agreed w/ geisha….. but if there are both men and women in the military and the (gay) bomb is detonated….. then both men and women are going to get some…….. it never specify whether they are gonna hump only same sex soldiers thou…….. can we assume that given the choice, straight soldiers would do opposite sex soldiers, and gay soldiers would do same sex soldiers also………
and with that in mind *put sunglasses* this is a total WIN!!
Err… it dispensed female sexual hormones over the enemy. It wouldn’t effect females (unless they were lesbians), however they would unwillingly be involved with sexual attracted men surrounding them on all sides. Still a major weapon if it worked.
1. It is the military, only morals only come into play when you get caught.
2. Probably would work against themselves. Imagine a Army of naked men rushing your soldiers trying to mount them…I for one would be scurred.
3. Safety
4. Probably would be considered chemical warefare which is a nono.
I think this is quite a good idea. Especially if your enemy has a culture with a very repressive attitude to homosexuality. I bet the only reason they didn’t build it was homophobia. You can see the thinking, shooting people is OK, making them gay is not.
Or maybe they just realized it wouldn’t work? Also a possibility. Of course, seems unlikely that it wouldn’t work, considering the vast amount of effective aphrodisiacs already in existence, like… uh…. Love potion number 9? And aphrodisiacs are also known to make you flaming gay, not just horny. Yup, that’s where gay people come from! They aren’t born that way, nope, they accidentally come into contact with an aphrodisiac and WHAM! another gay man or woman
Using such a weapon would be a war crime. It’s sexual abuse.
Forcing someone to engage in sexual intercourse by using drugs or any substance is abuse. Date rape drug anyone?
Everyone seems to have missed in the story that they specify that it would be used on the ENEMY in order to get them to stop shooting at US, not come on to our soldiers. They would probably be so confused by it they would wander off in a blissful haze. They’re not forcing sexual activity, they’re overriding violent impulses in the brains of soldiers taught to kill no matter what.
It’s certainly better than using ultra-low frequency sound waves to disperse a crowd like they used in the 70′s. Which would you rather live through, a love bomb or a sound that you can’t hear which simultaneously makes you crippled with headache pain, vomit and $hit your pants, all while you’re trying to run away?
I’d go through neither, thank you. What, so just because something bad was done somewhere sometime then it’s ok to do other bad stuff now? Either I completely misunderstand your argument, or it’s really the most illogical argument I’ve ever heard.
And yes, that “gay bomb” would be forcing sexual activity. That’s the whole point of it in fact.
And I do say “forcing” because “consent” resulting from the ingestion of any substance isn’t consent. As it was mentioned above, some drugs are used by rapists to make women “consent” to sex, yet it is still considered rape.
Has anyone of you thought of what you would think of a “gay bomb” if it was used against yoursel or your troops?
Actually, forget it. Americans as a whole are too self-centered to care about people from other countries and they have this “the ends justify the means” philosophy that makes them completely miss what’s wrong in their actions.
Just so you know, in this day and age all developed democratic countries are trying to figure out how to get along best. It’s not always easy and there are conflicts sometimes, but at least the objective is honorable.
The USA, in contrast and just like most third-world countries, including all non-democracies of this planet, still believes there’s a competition between all countries and is trying to get ahead of everyone else, even if that means f-ing up everyone else to get there. Time to grow up kids.
It’s not forcing the activity though, it induces a compulsion toward that behaviour. The bomb is not going to position one jihadist behind another, removes there clothes and make pumping motions.
From what I understand, date rape drugs are sedatives with an effect on short term memory. The victim does not consent to anything, they are unable to object.
The notion of consent isn’t absolute. If a woman chooses to get drunk beyond sense, picks up some guy and has sex with him, is that consent? What if she gives consent then falls asleep in the middle of the act (she’s really very drunk).
Ah, so following your logic…
If I invent a drug that makes people want to kill themselves, and the drug is 100% effective. I can then run around slipping it into peoples drinks etc and then stand back and watch.
And by your logic, I’ll be completely innocent of any wrong doing.
Because I didn’t kill them, they killed themselves.
I bet if Iran was developing a “gay bomb” you’d be calling it unethical.
First of all, The ultra low frequency sounds waves as weapons/crowd control have never been proven, and no one has managed to duplicate the supposed effects.
Second, any aphrodisiac strong enough to overide the training, and the emotions of a soldier on the battlefield, and cause them to be sexually attracted to the nearest person, regardless of previous orentation, would not cause them to “wander off in a blissful haze”. In fact, considering how adrenline charged they would be, and the hormones in the bloodstream of people in combat, they very likely would react violently to any rebuff of their sexual advances.
