I'm not sure turning the enemy gay would help much. Homosexuals played a big part in Ancient Greek warfare because they fought more ferociously, as their lovers were right beside them.

-Gumboot

[Unsecured Coins]

Fabulouth!!

[Monza]

Hmm.. Maxwell Smart meets John Waters.

I was wondering if someone was going to mention the Nude Bomb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081249/).

[The Doc]

The military experiments will all kinds of things. The most interesting are related to the effects of music and sound on the battlefield in my personal opinion.

However, a gay bomb seems like something that wouldn't have been given much attention.

[boloboffin]

It wasn't dismissed that quickly, according to the article. And the proposal happened in 1994, putting it within the context of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

I see it as one more way the military was institutionalizing its homophobia. They were using it frequently as an example of a non-lethal weapon, as if a "newly gay" army soaked with hormones would be more concerned about boinking each other than protecting their position. It doesn't look like any real money was spent on developing the weapon though, unlike various military and intelligence community dabblings in psychic experimentation. A tighter leash on military spending would eliminate the proposing of simple crap like this.

[uk_dave]

Just imagine if the terrorists got hold of that bomb!!

Brokeback mountain comes to Texas! :eek:

[Civilized Worm]

What do you mean "comes to"?

[uk_dave]

Crikey! You mean it's already happened?

[Unsecured Coins]

you've never been to Dallas, have you?

[JimBenArm]

Probably why they dropped the idea. With so many folks already being obsessed with gay people in the military, who needs a bomb? Especially when they look so cute in those tight-fitting uniforms? :)
They don't discriminate against gays in the military. They put them on submarines. Why do you think they're so obsessed with "going down", "going deep", and such?

How about spending a couple of months underwater with nothing but other guys? Hmm? You think straights are going to do that?

Think about it!

[WildCat]

They don't discriminate against gays in the military. They put them on submarines. Why do you think they're so obsessed with "going down", "going deep", and such?

How about spending a couple of months underwater with nothing but other guys? Hmm? You think straights are going to do that?

Think about it!
Well that explains this:

http://home.mindspring.com/~turniton/COTC/hellosailor.jpg

[boloboffin]

Well that explains this:

http://home.mindspring.com/~turniton/COTC/hellosailor.jpg

That's not a submarine. It looks like a PT boat.

[Unsecured Coins]

it's not a boat!! it's in the middle of the street! and it's obviously self propelled because if it was being pulled it would have blown up by now

[strathmeyer]

That's not a submarine. It looks like a PT boat.

Trust me, they know how to go down.

[Par]

Homosexuals can't swim; they attract enemy radar; they attract sharks; they nudge people when they're trying to shoot; they always insist on sitting at "The Captain's Table"; they muck about. Imagine... the fear... when you go to sleep with a gay man on board and think "Oh God, when I wake up, will everyone be dead?" You can't run a ship like that.

[Mince]

Why not just build a "Surrender Bomb"?

[Unsecured Coins]

Why not just build a "Surrender Bomb"?


we already did. Ask our test market (Japan) how it went

[gumboot]

Why not just build a "Surrender Bomb"?


They already have a surrender bomber...

The B-52.

First night; carpet bomb an enemy unit.

Second night; drop leaflets on neighbouring unit with words "you're next".

-Gumboot

[Spins]

As far as I'm aware it was Hugo de Garis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Garis) who first proposed the "Gay Bomb" idea, although I think it was a little tongue-in-cheek.

The idea was that you drop the bomb on the enemy troops and they soon become too preoccupied with shagging each other than fighting! lol

[JimBenArm]

As far as I'm aware it was Hugo de Garis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Garis) who first proposed the "Gay Bomb" idea, although I think it was a little tongue-in-cheek.

The idea was that you drop the bomb on the enemy troops and they soon become too preoccupied with shagging each other than fighting! lol
Gives new meaning to "Make Love, Not War"!

[Stellafane]

As far as I'm aware it was Hugo de Garis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Garis) who first proposed the "Gay Bomb" idea, although I think it was a little tongue-in-cheek....

"A little tongue in cheek"? Well...nah, better not go there (in both sense of the phrase).

Gay bomb, nothing. Imagine a bomb that turned people into Jews! Drop it on everyone, and this whole anti-semitism thing might finally come to an end.

[Redtail]

They don't discriminate against gays in the military. They put them on submarines. Why do you think they're so obsessed with "going down", "going deep", and such?

How about spending a couple of months underwater with nothing but other guys? Hmm? You think straights are going to do that?

Think about it!Oh it's not just the Navy! Ever wonder what the Navy and Marines are doing in the latrine that they see fit to call it the HEAD?

[jhunter1163]

Homosexuals can't swim <snip>

This is a stereotype. You don't fill up with water and sink if you're a gay swimmer.

[ConspiRaider]

They don't discriminate against gays in the military. They put them on submarines. Why do you think they're so obsessed with "going down", "going deep", and such?

How about spending a couple of months underwater with nothing but other guys? Hmm? You think straights are going to do that?

Think about it!
THAT'S IT!

And they train you for it too!!11!three333!!11

Isn't there some nonsense when you go through the escape tank training, that you have to keep saying something over and over so you don't get the bends?

