Get to our age and you learn all about such trends from TV Dramas. Must get out more, nah. bit old & doddery for that.
Black Americans do it in style … pu$$y, b00ty, etc.
Yes…but it doesn’t sound particularly endearing to me! 
I’d hate to think what they say if they are really angry with someone!
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My friend June speaks the queens English as she had eloqution lessons she is terribly terribly posh so when she says the F word it sounds like
FOK
it’s a long drawn out sound or like this
FOORK
Shes funny even if she talks posh
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I wonder if that’s how the Queen says it. 
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I hate swearing and don’t do it. I find it unnecessary and degrading. 
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I would say also I do not like to hear it, but think the majority have been around swearing likely since childhood, so it is easy sometimes to use it.
When I smashed my index finger …yes it was a hammer a sledge hammer to be correct and I was hammering in a fence post all on my own…Phoned 999 as still felt a nuisance…they said I did the right thing…
Then a while later when the electrician was fitting a new mains box in our the home…looking for things to do I decided to dig out an old Fir Tree that was dying…
By the afternoon when Husband came home he said NO Way are you going to get those Roots Out…He was right and the Hospital said, No not a Broken Bone a Broken Tendon…Still have the finger cover that might repair it…took weeks of wearing the support cover and it never mended at all…
No swearing what so ever…
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Thinking back I can’t recall swearing in the house, mind my mother’s English was poor lol.
School there were one or two that would swear, they were the Hardknocks……guess most assumed they were hard because they swore… maybe it was for some kind of recognition, or to deter bullies
Looking back, growing up the swearing became more common, used in threats or to make an impression…. In my teens swearing was common, kind of fashionable for the youth, and mimicked from the screen
The words have changed, can’t recall ever hearing the C word or a few others as a kid.
Do I swear, yes…but I know when to switch off. Seeing young parents swearing at their kids disgusts me, no class
Friends I grew up with, we all heard it and said it, but all/most like myself never swore in front/at the kids/partners, knowing when to switch off…. Maybe it’s an attitude that comes with age
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@Twink55 I totally agree with your comment, that is what my upbringing taught me too. We have so many and varied words in the English language that are just wasted on some people, all they seem to be able do is resort to swearing. That, for many, has now become just second nature it seems.
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As children I think it was to stand out in some way…whether to be noticed or to be scary…just seemed very common in my High School.
My senior school was of the boarding type and run almost on military principals. As such, every boy knew that to be overheard swearing would involve punishment for the whole of your house, so toeing the line went without any prompting.
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I can put up with bad language to a degree, more so if it’s just a part of casual banter amongst a group of people who all know each other. The people I hate are those so called comedians who rely almost solely on bad language of The coarsest kind to pad out an often sleazy joke to get a laugh.
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I agree so much with this, Tezza!
Neither mum or dad swore. He had a terrible temper, but I can never remember him swearing even when things went belly up. Very much a gentleman as mum was very much a lady.
I remember one day I came home and said I was really knackered. Dad nearly knocked my block off. ‘Don’t you EVER let me hear you use that word again!’ I couldn’t understand why, 'cos it’s not a swear word. It was a lot later on I realised that a female shouldn’t come out with that sort of language - it’s not the feminine thing to do.
I let rip now and again at home, and in the car at idiot drivers . Well, if I’m honest rather more than now and again at home. But I live on my own, so no-one hears. Unless it’s in the garden on a quiet sunny day and it’s an automatic response to if I’ve hurt myself, as recently when falling off some rocks onto more rocks. Boy, that hurt. Rather more than one expletive was used, very loudly too. I felt really embarrassed in case someone in their gardens heard me. 
My sister swears all the time. But, I think she does it deliberately - for effect and all that. Her and her late husband (who was very much a gentleman), used to have this banter going on between them - 80% of which consisted of the C, T and F words. 
My daughter speaks very well. She went through a phase of swearing occasionally when a teen. Now she certainly lets rip when driving, but apart from that she doesn’t. If she ever heard me drop an expletive when she was living at home, she always said I swore with a posh accent 
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My dad and mom rarely swore. I didn’t swear often at all, and when I had my kids, they didn’t grow up hearing the swear words either, except for an uncle I had. He used to come to the house and deliberately toss around swear words, as he knew it grated on me.
One day I had had enough, and told him not to come into my home again unless he cleaned up the swearing. My children didn’t have to listen to it, nor did I. You should have seen the look on his face! You know what? He stayed away after that, and it didin’t hurt my feelings one bit. Big bully anyhow!
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Damnation does it for me! Expletive but not a swear word.
The Damnation word puts the fear of god in people. No swear word can do that. 
Some people I suppose.
Quite right too - if anyone (and I mean anyone) uses foul language in my house they are immediately asked to leave!
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Yes, too right. There’s no need for that even if a person’s vocabulary is so limited they have to resort to bad language, especially in front of children!
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