I think the fail refers to the sheer stupidity of the concept, not whether it existed. Gay bomb? Seriously? I was watching that episode of Modern Marvels and could hardly believe it.
I know, right? There is so much backfire potential here. 1: IF it works, how do you deploy it without contamination? 2: Who is to say the enemy won’t just go on a raping spree in the nearest village, then turn on you?
Dude, this is known for quite some time now. Guess the biggest fail is the US government in this.
If you enjoy this you should read what the CIA tried to whack Castro!
Making a ‘gay bomb’, attempting to somehow encourage the enemy to engage in sex within its ranks, is seriously fail. The overall concept minus the stupid isn’t necessarily a bad one. In certain cultures, including at least one we have a propensity to war with, having an erection is not welcomed. It’s not necessary to drop chemicals on them and hope for sex. Drop anything that will cause natural arousal and they’ll be distracted.
Bomb them with Playboys and Hustlers. Mission accomplished.
Nope. Seems to me they are still hitting all the right notes with failing. I’m confused why you contend this information is a fail seeing as a lot of the posted material is something “real” in time and space.
Stupid americans fail yet again! It was a Love Bomb not a Gay Bomb, too busy being paranoid and jumping to conclusions that they are trying to be made gay. Still funny though
Actually, that was the Navy. I think it was during WW2 when they started dishonourably discharging gay sailors from their ranks. Most of these discharges were processed in the San Francisco naval bases. And since kids from rural America couldn’t very well go home with THAT on their record (plus, the way I see it, gay people naturally gravitate towards larger cities), many of them stayed. So yeah, the Navy practically dropped a G-bomb on San Francisco.
This is actually true.
However, UN didn’t approved the use of the Gay Bomb as a war weapon.
You can read it (if it is findable). I remember to read it in a newspaper.
I remember seeing this exact episode! However, what else are you going to think of when trying to design a non-lethal weapon? This isn’t really a fail…
Everybody started having sex
the aphrodisiacs were way to powerful
a bunch of old soldiers f*cikng like rabbits
it was disgusting to say the least ooooh!
a gay bomb can change the world
you gotta know your limits with the gay bomb
this was a cautionary tale
the gay bomb it’s not a toy
And this is yet another shining example of why the US hasn’t properly finished a war since Nagasaki was turned into a radioactive crater. You win wars by killing the enemy until they cannot fight anymore. You bomb them back to the stone age and fill them with so much lead they could be made into pencils and used to educate the entire third world three times over! THAT is how you fight a war, ladies. If you are not willing to achieve total victory in the shortest amount of time possible you do NOT belong on the battlefield!
I’ve read about the gay bomb, but the intent wasn’t to promote love instead of war. The intent was to demoralize and confuse the enemy while our troops continued the assault.
This is actually an interesting idea. It would totally disrupt the order and cohesiveness of the enemy troops while (hopefully) not killing anyone. I bet it would still be considered chemical warfare by the UN anyway. But I, for one, fail to see how this is more immoral than shooting your enemy in the head with a rifle.
Can you imagine what would happen if we used this on the Taliban. LOL!
The word ‘Gay’ means Happy. Using it as a homosexual reference is a ‘slang term’ Just like the N-Bomb means Ignorant and was turned in to a duragitory term because of its overuse.
promoting gay love fail.
how do you do it then?
WTF? or FTW?
Either way that poor wookie is screwed.
I don’t get why it’s a gay bomb though? Why not sex bomb?
Because there were only men in the millitary?
Idiot.
Now, that’s not very nice, geisha girl.
Who thinks there are only men in the military??? Or that only men are gay?
agreed w/ geisha….. but if there are both men and women in the military and the (gay) bomb is detonated….. then both men and women are going to get some…….. it never specify whether they are gonna hump only same sex soldiers thou…….. can we assume that given the choice, straight soldiers would do opposite sex soldiers, and gay soldiers would do same sex soldiers also………
and with that in mind *put sunglasses* this is a total WIN!!
Err… it dispensed female sexual hormones over the enemy. It wouldn’t effect females (unless they were lesbians), however they would unwillingly be involved with sexual attracted men surrounding them on all sides. Still a major weapon if it worked.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!
Probably the people who were planning this in reference to the Gulf war. Not a whole lot of women on the front lines there…
Because women can only be straight, bisexual, or lesbian.
err…. doesn’t anyone here watch 30 rock?
obvious….
