Fucking Hell!?!

What the F!?! I just called GameStop to find out their store hours to make sure I had time to get down there today after work, and I got the most bored-sounding guy EVER on the phone. Our "conversation" went like this:

GameStop Asshat: (in snotty, aggreived tone--note: this was at 10 in the morning, not five) Thank you for calling EB, where you can [sales pitch sales pitch sales pitch--the hell is he doing introducing the store as an EB store anyway? Didn't they merge ages ago?--sales pitch]. How can I help you?
Me: (Very politely, using my telephone voice) Yes, hi, I was just wondering what your store hours are.
GameStop Asshat: ::HUGE DRAMATIC, PUT-UPON SIGH::CLICK
Me: (looks at the call timer on my work phone) Hmm, hasn't disconnected, maybe he's transferring me...doot-do-doo....
CALL ENDED
Me: Motherfucker!

He hung up on me. He fucking hung up!!! What the hell kind of business practice is that!?!

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Oscar is misbehaving all over the map. He peed on feiran the other day, and last night she came panicking into my room to tell me one of the cats had taken a dump in the shower. Suddenly, I understood why Oscar's little tukus had been wet when I bent to pick him up.

I suppose this is some protest against the litter. I scoop it out regularly, and I've mixed in fresh litter just this week, but I suppose they need their litter changed more frequently than once every two weeks even so. Damn, I was really hoping to put off having to change it every week until they were, like, cats.

The litter I can fix. How to break them of the habit of trying to get in every door that was ever closed to them, I don't know.

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They can change the ending, but can they make X-Men: the Last Stand not suck for the rest of the movie?

It's hilarious (that's sarcasm so deadpan, I can't even italicize it) that they actually advertise that they're putting trailers on the DVD. Not trailers for the X-Men movies, just trailers for other new releases. I can't wait. After I get through listening to Brett Ratner's optional commentary track (I like that it's optional; god help me if I ever had the misfortune to watch that movie again and listening to the man who cheerfully ruined the franchise was mandatory), I'll be sure to surf right on over to watch the trailer for Ben Stiller's latest hysterical farce. I mean, if it's soooo funny that it merits mention next to the "Easter eggs" (WHY THE ABUSE OF PUNCTUATION!?! WHY?) that promises to be dynamite (Beast reads Shakespeare? Get out! He can read!? That totally blows my perception of him as being just a fuzzy animal dude! Wow!), it must be one AWESOME Ben Stiller movie. That fact that it's being bundled with X-Men: the Last Stand doesn't say anything about it, nope. We can just conveniently blame the studio for making both steaming piles.

And no offense, I love Stan-the-Man, but releasing a "collector's edition" set of with a comic book he wrote isn't exactly a draw. I've read some of his recent stuff...ayeah, not his best. He's old. Let him rest on his laurels, won't you? Make him show up in every Marvel adaptation ever, even those he had nothing to do with (is he making a cameo in Iron Man!? I don't know!) until he dies so that we might have a veritable legacy of three-second shots to remember him by (Aww, remember when he wa getting a hot dog at the beach in X-Men when Senator Kelly came out of the water? Or when he was talking to the old TV-show Hulk playing a security guard in The Hulk? And saving people from falling debris in Spider-Man 2? Awesome!).