It's lose not loose

Sorry if this offends anyone, but people use the word "loose" incorrectly on the CC forum all the time. Here is the correct usage:

"I want to LOSE weight."

"I have LOOSE skin after losing all that weight."

Here is a more authoritative example if you are still skeptical.

Hopefully at least one person learns from this. It would make my day. 

I am so happy to see this thread !!!
I actually even learned one thing: I am not supposed to use the word ain't, I honestly did not know that!
So I must be making more mistakes like that!
I hereby apologize for each and every one of them!
BUT I do have a good excuse; I am Dutch and on top of that (to make it even harder, LOL) I live in Texas, so that does not really help either.
There have been so many occasions posts made me cringe and some of them I just ignore, if there are too many mistakes I just get too irritated to even reply! (and then I am not even talking about the txt msg typing, I don't even finish their first sentence)
So even though English is my second language, I am definitely a grammar nazi!
They do exist !!

In defense of English teachers, it's insanely difficult to NOT pass someone in public school anymore (at least in all of the states I've worked in).  I mean INSANELY.  I've had parents come to me to request their child be held back, but the state Department of Public Instruction won't allow it.  It's pretty ridiculous.  

So, yes, I've passed kids who don't know how to make plurals into possessives, don't understand the difference between "it's" and "its," and even kids who have consistently written "I should of went to the store."  Oh, man, it makes me want to cry!

I've recently made them read Orwell's essay http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46 .htm in an attempt to at least minimize things like "taken for granite" (HA!).

Also, it drives me absolutely crazy when people use the nominative "I" all the dang time because they think it sounds smart: "This is a photo of my mom and I." ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!