Thanks for that might go and get my fix then

I legitamately CGAFF, I find the words I know get my point across quite nicely thanks very much and have no inclination whatsoever to learn new ones.

If I wanted to get a point across using a profanity - its my life and my mouth, and i'll leave those with better vocabularies to do it their way thanks very f****g much.

I like swearing. Fuck. There I said it.

Nothing like getting it off ya chest eh.....

Am sure you make note when kids are around not to drop the explicits?

Just showing off my l337 haxor skillz

It doesn't bother me at all. Words are just words. It is the intent behind them that can be offensive.

Anyone who's been a police officer knows that being sworn at is part of the job. That said, officers should have the powers to deal with it robustly should it be appropriate in the circumstances. I don't so much mind the swearing, more the lack of respect which allows the swearing to take place in the first place.

Swearing and tattoo's are now common place in middle class society.

I blame the parents.

Lack of respect? What a terrible crime - give the police more powers!

Always such an expressive way of venting. Not good to do it with an open mike, on short final though. That does cause quite a stir. I had just made a landing announcement, we had a close call with some birds and I made some expletive comment before letting go of the mike button ' Holy shit, that was close' If a pilot wants to get passengers attention, that does it

I does seem that swearing is the thing to be done in the UK. I was at conference in London and I was pleasently surprised to see the presenters try and out do each other with their swearing. Given the subject of the conference, I suspect they were trying to out working class each other, anyway it was very funny. A woman used the C word six times and not one of them was actually quoting her subjects.

I quite like it when middle class swearing goes a little awry. My mate, without a hint of irony, would say things like, "Look at that effing c**** over there."

Whether in public or in private I'm always concerned how those who swear routinely act when they really have something to be angry about.

If you haven't got some extreme language to let of steam, what's next?

In my experience something violent - not necessarily assault - is next.

You haven't quite got the concept down. In cases such as that you simply repeat, multi-layer and liberly use the present participle in your swearing.

Proper swearing is a joy to listen to.

A complete contrast to the constant unimaginitive effing this, effing that, that seems to constitute normal conversation among many people.

Brits swear a lot. I find that Americans much less so, and Canadians somewhere in the middle. My Quebec colleague is wonderfully foul-mouthed... his speech is liberally peppered with Tabernac! and, most amusingly, Fudge!