Photoshop did the trick...
And yeh, I know what you mean. All thread titles grey, every little envelope before the title is a closed one... it makes you feel all alone on the big interweb.
Then you go to the
TMF chatbox to repel the boredom by talking to teenage hippies, who aren't really teenagers but old male truckers with lots of body hair that want to talk dirty to you, just to realize within five minutes this isn't quite your thing and that GD > *