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On a busy news day, we're lucky to find out about 1/100th of the things happening; usually, the biggest and loudest news item dominates and everything else is shunted aside.
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Exactly.
Also, we aren't privy to every conversation people have had. 'Off-screen', Parker may have talked about the Transformers NON-STOP! We don't necessarily see him in the bath or in bed. Perhaps 'off-screen', he spent a lot of time telling Mary Jane about those nasty Decepticons and the heroic Autobots. We haven't heard them mention that adventure because a) they may have talked about it when we weren't seeing them, and b) it wasn't relevant to the story. If Spider-Man punches Hobgoblin halfway across a bar, he's not likely to say, "By the way, I did team up with the Transformers once!"
You can apply this logic to real life. I was having a meal with a female friend many years ago. A mutual friend saw us when she entered the pub and said something like, "I didn't know you two knew each other." Well, of course you didn't, you'd not seen us together previously, nor had it ever come up in conversation. My friend, Kathy, was someone I saw about once a fortnight for lunch, I didn't spend my daily life walking around saying, "I know Kathy" or "I've met Kathy".
Clumsy though that comparison may be, I hope I've made some sort of sense.
The silliest one, and I hope this wasn't the mainstream mindset, was when the JLA met the Avengers. Someone online had said, "Why haven't they met before?" Well, because EVERYONE has to meet for tor the first time. Kathy and I had a first-time meeting. And as for the "Why haven't the JLA/Avengers mentioned each other previously?" argument, again, how do we know? Perhaps, 'off-screen', the JLA/Avengers mentioned each other during one of their mundane meetings.
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