soda tax

ingenious way to raise some money #74498 - levy a tax on all non-diet sodas.
Brilliant thinking there, batman. You go for calories (which can be burnt off through exercise), you get charged more. Choose the one with questionable chemicals that you don't really know what they do to your brain...bingo!

troping

this brilliant sort-of-wiki explains the plot devices, terminology and errors that keep coming up over...and over..oh, and over again whether it be movies, music, advertising or TV.
for example, the French continually being referred to as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys",
a character being easily identifiable as British from their slightly obsessive devotion to a cup of tea ,
how in the Caribbean, no-one works - nope, they sit on beaches drinking cocktails out of coconuts
when you watch something and think, did they really just not care?!
and finally, the practice of "Lampshade Hanging"...

how to upset the video game nerds

it's easy really. become a director or producer, make movies, TV, animations. and no matter what game the characters are supposed to be playing, simply have them mash all the buttons on the game controller and use Pac Man 2600 Music. Repeatedly.