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• 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....
• waferthinninja commented on Message for GISHWHES participants
  140 words seems oddly specific. Do you think they meant to make it Twitter-able, and didn't realise Twitter was limited to 140 characters?...
• 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....