Talk:Ghillie suit

message: Making a ghillie suit from scratch is time consuming, and a detailed, high-quality suit can take hundreds of hours to manufacture and season for use.
Really 100's of hours???? I doubt it. Is there any basis to this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.237.166.156 (talk) 11:15, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The second external link (ghillie suit blog) says from 5 to 40 hours. 84.227.30.70 (talk) 13:51, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  If you are making a Natural Ghillie (which is much more effective) it will take roughly 7 hours and will last generally a week (Based on my experince with the Australian bush) constant maintanence is required if you are covering vast amounts of space and the enviroment changes.--KyleIvory (talk) 07:04, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Times???? 

message: I have heard the claim that the "ghillie suit" was the creation of an Irish poacher named Gilley.  According to the story, he was caught poaching at some point in the 1950s.  The policeman was a Territorial Army reservist who recognized the ingenuity and utility of the camouflage suit, and let Gilley go free in exchange for Gilley teaching him how to make one.  He in turn showed the suit to some visiting Royal Marines during a training exercise, who decided they would be just the thing for snipers, whereupon they became quite popular in various military establishments. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.41.40.21 (talk) on 11 May 2007 (UTC). -
:I'm not certain on the origin of the "ghillie" name, but we know that the Scottish Lovat Scouts wore this sort of outfit while fighting the Boers during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). I added a cited statement to the article.  -- Ctatkinson 18:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  alternate origin for the name 

message: I corrected "flammable" to "inflammable," noting that "flammable" is an invention for the ignorant, used on warning labels of consumer products, and that it's inappropriate in an encyclopedia.  Someone here undid my correction.  Thoughts?
Flammability#Linguistics:_Flammable_vs._inflammable
The word “inflammable” came from Latin “'inflammāre” = “to set fire to,” where the prefix “'in-”' means “in” as in “inside”, rather than “not” as in “invisible” and “ineligible”. Nonetheless, “inflammable” is often erroneously thought to mean “non-flammable”. To avoid this safety hazard, “flammable”, despite not being the proper Latin-derived term, is now commonly used on warning labels when referring to physical combustibility.
Jeff Muscato (talk) 01:13, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not the one who changed it, and this is a couple of years after the fact, but this isn't Latin. 'Inflammable' is a word that seems to go against many other uses of the 'in-' prefix. Invulnerable means 'not' vulnerable, and even the Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inflammable has 'incombustible' listed as 'not combustible'. Yes, the original root word is the opposite, meaning 'can be set on fire', but it's one of those Latin leftovers that make people complain about how difficult English is. Yay zombie language. --StarChaser Tyger (talk) 11:48, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inflammable vs. flammable 

message: We should change the last picture in an article to an empty forest and subtitle it "A U.S. Army sniper wearing a ghillie suit"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.163.58.231 (talk) 14:52, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maybe just for a laugh? 

message: In the good old days, it did not matter if Wikipedia added less than common names to the introduction of an article because no one took Wikiepdia seriously. However today Wikipedia is taken far more seriously:
"ghillie suit" military -wikipeia (web then books)
* About 415,000 results;  About 1,360
"yowie suit" military -wikipeia (web then books)
*About 8,440 results; About 85 results
"yowie suit" military -Wikipedia -ghillie
*About 842 results; 0 (one a novel by Christopher Cummings). -- it seems from my survey that this is a term more commonly used in Australia.
"camo tent" military -wikipedia (web then books)
*About 13,300 results ;About 31 results --Not one of them (in the first pages) describes a ghillie suit, instead they describe what one would expect from simple English a camouflaged tent.
So based on this survey I am going to remove "camo tent" and footnote the second term, because it is used in far less one percent of either unreliable or reliable sources. -- PBS (talk) 20:10, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names  "ghillie suit","yowie suit" and "camo tent" 

message: I've changed the lead to remove the definitive statement that a ghillie suit <always> resembles "heavy foliage". In fact they are adapted to resemble whatever the immediate enviroment looks like, which may be snow, sand, grass, different types of scrub, forest undergrowth, etc. - not only "heavy foliage". Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:39, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Altered the lead 

message: The article should mention that ghillie suits are commonly used by pranksters worldwide, which pose as a bush, to surprise and startle innocent walkers.
Some also emulate bushes with pots, flowers and fruits.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.118.72.54 (talk) 12:27, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common prank use 

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