Fuck wank bugger shitting arse head and hole!

(<-- it´s a quote from "Love actually" so not just rude but a sort of intelligent intertextual reference ;-))

I like swearing!
I have grown up that way and never in my life experienced any bad reactions because of that. If someone is an arsehole he or she simply is - no point in trying to hide anything. And "Where the fuck is my fucking coat" is just so much more fun to say than "Where did I leave my coat?" (did you get this quote as well by the way?).

People who wanna cover it and say things like "Sugar!" (the English version of "Scheibenkleister!") or mentioning "the f-word" come across as incredibly pathetic, imho.
In Germany swearing is not that much of an issue (at least in my world). Not everyone does it, not everyone loves it. But I never experienced any detentions in school or shocked faces for the use of a more graphic language. And there are definitely swear words on daytime tv, oh yes.
In England I feel that swearing is more of an issue. On TV you get constantly beeped at and on radio rude words in songs get hidden as well.
Then you leave the house and meet up the first "real" people (I´m talking short hair, tracksuit, trainers and bulky dogs here - sorry if I come across as arrogant but sometimes I just can´t help/hide it). All you can here is "fuck". 4 times, 5 times, 10 times in one sentence. Amazing. Unfortunately the effect wears of a little by that overuse... well dosed they are much more powerful, trust me.
There seems to be such a gap between media and streets. Apparently only lower and upper class swears, even there the class system keeps appearing...
I´m sure linguists and other sorts of scientists have written countless pages about this subject...I find it quite fascinating and will remain the in-yer-face German :-)

By the way, my beloved Stephen Fry has made a tv series about language last year and one episode dealt with swearing. Hilarious! Watch it if you get the chance!

 "Swearing is a really important part of one's life and it would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enoying swearing"