Tom Jones was booked.
WIN
that’ll work
What so funny about this? I thought this was how your supposed to wash windows.
2nd
sloppy second
Don’t ask, don’t shell.
A queer conjecture.
It contained plastic, chicken, beer and ecstasy
(apparently all contain synthetic estrogen)
*nods sagely*
So true
aparently the reason why they stopped is because it was just immoral
1. It is the military, only morals only come into play when you get caught.
2. Probably would work against themselves. Imagine a Army of naked men rushing your soldiers trying to mount them…I for one would be scurred.
3. Safety
4. Probably would be considered chemical warefare which is a nono.
they could just make a drunken plastic chicken on ecstasy.
That being said, being chased by an army of naked soldiers wanting to bum you would not be that cool.
Depends on what you like. An army of hunky, in-shape, clean-cut, crew-cut, sex-starved 20-somethings really doesn’t sound so bad
You have my name!
…and my brain, apparently, judging by the comment.
because the us has nooo chemical weapons
They developed the bomb, but because of the “don’t ask don’t tell” policies had to give it a honorable discharge.
Kill them: sure!
Make them gay: Nope!
I think this is quite a good idea. Especially if your enemy has a culture with a very repressive attitude to homosexuality. I bet the only reason they didn’t build it was homophobia. You can see the thinking, shooting people is OK, making them gay is not.
Making them gay is hot!
Or maybe they just realized it wouldn’t work? Also a possibility. Of course, seems unlikely that it wouldn’t work, considering the vast amount of effective aphrodisiacs already in existence, like… uh…. Love potion number 9? And aphrodisiacs are also known to make you flaming gay, not just horny. Yup, that’s where gay people come from! They aren’t born that way, nope, they accidentally come into contact with an aphrodisiac and WHAM! another gay man or woman
That explains so much!
Maybe they should’ve just made a three-beer bomb. That seems to have a high enough success rate.
This remember something like make love not warcraft…
U only can make one thing at the time..XD
Actually, I know of at least 1 couple who used to please each other while playing warcraft.
You know interesting people then.
ewwwwwwwwww sticky fingers on the keyboard, messy!
Technically speaking (sounds really wrong) not if they take turns.
Sounds a lot like a joke from 30 Rock.
Why is this a fail? Its real
It’s real, but that’s a pretty failtastic warfare tactic.
haha,
I think that’s just great. And it’s so Clinton Era too…
Make the enemy gay and sell them scarfs via free trade!
Using such a weapon would be a war crime. It’s sexual abuse.
Forcing someone to engage in sexual intercourse by using drugs or any substance is abuse. Date rape drug anyone?
Overthinking Fail
True, and they’re not forcing it.
Everyone seems to have missed in the story that they specify that it would be used on the ENEMY in order to get them to stop shooting at US, not come on to our soldiers. They would probably be so confused by it they would wander off in a blissful haze. They’re not forcing sexual activity, they’re overriding violent impulses in the brains of soldiers taught to kill no matter what.
It’s certainly better than using ultra-low frequency sound waves to disperse a crowd like they used in the 70′s. Which would you rather live through, a love bomb or a sound that you can’t hear which simultaneously makes you crippled with headache pain, vomit and $hit your pants, all while you’re trying to run away?
War crimes are always things done to an enemy, never to own forces. Just saying.
I’d go through neither, thank you. What, so just because something bad was done somewhere sometime then it’s ok to do other bad stuff now? Either I completely misunderstand your argument, or it’s really the most illogical argument I’ve ever heard.
And yes, that “gay bomb” would be forcing sexual activity. That’s the whole point of it in fact.
And I do say “forcing” because “consent” resulting from the ingestion of any substance isn’t consent. As it was mentioned above, some drugs are used by rapists to make women “consent” to sex, yet it is still considered rape.
Has anyone of you thought of what you would think of a “gay bomb” if it was used against yoursel or your troops?
Actually, forget it. Americans as a whole are too self-centered to care about people from other countries and they have this “the ends justify the means” philosophy that makes them completely miss what’s wrong in their actions.
Just so you know, in this day and age all developed democratic countries are trying to figure out how to get along best. It’s not always easy and there are conflicts sometimes, but at least the objective is honorable.
The USA, in contrast and just like most third-world countries, including all non-democracies of this planet, still believes there’s a competition between all countries and is trying to get ahead of everyone else, even if that means f-ing up everyone else to get there. Time to grow up kids.
