The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XLII

[Cutlass]

When do you use "grey", and when do you use "gray"?

 

[Synobun]

When do you use "grey", and when do you use "gray"?

You use grey if you're outside the US. You use gray if you're inside.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I use gray more than I use grey.

 

[MaryKB]

I prefer grey because I feel it looks more elegant.

 

[GinandTonic]

Earl Grey, Dorian Gray. Sigh.

 

[Kyriakos]

Speaking of gray, I saw an image in my twitter feed, titled "the only known photograph of a Union black soldier", so would like to ask if there are many documented cases of black soldiers for the blue?

 

[GinandTonic]

Far as I knew there were a couple of regiments of them. Possibly the north thought they were worthy to fight but not to expend film stock on?

 

[Cutlass]

Speaking of gray, I saw an image in my twitter feed, titled "the only known photograph of a Union black soldier", so would like to ask if there are many documented cases of black soldiers for the blue?

1000s of Black men served in the Union Army. It's rather famous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54th_Massachusetts_Infantry_Regiment

 

[Kyriakos]

Apparently the only photo of one is of Carney.

 

[Farm Boy]

Spoiler :

Not that they're all from the same regiment or anything, but yeah. Thousands upon thousands signed up.

They keep going. There were lots of Civil War photos. Though many of the glass plates were destroyed or disposed of or reused shortly after the war. Everyone got pretty sick of them for a while.

 

[Gori the Grey]

When do you use "grey", and when do you use "gray"?

Well, I mean . . .

 

[r16]

basically as a subscription post , am pretty sure there are some drawings for Black Confederate soldiers but can't tell whether they are contemporary .

 

[Cutlass]

Well, I mean . . .

 

[MaryKB]

I petition that @Gori the Grey's name be officially changed to "Gori the Grey/Gray."

 

[Gori the Grey]

I petition that @Gori the Grey's name be officially changed to "Gori the Grey/Gray."

/Greige

In fact I feel a limerick coming on.

 

[MaryKB]

You ever get that feeling where you feel really sick and want to lay down, but you're not at all tired?

 

[Farm Boy]

You ever get that feeling where you feel really sick and want to lay down, but you're not at all tired?

First time I ever tried Copenhagen. Probably swallowed a little. Took an hour for the room to stop spinning and another 15 minutes to clean up afterwards.

 

[Kyriakos]

I only wanted people to like me ;_;

 

[Farm Boy]

Oh, tried it a couple more. Interesting stuff. I'd avoid Taco Bell that day, were I moving forward.

 

[EgonSpengler]

An article I was reading about the tensions between Ukraine and Russia showed a photo of what was labeled a "tank", and I swear it was a German StuG III. From, like, WWII. In the photo, it was positioned behind a pile of dirt and rock and covered in camo, so it was hard to see, but I'm a big nerd and can see these things (at first, I just thought, "huh, weird, I didn't know anybody was using casemate TDs anymore. I wonder what it is?", and then I looked at it more closely and "hey, wait a second..."). Sadly, I can't find the picture now.

I see 3 possibilities, most-to-least likely:
1. The author and/or art person working for a newspaper's website wouldn't know the difference between a Panzer IV and an OGRE, and just grabbed some stock art that was labeled "tank." (I mean, technically, a StuG III isn't even a tank, it's an assault gun or a tank destroyer, but that's probably deeper into the weeds than most people need to go.)
2. Ukraine is using a casemate mobile gun from, I dunno, decades ago, that was developed off of the German WWII designs, and which, under heavy camo, was hard to distinguish from an honest-to-gosh StuG III. Like, old but not that old.
3. Ukraine is using an honest-to-gosh StuG III, probably outfitted with some modern equipment, as a self-propelled, functionally-unarmored, anti-tank gun. I don't know what it would take to refit a modern AT gun onto an old chassis. I don't why you'd bother, unless a StuG III can actually fire modern AT rounds without a lot of refitting.

Obviously, #1 is the most likely (the fact that I can't find the picture now could mean that someone spotted the error and removed it), but that's also the most boring. Is it possible some of the smaller armies in Europe are still using casemate TDs?

Here's a picture of a restored StuG III, I assume at a museum. The one I saw in the article didn't have the side panels, but the driver's viewport and the commander's cupola were identical. I also have a pic of a StuG IV below. It wasn't a IV in the pic I saw, because it didn't have the big box where the driver's viewport is on the III.

Spoiler :