I have noticed a common thread amongst my cud chewing Tauren, spliff blowing Troll, zug zugging Orc, bone rattling forsaken and magic fume sniffing Blood Elf blogging colleagues.
The dislike Gnomes!?
- They have grudging respect for Dwarves and their beer swilling antics.
- They lurv the Draenei chicks and their tentacles (especially in plate)
- They envy The Human relationship skills, and the reputation that it brings.
- They hate the Night Elves, but then, who doesn’t?
But Gnomes…
It seems to oscillate between complete hatred to complete ambivalence.
They either target us immediately as pet food, or look straight over our heads, like our punching their kneecaps is nothing but a minor annoyance.
Recently Jong emailed me and told me I had single-handedly changed his opinion of male Gnomes.
I assume for the better… But what did he think was so bad before?
Repgrind loves to toy with my bruised Gnomish self respect, by taking little Troll nibbles out of me like a stoner with the munchies.
Telanarra doubted that a Gnomish Taxi Cab service would be reliable…
4TheHorde, all 5 of them, or 4 of them, or 3 of them HAD a mutual hatred for Gnomes, until they saw the light.
While I can’t be sure of this, I dare say Ratshag probably tucks the Orgrimmar Orphans in at night with taxidermied Gnome “teddy bears”
So what is it about Gnomes that makes you want to puke?
Do you see the ponytails and tiny bodies and think: KIDS?
Do you think of Kids playing Gnomes or “I am just trying to get away from the kids for an hour” and run in guilt ridden panic?
BTW, while I may not think Gnome Warriors are Oxymorons… I do feel a little queasy when the Gnome warrior is a cute-as-a-button girl… That’s just not right…
Tell me, what makes you run screaming from the character creation screen at the sight of the Gnome?
I guess alternatively you can tell me what keeps you coming back for more…
PS: Terror Gnomes
Ohhh… OK, I just noticed this possibly related article (and the one that was related to it)
Maybe there is a reason not to like Gnomes…
Gnomer and Out!
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I love gnomes! If every character I played could be a gnome they would, sadly Druids can’t be gnomes :<
My DK is a male gnome though with a big ol pink santa beard.
It’s so crazy we can’t be Druids!
Panda Tank form.
Pussy Cat DPS form
Nemo Swim form
Owl OomKim form
Sparrow Flight form
it’s all there!
I just wished they would grow up..
plus they jump to high and their legs move to fast
Perhaps if they let me rest my brewfest tankard on their heads i would offer more respect
I know what you really hate…
Having to macro up an entire bar so you can target the little jumpy Gnome…
Must drive you real crazy when there are 4 of me to target!
You’re ridiculously undersized.
We refuse to acknowledge that gnome rogues can kill us during a stunlock; how do you Kidney Shot us when you can’t reach our kidneys?
We don’t understand how gnome warlocks can have minions when any self-respecting demon could inhale you while laughing at you.
We cannot conceive how a gnome warrior can hold threat on anything while being stood on.
And I respect you too much to say anything about gnome mages.
- You are ridiculously oversized
- How do you reach down so far to hit us… bet you can’t even touch your toes!
- Gnomes are closer to Hell… and much more evil than you can ever imagine
- Ever heard of the thorn in a lions paw?
- Lucky…
- Majority rules, shorty.
- We stand on you. I fail to see how Warstomp can NOT be an instant kill.
- Yeah, if you jump you can bite our knee caps. That’s evil.
- Except that the annoying thorn becomes *splat* a gnome-sized stain. How do even pierce a dragon’s hide with your tiny weapons, much less Sunder the target?
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3 words
hard to click.
@Darksentinel:
- Majority rules, shorty?
What in the obese sense? No, a 1 ton cow does not count for more than 30 petite Gnomes!
- Warstomp… lol, we just slip between your toes…
- If we stick our climbing picks in your knee caps, we can bite your… Well, let’s just say it’s nice to swing from a Tauren’s tail!
- Just like a splinter… we slip in just under the skin and annoy the hell out of you.
@ Zupa.
I had a 3 word response… but I am felling a bit dirty right now, and I am really trying to keep this out of the Dalaran sewers
They smell funny…thought that could just be because they live with us dwarves.
It’s an unfortunately side effect of eating everyone else’s dust….
