This troper, same as below, is part of a film project. This film project is an actual class project, where the syllabus was quite clear: The project is a collaborative project, wherein after all opinions are added, a common consensus among the group members is reached in order to make descisions. So, then, we have a guy in our group who has decided to "become director". He's making every single descision, even though they aren't good. For example, we had a 3 hour meeting on a free day, wherein we decided to go to one park to film several scenes, and actually borrow a warehouse from a group members' parent for the final scene (Yes, a 15 second shot, but well worth it. Its a bit of a twist ending, so being in the middle of an empty warehouse is kind of awesome for it). The next day, our class group page on Facebook has an added member, the "director's" girlfriend, and to make matters worse, he completely reversed several descisions simply because he didn't like them. No warehouse, and we got to film on an Elementary School park (probably during the week, kind of weird for a bunch of high school guys to be at during the day, and also FARTHER AWAY FROM OUR HIGH SCHOOL THAN THE PUBLIC PARK). To top things off, when I pointed out that everything in the group was by common consensus, and 4/5 people actually really WANTED the warehouse ending, even though it'd be an hour and a half for 15 seconds of footage, the girlfriend starts tearing me apart, basically saying, "You need to respect (her boyfriend's) opinion. He knows film, he's done it for five years, and its his equipment." That's right, folks. The group is being blackmailed into complete cappitulation by a Jerkass and his girl, simply because he wants to direct and doesn't like common consensus. For a group project where the syllabus states, in short, Common Consensus is King.

This troper is Assistant Director/Stage Manager on a musical production at his school. So, after a rehearsal, he was giving people their "How to improve this show" notes. He noted an issue in the timing of a movement on one song, and was verbally accosted because "The track was wrong, and [the director] says "binoculars up" first, so it wasn't the actors' fault." Cue me going on for a few minutes about how the tracks that day were the best we had because we didn't have the director's laptop, and besides, the director isn't going to be guiding them through the motions of what they're doing, and its was only a possibility, not a forgone conclusion, that we would integrate horses racing in the track. Later, another issue came up regarding timing in a different track. "That wasn't the correct track!" Its the best we had that day, we don't have the director's laptop with the track, deal with what we give you. So, a third issue regarding track timing comes up. "THAT WASN'T THE RIGHT TRACK!" For the third damn time, it is the best we had that day, so deal with it!

As if that wasn't bad enough, we noticed a guy added some gloves to his costume. He wore them as a poor man who, in a later scene, shows up in a tuxedo for his friend's wedding. Okay, wearing them when poor is alright. Don't wear them with the tux. "It's a character choice." The show is set in 1912, wearing, well, "hobo gloves" with a tux would be a faux pas. "It's a character choice!" Okay, well, its still not acceptable to wear in a tuxedo. You wouldn't wear them to your friend's wedding, would you? "Maybe I would. It's a character choice!" YOU CAN WEAR THEM AS A POOR MAN, BUT IN THE TUX ITS A BREACH OF CUSTOM OF 1912 ENGLISH SOCIETY. "But-" (Here, the producer interrupted) "Take the note."

We were discussing genetic disorders in our biology class. When someone brought up {{X-men}}, the resulting conversation led to our TEACHER saying that X-men might be real.

This troper read in the newspaper about several employees at Walmart who saw someone shoplifting and confronted him. The guy was armed, and so they wrestled him and took away his pistol. The man was later arrested. The real wallbanger in this story is that the employees were fired for disobeying the rules. The manager didn't give a damn that what the employees did potentially saved lives, they were just concerned that a rule was broken. What the hell?

This troper traded away his beloved Baker's Boy in TeamFortress2 for the Buckaroo cowboy hat (For the Engineer class), a hat that a friend had really wanted. He told the friend, the friend got excited and offered another hat (The Safe and Sound, for the Engineer class). Come trading time, he puts on and takes off the Safe and Sound, saying, "I need both for different occaisions." I traded away the hat he wanted to him, and he doesn't understand why I'm mad. To recap: I gave away my favorite hat for one he really wanted. He offered a hat I kind of wanted (a hat for the same class as the cowboy hat he wanted), then kept both because he wanted both. So, I'm down my favorite hat and an acceptable substitute. Great.

