# 'On us' should mean free, right?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-us-should-mean-free-right/753218>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 26, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-us-should-mean-free-right/753218 "2016-04-26T21:22:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-us-should-mean-free-right/753218/1 "2016-04-26T21:22:46Z")

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Too MPSIMS-y for IMHO, really.

My Roku box is advertising The Good Dinosaur. “WATCH NOW, ON US” with the Google Play Movies and TV logo underneath.

When I follow the ad, it takes me to Google Play, where I can rent or buy the movie, for money.

All of the other similar ads for paid-for movies just say ‘Watch now on Google Play’

Semantically, I guess ‘US’ could be argued to mean ‘Google Play’, but ‘on us’ (falsely) implies free of charge, right?

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**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-us-should-mean-free-right/753218/2 "2016-04-26T21:25:55Z")

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I agree with you.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-us-should-mean-free-right/753218/3 "2016-04-26T21:32:10Z")

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I think they intended to give you something for free and it just didn’t work right. I’ve had those offers and watched free movies on Roku channels.

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-us-should-mean-free-right/753218/4 "2016-04-26T21:36:12Z")

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You can watch it on Google or on another service. Which one do you want to watch it on? Us or them?

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**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-us-should-mean-free-right/753218/5 "2016-04-26T21:41:05Z")

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Seems like false advertising, to me

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-us-should-mean-free-right/753218/6 "2016-04-26T21:48:47Z")

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I thought it meant “Our fault (sorry about that, we’ll take the blame)”.

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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-us-should-mean-free-right/753218/7 "2016-04-26T22:05:05Z")

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> [@jtur88](#):
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> I thought it meant “Our fault (sorry about that, we’ll take the blame)”.

Which reminds me of one of my favorites:  
You get a spam email from some company with a typo in the subject. A couple of hours later you get another email apologizing for the typo, but we’ll make it up by allowing you to buy something you don’t need for a small discount.