It’s not forcing the activity though, it induces a compulsion toward that behaviour. The bomb is not going to position one jihadist behind another, removes there clothes and make pumping motions.
From what I understand, date rape drugs are sedatives with an effect on short term memory. The victim does not consent to anything, they are unable to object.
The notion of consent isn’t absolute. If a woman chooses to get drunk beyond sense, picks up some guy and has sex with him, is that consent? What if she gives consent then falls asleep in the middle of the act (she’s really very drunk).
Ah, so following your logic…
If I invent a drug that makes people want to kill themselves, and the drug is 100% effective. I can then run around slipping it into peoples drinks etc and then stand back and watch.
And by your logic, I’ll be completely innocent of any wrong doing.
Because I didn’t kill them, they killed themselves.
I bet if Iran was developing a “gay bomb” you’d be calling it unethical.
First of all, The ultra low frequency sounds waves as weapons/crowd control have never been proven, and no one has managed to duplicate the supposed effects.
Second, any aphrodisiac strong enough to overide the training, and the emotions of a soldier on the battlefield, and cause them to be sexually attracted to the nearest person, regardless of previous orentation, would not cause them to “wander off in a blissful haze”. In fact, considering how adrenline charged they would be, and the hormones in the bloodstream of people in combat, they very likely would react violently to any rebuff of their sexual advances.
Sarcasm detection fail.
History and laws are written by the winners, yknow.
ill take two boxes please!
it’s a fail!
yes, that would be why it’s on Failblog.
But it’s not a blog? I’m confused now.
Gay bomb gay bomb
You’re my gay bomb
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Gay bomb gay bomb
You’re my gay bomb
And baby you can turn me on
*throws panties*
HEY! Those were mine!
It’s not Thursday until tomorrow.
30 Rock WIN
Everybody would fight with a boner.
and on the bed. not the floor
I wonder what would happen if someone “crossed swords” with someone else…
Hasn’t anyone ever told you never to cross the beams?
gays will like this bomb
This is true so shouldnt be fail. Failblog fail.
I think the fail refers to the sheer stupidity of the concept, not whether it existed. Gay bomb? Seriously? I was watching that episode of Modern Marvels and could hardly believe it.
I know, right? There is so much backfire potential here. 1: IF it works, how do you deploy it without contamination? 2: Who is to say the enemy won’t just go on a raping spree in the nearest village, then turn on you?
Is failblog losing the plot on what a fail is?
I love a story with a good plot.
*sits down*
*puts head in hand*
*waits*
I only like them when they’re thick…
*waits for plot to thicken*
i’ll take my plot with a little lemmon twist please…..
*waits for plot to twist*
*does the twist*
Failed! or did it?
I miss napalm.
Well, I won’t miss this time.
*reloads*
Can I take a shot?
Dude, this is known for quite some time now. Guess the biggest fail is the US government in this.
If you enjoy this you should read what the CIA tried to whack Castro!
biggest fail in the US government…..? mmmm nope! remenber Bush? creepy old guy, mellon for a head, about this tall….
Hey it’s the history channel… doesnt have to be accurate history or politically correct history.
The emphasis on “accurate”
I don’t think the History Channel knows that word.
Making a ‘gay bomb’, attempting to somehow encourage the enemy to engage in sex within its ranks, is seriously fail. The overall concept minus the stupid isn’t necessarily a bad one. In certain cultures, including at least one we have a propensity to war with, having an erection is not welcomed. It’s not necessary to drop chemicals on them and hope for sex. Drop anything that will cause natural arousal and they’ll be distracted.
Bomb them with Playboys and Hustlers. Mission accomplished.
That will never work – they won’t get aroused if they can’t read the articles in their native language.
Cropdust them with Viagra dissolved in Redbull. That will get the soldiers standing at attention in no time.
Oh, so you buy the playboy for the interesting articles too?
man!! and I thought I was the only one!!
Don’t forget the Bacon Lube.
Is failblog losing the plot on what a fail is?
Nope. Seems to me they are still hitting all the right notes with failing. I’m confused why you contend this information is a fail seeing as a lot of the posted material is something “real” in time and space.
Gives new meaning to the term “Friendly Fire”
Umm… is the History channel starting to confuse actual history with plotlines from 30 Rock?
This is actually real. Check it out.
However, the plan was halted when they could not get the U.S. Military scientists to halt experimenting on each other.