This troper and his girlfriend have discussed marriage in a couple years, but this troper was worried about possibly missing out on dating experience before making the commitment. In response, said troper's girlfriend felt the need for a pre-emptive cheating strike (so she could find temporary security during the apparently impending break). Apparently talking about something means that it's been decided already??? What the hell!? Good thing she regrets it and realizes she prefers what I have to offer among other things. Needless to say the break is over before it began. I also realize this is a case of {{Love Makes You Dumb}} on my part for giving her another chance, but I don't have much else going on right now and have nothing to lose giving it another shot. Either way, my forehead is bloody just thinking about this.

The fact that there is a fundamentalist Christian who is transgender but is against gays! WHAT THE FUCK????? See for yourself here. http://ethereal-crow.deviantart.com/

S\he got a sex change to nullify homosexuality. Don't try to think about it too hard...

I've heard of people doing the same thing in the Middle East (in places where homosexuality is prohibited, but sex change operations are allowed). But given that this person was born and raised in ''England''...yeah, I got nothing.

The real Wall Banger is the lack of consistency: saying "homosexuality is sinful" at one point and saying "God loves everyone" at another. Pick a stance and stick with it, dammit!

Crazy as that guy... girl... person is, "homosexuality is sinful" and "God loves everyone" are not contradictory. One of the major points of TheBible is that God * loves everybody, despite that we're sinful. Because we're all sinful, however, it is hypocritical to specifically attack homosexuals as if they were somehow worse than anybody else.

The majority of my classamtes do not understand that a Transvestite is '''not''' the same thing as a hermaphrodite or a transsexual. (sound of head exploding)

This troper's school computer has probably the most arbitrary content blocker on Earth. Instead of blocking stuff like porn(you know, the bad stuff), it pretty much picks random websites to block, regardless if it's relevant to school or not. It works about as well as you think it would.

Are... Are you from Lee County High School? --ncfan

This troper has the opposite problem with her school's filter. I was looking for pictures for my Computer Art project and it was blocking innocent pictures because parts of the site had "tasteless" content. The wallbanger? On Google, the image filter is automaticly as high as it goes, yet I still came across a line drawing of a naked woman.

Eh thinks that the fact we have a troper tales for this is a Wall Banger.

This troper found himself in an english class trying to cause his own head to explode with the power of rage as two people in his class argued for a ridiculously long time, trying to defend Stanley punching Stella during AStreetcarNamedDesire. ItGotWorse when Stella immediately went back to him and they saw ''nothing wrong with this''.

This troper has an even more ridiculous Wall Banger related to that same text. After Stanley raped Blanche, one person claimed that part of her must have wanted it ''because she gave in so easily''. I didn't say anything at the time because I couldn't believe they would actually say something so stupid. Fortunately the teacher shot them down straight away...

(This was on the Real Life Wallbanger page before it got cut). In my area the local mental hospital decided it was a brilliant idea to take some of the patients to the fair. And when I say "patients" I don't mean the ones who checked in on their own due to depression or something, I'm talking about criminally insane potential murderers. During the field trip one of the patients, a bi-polar convicted murderer, wandered off. I'll repeat that HE WANDERED THE FUCK OFF. The guy left the fairgrounds and there was a huge manhunt for him that ended when they found him 50 miles southwest of the city. To make it worse, the guy had a backpack with him on the trip that was filled with his important stuff (clothes, personal items, food he snuck into his room, his guitar... seriously) and none of the people found this AT ALL odd.

This organization is quite a Wall Banger in itself. Apparently, ToyStory3 winning an Oscar will make them lose their jobs. What.

I... think they're trying to say not to vote Toy Story 3 as Best Picture because Disney is unfair to workers. But yeah, the site doesn't really make that clear.

This Troper had to do a group presentation about different sources of knowledge, so our group did one on the accuracy of Wikipedia. Immediately after our presentation, he told us that he had no idea what we had been talking about, despite him ''giving us the article'' that we based our presentation on. For a double Wall Banger, he also asked why it mattered, when every other team had been using Wikipedia to get their information.

Apparently it's perfectly okay to play a video game that features ''awards'' for ''killing people,'' but cursing is '''totally''' out of the question: WHAM. WHAM. WHAM.

And don't get me started on the graphics comment.