" 'ho! 'ho! 'ho! 'ho! 'ho! 'ho! 'ho! "

You guys are just so nasty under that water. At least we did our stuff up on dick - I mean deck.

[Hokulele]

Why are all those decks covered with seamen? Hmm?

[Unsecured Coins]

I'm sad, my Fabulouth joke went unnoticed. I have become unfunny

[ConspiRaider]

I'm sad, my Fabulouth joke went unnoticed. I have become unfunny
NOTH! I thaw it! Tee-heed too!

[ConspiRaider]

Why are all those decks covered with seamen? Hmm?
We all tried to shinny up the mast but we all slid down. Up, then down. Up, down. Until we got our sea legs. All three of them...

[JimBenArm]

I'm sad, my Fabulouth joke went unnoticed. I have become unfunny
it'th jutht that all uth thailorth talk like that anyway, dahling! Thought you were theriouth!

[Travis]

After great expense, several scathing GAO reports, an incredulous public and endless Jon Stewart punchlines United Allied Defense Incorporated Corporation (snicker look at camera Jimmy Fallon like) produced the Federal Annihilator Giant Gaybomb or F.A.G.G.

Some questioned why the Gaybomb needed to be strapped to the rear hindquarters of the bomber, why it needed a self lubricating nipple (codenamed EJAKUL8) at the top of its cylindrical body, why it needed two empty spheres at its base for ballast, and why bomber crews signaled a successful release of the bomb with the phrase "done tossed good?"

It's first employment came at the battle of Toronto during the epic Canada, Denmark, Singapore VS America and Luxembourg War. Unfortunate for the USMC Regimental Combat Team-5 and elite Luxembourgian Paratroopers surrounded near Downsview Airport the bomb worked but it only turned the massed horde of enemy troops Gay. They could still shoot well, still operate their weapons of all types and now had a desire to end the battle once an for all in order to get to some sweet sweet loving. In an epic orgy of blood followed by another epic orgy the US-Lux troops were slaughtered.

Thereafter the Ministry of Truth erased all knowledge of the Gaybomb and in Newspeak it is referred to as Meatloaf, no one knows why.

[Graham2001]

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.html

Aparently, the military developed a Gay Bomb - it turns soldiers gay, so they stop fighting.

Make love not war!

You mean like this...

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/images/bomb.jpg

[maccy]

Homosexuals can't swim; they attract enemy radar; they attract sharks; they nudge people when they're trying to shoot; they always insist on sitting at "The Captain's Table"; they muck about. Imagine... the fear... when you go to sleep with a gay man on board and think "Oh God, when I wake up, will everyone be dead?" You can't run a ship like that.

This is a stereotype. You don't fill up with water and sink if you're a gay swimmer.

You probably have to be British to get the reference (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1960009019).

For more context:

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[Kuko 4000]

I just saw the Horizon program: Human 2.0.

http://tinyurl.com/bbbej2 (Video Google)

I love how Hugo de Garis introduces himself at around 22 minutes in the video: my name is professor Hugo de Garis.

He talks about the Gay Bomb @ 29:45.

The guy smells woo to me.

Seth Lloyd on the other hand is...scary :boxedin:

[INRM]

What's a weather machine?

[Redtail]

:eek::boxedin: ZOMBIE!!!!!

[Biscuit]

Imagine if the U.S. army were to drop a Gay bomb, or F.A.G.G., and then while all the enemy was busy getting busy they dropped the halitosis bomb!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb

The use of both of those bombs would have to constitute a war crime.

[In My Spare Time]

Aparently, the military developed a Gay Bomb - it turns soldiers gay, so they stop fighting.

I wish.

[Travis]

After great expense, several scathing GAO reports, an incredulous public and endless Jon Stewart punchlines United Allied Defense Incorporated Corporation (snicker look at camera Jimmy Fallon like) produced the Federal Annihilator Giant Gaybomb or F.A.G.G.

Some questioned why the Gaybomb needed to be strapped to the rear hindquarters of the bomber, why it needed a self lubricating nipple (codenamed EJAKUL8) at the top of its cylindrical body, why it needed two empty spheres at its base for ballast, and why bomber crews signaled a successful release of the bomb with the phrase "done tossed good?"

It's first employment came at the battle of Toronto during the epic Canada, Denmark, Singapore VS America and Luxembourg War. Unfortunately for the USMC Regimental Combat Team-5 and elite Luxembourgian Paratroopers surrounded near Downsview Airport the bomb worked but it only turned the massed horde of enemy troops Gay. They could still shoot well, still operate their weapons of all types and now had a desire to end the battle once an for all in order to get to some sweet sweet loving. In an epic orgy of blood followed by another epic orgy the US-Lux troops were slaughtered.

Thereafter the Ministry of Truth erased all knowledge of the Gaybomb and in Newspeak it is referred to as "Meatloaf," no one knows why.

Seriously, how was this not nominated for anything that month? I mean aside from the obvious, normal reasons regarding lack of intellectual merit.

[Travis]

Imagine if the U.S. army were to drop a Gay bomb, or F.A.G.G., and then while all the enemy was busy getting busy they dropped the halitosis bomb!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb

The use of both of those bombs would have to constitute a war crime.

If they also destroyed all Streisand albums and desecrated Judy Garland's grave it would be on par with at least the Armenian Genocide in terms of evilness.