How long before they get to go gnome?

Gnomebody is sure yet…

Everybody has a hill they'll die on.

There's gnomention of it in the article.

Seems some got a little too inspired by Hermione Granger's fight to free the house elves.

Gnome rest for the wicked.

Splitters!

In my youth, my buddies and I drove around town stealing gnomes off peoples lawns. We set them up in the living room and they watched the Super Bowl with us. A week later we returned them but couldn’t remember exactly which gnome lived at which house, so random.

They're only garden gnomes if they're from the Gnome region of France, otherwise they're just sparkling lawn jockeys.

Gnome BODY once told me the world was gonna roll me...

It's all Amelie's fault.

So it started before Amelie. TIL...

It's because of people that can't come up with their own fun things and have to imitate something they see in movies/tv.

So many people think it's original to steal a garden gnome and take pictures of it on their travel because of Amelie.

Look at me! I steal quirky ideas in movies and pretend it's my own personality!

Wednesday is the current one like that. Dressing in black and saying mean stuff to happy people..how edgy!

"I always wanted to play the cello, ok?"

Maybe it’s fine tho

Y’all joke, but in the US, you will get shot trying to steal someone’s lawn gnome/jockey. I’ve been trying to liberate the one in my dads yard for years now, but it’s like he just knows someone is on the lawn and he just shoots indiscriminately.

Honestly I’m surprised I haven’t been hit yet. The man is basically blind and the lawn jockey is right next to the front door. He holds a little lantern to light the path. I don’t let my Dad know its me on his lawn. Because then I’d have to explain why I was sneaking around in the bushes near the front door next to said lawn jockey.

Easier to just run off. Pretend like I was never there when he calls me the next day to tell me about the punks constantly trying to vandalize his property……

Don’t judge me. He wasn’t perfect either.

Getting accidentally shot by your father who thought he was killing a stranger for stepping on his lawn - which he would have been morally fine with - is some seriously 'murica flavoured greek tragedy shit.

r/thathappened

It does sound a lot like Oedipus. "I would've never killed that entire group of strangers if I knew my dad was one of them!"

I don't think it's related.

They began one year before the first Harry Potter book was even published in France.

Don't think too much into the acts of bored teenagers in a small town.

Right at the death the best post of 2022 appears.

It's the other way around.

They began to free Garden Gnome in 1996.

Amélie Poulain was made in 2001.

Or the acts of bored adults. Sometimes everyone just wants to cause a little chaos.

We often give out best nuggets as life drains from us. "Jefferson lives;" "this is no time to be making enemies;" "either that wallpaper goes or I do;" "more weight;" "capital punishment, those without the capital get the punishment;" "hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you’re screwing around!” etc.

The Traveling Gnome game actually started in the 1970s! History of Garden Gnomes

And The Traveling Gnome game actually started in the 1970s. History of Garden Gnomes

> The “Traveling gnome” is a game that dates back to the 1970s. It started when one traveler photographed two of his gnomes during his travel around Antarctica.

>It became widely popular during the 1990s, when a community in France named the Garden Gnome Liberation Front made a prank out of it, stealing gnomes and taking them traveling.

>The concept was to give the gnomes freedom they were believed to want.

>Thieves usually sent photographs of the gnomes to the owners, showing them that their minions were safe and sound, in their newly gained freedom and independence. This community dedicated itself to the purpose of “freeing garden gnomes.”

TIL.

Ty

It's almost like young people look to others to help define what they should be, and lacking a suitable example nearby, try to kind of cobble it together with other sources. Might be a little annoying to witness at the start, but a good sign that they're willing to learn if impressed.

Does this guy know got to party or what

I knew someone that stole Virgin Mary statues from garden shrines. Couldn't get behind that, seemed rather crass and cruel to the little old Italian grandmas.

And we salute their brave sacrifice, dammit

It's actually the Garden Gnome Liberation Movement. Don't worry, it's a common misgnomer.

There's two kinds of little old grandmas in the world:

1. Ones you shouldn't fuck with because they're going to be incredibly sorry, broken and hurt because of it.

2. Ones you shouldn't fuck with because you're going to be incredibly sorry, broken and hurt because of it.

And there's something endearing about the chaos being "stealing garden gnomes because you believe in their freedom".

New year, new we.

I’m guessing we’re talking about a day or two tops here.

Hence why I always carry a lighter. or fact I'm a cig smoker. Dealers choice.

We are the jockeys, the jockeys are we. We live underground in a fibreglass tree

It is. Happy new year.

You're right. Peace and happy new year