At least IF is relatively clean… who knows what that Org mud really is… I mean a lot of primitive cultures use Tauren poo to made nice shiny floors
I don’t hate all gnomes. just the ones who think i would make a good pin cushion, or a good pile of melted goo, or a frozen popsicle, or pile of ash. Also i didn’t doubt the realibility of a gnomish taxi service. I doubted the self control of said gnomes not to play a prank or 2
If gnomes could be hunters i would come very close to selling what little is left of my soul to the alliance and playing one. I think a gnome hunter with a big ole’ bear or wolf or devilsaur would be awesome.
Ohh yeah… especially if said big ole’ bear or wolf or devilsaur was also the Gnome’s mount!
Seriously, sending your pet in to attack, with you riding on it’s back… Priceless!
At least our pranks would be in good fun… we would fix whatever damage we caused… eventually.
Goblin’s however… well there would be a hefty price involved.
Pfft, don’t listen to them. Chromie chose to manifest in mortal form as a Gnome, it doesn’t get any more awesome than that!
Yeah, we might be little… but when we roar!
Gnomes = hilarious. I mean seriously, how can you not laugh at them? …with them? We need more Gnome IMO. I never see enough of them in my groups.
My Banker is a member of our “Little League” guild… called Little League.
The original intention being only Gnomes & Dwarves allowed…
We wouldn’t have any Druids, or Shamans, but we would have been able to tank, heal and DPS.
Alas, Gnomeaggedon is the only one of the original Little League still traversing Aman’Thul… my Banker was a late entrant, just to keep the guild alive.
I used to be in the “really really dislike gnomes” camp for the longest time. I couldn’t even place it. Perhaps it was ’cause gnomes looked so darn goofy, or their squeaky high pitched voices or the fact that you could be a warlock and have green hair. *cough*
I will admit that the male gnome /cry emote sounds hilarious. Their laugh is also cute (in the good way.)
Through what crazy turn of events (I don’t know) I rolled a female gnome warrior… and she, my friend, is cute as a button. Applecake, perhaps you remember her. (Oh, that reminds me – gnomes always have ridiculous names. Yes, I played into my own dislike. The irony is not lost on me.)
Now that I have played a gnome, I like them as a race a lot more, but I will tell you one thing – I will NEVER like female gnomes with those ridiculously huge pigtails. NEVER.
Mmmm Female Gnome Warriors… not sold yet…
However, a Male Gnome Warrior with pink pigtails would be a sight to see…
Perhaps because I run a daycare at home when I see a gnome my first instinct is to see if he/she needs changing, has been fed and/or needs a nap.
It feels as though my workday will never end being around gnomes. Oh, and lets get you into pullups like a big boy. Yes yes you can have the ones with the pictures of Superman on them:P
You been looking up my skirt?
How did you know I wore SuperGnome pullups?
Interestingly, Superman is my Son’s current hero (not that he understands that)… He wont remove the Superman T-Shirts for anything…
~sets down the mana hookah~ Of all the gnomes out there, you’re my favourite. ^_^
I think my dislike for most gnomes stems from my brief time spent in Tarren Mill. Ah, Tarren Mill. ~shudders~ While I got ganked by plenty of Alliance, it seemed the gnomes were the ones who would camp the worst. Ganking doesn’t bother me. It’s a PvP server; you kinda expect it. Camping does bother me… and at least on my server, the gnomes seem to do the most of it.
But as an example, I was running around Gankerthorn Vale on my 37ish pally when this 57 gnome dk ran up and camped me to the point of having a two minute rez timer… and kept killing me and my quest mobs. Boyfriend came over with his dk and pushed him to the two minute rez timer limit. Then he left to go do whatever it is blood elf dks do in their off time… brush their ghoul’s hair or something. But within five minutes HE CAME BACK.
So it’s not that I really hate gnomes; I hate stupidity. And dick moves annoy me. It just seems the ones who do the most dick moving are gnomes on Archimonde.
Gnomes can be sooo mischievous…. there are other words… one which ends in ‘holes
Ahh Ganken Mill & Gankerthorn Vale… Seriously I can’t think of two places in Azeroth that I would least like to reclaim for the Alliance…. Crossroads… the Horde can keep it… Silvermoon City would be a nice addition to the Alliance lands… maybe the Gnomes can move in and leave the Dwarves in peace