Originally posted by Hamish:
Fishu, you are forgetting one major point of this whole thing. If this was just a "Message" board, we wouldn't have the option of putting Gif's in at all, I have a cable modem now, so i'm not all that concerned about thread download times, but when i am at work, i disable pictures for just the reason you are whining about. Yes, i said the ugly "W" word, because that is Exactly what you are doing. This IS a free service, you don't pay for it, neither do I, if you don't like the Gifs, don't look at them.
Continue whining now, you are more entertaining the more spun up you get about a given topic 
Any web message board that I know, does support .gifs and .jpgs..
And if you mean those NNTP news groups.. well, news groups says it all, not message boards right?
So, what about your cable modem if other people does not necessarily have cable modem or such high bandwith thing?
You are fairly ignorant, perhaps spoiled kid?
I might like pictures, but I might not like ignorant people...