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[clo_again]

I just Googlemapped directions to the place I have to catch my Blue Mountains bus trip for tomorrow, namely 804 George Street, Sydney, expecting a trip of around five to ten minutes. But no!

224 days, 11 hours.

Because Googlemaps gave me directions - walking directions - to 804 George Street, Sydney, Canada. Via Japan. Walking.

Well done Googlemaps. Take a cookie.

~

I'm still pissed about Primeval but I need to run to Starbucks for breakfast before I go on my walking trip to Bondi at 12pm, so comments'll get answered tonight. I'm still mad at actors in general. What happened to loyalty? Do you see authors getting bored halfway through a book trilogy and saying "No, screw this! I'm off to write something else with my new floppy hair!" (I'm paraphrasing). Possibly. But not the good ones. Yet an actor abandons a show for no apparent reason (that I've seen; I will stand corrected if anyone points one out) and everyone's all "Oh good for you! Don't want to be typecast!

Yeah well Henshall, I'd never heard of you before Primeval and I suspect I won't in future either. Share Googlemaps' Cookie of Fail complete with the Chocolate Chips of Stupidity.

...I will now stop ranting on this matter and go to Starbucks. Yes.

Comments

[tasheila.livejournal.com]

LMAO.

Was it like, "Walk to the airport..." or actuall "walk to the shore and jump in the ocean..."

[clo.livejournal.com]

You know, I didn't have time to look this morning but you made me curious, so I replicated the directions and... yeah, I'm about to make another post for it. Because someone at Googlemaps is so, so taking the piss.

[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

I can't stop giggling now. Walk to Canada. From Australia! *snickers*

Also, this? Cookie of Fail complete with the Chocolate Chips of Stupidity. I am so stealing and putting on a icon.

eta: *points* seee. I made the icon!

[clo.livejournal.com]

Wait for the post I'm about to make. It gets better!

*giggles* Yay! That's an awesome icon! *steals it* I was just so mad all over again this morning that Cookie of Fail didn't begin to cover it.

[scoobydumblonde.livejournal.com]

oh geez. I'm gonna go read. :-)

and :-D I'm glad you like the icon. Enjoy it as much as I will.

[mayakittenreads]

At least Rory Cochrane told the CSI:Miami people halfway through season 2 so they had time to plan to kill him off in the first episode of season 3. And his reason was understandable at least, even if it wasn't great - he didn't like the day to day grind of TV and wanted to go back to doing movies. Not that he's been in many interesting ones since.

[clo.livejournal.com]

According to his website, DH's reason was that "Primeval took up a huge chunk of his year and he wanted to keep doing stage stuff and 'stretching himself'". Also he wanted to "quit while we were ahead" which is something I still don't quite get; the show was doing so well, pushing new boundaries for the characters... it didn't look to be going downhill anytime soon. As an actor, a career with apparently no deadline on it, two and a half years is not a lot. And to quit now when his storyline really wasn't resolved in any way, when his was the main storyline... to say I'm annoyed with his is an understatement. I really think if he'd told the casting people originally 'I only want to stick around for a couple of years' then either they shouldn't have hired him or completely restructured the storylines. We're talking a British series here; that's six episodes for series one and I think seven for series two. That's hardly a 24/7 365 days a year committment.

Yeah. I'm going to keep being mad about this for a while. Perhaps I should step away from the LJ comments. ^_^

[mayakittenreads]

Lol. I don't blame you for being mad. At least in Rory Cochrane's case it was 22 episodes a series which is pretty much year round.

[clo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, after two and a half years of series that long I could get it. Six/seven episodes a year (which have to be done filming months before they air to put all the CGI in) is not a big ask for a few years. Sigh.

[mayakittenreads]

Stupid men. ;)

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

While not sticking up for Mr. Henshall's wandering, he's been exceptionally awesome in lots of other stuff. He was about the only thing that ever made me even consider watching Primeval. Only then they scheduled it against either TW or DW so I just went, 'dear ITV, go jump in a lake'.

[clo.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen him in anything before Primeval, so he just won me over last series and then he does this which makes me not want to watch him in anything else. Sigh. Primeval's really good up until now though, if you ever feel like getting your hands on a copy. The latter half of the second series and these last few episodes especially were some excellent TV (I'd be less bitter if they hadn't been so good. Oh well.)