Why are we doing this? Well, in short...

1. The other day, four bombs went off in London. A load of people got blown to pieces on the London Underground, then - a short while later - a load more got blown to pieces on the number 30 bus. Some died. Plenty more were terribly maimed. London's had better days.

2. Two weeks later: four more bombs. Mercifully, they didn't go off properly and no one was killed. Didn't do much to calm London's spirits though...

3. A day later, a suspected suicide bomber (a confused Brazilian electrician, as it turns out) is shot dead by policemen at Stockwell station. People are getting fritzy. And shot.

4. Bombs. Shootings. Sirens. Police cordons. Evacuations. Spot checks. Bag searches. Sirens. Helicopters everywhere. Constant fucking sirens. What is this? The Summer of Sam?

5. Going on with our London lives is not something we're doing as a protest to the bombers. We just sort of have to.

6. We're sick of this whole 'courageous London' thing. It's an over-easy media tag that means nothing. People have to live and work in this stinking city, so we get on the trains and we get on the buses and we keep our fingers crossed that the person sitting opposite us isn't about to press the red button in his pocket.

7. Or if he does, that he's mixed the chemicals wrong.

8. Fear is something you can grit your teeth against, but it doesn't stop you being afraid. If you're terrified, you're terrified. Simple as that.

9. Terrorists cause terror. That's why they're called terrorists. If they didn't cause terror, they'd be called something else - like 'annoyingists'. Saying that you're afraid doesn't mean that the terrorists have "won".

10. Some of us - whisper it - are not terribly brave.

11. We don't fancy having our legs and heads blown off by a loon clutching a sack of Semtex.

12. If you're not afraid of being blown up, then you must be a bit mental (not unlike a suicide bomber).

13. We find riding the Tube and getting on the bus a massively stressful thing. And we aren't above changing carriages or leaving the train if we get the jitters.

14. In short: some of us are fucking terrified.

15. We're not afraid?

16. Speak for yourself.

17. Have a look as well at the About section of the website We're Shitting Ourselves - a site which, it would seem, was put together in very much the same spirit of annoyance as this one was:

The point we want to make is the futility of the "We survived the blitz" attitude and point out that recent events such as these don't just happen in a vacuum ... They are not the actions of a few religious nutters who hate our way of life, they are a symptom of a bad situation that only our leaders have the power to finish.

This will not be achieved by fighting a "war on terror" which is really a war of profit ... It will only stop with a concerted effort to work towards establishing a long lasting peace. Starting with an end to the occupation of Iraq and a complete overhaul of western foreign policy.

We also want to make it clear that the images here are not intended to belittle the sentiment of werenotafraid.com or disrespect anyone involved in the recent bombings in London, or anywhere else.

We were all affected by this in some way and many of us know people who were affected or had a lucky escape. What this site does represent is a different approach to dealing with what happened. Show the world "we're not afraid"? Unafraid of whom? The non-white, non-christian world? While we are sure that the intentions behind werenotafraid.com were nothing less than honourable, it can easily be interpreted as empty and jingoistic sloganeering.

18. We're not in favour of being afraid. Fear is boring and tiring.

19. Kind of like cross-country running, but without the obligation to wear ridiculous clothes. And the chafing.

20. So anyway, if you find yourself getting a bit too afraid in these bomby days, here is a fluffy pink bunny with a lovely fluffy tail sitting on a sunny patch of grass to cheer you up: