GRcade Decides...do you like onions?

Blair's achievements are numerous. Unfortunately so are his failures. I hardly think it's prepostorous that people would choose Blair over Thatcher; you could just as easily write how the strawberry float can anyone have voted for Thatcher?

I think he was pretty good domestically, unfortunately his foreign policy misadventures were so bad I'd rather vote for virtually any other name there.

For a lot of people here it's Blair, Brown, Cameron and maybe John Major. Pretty easy to see how Blair stands out, domestically at least as Ian points out.

I actually think Cameron was alright in a lot of ways but he's basically responsible for Brexit so he can strawberry float off.

Yeah I agree about Cameron, I'm no great fan of the Tories but he was alright. Pre-Referendum vote.

Knoyleo wrote:
Ironhide wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:Lord Palmerston

Pitt the Elder.

Lord Palmerston!

Pitt. The. Elder.

Corazon de Leon wrote:There is literally no good option in there.

You wouldn't say that if you won £2000 by saying "Alec Douglas-Hume" in the final of Pointless.

Corazon de Leon

Moggy wrote:
Corazon de Leon wrote:There is literally no good option in there.

You wouldn't say that if you won £2000 by saying "Alec Douglas-Hume" in the final of Pointless.

My go to pointless prime minister is Henry Campbell Bannerman. 8-)

Rocsteady wrote:Blair's achievements are numerous.

Blair had achievements? unless it was on 360, all he achieved was getting people killed on lies.

_/\_YUNGSTAR_/\_ wrote:
Rocsteady wrote:Blair's achievements are numerous.

Blair had achievements? unless it was on 360, all he achieved was getting people killed on lies.

I can tell this'll be a nuanced debate.

Ironhide wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:
Ironhide wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:Lord Palmerston

Pitt the Elder.

Lord Palmerston!

Pitt. The. Elder.

OK, you asked for it, Boggs!

After filthy politics we move on to movies!

Lots of movies make lots of money. But which of the highest grossing movies of all time* does GRcade pick as its favourite?

*For the highest grossing movies of all time, I am using the adjusted for inflation list from Wikipedia. If you don’t like that, tough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_h ... _inflation

Titanic.

Jaws - could have been so wrong on so many levels (the book, the problems with production) but its just fantastic. Pacing is great, it's properly scary (that opening scene :dread:

) and it has this

“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.

Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.

Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.

You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.

At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”

Star Wars, obviously.

I'm going to go with Jaws as its such an enjoyable film.

As things stand, GRcade's ideal world is watching A New Hope while Tony Blair runs the country.

We have to pick from the top 10? In that case, has to be Star Wars. I can't remember how many times I've seen this, but clearly my most watched film. I've probably seen this in the cinema more than I've seen any other film across all viewed formats.

The only actually correct answer if we're all being honest is Gone With The Wind.

DML wrote:The only actually correct answer if we're all being honest is Gone With The Wind.

With Tony Blair leading the country and Star Wars: A New Hope at the cinema, GRcade has decided its leader and its favourite film.

But where does GRcade want to live?

Nobody wants to live in London as it's too big, but which of the biggest cities is actually the best city?

The list was chosen from the top 10 (excluding London) on this population list: http://www.ukcities.co.uk/populations/

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