I'm surprised no one has quoted south park yet.
"ERIC!! Don't use the F word!" "Why the fuck not? Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck!"

zoozilla:
If I didn't say "fuck", I couldn't quote the Big Lebowski as often as I would like.

At all, actually.

MARK IT ZERO!

Never. I used to, but I found it makes you look like an idiot.
It just shows you can't articulate yourself.

If you use it every sentence, you're an idiot. Most people I hear do this are in remedial something, and it shows.

If you use it for impact occasionally, good luck getting an impact, because there are too many idiots like the one I just described (Using it every sentence). So you look like an idiot.

Now I'm not saying those who use the F-bomb occasionally are idiots (Just the one who use it all the time), but you LOOK like an idiot. The English language is pretty darn vast and flexible. How many other words can you use to express yourself?
Any moron can swear.

"F-Bomb"? You are comparing a simple word to one of the world's worst inventions?
Get serious.

[zonking great]:
"F-Bomb"? You are comparing a simple word to one of the world's worst inventions?
Get serious.

Get less serious. This is a thread abbout the word fuck, what the fuck did you expect?

I only use it when some one asks me not to ^_^

Dechef:

[zonking great]:
"F-Bomb"? You are comparing a simple word to one of the world's worst inventions?
Get serious.

Get less serious. This is a thread abbout the word fuck, what the fuck did you expect?

Oh, so now you're saying that a thread about fuck is necessarily a laugh? Get lost.

[zonking great]:

Dechef:

[zonking great]:
"F-Bomb"? You are comparing a simple word to one of the world's worst inventions?
Get serious.

Get less serious. This is a thread abbout the word fuck, what the fuck did you expect?

Oh, so now you're saying that a thread about fuck is necessarily a laugh? Get lost.

:) No.

The only swearing that has an impact is the one you come up with creatively, according to the situation it is used in.
Fuck, is a generic word that has long ago lost its punch.
People should either invent some like I do all the time, or combo ofensive words. But an insult, in order to reach its target, has to point out a weakness or a trait that the adversary knows he or she has. The truth, or even remote truth always hurts more.

ellimist337:
Frequently. I don't care about losing impact through repetition; I'll just find a new word if that happens.

Incidentally, what does someone with Tourettes yell if they don't know swear words...

Most people with tourettes dont just randomly spout curse words numb nuts....

A word that versatile shouldn't be shunned in my opinion. Yes, now and again I do use it (unless I'm with my family, in which case I never do). I save the "C" word (or a torrent of offensive rhyming words) for times when I'm really, really angry. That way it has the impact (or in terms of the latter, pure shock value).
People that say it's the sign of a poor vocabulary are only right to a certain degree; I use it, but when the situation calls for it, I can think of alternatives and be quite eloquent.

Profainity is the crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker.

Stephen Fry said he was all for swearing, and the argument that it was a sign of a low vocabulary was usually used by the exact people who do not have a large one. (vocabulary, honestly, I can't take you lot anywhere!)

For me, I don't find it offensive, but I do find it tiresome when casually used, I can take the bus into town, do my shopping and bus back, and probably hear it 20-50 times.

I'm sure when I was growing up in the 80s, if you heard' fuck ' in public there was either a huge row going on, or someone had hurt themselves.

As much as I don't want to sound like an old man, I'm 35 and there's a little death in my soul every time I'm on a bus or train, or in the supermarket and here an interchange like this'

'mum can I have this?'
'NO! fucking put it down!'
'aww fuck why mum?'

I'm talking about kids of 4 or 5, too.

I can't help but feel if I ended up with kids I'd try not to swear around then and teach them it's not a socially acceptable thing to do.

Having said all this, even the ominous 'C' word shouldn't be seen as bad as words used for hate like racial and sexual slurs. Hell I'd like it if it went so far that if when someone shouted 'oi you fat fuck' at me (which does happen, due to the fact that wearing a baseball cap seems to dissolve the part of the brain which dictates how to behave in a modern society), the fat part was deemed more offensive than fuck.

Sad part is they're not shouting it out of hate even, they just think its the greatest, most Oscar Wilde worthy piece of wit ever voiced.

(btw, yes, I'm fat, yes its a choice, but until I start hurting other people, I don't think it warrants abuse, unlike chavs who choose to be offensive).

As for Tourette's when Big Brother had the Tourette's sufferer on, he pretty much only ever said 'wanker' along with a variety of noises, which made him sound like Klunk from the Wacky Races. Note I'm not making fun of tourette's, just anyone daft enough to go in for BB. Just saying no, they don't all just wander around going F and C all day.

I'll summarise...

Fuck is fine as a word, when it becomes punctuation, take off the gold chains and burberry and go hand yourself in at the local hospital for spare parts.

I find that I say it far too often. I blame my ex housemate. I also say 'Gay' too often, but I've grown used to replacing that with 'lame'.
I guess it's just what I'm used to. I have a perfectly functioning and broad vocabulary, but sometimes the situation calls for something blunt and coarse.