The Discovery Channel had this show documenting a murder in Italy. The teens who did it were fans of death metal they were also in a satanic cult that sacrificed people, though that's apparently not very important to the murder case, so the show was questioning whether the music caused it or if it was at all possible it was because they were in a satanic cult that sacrificed people. When it came on I was in the room with my brother and his friend. All three of us are metalheads and had confused looks on our faces as some Italian guy said how all metal fans are basically psychopaths, then we all sarcastically planned our next murder. The show itself was pretty neutral on the issue (having guys from death metal bands talk about the issue, keeping everything fact-based, and presenting alternate explanations like the satanic cult that sacrificed people), the wallbanger came from all these people using the same tired accusations they used on Alice Cooper, KISS, Twisted Sister, Metallica, Black Sabbath, basically every other famous rock band (even doing the same "Think of the children!!!" thing that the PMRC did in the 80's, [[SarcasmMode which worked out ''really'' well for them) instead of noticing that there were other things that could've been to blame (like satanic cults that sacrificed people). In the end it was determined that the girl who was murdered was a sacrifice by the satanic cult that sacrificed people and the boy was killed because he quit the satanic cult (that sacrificed people).

About the PMRC - aren't they the ones who made the Parental Advisory stickers? The same stickers that are seen by bands and artists the PMRC would loathe as a ''badge of honour''? Smooth move, PMRC dopes...

On a lighter note, being a T.A. leads to rather a lot of amusing wall-bangers. Many students taking a test on Othello were convinced that the story was interrupted by an attack by the Norwegians (it was actually the Turks). Also, many people seem to believe that England, France, and Africa are cities.

One fine day in my social studies class, we had to take out our homework so the teacher could check on it. It turned out that I did my homework, but my friend didn't do hers. So what did my teacher do? He praised my friend for being honest that she forgot her homework, then turned around and chewed me out for making my notes too short. What.

This troper's current group assignment group has two people who are this trope incarnate. Person 1 hasn't responded to our emails detailing on what to do because her internet has been down so we weren't able to contact her. Sounds fair right? Wrong; said person hasn't responded to us or talked to us in days and she lives on residence. Literally a 5 minute walk from the school with literally hundreds of computers. Plus she has a class with each of us and she ignores or bolts out when class is over without a word. Person 2 shows up to meetings and never says or contributes anything. Recently we asked person 2 to get us some text material from the textbook for us to use. We show an example and she says she understands and confirms twice. We get something that is the opposite of what we asked for. When we point out gently that this is not what we ask for and show her the example again she calls us assholes. The real Wall Banger is that we didn't want them in our group. The teacher put them in because of a nonsensical rule of needing at least one girl in the group. She has no problems with an all girl group yet she denies all guy groups. Great now my head looks like a hairy tomato.

I remember I was watching an episode of TheColbertReport when I saw an old black lady being interviewed, in it she said that she was happy that we now live in an age where black people have equal rights and can vote, what was she voting for? Why to keep homosexuals from getting married of course.

It's the Colbert Report. Take EVERYTHING with a grain of salt. It's all fake

A year ago, my father took his in-house service dog to a vetrinary ER (which happens to be the only after-hours vet ER in my town) in the middle of the night. When he and I got there with our dog, there was a 60% chance of saving him through surgery (the dog bloated), but the fact that we didn't have $3000 readily available dropped that chance to zero, primairly because at the time we didn't have pet insurance and because the vet techs wouldn't work with us on a payment plan (with the help of a 2500+ member online dog community that my father belongs to and is fairly well-respected in we could've gotten that paid off within a week or so) for the surgery. After about an hour or two arguing with the vet tech and trying to contact somebody that might be able to help us (who couldn't help us until morning), it seemed to us that the survival chance had probably by that time dropped beyond the point where surgery would've made a difference and so were forced to put him down. The wallbanger really comes in when the vet techs had no qualms about letting us pay on a payment plan regarding the dog's euthanasia and related costs but would supposedly have lost their jobs if they had let us do a payment plan for the surgery that would've had a 60% chance of saving our dog's life had he been operated on immediately. A couple days afterward, the aformentioned online community to which my father belongs sent so many angry e-mails and phone calls to the clinic's corporate office that their servers crashed for two or three days and to this day they still remember my father's name and the name of the dog we brought in to them when we went back there last night with insurance and a different dog who had a different problem that thankfully, was not life-threatening.

