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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizO_Pounamu" data-source="post: 2564733">Politics I said Russia/China was one of the problems. It was certainly the one I got the strongest complaint about.The other problem which I did mention privately and touched on publically is the politics.Arnold Swartzenegger is no longer just a character in a movie or an actor in Hollywood. He is an actual political figure in the real world. Therefore because of the policy on real world politics, religion and racism, he cannot be used as a political NPC.Perhaps the car bombings so soon after your other post weren't as offending because the readers were not in some way connected to the victims. If however there had been a story about train hijacking soon after a terrorist bomb in a train station in England or maybe a story about some other real world rival group sucessfully invading the USA someone would again take offence. Unfortunately, how hard something hits someone is often related to how close to home it is. To you it wasn't close to home, to her it was.The discussion is still going.In the meanwhile...Soccer is also known as Football. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Football as it is in America is known elsewhere as "grid-iron" and there are very similar games without the wimpy padding <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel    :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" /> called Rugby. Especially funny is when one grid-iron player in pads and helmet plays rugby with his classmates and is knocked down so hard he has trouble getting up again with those pads in the way. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Aliens are known but not really known, if that makes any sense. The public know they exist and have made contact but don't expect to come face to face with them, and the organisations looking after visiting or resident aliens promote "blending in" so as not to scare the public. This includes inside TMP although it is more likely that you find aliens there than any other club in NYC because of the club's connection to a government organisation trying to look after aliens. Publically of course, the club itself is just a club. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> - Pounamu</blockquote>

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