Well done hootyhoo. Every forum needs a straight man.
You just made my buddy list.
if its the motion that is the issue then just turn off animations in your browser - then all you see is a dumb banana standing there lookin foolish instead of the dancing banana
if you want to be selective use Firefox + adblock and selectively disable the ones you don't want to see
rastaman vibration yeahhhhh
Any more opposition to animated smileys will be dealt with accordingly.....
hootyhoo, I find animated smileys and ads distracting & annoying as well. You can't eliminate the graphics but you can stop the animation through settings on your web browser. I have mine set to play the animation once and then stop. If for some reason I want to see it again, I can clear my cache and reload the page. I haven't done this since the butt-shaking baby was deleted a few months ago. The dancing bananas on this website were for me the last straw.
http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Animated...s-in-a-Browser
If your connection is slow, you might also want to download ad-reducing software and do a good check for viruses and other mal-ware.