The thing with images and animated gifs is that they're just intrusive. Text (at least to me) is less intrusive than a moving image or large pic. I've seen a guy who hated MS so much he listed 10 reasons why, but he only put a link to it in his sig instead of listing them all in it.
Don't worry, I think I know where Poland is. I mean, over a quarter of me is from there, so why wouldn't I?
It's near China, right?