Camouflage gear supplier never heard of kilts?

**Whidbey78** · 11th April 11, 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by cavscout

That could quite possibly be the most brilliant myth ever started and virtually impossible to disprove!

"I've never seen Scottish soldiers in camo kilts."

"Exactly"

Nice job.

**Spartan Tartan** · 11th April 11, 07:40 AM

Originally Posted by Chirs

Their is going two bee know hope four hour language if wee keep this up.

To your point...I couldn't even read that the first time through. I realized what you did and had to reread aloud and listen to myself to understand what was written. Well done

**davidlpope** · 11th April 11, 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by troxel87

I actually took the time to search some of the comments on that story... It amazes me how only one person on there actually called it a "kilt". To me, it looked like either a very well made X-Kilt or an actual camo Utilikilt... Either way... holy wow, people can be ignorant.

Perhaps. There is another possibility, though. Perhaps the commentors are not ignorant, but simply believe that a "kilt" is a "traditional, tartan, 8-yd kilt" and the garment pictured is a "skirt". Sometimes an honest difference of opinion can be misdiagnosed as ignorance.

**auld argonian** · 11th April 11, 08:12 AM

This poses some interesting options...we have a couple of the little pocket camo "make up" kits for to cover your big, pale face with so it doesn't give you away...will we have the same for our big, pale knees? Camo kilt hose?

The make up kits are a joke but camo kilt hose would probably be a hit.

And I've often found that these people know perfectly well what a kilt is...they're just so immature that they can't resist a chance to make a smart *** remark in an attempt to yank somebody's chain. They're more to be pitied than scorned.

Best

AA

**Father Bill** · 11th April 11, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by Whidbey78

Father Bill! Please tell me you are not advocating the telling of non-truth!

Considering how funny it would be to actually see such a pile of malarkey grow from off-hand remark to full-grown rumor and finally blossom into accepted "fact" I'd have to give it my thumbs up.

That's exactly my point! I've discovered an awful lot of malarkey that grows just like that!

**cavscout** · 11th April 11, 08:29 AM

"When you tell somebody somethin',
it depends on what part of
the United States you're standin' in...
as to just how dumb you are." Bandit - Smokey and the Bandit

**Howard Clark** · 11th April 11, 10:35 AM

My sons and I attended Oklahoma D-Day last year for the first time (world's largest paintball event, google if curious). We had a great time, and are going back again. I signed us all up for the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 3rd I.D. Canadian Scots. Mostly, but not entirely, so that I would not be the only guy on the field in a kilt at a paintball event. As it turned out there were half a dozen or so of us that played kilted the whole week of events. But we were the only kiltes present, and all of us citizens of the US, even though there are loads of Canadians in the commonwealth, none of them chose the CanScots.

So I reckon we are just a weird bunch, and I am ok with it. No one laughs at us much on the field though. It is a very aggressive bunch of paintballers who play kilted at OK D-Day.

I wear my Robert Pell hemp kilt, and it is almost like armor. Camo kilts are on the field, and I will be taking a new one this year myself.

I think it is important to take your sense of humor along when kilted in most places around the US.

**muirkirkca** · 11th April 11, 11:08 AM

It would seem like a utilikilt would be pretty practical in a warm and humid environment like Singapore. Good alternative to shorts.

**thoth51** · 12th April 11, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Howard Clark

My sons and I attended Oklahoma D-Day last year for the first time (world's largest paintball event, google if curious). We had a great time, and are going back again. I signed us all up for the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 3rd I.D. Canadian Scots. Mostly, but not entirely, so that I would not be the only guy on the field in a kilt at a paintball event. As it turned out there were half a dozen or so of us that played kilted the whole week of events. But we were the only kiltes present, and all of us citizens of the US, even though there are loads of Canadians in the commonwealth, none of them chose the CanScots.

So I reckon we are just a weird bunch, and I am ok with it. No one laughs at us much on the field though. It is a very aggressive bunch of paintballers who play kilted at OK D-Day.

I wear my Robert Pell hemp kilt, and it is almost like armor. Camo kilts are on the field, and I will be taking a new one this year myself.

I think it is important to take your sense of humor along when kilted in most places around the US.

One thing I've always wondered about paintball: if you're hit in the apron, fore or aft, does it count as a hit? With trousers it would have just passed between your legs.

**jason10mm** · 13th April 11, 01:11 PM

You guys scoff, but 300 years from now there very well could be movies of camo kilted Scotsmen in some ridiculous reimagining of Braveheart or the Jacobite era (or more likely a remake of Bravo 2-0).

I remember the episode of Futurama where Fry and the gang went to some sort of 20th century museum that had cowboys wrangling dinosaurs, flying model-Ts, and all sorts of other anachronistic mash-ups similar to what we do today in period pieces of a sufficiently remote era.