Indeed, there were too many crappy “Is that a test tube in my pocket or am I just happy to see you” lines
I think I remember reading about this. As I recall, it backfired though. They named it “Project: Twilight.”
“Make love, not success”.
That is nothing short of a win guys.
Stupid americans fail yet again! It was a Love Bomb not a Gay Bomb, too busy being paranoid and jumping to conclusions that they are trying to be made gay. Still funny though
There was both a love bomb, AND a gay bomb.
This picture is FTW !
Hah, well, how ridiculous the US army is, they actually might have tried this
Oh my dad. If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed the ultimate Truth or Dare.
some reckoned aids started in vietnam because some of the U.S soldiers turned gay so they made a disease to kill the homosexuals,
If they promote a bomb “to make love, not war” isn’t this a Flower Power WIN?
Hahaha, i saw this when it was on tv. i literally rofled off of my couch.
Pity, this might have achieved world peace.
So amazing, Paper Mice wrote a song about it:
http://www.myspace.com/papermice
Click on “WMG”
a different approach from naplam
They accidentally dropped it in San Francisco.
Actually, that was the Navy. I think it was during WW2 when they started dishonourably discharging gay sailors from their ranks. Most of these discharges were processed in the San Francisco naval bases. And since kids from rural America couldn’t very well go home with THAT on their record (plus, the way I see it, gay people naturally gravitate towards larger cities), many of them stayed. So yeah, the Navy practically dropped a G-bomb on San Francisco.
Sounds delightful.
This is actually true.
However, UN didn’t approved the use of the Gay Bomb as a war weapon.
You can read it (if it is findable). I remember to read it in a newspaper.
Now I’m angry at myself I saw that on tv like a year ago and I never thought of submitting it.
I remember seeing this exact episode! However, what else are you going to think of when trying to design a non-lethal weapon? This isn’t really a fail…
Modern Marvel never lies.
F-Cubed
I’m sad now, because my brain went straight to the original definition of gay, meaning “Happy go Lucky”, instead of homosexuality.
I like that better. I really can’t see that an aphrodisiac bomb would turn people gay anyway. Might be a few distressed camels though.
So that’s why they called that bomb the enola gay
Sounds pretty funny. It would really mess up the enemy’s army.
Everybody started having sex
the aphrodisiacs were way to powerful
a bunch of old soldiers f*cikng like rabbits
it was disgusting to say the least ooooh!
a gay bomb can change the world
you gotta know your limits with the gay bomb
this was a cautionary tale
the gay bomb it’s not a toy
And the americans says that We (the Russians) are weirdos…
WHY THE HELL NOT!?!?!?!?!?!? I would LOVE to be in such a war
This was the natural evolution from gaydar technology.
I thought everyone already heard about this, like a million times.
Next someone will make a post about the aircraft carrier that was going to be made out of ice
Pykrete, not ice. Huge difference.
Not exactly new news – not only is it on Wiki somewhere, but Axis Powers Hetalia has a reference to it
Tax dollars a work fail.
*at…so um…comment fail haha.
And this is yet another shining example of why the US hasn’t properly finished a war since Nagasaki was turned into a radioactive crater. You win wars by killing the enemy until they cannot fight anymore. You bomb them back to the stone age and fill them with so much lead they could be made into pencils and used to educate the entire third world three times over! THAT is how you fight a war, ladies. If you are not willing to achieve total victory in the shortest amount of time possible you do NOT belong on the battlefield!
I’ve read about the gay bomb, but the intent wasn’t to promote love instead of war. The intent was to demoralize and confuse the enemy while our troops continued the assault.
Pretty sure that’s from 30 Rock
Pretty sure you’re completely wrong
gay also means happy -_-’ ya’ll are smart
lol, i remeber seeing this on TV!
What we really need is a hate-seeking missile.
i was always amazed by those Marvel facts until now
This is actually an interesting idea. It would totally disrupt the order and cohesiveness of the enemy troops while (hopefully) not killing anyone. I bet it would still be considered chemical warfare by the UN anyway. But I, for one, fail to see how this is more immoral than shooting your enemy in the head with a rifle.
Can you imagine what would happen if we used this on the Taliban. LOL!
& Thus Lady Gaga was born.
frankly i was watching this episode of modern marvles and i actually think this thing mgt work it seems like a genious idea
The word ‘Gay’ means Happy. Using it as a homosexual reference is a ‘slang term’ Just like the N-Bomb means Ignorant and was turned in to a duragitory term because of its overuse.