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I have watched two Clint Eastwood films this week.

Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of our fathers.

They are both about the battle of Iwo Jima, which is one of the most famous battles of the second world war, and one of the most famous battles in American history. Letters is from the Japanese point of view, Flags is from the American point of view. Letters is almost entirely in Japanese, with English subtitles. Its also one of the best war movies I have ever seen.

Im sure most of us have seen this picture, even if its not really taught in history lessons in British schools. Its American Marines raising the flag over Iwo Jima. I would highly recommend watching the Japanese movie first, even if the American one was released in cinemas first (albeit by a month or so.)

The Japanese one is almost entirely set on the island and about the battle itself, which gives lots of context that the average British person might be missing as most of our WWII education ignored the Pacific front. The American one is more about the raising of the flag, and what happened to the people in the photo. Both are excellent movies, and if you can watch both within a short period of time then you are in for a treat.

I heard somewhere that the flag from that famous picture originally was the second flag raised. The first flag was to small to be noticed properly. That's the american PR machine for you.

IIRC it was a high school gym teacher as well

China is the largest country with a single time zone.

Technically that's not right!

What is the technicality?

i cant figure that one out either... unless the internet is wrong (god forbid) the whole country operates in gmt+8

It's the Chinese that's decided they wanted one time zone for themselves. The earth actually got 24 timezones, where every zone is 15 degrees and equals one hour. So I guess China ends up with 4-5 time zones.

Barry Bannan... **** super cool. Nailed the first one

And Lowry

And Allbrighton

And Herd

And Weimann

Lichaj

Clarke

CUELLAR YOU **** BEAUTY

NO GOAL FOR YOU

KICK SAAAVE

CMON BRAD

We're giving them a tad to much room now.

They HAD to throw shit at Trezeguet. Now you know he will score

NRC!

lol and they put on amauri and Del Piero. We put on youth product Herd. Quality.

KICK SAVEEE GUUZAN

They're looking to score now. We look knackered

Did he just argue maldini played for Juve?

I swear Shorey has ginger-radar. Every pass he makes goes to Sidders

You can notice how NRC orders players around, pointing out runs etc.

WHAT A TACKLE. make me a **** GIF of that

**** Young. You are class. Just love how he charges forward

Why doesnt MON ask Juve coach if we can trade Heskey for Iaquinta or however you spell his name ?

I'm going to ask Simon if we can trade you for one of those bots

lmao

China is the largest country with a single time zone.

Technically that's not right!

How about lack of electricity? Faltering infrastructure?

Whether Iraqi's have been killed by other arabs isn't really what I'm getting at either. It's the destabilization of the entire country which I find a problem. The entire invasion should and could have been handled differently, which could have led to an easier aftermath.

Anyway, just how I see it.

Hard to get how fathom how they had to absolutely destroy Iraq to kill Saddam. Surely a few precision strikes would have killed Saddam and those loyal to him. This would have paved way for the democratic movement, or even a new movement for the Iraqi people.

Basically bombed the country back a century, destabilizing it completely and lost plenty of soldiers for some imaginary rockets which never existed.

Pretty much ^ but with Cuellar at CB and a youngster at RB

We are basically meeting Juventus in a final with our youth side

Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang

Herds tackle made me grin like a bastard. The sort of tackle you really try to copy during the rerun while lying on the couch