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• Max™ commented on Message for GISHWHES participants
  Saw a comment about asking a doctor friend for some advice, isn't it more like asking them to excise a lesion or write a prescription or something along those lines? Loved the markov'D A Colder War btw, from unsettlingly plausible alternate history/AtMoM sequel to surrealist comedy, bravo!...
• paws4thot commented on Message for GISHWHES participants
  Some people (number one of my friends, whom Feorag and Charlie have both met in meatspace, and Foerag has been on an Eastercon panel with, amongst them) are allergic to cream. Nuts are not the only allergy....
• Charlie Stross commented on Message for GISHWHES participants
  if that had been known earlier it would have affected "Glasshouse" and any potential sequel? Possibly ... what would really have affected "Glasshouse", however, would have been the after-disaster analysis of what the survivors did in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. (Mostly hung together and tried to look after each other: the shooting was done by the crazy survivalists and cops who were convinced that the urban survivors would turn to rioting and cannibalism. (Racism in action, in other words.)...
• Chris McGeehan commented on Message for GISHWHES participants
  Ahh I was curious if that was a possibility. A quick google shows it's less common than nut allergies, so I supposed slightly better, although hardly reassuring to your friends, and still unpleasant for everyone else....
• paws4thot commented on Message for GISHWHES participants
  TBH cream alergy seems to involve deliberate ingestion (ok, include force-feeding here) rather than "being present whilst others are eating cream" but the point still stands that the suggestion was rather less funny than the originator intended....