Am I the only one that finds the animated avatars (from the standard gallery) annoying and entirely inappropriate?
I mean the ones like these:
They’re indeed annoying.
But that’s what you get when whoever made the decision to use phpBB as a forum solution without cleaning out unneeded things.
Looks like someone’s cleaned them out now - excellent! 
They seem to have returned - but only for Wavecom/Sierra Wireless staff… 
try Opera -> nice feature called “block content”
works like a charm