Animated Images

Question

Animated Images for member's profiles can be distracting. I am referring to the image that is in the profile area at the left side of every forum post. The solution in many sites is to allow a member to turn off the showing of the images for them. So in other words, using that option, I just would not see a person's profile picture or whatever. I hope there is a more practical solution.

I know that  am supposed to be impressed by a fancy flashing animation but I am not. I seem to be able to ignore fancy flashing animated advertisements more than fancy flashing animated profile pictures.