Loose and Lose
It is very simple and easy to learn. Loose has two little 'o' shapes in it and usually means 'not tight', like your mother. Lose has only one. Which usually means 'to misplace or surrender' like your mother's virginity.

The inability to get these two very simple words right really winds me up, ESPECIALLY when the little fuckwit who does it earns about three times as much as I am (and yes I did tell him).
(elfinpunk Touching Cloth Since, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 19:48, 4 replies)

That's not irrational at all
I share your loathing - and include the people who don't know the difference between its and it's; and there, their and they're.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 19:51, closed)

your definition touches me
In the same spot your mum used to. Have a click
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 19:53, closed)

Agree.
It's my pet hate.
I always wonder what happens when those people need to use the word "loose" as in, "Her trousers were loose".

Do they spell it "looose"?

EDIT: No, it's not my pet hate. I fucking hate it completely. It shows a lack of any thought or intelligence. How the fuck can two 'o's be in the word 'lose' - I might even understand "loze" or "looze", but you'd have to be as thick as pig shit to spell 'lose' as 'loose'.
Sorry.
(dchurch bah, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 19:57, closed)

Similar to my personal favourite:
'Lead' for 'led'.

They led them out to face a barrage of lead, with the captain in the lead.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Thu 31 Mar 2011, 21:25, closed)