You guys remember the AquaTeenHungerForce movie controversy, right? The LCD light thing in Boston? The one that ''made national news'' because they thought it was a bomb? I mean, I know this was only a few years after the attacks, and tensions were high, but really, who mistakes a gigantic LCD light billboard with little characters on it for a ''bomb?!'' I mean, calling in the local bomb squad to test it is one thing, but to immediately alert the national news so that the country begins to collectively shit bricks at once? What... I don't even know how to fathom the sheer amount of pity I felt - and still feel - for the stupidity that was radiating from Massachusetts that day.

The "LED light billboards" you are talking about were not exactly in open view; they were left in unusual, unmarked, and unattended black cases that were '''closed''' and left for other people to find and open, only everybody who saw them just saw the stupid cases and didn't know what they were and didn't feel like opening them at the risk of having explosives blow up in their face. If you want to run a ViralMarketing campaign with LED lights, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that putting them in suspicious black cases is a fucking stupid idea.

It was Viral marketing... That WORKED. Seriously, how many news channels were covering this when it happened? TONS of advertising.

"What's that? One person in Japan complained about a racy joke? SCREW THE JAPANESE AND EVERYONE WHO LIVES THERE AND TELL THEM TO GROW SOME BALLS RAAAAUGH." You're welcome.

In this troper's eyes, anyone who falls under this trope is instantly 100% qualified for one great, big, giant wallbanger.

This troper seconds that motion.

There was an article online about a boy who defaulted on a wrestling match because his opponent was a girl. He said it was because of religious beliefs, but I doubt how true that actually is(I mean, what religion says you can't wrestle a girl for sport? A lame one that's what) but I'm no expert so whatever. What followed was a long series of REALLY sexist comments that can be summed up as either:

1. She's a girl, she has no place on the mat(never mind that she had to qualify for the tournament by winning a fair share of matches) 2. He could possibly hurt her(Oh Mai GAH!!! you are saying that someone can get hurt wrestling, that's a new one, especially to the girl that wrestled many matches before). Did I mention this was wrestling and they were both around 112 pounds? Even with his "natural upper body advantage" he is still quite weak and it is highly unlikely he could truly hurt anyone without breaking the rules. 3. He would probably lose control of himself and molest her. You're fucking kidding me, are they suspecting the kid who just forfeited the match using religious reasons (regardless of how true) of being a molester?

This troper thinks that a more reasonable reason would be that something done on the mat could be misinterpreted as a sexual act. Although a reasonable solution would be just to make things clear with the girl, even performing a neural transplant on an explosive device is easier than becoming some sort of "bad boy"

The most sickening part were that these comments were the highest rated, while the ones that PROMOTED equality among the sexes were marked hella low, even if they had sound arguments. I hold nothing against the kid himself, but these comments from adults is just... frustrating. ValuesDissonance I guess.

Any and every fundamentalist who is going to use Pearl Harbor as a 'valid' reason to hate Japanese people in general. Same thing with 9/11 and Muslims. There are many other examples as well. Basically, they're saying it's okay to hate entire groups of people for what some people in said group did. As if the USA is a peace loving freedom fighting nation run on cotton candy and unicorn farts. If you do manage to ask them about all the people "we've" killed, they'll likely say "They all deserved it. Even the people living there who didn't partake or support the war at all. Screw them." *SLAM* Doesn't get much better than this.

This troper remembers wanting to smack his head against a wall some years back when that movie, "Alexander" hit the theaters and he saw, 'At The Movies' with Ebert and Roeper, I can't really remember what Ebert said on the movie but Roeper, in a comment on Alexanders character, said that he was, "Sexually confused" to refer to Alexanders choice of having a male lover...or two...which was common back then considering Greeks didn't see women as intellectual equals. Hell, it's likely that a Greek man today would look at our men and see us as sexually confused for 'not' doing this because we 'do' see women as intellectual equals now.

"Hello, I claim to be a lover of all thing American. EVERYONE ELSE SUCKS! What am I going to do? Bash the shit out of almost every American based manufacturer or company aside from one or two whom may have just exported all manufacturing to China." One chew out later from yours truly, and he's been abnormally silent. Ah, karma.

Someone in my maths class in Year Nine once asked - I kid you not - "Is four a Prime Number?" Being a DeadpanSnarker, I answered, "Yes." The reply: "Oh, thank you!" Cue what-the-fuck look from teacher, and me saying, "Ooh, there's a rare bird called a gullible in that tree!" Yes. She looked. Cue me saying "This calls for a WallBanger." This finally ended when the teacher explained the rules of Prime Numbers - although not what "gullible" means.