Watch the Trailer for Apple TV+ Comedy Series 'Ted Lasso,' Debuts Next Month

[mdriftmeyer]

This will be a hit, and like most positions from this site your herd mentality prediction of success or failure rarely works out.

 

[glowplug]

Does cancelling the 1 year trial cancel it immediately? Because my paid subscription lets me turn off auto renew.

Yes, it does. But it’s very clear about it. I didn’t know that paid subs are different.

 

[jettredmont]

The majority of the world calls what you call soccer, football. Our football prohibits players from using their hands in general play and therefor relying on their foot. In your football it is rare for you to use an actual foot for play, and it virtually never happens in open play.
Our football also predates your version of football, which in itself is a version of rugby, which was a spin off of our football.
Additionally our football is becoming more popular in North America. The MLS is going from strength to strength and will likely have more teams than the NFL in the coming years. In Canada our football has overtaken Canadian football in popularity.

As best I can tell US (not really "American" since 75% of America doesn't play it) Football / Rugby++ / Not-Soccer is called "football" because the ball is a foot long (end-to-end) and looks kinda foot-shaped if you squint really hard and have bad eyesight. Back in the mid-late 1800s there were multiple variations of "football" including "association football" and "rugby football" and dozens of others; we in the US chose to call our variant just plain "football" probably because, you know, Amur'ca (although this was late-1800s, before the US got truly full of itself).

Then when football wanted to make inroads into the US a century later the name was already taken, so we used the name Britain had interchangeably used for the sport up through the mid-20th century, "soccer" (shortened from "association football"). Which in turn tainted the name "soccer" for the sport as something uncouth US folks called it, and upright British society went back to just calling it "football". Per Business Insider, at least.

(Personally, I don't like either football or football so have no dog in this particular race, although my son has played and enjoyed both football and football and would be very confused if I called football "football" in his presence)

 

[0128672]

That’s why AppleTV+ (free trial) auto-renew can’t be turned off. Quite sneaky I’d say.

(edited)

Of course it can. You just cancel the trial. Nothing sneaky about it.

 

[baummer]

Guess majority of you were wrong

 

[Ar40]

Guess majority of you were wrong

I am so proud of my posts on this forum thread. I can't believe how close I hit the nail on the head with some of these comments.