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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMOAB--I find it beyond disgusting that penis-shaped weapons of destruction are called Mother
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)They thrive on sound bites and BS like this.
Cretins.
delisen
(6,050 posts)It disgusts me too. Shows what they really think of their mothers. It's like Saddam Hussain talking about the mother of all wars.
The old saying that you become what you fight sees to be true.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)they are called earth penetrators.
Dr. Freud, meet the war makers.
TheBlackAdder
(28,261 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)We drop largest subatomic bomb and the concern is about the bomb having a feminine name. You can't make it up.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)The military has a long history of assigning instruments of war feminine personas, from calling ships 'she' to GIs giving rifles girls names.
Would it be more offensive if military tradition insisted that weapons of war could never be associated with a female identity?
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)The word for ship is feminine in Latin as given by ancient mariners, possibly because the symbolism of a ship as a womb that preserves life. It carried into the other European languages when warships were developed, and the convention has stuck to this day.
niyad
(113,966 posts)so rampant in the military is a pretty damned important thing, and more ongoing than the dropping of one oversized phallic symbol.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)And your obsession with phallic shapes and penises is bizarre. It makes DU look weird.
The bomb is shaped that way due to aerodynamics, the engineers weren't obsessed with dicks.
niyad
(113,966 posts)du's look.
sexism is rampant in the military, and everywhere, yet, apparently, we are not to discuss it here, because that makes du look "weird". absolutely amazing.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141753088#post2
You know it's shaped that way due to aeronautical engineering principles, right? The bomb's engineers aren't running around their laboratories obsessed with cocks. What in the world are you thinking posting this stuff on DU? Some things should remain thoughts.
niyad
(113,966 posts)but thanks for playing.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Right? It boggles our lazy minds that people can have more that one concern at any given time... though we'll certainly rationalize it something else, and of course it will be made up.
HAB911
(8,957 posts)cloudbase
(5,532 posts)Orrex
(63,291 posts)EL34x4
(2,003 posts)I'm not sure where "Mother Of All Bombs" came from.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)MousePlayingDaffodil
(748 posts). . . the acronym stands for Massive Ordnance Air Blast. The "Mother" thing is just a stupid nickname.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)Ok.
What does this bomb cost?
Who made the recommendation?
Why was this recommendation made?
What was the target, and what was the result?
It almost doesn't matter because, as other DUer observed earlier today, you just can't believe what anyone in this administration says. Slight caveat - unless it's about the further erosion of the social contract and the destruction of American society. Then I'll take them at their word.
HAB911
(8,957 posts)sarisataka
(18,926 posts)Of the entire development program per the Fiscal Times. Estimated unit it cost is slightly below 16 million.
HAB911
(8,957 posts)Orrex
(63,291 posts)At prices like that, how could we afford not to bomb them?
petronius
(26,613 posts)i.e. in a reply to you, or in a thread/sub-thread you've started, I will avoid the nickname.
(Which I would likely do anyway, since I've always been slightly irked that the moniker evokes the name of a truly beautiful western landscape...)
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)Is this a first strike against Afghanistan?
I thought that war was over a long time ago. Now the Prez (even an insane one) can just go around bombing countries with no outside input from places like Congress or anything?
EX500rider
(10,891 posts)Why ever did you think that?
You thought the Taliban surrendered or ceased to exist?
Alea
(706 posts)world wide wally
(21,762 posts)EX500rider
(10,891 posts)former9thward
(32,165 posts)because a Democrat was the CIC does not mean the multiple wars stopped.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother, I want to.....
linuxman
(2,337 posts)Bravo.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I love an irrational mind that is unable to process the concern of others and trivializes for better self-validation.
Charlie.
linuxman
(2,337 posts)Oh no! The dick-bomb is called mommy!!!!
Mosby
(16,422 posts)Sadaam Hussein may have popularized it in modern usage when he called the gulf war "the mother of all battles".
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)malaise
(269,328 posts)souvenirs at the Easter Egg Roll. Bombing the world will be the closest he gets to an erection in eons.
QC
(26,371 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)Happy?
No?
Let's just agree bombs suck.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_All_Bombs
Codeine
(25,586 posts)As dumb as the moon bombing baloney from back in the day.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)I find war and the weapons used to wage it disgusting.
Who gives a goddamn what they call them?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Maybe if those patriarchal monsters at NASA had used a bomb shaped like a vagina our menstrual cycles wouldn't be all screwed up.
Link to the now infamous moon bombing thread:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151006222842/http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6712126
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Marvin the Martian's?
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)As always the comments are the best part:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/06/27/slug-love/#comments
No Terran species anyway - they must have used Marvin as a model.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Mine doesn't have control surfaces.
walkingman
(7,706 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)What does the shape have to do with anything? Does the military need to make a bomb shaped like female genitalia to please you? Truly, one of the dumbest posts I have read in a while. I wish we still had Unrec.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)erinlough
(2,176 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,201 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Orrex
(63,291 posts)Vagina-shaped ordnance creates more complex challenges re: aerodynamics.
niyad
(113,966 posts)Orrex
(63,291 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)That's clearly an Ogive shaped nosecone. I've seen a lot of penises. Never seen one with an Ogive tip.
There's some penises with something close to a Short Elliptical nosecone, but it's rarer on air-drop ordnance since it has a higher drag coefficient (usually but not always undesirable), and it's still not really like a homo sapiens sapiens penis tip.
Sometimes a low drag coefficient aerodynamic shape is just a low drag coefficient aerodynamic shape, and comparisons to human genitalia (Which does not normally experience anything like aerodynamic drag) is projection.
Orrex
(63,291 posts)Wait... Wrong forum.
niyad
(113,966 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Amishman
(5,559 posts)Took an art class in college. I quick came to the conclusion that everything is a phallic symbol. But by the end of the course i came to a different conclusion; while most things can be a phallic symbol, some things are just penises.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)To be trans inclusive with their ordnance.