I swear like a trooper when I'm with friends or on games but I tend to stunt my language around the significant other and female friends...and on the Escapist.

Gordon Ramsay ftw.

I use it QUITE often in informal situations. But for me, I don't view it as a foul word. I've used it since I was in middle school, for me it has lost it's offensive edge. There's very few words in fact that are actually offensive to me, the only curse word that I do find offensive is "C**t" even then that is a matter of personal taste rather than how it makes me feel. Cursing has over the years become a part of my everyday life. But I am also mature enough not to use it or pretty much any curse words in public or when I'm around audiences that do find it offensive. "GD" is perhaps the one I have to watch the most because in my area of the United States, saying "God Damn" is viewed as one of the most offensive things that you can say. Yes...I live in the southern Bible belt of the US, and it is annoying to hear people get bent out of shape over a word.

As George Carlin said in his famous Seven Dirty Words skit, these words are only offensive if you give them that power. I don't give them that power, and if I butchered his quote, I apologize.

I don't usualy say fuck outside of yelling at my tv screen. I like to make up my own retarded variations of swearwords, like "jesus crap", "oh my shit" or "wanksex".

I tend to use words more literally, so I rarely find it a useful word. I find the F word neither insulting or offensive. Just silly.

Any intense profanity i use often involves injury

RAWKSTAR:
In (almost) every sentance.
Apart from when talking to my family members.

same...

I use it rarely in everyday conversation, because damn (and variations) seems to be my swear word of choice (and that's hardly saying anything). It's not that I'm against saying fuck, but I just don't do it very often.

UNLESS I'm playing video games. Then that, goddamn (and variations), and motherfucker are the most common words out of my mouth.

For me, the word "fuck" represents an outlet of frustration. Occasionally I'll use it in normal conversation, but it always sounds unprofessional and out of place, quivering amongst much more eloquent words. Generally, I use fuck most when I'm playing a frustrating game, at which point I've been known to use a sentence almost entirely composed out of "fuck" and the occasional non-swear word to string it together.

Anomynous 167:

Brockyman:

BudZer:
It's a crutch for a poor vocabulary.

That is poor argument. Part of having a good vocabulary is using the best word at the corret time, in the correct way. Sometimes "Fuck" just says it better then any other word in the thesaurus.

It's also very versitile. It can be a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb, and much more! Plus you can add to it. For Example, Fucktard, Fucknut, Fucktastic, Unbe-fuckan-lieavble.

I object. The word of this topic is NOT a noun or an adverb... It is a verb (Fuck it) adjective (this is fucked up)

I guess I just took a few more English classes. You just need to use your imagination... and brian.

ADVERB
(Adverbs typically answer questions such as how?, when?, where?, why? and to what extent?.) {Wikipedia}
Example: A fucking hot woman entered the room. (SUBJECT + ADVERBIAL + OBJECT)
Example 2: That movie fucking sucked. "to what extent" did the movie suck? it FUCKING sucked.

NOUN.
In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. [Wikipedia]

In order to be used as a noun, it does take an addition to the word. (like Banker, someone who banks or Shooter, someone who shoots)
Example: You fucker!
Example 2:You are a fucknut.
Example 3:You team-killing Fucktard. In all these cases cases, a form of fuck is used to describe a person, place or thing.

Your objection is fucking overruled

I love the word just because its casual usage in public is a verbal line in the sand telling society, "I don't believe in your verbal superstitions and I'm going to burn this fucking bastard into the ground until its semantic phantoms are destroyed and all of you idiots stop believing in bad words."

Ironically, I usually never use the word for it's literal meaning.

mr mcshiznit:

ellimist337:
Frequently. I don't care about losing impact through repetition; I'll just find a new word if that happens.

Incidentally, what does someone with Tourettes yell if they don't know swear words...

Most people with tourettes dont just randomly spout curse words numb nuts....

No shit. It was a joke. I do know people with Tourettes. Believe it or not, I do get information from places other than South Park... though I haven't been called numb nuts for about 10 years, so thanks for taking me back...

ellimist337:

mr mcshiznit:

ellimist337:
Frequently. I don't care about losing impact through repetition; I'll just find a new word if that happens.

Incidentally, what does someone with Tourettes yell if they don't know swear words...

Most people with tourettes dont just randomly spout curse words numb nuts....

No shit. It was a joke. I do know people with Tourettes. Believe it or not, I do get
information from places other than South Park... though I haven't been called numb nuts for about 10 years, so thanks for taking me back...

Please sir you have just enterer the....BAN HAMMER HEYEAHH!!!

I use it on occasion, espically when im playing online games.

I've use it on three occassions that I can remember, all of them requiring something very coarse and short.

i always use it around friends or family, but around smaller kids i shut my mouth.

Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck. It's just a word and I use it when it's not prohibited.

I use it most often when something surprises me and I need a verbal exclamation and "holy shit" has gotten boring.

most common example: "Holy bleeding fuck!"

-me, about a thousand times my first run through the Left 4 Dead demo

[Edit:]I also find it far more gratifying to call someone something original like "Cocksicle" instead of the F word.