i will freely admit that i am quite the spelling Nazi(for lack of a better word). it drives me absolutely crazy to read anything with spelling mistakes, especially signs for restaurants or in grocery stores. i’m not perfect by any means – for example i rarely use capitals and am addicted to the ellipsis(...), but i do try to read over the things i write before posting to be sure there aren’t any glaringly obvious spelling errors – like using the wrong there, their, they’re or putting an apostrophe in when it doesn’t belong. i understand typing can be tricky and it’s easy to get your letters backwards, but ‘loose’ vs. ‘lose’ is not something that i would consider as falling in to this category. i’m at a loss as to how to combat this seemingly worldwide problem and i know i’m not the only one who finds this error completely irritating, so if all of us spelling sticklers band together maybe we can come up with a way to get those people to stop typing “loose 10 pounds” or “wear loser fitting clothes”. and for the record: anyone who thinks “loose my virginity” is a good thing to have on their 43 things list is clearly not ready to have sex.